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The latest Laravel updates introduce several enhancements, including the ability to inspect exception properties with assertThrows and support for microsecond precision in time travel testing. Support for UUID v7, while enhancements to SQLite schema dumps improve readability and fix previous issues. Additionally, a new preserveWords flag in Str::limit enhances string truncation, and the BusFake class now allows inspection of dispatched batches. A new Terminating event signals the start of the application termination process.

Gracefully handle failures in queued jobs. If a job fails after all attempts, you can execute custom code by defining a failed() method within your job class.

class MyJob implements ShouldQueue
{
    // ...

    public function failed(Throwable $throwable): void
    {
        // Handle failure (e.g., clean up, send notifications)
    }
}

Implement this method to manage tasks like cleaning up resources or notifying users when a job doesn’t succeed.

Currently in its voting phase, the RFC outlines proposed deprecations for PHP 8.4 with removals scheduled for PHP 9.0, targeting a range of outdated or problematic functionalities. While most proposals appear likely to pass, several seem poised for rejection, including the removal of strtok() and uniqid(), the use of arrays in file_put_contents(), and older cryptographic functions such as md5(), sha1(), md5_file(), and sha1_file().

Dive into a Reddit discussion on the unconventional practice of using curly braces to group PHP code outside of control structures. Share your thoughts and learn how others approach this coding technique.

Buggregator is a debugging server for PHP, seamlessly integrating with tools like Ray, Symfony/VarDumper, and Sentry. It’s designed to simplify your setup and centralize debugging data from any PHP framework or CMS, offering features like single sign-on, external database support, performance profiling, and real-time metrics monitoring.

The results of Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey are in! Explore the latest developer trends. Key insights also include the continued admiration for Rust and AI tools like ChatGPT, and Erlang leading as the top-paying technology.

Brent talks about how most programming challenges, particularly in PHP, revolve around text processing and data mapping, using his experiences with Tempest's ORM and other projects as examples.