1. Last Month in PHP
January 2016
Kansas City PHP User Group

2. PHP Patch Releases
PHP 7.0.2
6 Security & 31 Bug fixes
PHP 5.6.17
Security fixes
PHP 5.5.31
Security fixes

3. CMSes
Drupal 8.0.2
Many bug fixes
WordPress 4.4.1
1 major XSS security fix. Upgrade!
52 bug fixes

4. μFrameworks - Zend Expressive 1.0
Zend Expressive 1.0
PSR-7 Middleware
Example: http://www.sitepoint.com/build-nasa-photo-gallery-zend-expressive/
See: https://zendframework.github.io/zend-expressive/

5. μFrameworks - Lumen 5.2
Lumen 5.2.4
5.2 introduces stateless APIs
No Sessions
This changes authentication
See: https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/5.2/releases

6. μFrameworks - Silex 1.3.x
Silex 1.3.5
Fixed typo
See: https://github.com/silexphp/Silex/blob/1.3/doc/changelog.rst

7. μFrameworks - Slim 3.1
Slim 3.1.0
Adds `getParsedBodyParam()` and `getQueryParam()` to SlimHttpRequest
Adds `App::process()` to allow Slim to run when a Request object and
Response object already exist
HTTP status code 451
See: http://www.slimframework.com/2016/01/08/slim-3.1.0.html

8. Frameworks
Laravel 5.2.12
Symfony [2.8.2, 2.7.9, 2.6.13, 2.3.37]
Zend Framework 2.5.3

9. PHP Conferences
Sunshine PHP
Feb 4-6 - Miami, FL
See: http://2016.sunshinephp.com/
Midwest PHP
Mar 4-5 - Minneapolis, MN
See: http://2016.midwestphp.org/
Lone Star PHP
April 7-9 - Dallas, TX
See: http://lonestarphp.com/
php[tek]
May 23-27 - St. Louis, MO
See: https://tek.phparch.com/
Kansas City Developer Conference
June 22-24 - Kansas City, MO
Call for papers deadline: Feb 12

10. Nomad PHP (Online) - Feb 18
Nomad PHP EU - 01:00 PM CST
The Life of an If Statement
Anthony Ferrara (@ircmaxell)
See:
https://nomadphp.com/2015/11/20/2016-
02-eu/
Nomad PHP US - 08:00 PM CST
From Idea to Prototype in 50 Minutes with
Laravel
Matt Stauffer (@stauffermatt)
See:
https://nomadphp.com/2015/11/20/2016-
02-us/

11. Next Month KCPUG
John Kary will present a talk on Rethinking Loops* (functional programming in
PHP)
*This is the talk he will give at Midwest PHP & Lone Star PHP