PHP Digest number 143 (November 1 - 12, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PSR-18 adopted, Packagist PHP version statistics, mitap announcements and mitap maps, PHP 7.3.0RC5 and other releases, a portion of useful tools, about the future of a PHP digest, and much more.
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News and Releases

PSR-18: HTTP Client - Standard officially adopted! This allows you to write applications that do not depend on what kind of HTTP client is used under the hood.
PHP 7.3.0RC5 - The penultimate release candidate in the loop. The final release is expected on December 6th.
PHP 7.1.24
PHP 7.2.12
PhpStorm 2018.3 Public Preview
PHP Version Statistics - 2018.2 - Traditional compilation of statistics for six months based on the information Composer sends when connecting to packagist.org. The total share of PHP 7 is already 84%. A slightly more realistic statistics will show the project phpVatch , which monitors the first million top sites from Alexa with an open version of PHP.
Onliner PHP Meetup # 2 - November 17, Minsk.
ThinkPHP # November 17 - 18, Kharkov.
CODEiD - PHP Odessa Conf # 5 - December 8 and 9, Odessa. For readers of the digest there is a “PHPDIGEST” code with a 10% discount.

Php internals

[RFC] Preloading - Voting on preloading files has already started and will run until November 14. Judging by the current results in PHP 7.4, we are waiting for a new opportunity and higher performance!

Instruments

infection / infection 0.11.0 - Framework for mutational testing. In the new version of 20 new mutators, the launch of tests in random order, and other improvements .
crocodile2u / chainy - Mini-pipelines to replace nested calls to string / array functions. Sent crocodile2u .
jms / serializer v2.0 - Many improvements, reduced memory consumption and performance gains up to 35%, PHP 7.2+. Read more about the release and plans for the blog. and future plans can be read in the blog . Sent by @dmitrybalabka
php-casbin / php-casbin - Authorization library with support for access control ACL, RBAC, ABAC.
brick / math - Library for working with arbitrary precision numbers.
php-decimal / ext-decimal - The extension implements decimal arithmetic with arbitrary precision and correct rounding.
rectorphp / rector - AST tool for updating applications. In the process of an interesting PR upgrade version of PHP. Post in support.
Insolita / unused-scanner - Search for unused dependency comosser.
php-ai / php-ml - Library for machine learning in PHP. Examples of use: code-valuation valuation , stock price forecast .