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I’m excited to share that version 1.6.0 of league/commonmark has been released! This will be the last minor release of the 1.x branch - all efforts will now be focused on wrapping up development of 2.0.0!

Please see https://commonmark.thephpleague.com/1.6/upgrading/ for important information about this release and the upcoming 2.0.0 version.

The PHP RFC for enumerations just passed a 44-7 vote to be accepted as a new feature in the upcoming PHP 8.1 release!

Enumerations, also known as “enums”, are a special data type that can only contain specific, predefined (or “enumerated”) values. They behave somewhat similar to constants, in that their names can be referenced in code, but they allow for stronger typing.

The classic use case illustrated by the RFC is of an enum that defines different suits of playing cards:

enum Suit {
  case Hearts;
  case Diamonds;
  case Clubs;
  case Spades;
}

As a developer, I LOVE my geeky t-shirts and mugs, but it's hard to find quality products with designs I like. I've therefore been hard at work these last few weekends putting together my new project: www.moderngeekware.com

PHP 8.0 has just been released! This new major version adds several significant features and improvements to the language like attributes, match expressions, Just-In-Time compilation (JIT), and much more!

Here’s a brief guide on how to install PHP 8.0 on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X:

Ubuntu

Although Composer 2 is mostly backward-compatible with projects using Composer 1, some users may need to continue using Composer 1 due to plugin incompatibilities. This article shows how to install both versions side-by-side.

The first beta release of PHP 8 is here and you can start testing it today with Docker.

Version 1.5.0 of the league/commonmark Markdown library has just been released!

This will likely be the last minor release of 1.x as we focus efforts on developing 2.0. This post breaks down some of the new features and changes you should know about 1.5.0.

Three New Extensions

The popular Markdown library now includes three more extensions within core thanks for to the community:

After 2,086 days, 1,632 commits, and 75 releases I’m pleased to share that league/commonmark has been downloaded over 10 million times! 🎉🎉🎉

Today I found myself deploying a Symfony project to an Azure environment that requires SSL connections to MySQL. I figured this out the hard way when I started getting these errors:

In AbstractMySQLDriver.php line 106:
                                                                                                                             
  An exception occurred in driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [9002] SSL connection is required. Please specify SSL options and retry.  

With the recent release of version 1.3.0, league/commonmark now offers full support for Github-Flavored Markdown!