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on Nov. 28, 2020
PHP 8.0 has just been released! This new major version adds several significant features and improvements to the language like attributes, match expressions, Just-In-Time compilation (JIT), and much more! Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 8.0 on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X: Ubuntu PHP 8.0…
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on Oct. 26, 2020
Composer 2 has been released with several great features and improvements! Best of all it's (mostly) backward-compatible with Composer 1. The one issue you're most likely to encounter when upgrading to Composer 2 is having Composer plugins that don't support this newer version yet. The ideal soluti…
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on Aug. 6, 2020
The first beta release of PHP 8 is here! We're now one step closer to the scheduled release of PHP 8.0.0 stable on November 26th. Developers looking to get a head-start on testing their applications (or just looking to play with the new features) can easily use Docker to start testing today. The of…
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on Jun. 21, 2020
Version 1.5.0 of the league/commonmark Markdown library has just been released! This will likely be the last minor release of 1.x as we focus efforts on developing 2.0. This post breaks down some of the new features and changes you should know about 1.5.0. Three New Extensions The popular Markdown…
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on May. 24, 2020
After 2,086 days, 1,632 commits, and 75 releases I'm pleased to share that... league/commonmark has been downloaded over 10 million times! 🎉🎉🎉 Not only that, but as of today league/commonmark is also the fastest-growing PHP Markdown parser based on monthly Packagist installs: We couldn't have hit…
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on Feb. 28, 2020
Today I found myself deploying a Symfony project to an Azure environment that requires SSL connections to MySQL. I figured this out the hard way when I started getting these errors: In AbstractMySQLDriver.php line 106: An exception occurred in driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [9002] SSL connection is requir…