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Releases and changes coming up.
PHP 8.6 brings partial function application
RC1 lands on September 24 and general availability on November 19. Leave ? or ... in place of arguments and you get a closure back.
React 19.3 makes ViewTransition and Fragment refs stable
React 19.3 (September 9) makes two APIs stable, and React DOM adds use(browser()) and Trusted Types support.
Laracon US: an image manipulation API, Laravel LSP and artisan doctor
The July 29 announcements worth your time, from Blade formatting in Pint to human approval of tool calls in the AI SDK.
ES2026 is approved: getOrInsert, Iterator.concat, RegExp.escape and more
ES2026 was approved on June 30. Temporal and explicit resource management (using) are slated for ES2027.
JetBrains survey: 90% use AI coding agents at work at least weekly
JetBrains surveyed more than 15,000 professional developers from May to July 2026, and 68% use AI coding agents daily.
GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based billing on June 1
"AI Credits" replace premium requests, each plan includes credits equal to its price, and code completions stay free.
Laravel MCP 1.0 ships searchable tool catalogs
With 100 tools, the tool definitions drop from 58,585 bytes to 1,431, which is 97.6% smaller.
The MCP 2026-07-28 spec makes the protocol stateless
With no initialize handshake and no session IDs, MCP servers can sit behind an ordinary load balancer.
Software job postings sit about 23% below pre-pandemic levels
Indeed's US software development job postings index was 76.62 on September 11, 2026 (February 2020 = 100).
BLS projects 10% growth for software developers from 2025 to 2035
That is about 174,700 new jobs, down from the 15.8% it projected for 2024 to 2034.