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Jan 16, 2026 · Backend Development

What’s New in PHP 8.5? Pipe Operators, PFA, and Upcoming Features Explained

The article reviews PHP 8.5’s late‑2025 release, highlighting enhanced pipe operators, partial function application (PFA), object‑cloning syntax, closure improvements, richer fatal‑error stack traces, and upcoming RFCs such as pattern matching, while also covering related runtimes like FrankenPHP, the Mago toolchain, TrueAsync, and the PHPverse conference.

AsyncPHPRuntime

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What’s New in PHP 8.5? Pipe Operators, PFA, and Upcoming Features Explained

Open Source Tech Hub

Dec 4, 2025 · Backend Development

What PHP’s Partial Function Application RFC Brings to the Language

The RFC introduces Partial Function Application (PFA) for PHP, allowing developers to pre‑bind some arguments of a callable using placeholders like ? and ... which generate a closure that preserves type information, optionality, defaults, and attributes, simplifying pipeline and functional code.

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What PHP’s Partial Function Application RFC Brings to the Language

Open Source Tech Hub

Nov 22, 2025 · Backend Development

Why the True Async RFC Failed: Lessons for PHP’s Asynchronous Future

The True Async RFC, which aimed to bring native coroutines and async/await to PHP, was overwhelmingly rejected in a community vote, revealing deep technical, compatibility, and governance challenges that shape the future of asynchronous programming in the PHP ecosystem.

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Why the True Async RFC Failed: Lessons for PHP’s Asynchronous Future

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Jan 24, 2024 · Fundamentals

Remembering Dave Mills: The Father of Internet Time and NTP’s Legacy

David L. Mills, the visionary behind the Network Time Protocol and a key architect of the early Internet, passed away at 85, leaving a legacy that spans groundbreaking synchronization technology, influential RFCs, and a playful spirit that inspired generations of developers.

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Remembering Dave Mills: The Father of Internet Time and NTP’s Legacy

Deepin Linux

Aug 16, 2023 · Fundamentals

Fundamentals of TCP/IP: Protocol Suite, Standardization Process, and Layered Model

This article provides a comprehensive overview of TCP/IP, covering its definition as a protocol suite, the open and practical standardization process driven by IETF, the role of RFCs and STD numbers, the multi‑stage standardization workflow, the layered architecture compared with the OSI model, and detailed explanations of packet headers, data flow, and connection management such as the three‑way handshake and four‑way termination.

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Fundamentals of TCP/IP: Protocol Suite, Standardization Process, and Layered Model

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Jul 4, 2022 · Backend Development

PHP 8.2 Release Updates: QA Versions, Feature Freeze, New RFCs and Implementations

The article outlines PHP 8.2's upcoming QA releases, the July 19 feature‑freeze deadline, newly accepted RFCs such as standalone false/null and true types, deprecation of is_callable, DNF types, and provides links to downloads, Docker images, source code and related proposals.

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PHP 8.2 Release Updates: QA Versions, Feature Freeze, New RFCs and Implementations

Laravel Tech Community

May 11, 2022 · Backend Development

Deprecation of ${} Variable Interpolation Syntax in PHP 8.2 and Its Removal in PHP 9

The PHP community voted to deprecate the ${} syntax for variable interpolation in strings in PHP 8.2, citing limited use and confusion, and plans to remove it entirely in PHP 9, with supporting usage statistics and a proposed future syntax alternative.

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Deprecation of ${} Variable Interpolation Syntax in PHP 8.2 and Its Removal in PHP 9

Liangxu Linux

Feb 19, 2022 · Fundamentals

Understanding URI, URL, and URN: The Core of Web Resource Identification

This article explains the definitions, relationships, and components of URI, URL, and URN, illustrating how they locate resources on the web, detailing protocol, domain, port, path, and filename rules, and providing references to the relevant RFC specifications.

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Understanding URI, URL, and URN: The Core of Web Resource Identification