The document outlines key updates for PHP, including patch releases for PHP versions 7.0.16 and 7.1.2 as well as new features and proposals for PHP 7.2, such as making the libsodium library a core extension. It also covers CMS updates for Drupal and WordPress, various framework releases like CakePHP and Laravel, and highlights upcoming PHP conferences. It emphasizes the importance of community contributions to open-source documentation.

1. Last Month in PHP
February 2017
Kansas City PHP User Group

2. PHP Patch Releases
PHP 7.0.16
● Bug fixes
● php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.0.16
PHP 7.1.2
● Bug fixes
● php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.1.2

3. New version of PHPUnit
PHPUnit 6.0
● Supports Actively Supported Versions of PHP
○ PHP 7.0 & PHP 7.1
● Namespaced classes
○ PHPUNit_Framework_TestCase → PHPUnitFrameworkTestCase
● Now check against useless tests is enabled by default
○ PHP 5.7: vendor/bin/phpunit --report-useless-tests
○ PHP 6.0: vendor/bin/phpunit --dont-report-useless-tests
● github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/wiki/Release-Announcement-for-PHP
Unit-6.0.0

4. Upcoming Features in PHP RFC
Trailing Commas in List Syntax
● Target: 7.2
● tl;dr: make additional groupings easier to
arrange when using a version control
system
● Several proposals, few passed:
○ Grouped namespaces
○ Interface implementations on a class
● wiki.php.net/rfc/list-syntax-trailing-commas
Grouped namespaces
use FooBar{
Foo,
Bar,
Baz,
};
Interface implementations on a class
class Foo implements
FooInterface,
BarInterface,
BazInterface,
{

5. Upcoming Features in PHP RFC
Make Libsodium a Core Extension
● Target: 7.2
● tl;dr: move highly-regarded libsodium library from being an extension to being
a core feature
● Passed unanimously
● CRYPTO in Core!
● wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium

6. Upcoming Features in PHP RFC
list() Reference Assignment
● Target: 7.2
● tl;dr: use the assignment operator (“&”) in
a list to change a value in the original
array
● wiki.php.net/rfc/list_reference_assignment

7. CMSes: Drupal
Drupal 7.54, 8.2.6
● Drupal 7.54
○ Maintenance Release
○ drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.54
● Drupal 8.2.4
○ Final scheduled patch release in 8.2.x
■ 8.3 will be released in April
○ Core is compatible with PHP 7.1
○ New JS test methods added
○ drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/8.2.4

8. CMSes: WordPress
WordPress 4.7 - “Vaughan”
● No updates

9. Frameworks - CakePHP
CakePHP 3.4 “Red Velvet”
● PSR-7 Request & Response objects
● Routes support a _host option to match URLs on specific domains
● Collection::chunkWithKeys() - split a collection into chunks and preseve keys
● Email messages have their priority set
● FormHelper can read default data out of the query string
○ GET forms are now more simple to build
● Deprecations on the road to 4.0
● bakery.cakephp.org/2017/02/12/cakephp_340_released.html

10. Frameworks - Laravel
Laravel 5.4.[8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
● Laravel 5.4
○ Maintenance releases
○ Includes new Collections::when()
method
○ Includes new Collections::tap()
method
○ Throw JsonEncodingException when
JSON encoder fails to encode eloquent
attribute
○ See:
github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.4/CH
ANGELOG-5.4.md

11. Frameworks - Symfony
Symfony 3.2.{3, 4}, 2.8.17, 2.7.24
● symfony.com/blog/symfony-3-2-4-released
● symfony.com/blog/symfony-3-2-3-released
● symfony.com/blog/symfony-2-8-17-released
● symfony.com/blog/symfony-2-7-24-released

12. Frameworks - Zend
ZF 3.0
● No updates

13. PHP: The Right Way
● Improved Arabic Translation ● Note: Every open-source project can use
your help with documentation. What are
you waiting for?

14. PHP Conferences
Confoo.CA 2017
● Mar 8-10 - Montreal, CAN
● confoo.ca/en/yul2017
Midwest PHP 2017
● March 17-18 - Minneapolis, MN
● 2017.midwestphp.org
Lonestar PHP 2017
● Apr 20-22 - Dallas, TX
● lonestarphp.com
DrupalCon Baltimore
● April 24-28 - Baltimore, MD
● events.drupal.org/baltimore2017

15. PHP Conferences - Continued
PHP[TEK] 2017
● May 24-26 - Atlanta, GA
● tek.phparch.com
CoderCruise 2017
● July 16-23 - New Orleans, LA
● codercruise.com

16. Nomad PHP (Online) - January 19
Nomad PHP EU - 01:00 PM CST
Zend Framework Done Right
● Gary Hockin (@GeeH)
● nomadphp.com/zend-framework-done-righ
t/
Nomad PHP US - 08:00 PM CST
Yielding Higher-Performance PHP
Applications
● Ian Littman (@iansltx)
● nomadphp.com/yielding-higher-performan
cephp-applications

17. Next Month in KCPHPUG
● John Kary, everyone!