Our Contributions Towards a Stronger Open Source Future

As an open source project, the WordPress software relies on contributions from individuals and businesses alike to remain a healthy and innovative ecosystem. 

Individuals can contribute in a number of ways, from writing code to organizing meetups to working on WordPress’s accessibility. Companies can contribute by permitting their employees to allocate part-time or full-time hours to WordPress. 

For the latest WordPress release Automattic provided over 3,500 core contributions—over half of all WordPress 6.6 contributions—at the hands of 105 individual contributors. 

Given that WordPress powers over 40% of your favorite websites, it’s in the best interest of every company that benefits from WordPress to give back to the project and community. 

This idea is codified in WordPress’s Five for the Future initiative. Any company that profits from the software—including every business offering hosting for WordPress—is encouraged to put 5% of its resources back into WordPress development.

At Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, we take this responsibility very seriously. 

Automattic employs just under 2,000 people. Over 100 of them work on the WordPress project full-time. In terms of workforce hours, this puts the company at almost exactly 5%. 

Contributor day at WordCamp Europe 2024.

Though this is not a requirement and it is not policed by the WordPress Foundation, every company that profits from WordPress should think about the long-term health and vibrancy of the WordPress ecosystem. At Automattic and WordPress.com, we’re proud to give back and to constantly be thinking about bettering WordPress as a whole when we’re working on features, squashing bugs, and generally doing our best to democratize publishing for the entire world.

As a customer—whether you’re a developer at an agency or an aspiring creator—you have a say in the future of WordPress. You have options when it comes to hosting. We recommend that the dollars you spend go towards a WordPress host that acts as a good steward of open source philosophy—like WordPress.com.

Read more https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/09/26/our-wordpress-contributions/

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PHP 8.4 Release Candidate 1 is here

The PHP team has announced the release of the first PHP 8.4 release candidate! Although the general availability (GA) of v8.4.0 is still about two months away (expected on November 21), you can begin preparing for PHP 8.4 now. Familiarize yourself with the new features, the upgrade path, and key dates to ensure you're ready.

📢 We've collected highlight features coming to PHP 8.4 in our post, A Look at What's Coming to PHP 8.4 📢

What New Features are in PHP 8.4?

PHP 8.4 is a minor release with some exciting new features like new array find methods, property hooks, and more. Here are some of the highlight features coming to PHP 8.4:

• Add request_parse_body() function that allows parsing RFC1867 (multipart) requests in non-POST HTTP requests.

• Class instantiation without extra parenthesis
• Added the #[\Deprecated] attribute (RFC)
• Property Hooks
• Asymmetric property visibility
• Lazy objects
• Added http_get_last_response_headers() and http_clear_last_response_headers() functions (RFC)
• Added function fpow() following rules of IEEE 754 (RFC)
• New Array Find Functions
• And more...

Check out the upgrading document for the complete list of new features.

Timeline

PHP 8.4 is out of beta and in the release candidate phase. Most importantly, the GA release is expected on November 21st! We're excited to get our hands on this release and remove all the extra parenthesis around new expressions with constructor arguments 😁

Learn More

The following list of resources has everything you need to learn more about the upcoming releases:

• The UPGRADING document includes backward-incompatible changes, new features, and everything else you'll need to familiarize yourself with changes in PHP 8.4
• The NEWS document has detailed notes about each release
• The PHP 8.4 preparation tasks page has the release timeline of the upcoming releases
• You can download the PHP 8.4 RC1 source from the downloads page

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Laravel Config Checker Package

The Laravel Config Checker package by Chris Di Carlo scans your codebase to verify if config keys are correctly defined in your config files. This helps ensure that all configuration values referenced in the code exist, helping you to prevent missing or undefined config errors.

Once installed, you can run php artisan config:check, which will scan your app and display any errors in a table with information on the location and missing reference.

View the GitHub repo for complete details on the package.

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PrestaShop 8.2 Is Available

Read more https://build.prestashop-project.org/news/2024/prestashop-8-2-0-available/

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