PHP 8.3.0 RC 2 available, and the fastest way to create a SaaS today [W40]

A lot of releases and updates this week. How to create a SaaS in days, not months; new Pest release; and a search engine just with PHP and SQLite.

Oct 03, 2023

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PHP

🆕 PHP 8.3.0 RC 2 available

This is the second release candidate, continuing the PHP 8.3 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki.

🆕 PHP 8.2.11 Released

A small, bug fix release. It’s important that all services using 8.2 upgrades to current version.

Laravel

🆕 Laravel 10.25

This week brings us to Laravel 10.25. Here are the highlights:

Add take($limit) to Stringables in #48467
Throttle exceptions in #48391
Add convertCase to Stringables in #48492
Increase bcrypt rounds to 12 in #48494
Set morph type for MorphToMany pivot model in #48432
Add firstOrCreate and createOrFirst to the HasManyThrough relation in #48541
Handle custom extensions when caching views in #48524

You may review the full branch diff on GitHub for a complete list of changes.

⭐ How to create a SaaS with Laravel in days, not weeks

I created three SaaS last year. The first one took me about a month, the last one only 3 days. These are the reasons and how you can shorten the time as much as possible

📦 Pest v2.16

New Pest version available with some interesting new assertions like `toBeKebabCase`, `toBeCamelCase` or `toBeDigits` among others.

📦 Filament v3 is out!

This collection of components has a new version with Action Modals, table reporting, multi-tenancy for SaaS and more.

Symfony

🆕 5.4 changelog:

f8e2aa2: [FrameworkBundle] always use buildDir as ConfigBuilderGenerator outputDir
d8e20aa: [Serializer] fix parsing XML root node attributes

🆕 6.3 changelog:

ea20845: [Finder] disable failing test about open_basedir
dab32f6: [Cache] fix Redis6Proxy
f47f589: [Validator] NoSuspiciousCharacters custom error messages fix
810ad9d: [AssetMapper] fixing jsdelivr regex to catch 2x export syntax in a row
21a4345: [Mailer] fix parsing of payload timestamp to event date value (DateTimeImmutable) in MailgunPayloadConverter
6f20a87: [Mime] fix email (de)serialization issues
e39ff93: [Serializer] fix reindex normalizedData array in AbstractObjectNormalizer::denormalize()
0539ca8: [Messenger] fix exiting messenger:failed:retry command
1981bc9: [HttpKernel] fix the order of merging of serializationContext and self::CONTEXT_DENORMALIZE
b9be69f: [Messenger] fix forced bus name gone after an error in delayed message handling
04c7ccf: [Messenger] fix routing to multiple fallback transports
69ef02e: [DoctrineBridge] ignore invalid stores in LockStoreSchemaListener raised by StoreFactory
d029d1b: [Mailer] fix Outlook sender in Mailgun

🆕 6.4 changelog:

cb0974c: [Scheduler] allow modifying the schedule at runtime and recalculate heap
efc6929: [Clock] add DatePoint: an immutable DateTime implementation with stricter error handling and return types
38840e1: [Scheduler] trigger unique messages at runtime
751dedd: [Validator] fix registering "is_valid()" for Expression attribute
1b0aed0: [Cache] fix two initializations of Redis Sentinel
67e53fb: remove optional before required param in several components
4b21e21: [Messenger] add the --all option to the messenger:failed:remove command
4f6f404: [AssetMapper] add support for CSS files in the importmap
83910a9: [PropertyInfo] make isWriteable() more consistent with isReadable() when checking snake_case properties
0b78897: [AssetMapper] allow simple, relative paths in importmap.php