Welcome to the January edition of PHP Annotated! This recap is carefully handcrafted and brings you the most interesting developments in the PHP community over the past couple of months, so you don’t

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This edition covers major updates in the PHP community, including the release of PHP 8.4 with new features, performance improvements, and debugging enhancements. It highlights the transition of PHP 8.2 to a security-fixes-only phase, and the release of new tools and versions such as PHPStan 2.0, Rector 2.0, and FrankenPHP 1.3. The PHP Foundation's contributions and the addition of code examples on php.net are also mentioned. Upcoming PHP conferences and interesting reads on PHP topics round out the update.

PHP Annotated – January 2025