Last Month in PHP - November 2017

Covers the latest news, releases and events in the PHP community over the previous month (October 2017).
November 1, 2017
Kansas City PHP User Group

1. Last Month in PHP November 1, 2017
 Kansas City PHP User Group John Kary @johnkary
2. Releases
3. 7.0.25 7.1.11 7.2 RC5 ^ Nov 30
4. RFCs JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR (Accepted for 7.3) https://wiki.php.net/rfc/json_throw_on_error Trailing Comma Function Calls (Targets PHP 7.3) https://wiki.php.net/rfc/trailing-comma-function-calls
5. Wordpress 4.8.3 esc_sql() fixed for plugin devs https://blog.ircmaxell.com/2017/10/disclosure-wordpress-wpdb-sql-injection-technical.html 4.9 RC • PHP 7.2 compatibility • Customizer can save draft and schedule changes • Customizer can give URL of draft changes • Media widget can build Wordpress Gallery • Code editing user experience
6. Drupal 8.4.0 https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/8.4.0 Dropped support for IE 9 / 10 Upgraded components: Symfony 3.2; jQuery 3 Migrate module (beta)
7. Laravel 5.5.14 Vessel: Docker package for Laravel https://vessel.shippingdocker.com/ Official Unit Testing Utility Library for Vue.js https://laravel-news.com/vue-js-unit-testing-utils
8. Symfony 2.7.35 2.8.28 3.3.10 3.4.0 BETA2 4.0 BETA2 Flex ???
9. Conferences / Events
10. National https://world.phparch.com $345 Workshops $425 Conference
11. Regional https://2018.midwestphp.org $180 Blind Bird (til Jan 5) $225 Early Bird (til Feb 15) $275 Final (til Mar 5)
12. Online laracon.net $12 / $25 (Jan 3) February 7, 2018
13. Regional http://2018.sunshinephp.com/ $240 Early Bird $340 Early Bird + Tutorial Miami, Florida
14. Regional https://www.longhornphp.com $225 Early Bird $335 Early Bird + Tutorial $0 with a talk accepted CFP open til Dec 31 -- https://cfp.longhornphp.com Regional
15. fin http://johnkary.net/talks @johnkary