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A manifest of real things people shipped with PHP in the last 6 months. Every project links to its own source.

Open source on GitHub. Anyone can send a project, and the editor checks each one.

Shipped since 22/04/2026

Newest first.

This week

51 parcels have been added since Monday 19/10. Here are the newest 3. The others are in the bundles below, by shipped date.

Week 43, 19/10 to 25/10

1 parcel

Laravel Custom Fields v1.0

Newest

A headless Laravel package that lets users add typed fields to an Eloquent model at runtime, without a migration for each one.

Daniele Barbaro

Details about Laravel Custom Fields v1.0

Week 42, 12/10 to 18/10

1 parcel

dev/null

A social network for developers: sign in with GitHub, follow developers and share commits.

Nuno Maduro, with Márk Magyar, Matthieu Napoli, Brent Roose and Pauline Vos

Details about dev/null

Week 41, 05/10 to 11/10

3 parcels

Flarum 2.0

A new major version of Flarum, the open source forum software, after a long series of betas and release candidates.

Flarum

Details about Flarum 2.0

GLPI 12.0

A new major version of GLPI, the IT asset management and service desk tool, with a rewritten knowledge base and a way for admins to see and end user sessions.

GLPI

Details about GLPI 12.0

That’s Done

A WordPress plugin that lets clients click anything on their new website to comment on it, draw on it or approve it.

Machine Code, with James Wilmans

Details about That’s Done

Week 40, 01/10 to 04/10

1 parcel

PHPMD 3.0

A new major version of PHPMD, which finds possible problems in PHP code, with a setup wizard and YAML configuration.

PHPMD

Details about PHPMD 3.0

September 2026

10 parcels

Behat 4.0

A new major version of Behat, the behaviour-driven development framework for PHP, with support for Gherkin rules and tag expressions.

Behat

Details about Behat 4.0

Kaleta

An open source CMS for business websites, with a visual page builder, a design system and a WordPress importer.

Miroslav Kaleta

Details about Kaleta

API Platform 5.0

A new major version of API Platform, the framework for building hypermedia and GraphQL APIs, with its deprecated code removed.

API Platform

Details about API Platform 5.0

Nextcloud 35

A new major version of Nextcloud, the self-hosted cloud for files and teamwork, with team workspaces, a new Photos app and Nextcloud Office on the desktop.

Nextcloud

Details about Nextcloud 35

Laravel MCP v1.0

The first stable version of Laravel MCP, which builds MCP servers into Laravel apps, with searchable tool catalogs and the newest MCP protocol.

Laravel

Details about Laravel MCP v1.0

Laravel Vet

A dependency audit for PHP that shows you each package change before composer update writes it into vendor.

Laravel

Details about Laravel Vet

Super Stack

A Laravel starter with a web app, an admin panel, a mobile app, an API and an MCP server in one repo.

NativePHP

Details about Super Stack

Sloppy

A static analyser that finds the debt AI agents leave in PHP code, such as god methods and N+1 queries, with no model and no network.

RatiRukhadze

Details about Sloppy

php-fts

A full-text search engine in pure PHP, with no extensions, no external services and no dependencies.

Olivier

Details about php-fts

August 2026

14 parcels

Qbix Server

A web server written in pure PHP that replaces nginx and PHP-FPM with one process for static files, PHP scripts and WebSockets.

Gregory Magarshak

Details about Qbix Server

ElephpantDB

A small SQL database in a single PHP file, which keeps its tables on local disk and takes SQL through a JSON-over-HTTP endpoint.

Anton Medvedev

Details about ElephpantDB

Contao 6.0

A new major version of Contao, the open source CMS built on Symfony, which now stores input as it is and uses Twig for all its templates.

Contao

Details about Contao 6.0

php-esp32

The real PHP interpreter from php.net, built for ESP32 microcontrollers, so the chip runs your index.php from a microSD card, with WiFi and a web server mode.

Gianfrancesco Aurecchia

Details about php-esp32

phpseclib 4.0

A new major version of phpseclib, a pure-PHP library for SSH-2, SFTP, X.509, RSA, AES and more, with new PFX and CMS support.

phpseclib, with Jim Wigginton

Details about phpseclib 4.0

Dolibarr 24.0

A new major version of Dolibarr, the open source ERP and CRM, with an experimental MCP server and AI assistant.

Dolibarr

Details about Dolibarr 24.0

plMail

A mail client you host yourself: it shows the mailboxes you already have in one inbox, with a calendar beside it.

Paul Lützner

Details about plMail

Symfony Language Tools

A language server that helps your editor understand Symfony routes, services, templates and translation keys.

Symfony

Details about Symfony Language Tools

Leaf 5

A new major version of Leaf, a PHP framework for makers, with a new compiled routing engine.

Leaf PHP

Details about Leaf 5

Kanso

Fast, open-source kanban boards for Nextcloud, with reviews, projects and realtime sync.

Fatih Aktas

Details about Kanso

Adminer 6.0

A new major version of Adminer, the database manager in a single PHP file, with security fixes and a faster tables overview.

Jakub Vrána

Details about Adminer 6.0

WooCommerce 11.0

A new major version of WooCommerce, with faster stores for large catalogs, a way for customers to claim past guest orders and more accurate analytics.

WooCommerce

Details about WooCommerce 11.0

Jellydash

A dashboard you host yourself for a Jellyfin server: who is watching, play history and viewing statistics.

