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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.

Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony.

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 5.4.47, 6.4.15, and 7.1.8 maintenance versions were released. Additionally, the second release candidate of Symfony 7.2 was published, ahead of its final release scheduled for the end of November 2024. Lastly, we published two new security advisories to address some reported security issues in Symfony.
A Week of Symfony #934 (18-24 November 2024)

They also have:
Black Friday 2024 offers from the Symfony Ecosystem

A Newsletter

New in Symfony 7.2: Misc. Improvements (Part 1)

New in Symfony 7.2: Misc. Improvements (Part 2)

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: See you next week!



Blackfire has:
Information is key: Building alert-triggered profiling with Blackfire

Featured Item

TechCrunch reports:
Ai2 releases new language models competitive with Meta’s Llama

Finally an open-source AI product.

This week

Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explores:
Creating focused domain applications. A Symfony approach (Returning the result)

Thomas Dutrion shows us:
How to install Laravel or Symfony using only Composer

Etienne Lebarillier shares:
Another Way to Structure your Symfony Project

Great article.

eCommerce

Sylius has:
Month of Sylius: October

Shopware shares:
General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR): What you need to do now

DarkReading reports:
Sneaky Skimmer Malware Targets Magento Sites Ahead of Black Friday

CMSs

TYPO3 has:
TYPO3 ACL — Report for Q3/2024

Andy provides a:
Recap of TYPO3 Community Sprint Q4 2024



Joomla has:
Your first glimpse at Joomla! 5.3.0 Alpha1

Sergey Tolkachyov examines:
The anatomy of smart search in Joomla 5 Part 1: Introduction



Drupal has:
Join the party & help us launch Drupal CMS in style

ImageX Media has:
Unlocking Drupal Recipes: Instantly Boost Your Website's Features

Latest & Greatest Tips to Enhance Your Higher Ed Website’s Online Presence

Specbee says:
A new Drupal CMS is coming soon: Your top questions answered

Matt Glaman advises:
Restrict Composer dependency updates to only patch releases

Morpht announces:
Custom Meta Module joins Metatag: Unlocking advanced custom tag management

Computer Minds looks at:
Putting 1000 sites behind Cloudflare

Previous Weeks


JoliCode shows us how to:
Écrire des assertions PHPUnit plus simples grâce au VarDumper

BitBag explores:
Unlocking the power of content and product management in Sylius

Acseo shares:
Gérer la surcharge de fonctionnalités dans Sylius : Stratégies et bonnes pratiques
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PHP

This week

Antonio Silva shows us:
Why Using POST for Updates Is Safer Than Hyperlinks

Dan Leach examines:
PHP, Value Objects and You

Markus Staab looks at:
Phpstan Mixed Types

Previous Weeks

PHP Watch shares a:
PHP 8.4 Installation and Upgrade guide for Ubuntu and Debian

Spo0q explores:
PHP: Practical ways to escape from the hell of Dates

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More Programming

Yellow Brick Code examines:
DDD, the Natural Evolution of the IT Industry

GitHub looks at:
Breaking down CPU speed: How utilization impacts performance

MIT Technology Review reports:
AI can now create a replica of your personality

Awesome. :(

MD. Feraj Mukatadir asks:
What is CloudLinux? An Overview of the Leading Operating System for Web Hosting

Interesting.

Smashing Magazine covers:
The Hype Around Signals

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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.

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).

The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery


Cory Doctorow reports:
Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform

This is the kind of work we need to be doing.

The Guardian reports:
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

Awesome.

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Register reports:
The workplace has become a surveillance state

The Guardian reports:
When will Democrats finally realize that big tech is not an ally?

I've been beating this dead horse for years. Hence, an entire fucking section of Defending Democracy each week.

Cybersecurity/Privacy

DarkReading reports:
Closing the Cybersecurity Career Diversity Gap

The Register reports:
US senators propose law to require bare minimum security standards

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The Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 94

Tyler Fisher is:
Introducing Sill

Quote: Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what’s happening.

Mashable reports:
Open-source TikTok alternative Loops coming to the Fediverse

Short videos aren't my thing, but it's from the Pixelfed team which is my favorite federated app.

Other Slightly Federated Social Media

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in the ATmosphere – The Links -2411.d

Michael Taggart has:
The Bluesky Questions, Part 1

The Bluesky Questions, Part 2

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

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