PHP Digest 140 (September 17 - 30, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.3 RC2, Codeception 2.5 and other releases, typed properties in PHP 7.4, the concept of preloading the code from Dmitry Stogov, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

PHP 7.3 RC2 - The second release candidate is scheduled . The next release is expected on October 11th. Another review of PHP 7.3 innovations .
PhpStorm 2018.3 EAP - The early access program continues, within which you can use PhpStorm for free. In recent builds, support has been added for <generic> notation for collections from the PSR-5 PHPDoc, as well as intersections of the Foo&Bar types. Read more about the intersection and union of types from the author PHPStan .
Codeception 2.5 - The update presents opportunities for snapshot testing, support for connecting to several databases and other improvements.
doctrine / mongodb-odm 2.0 Alpha 1
nikic / FastRoute - looking for a maintainer! A few years ago, Nikita Popov proved that routing can be very fast in PHP. Let me remind you about his excellent article Fast request routing using regular expressions .
Yandex PHP meetup, October 18, 2018, Moscow - A meeting of PHP developers will be held at Yandex’s Moscow office.

Php internals

[RFC] Typed Properties 2.0 - The proposal for typed properties was adopted almost unanimously: 70 vs. 1! Typed properties will be added in PHP 7.4.

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 class Example { // All types with the exception of "void" and "callable" are supported public int $scalarType; protected Type $type; private ?Type $nullableType; // Types are also legal on static properties public static iterable $staticProp; // Types can also be used with the "var" notation var bool $flag; // Typed properties may have default values (more below) public string $str = "foo"; public ?string $nullableStr = null; // The type applies to all properties in one declaration public float $x, $y; // equivalent to: public float $x; public float $y; }

[PR] An attempt to implement the “preloading” ability - Dmitry Stogov, the main author of the PHPNG project, which became the base for PHP 7. This time, Dmitry introduced a concept that allows applications to preload the code even before PHP processes the HTTP request.
Dmitry is also working on implementing JIT in PHP , which is expected in PHP 8 .

Instruments

spiral / roadrunner - High-performance application server, load balancer and process manager for PHP implemented on Go. Added support for HTTPS and HTTP / 2 Push .
ankitpokhrel / tus-php - The tus.io server and client implementation of the open-source renewable file download protocol. The protocol is used in Vimeo , Cloudflare , and Git LFS .
TiBeN / CrontabManager - Manager cron-tasks.
paragonie / easydb - Simple and convenient wrapper over PDO. Available caching of prepared paragonie / easydb-cache requests.
zendframework / zend-diactoros 2.0.0 - Updated popular implementation of PSR-7 and now another PSR-17.
liuggio / fastest - A simple solution for running tests in parallel. Alternative to more complex paratestphp / paratest
konsulting / porter - Multisite environment for local development based on Docker.