Martin Martz

Details about Jellydash

July 2026

12 parcels

PHPUnit TIA

A PHPUnit extension for Test Impact Analysis (TIA), which runs only the tests that relate to the files you changed.

Jason McCreary

Details about PHPUnit TIA

NativePHP Mobile v4

A new major version of NativePHP Mobile, which builds iOS and Android apps with PHP, now with a native-first boot and SuperNative.

NativePHP

Details about NativePHP Mobile v4

Pest 5

A new major version of the Pest testing framework, built on PHP 8.4 and PHPUnit 13.

Nuno Maduro

Details about Pest 5

CortenDesk

A console you host yourself that replaces the open source RustDesk server, with device management, users, audit logs and a remote desktop client in the browser.

Marc Pope

Details about CortenDesk

Laravel Truss

A database structure viewer for Laravel that shows your schema as an ER diagram (ERD), never the data.

Alberto Arena

Details about Laravel Truss

Manticore

An ahead-of-time compiler for PHP, written in PHP, that turns PHP code into static binaries that run with no PHP runtime.

Taras Chornyi

Details about Manticore

Guzzle 8.0

A new major version of Guzzle, the PHP HTTP client, with HTTP/3 support in its cURL handlers on PHP 8.4 and later.

Guzzle

Details about Guzzle 8.0

Laravel Rulebook

A Laravel package that picks which business rule applies on a given date and explains why it applied.

Mathias Onea

Details about Laravel Rulebook

Larasend

A transactional email platform you host yourself, which sends through your own Amazon SES or Cloudflare account and keeps the logs on your servers.

Vijay Tupakula

Details about Larasend

Minn Admin

A new admin for WordPress, served at /minn-admin/ beside the classic one, as a single-page app on the WordPress REST API.

Austin Ginder

Details about Minn Admin

Hydrodactyl v6

A new major version of the game server panel formerly called Pyrodactyl, a fork of Pterodactyl, now with a new name and a full redesign.

Naterfute, with Blueprint Framework

Details about Hydrodactyl v6

EspoCRM 10.0

A new major version of EspoCRM, the open source CRM, with multiple pipelines, record locking and cascading links between records.

EspoCRM

Details about EspoCRM 10.0

June 2026

8 parcels

Shoutrrr

A tool you host yourself to write a social media post once and publish it on many networks.

coolLabs

Details about Shoutrrr

Grav 2.0

A new major version of Grav, the flat-file CMS, with a rebuilt admin, a REST API that can manage every part of a site and an MCP server for AI agents.

Grav

Details about Grav 2.0

SolidInvoice 3.0

A new major version of SolidInvoice, the open source invoicing app built on Symfony, with two-factor login and search.

SolidInvoice

Details about SolidInvoice 3.0

Laravel Vigilance

A control center for Laravel queues, jobs, commands and the scheduler that works with every queue driver, with a dashboard to run jobs and commands by hand.

Anas B.

Details about Laravel Vigilance

ActivityPub 9.0

A new major version of ActivityPub, the WordPress plugin that lets people on Mastodon and other fediverse apps follow your site.

Matthias Pfefferle, with Automattic

Details about ActivityPub 9.0

laravel-stream-backup

A Laravel package that streams database backups to S3, SFTP or local disk, with the same small memory use whatever the size of the database.

Ahmed Nour

Details about laravel-stream-backup

Laravel Necromancer

A Laravel package that scans your app and writes a Markdown context file, so AI coding agents can cite your real routes, models and jobs.

Roberto Gallea

Details about Laravel Necromancer

Lean package validator 6.0

A new major version of the lean package validator, a CLI that makes sure a package keeps its repo files out of release archives.

Raphael Stolt

Details about Lean package validator 6.0

May 2026

7 parcels

Parsel

A PHP library that extracts Markdown, text and structured data from documents such as PDFs, using local command-line parsers.

Pushpak Chhajed

Details about Parsel

Symfony Security Auditor

A security auditor for Symfony apps where one AI agent attacks the code and another reviews each finding, to catch flaws that static analysis tools miss.

Vincent Amstoutz

Details about Symfony Security Auditor

WordPress 7.0

A new major version of WordPress, with an AI client in core, a new admin theme and new blocks.

WordPress

Details about WordPress 7.0

tempest/markdown

A fast and extensible Markdown parser in pure PHP, which uses a simple lexer instead of regex.

Brent Roose

Details about tempest/markdown

Gutenwright

An experimental WordPress plugin that turns natural language prompts into real Gutenberg blocks.

Fatih Kadir Akın

Details about Gutenwright

FastChart

A native PHP extension in C that draws charts fast: 38 chart types and barcodes, as SVG, PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF, behind a modern PHP API.

Ilia Alshanetsky

Details about FastChart

VolumeVault

A Laravel app you host yourself to back up Docker volumes and host folders on a schedule, with safe restores and encrypted destinations.

darkdragon

Details about VolumeVault

April 2026

2 parcels

Coolify v4.0

The first stable release of Coolify, an open source alternative to Vercel and Heroku that you host on your own servers.

coolLabs

Details about Coolify v4.0

Deployer 8.0

A new major version of Deployer, the deployment tool for PHP, with a new recipe format and better error messages.

Anton Medvedev

Details about Deployer 8.0

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