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With PHP 7.1 scheduled to be released next week, it's probably a good idea to go over the new features is offers.

The newest version of PHP – 7.1.0 – is already at RC6 (Release Candidate 6) status, which means it will be out soon. After a huge update that took PHP from 5.6 straight to 7.0 increasing speeds considerably, PHP is now focusing on core language features that will help all of us write better code. In this article I’ll take a look at the major additions and features of PHP 7.1.0 which is just around the bend.

https://kinsta.com/blog/php-7-1-0/

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The release of Laravel 5.3 is just around the corner. Over at Laravel News Eric L. Barnes made a nice overview of the new stuff coming in the framework.

Laravel 5.3 is currently in development and with all new Laravel releases, new features are being teased out as they are added. Here is a quick look at some of these new features.

https://laravel-news.com/2016/06/look-whats-coming-laravel-5-3/

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Mohamed Said made a great overview of new features that will be added to Laravel 5.2.23

By the time of writing this post, Laravel has 911 contributors on GitHub, some of them are actively adding awesome stuff to the framework on a daily basis. This is a wrap up for the new stuff in Laravel 5.2.23.

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One of the main questions when doing a major release is which minimum PHP version to support going forward. Last summer I decided I wanted to do a big jump from 5.3 and directly target PHP 7. It provides a lot of nice features as well as performance improvements, and as Monolog is one of the most installed packages on Packagist I wanted to help nudge everyone towards PHP 7.

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