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Welcome to this week's edition of The Payload. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy.

There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.

This is why we publish on Thursdays. So you can savor it over your weekend.

Or scroll down to your favorite section.
My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.

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Symfony

As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.

Highlight -> This week, Symfony 6.4.17, 7.1.10 and 7.2.2 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we published more information about the upcoming SymfonyOnline January 2025 conference.

A Week of Symfony #940 (30 December 2024 - 5 January 2025)


They also have:
Symfony 2024 Year in Review



Blackfire has:
Mastering your Observability Strategy with Blackfire: from quick fixes to long-term optimization

Featured Item

Tomas Votruba expounds on:
Symfony @required - Avoid the Temptation and Use it Correctly

This week

Liip explores:
Simultaneous editing: Easy mode with Hotwire

Minimal JS. I love it

dotkernal examines:
Replacing laminas-mail with Symfony mailer in dot-mail

Platforms

Laravel News shares:
Laravel News 2024 Recap

It's not all Laravel oriented.

eCommerce

Golems looks at the:
Drupal ECA module and integration with Drupal Commerce

Sylius has:
The Sylius Partners Points Program

2024 Rewind, and a Few Words About Everything Next

KnowBand asks:
What’s New in PrestaShop v9.0: Is it Time to Migrate?

CMSs

TYPO3 has:
Memories From FOSDEM 2024 — an Interview With Oliver Bartsch

Hat Tip to TYPO3 Coders - December 2024

This Month in TYPO3: December, 2024 (Issue #20)

T3CON24 Recap - GSB 11: Open Source CMS Modernizing German Government



Joomla has:
The Joomla Community Newsletter is BACK!

Joomla 5.2.3 Security & Bugfix Release



Concrete CMS has:
Concrete CMS Wins Winter 2025 Leader Award



Drupal has:

Event Organizers - 2024 Year in Review

Dries Buytaert announces:
A new chapter in my role at Acquia

1X Internet says:
Get Hands-On with the Drupal CMS – No Technical Skills Needed!

The Drop Times reports:
Building a Schema.org-First Future with the Schema.org Blueprints Module for Drupal

Good to see the starter kits will be converted to recipes.

HashBangCode explores:
Drupal 11: Using Data Transfer Objects With The Queue API

Zoocha examines:
Drupal’s Evolution: Farewells, Anniversaries, and a Bold New Era

Previous Weeks

Hugues Gobet looks at a:
Logbook of Learning Domain-Driven Design: Day 2

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PHP

This week

php[architect] has a new issue:
Time For PHP -- December 2024

Tomas Votruba explores:
Unused Definitions with Behat Static Analysis

Asian Digital Hub has:
PHP Powers a New Era in Decentralized AI with Federated Learning

Using HTTP/3 in PHP Applications for Maximum Speed

DDEV has some news:
Happy New Year DDEV Community!

Heise reports:
PHPUnit 12: Sebastian Bergmann about Release, Changes and Highlights

Derick Rethans has a:
Xdebug Update: December 2024

Laravel News reports:
Recurr is a PHP library for working with recurrence rules for calendar dates

Previous Weeks

Martin Jirasek explains:
Docker for PHP beginners as simple as possible

Majd Souhp examines:
Building a Simple IoC Container in PHP

Arif Hossen looks at:
Mastering PHP Reflection: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers in 2025

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More Programming

Wired reports:
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me

Frontend Masters reports:
Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into 2025

CSS Tricks explores:
The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI

Emmanuel Imolorhe continues a series:
CSS is Emotional: z-index and the Hierarchy of Needs

Ahmad Shadeed examines:
Balancing Text In CSS

CloudPanel shows us:
How to increase the PHP App start performance by up to 60% with Opcode Preloading

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Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)


Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.

Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.
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The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery

BleepingComputer reports:
Russian ISP confirms Ukrainian hackers "destroyed" its network

The Kyiv Independent reports:
US sanctions Orban ally Antal Rogan for corruption, abuse of power

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Verge reports:
Meta abandons fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of Community Notes

Forward reports:
Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

Cybersecurity/Privacy

MIT Technology Review reports on:
What’s next for our privacy?

DarkReading reports:
Zivver Report Reveals Critical Challenges in Email Security for 2025

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The Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 98

Stefano Marinelli is:
Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

Very useful.

Other Slightly Federated Social Media

Liberal Currents reports:
Bluesky Won't Save Us

Why would anyone think a Shitter clone would?

TechCrunch reports:
Bluesky bump from X exodus is slowing down, data shows

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