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MadelineProto 8.20: video calls, group calls, livestreams and E2E conferences in pure PHP, 250x faster crypto, rich messages and much more

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:33:40 +0000

MadelineProto 8.20.1 is out, and it’s the biggest update since MadelineProto 8.0!

Since 8.7.0, MadelineProto has gained video calls, group calls, livestreams, live stories and end-to-end encrypted conference calls, all in pure PHP: calls run on a pure PHP WebRTC stack, with pure PHP OPUS and AAC codecs. No FFI, no extensions, no shell commands and no ffmpeg, so everything works on webhosts, too! Over 43 releases (8.8.8 → 8.20.1), we also added rich messages, resumable uploads and downloads, a native crypto extension, a new web UI, Windows IPC support, layers 231 to 233, and hundreds of fixes.

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Announcing Psalm 7

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:12:52 +0000

Announcing the release of Psalm 7!

Featuring a simply enormous number of new features and bug fixes, such as:

security analysis on by default: fully refactored for 10x+ performance and much greater coverage, in the same run as type checking and dead code detection;
much deeper security analysis taint tracking: NoSQL, LLM prompt and URL injection, new sources like php://input and uploaded file names, flows through closures, generators, traits and by-reference parameters, and ready-made stubs for Guzzle, PSR-7, Monolog, MongoDB and more.
a new purity model based on Hack’s capabilities: declare exactly which side effects a function may have (io, time, write-props…), with purity templates for classes, closures and automatically inferred annotations;
graph-based dead code detection: If nothing reachable uses a class, function, method, constant, variable, etc, Psalm finds it, now properly handling unused cycles as well.
Template defaults (@template TError of Throwable = RuntimeException) for classes, functions and methods: Result<int> just works, and libraries can add templates without breaking their users.
PHP 8.5 and 8.6 support: Full support for Partial Function Application, the pipe operator, and much more!
Daily releases. Features and fixes reach you the day they land, no more waiting on dev-master.
Framework plugins in the box. The PHPUnit, Symfony, Laravel, Mockery and sabre/event plugins ship with Psalm and switch on by themselves. Zero setup.
a bigger Psalm maintainer team: @alies-dev has joined the Psalm maintainer team, contributing many new useful features and bugfixes!
An official Discord community!
And so, so many other new features and bugfixes!

Psalm 7 runs on 64-bit PHP 8.2 to 8.6. Upgrading is simple for most projects: see Upgrading below.

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php-community: a faster-moving, community-driven PHP.

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:12:58 +0000

I’ve just submitted to the PHP internals mailing list a new PHP RFC, for a faster-moving, community-driven PHP: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php-community

With this proposal, the entire PHP community gets immediate access to experimental features through an official php-community version of PHP, versioned in a rolling manner (i.e. php-community 2026.03.01), and available on php.net along normal PHP releases, similar to rust-nightly.

MadelineProto 8.4.18: a major reactive refactoring!

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:51:57 +0000

MadelineProto, the async PHP client API for the telegram MTProto protocol, was updated to 8.4.18!

This release features a major internal refactoring of the message system and the auth state machine, bringing major stability and performance improvements by removing legacy code and switching to a new reactive model.

Psalm v7: up to 10x performance!

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:55:04 +0000

Announcing the public beta of Psalm v7!

Psalm) is one of the biggest and most powerful PHP Static analysis tools, featuring exclusive features like security analysis, and Psalm v7 brings huge performance improvements to security analysis, up to 10x thanks to a full refactoring of both the internal representation of taints, and optimization of the graph resolution logic.

Official Psalm docker image

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:26:40 +0000

Psalm is one of the biggest and most powerful PHP Static analysis tools, featuring exclusive features like security analysis, and in Psalm 6.9, an official, hyperoptimized Docker image was introduced.

Psalm’s docker image uses a custom build of PHP built from scratch with a custom deepbind patch and the jemalloc allocator, running Psalm +30% faster on average than normal PHP (+50% faster if comparing to PHP without opcache installed).

Psalm review tool in Psalm 6.3

Sun, 18 May 2025 14:42:38 +0000

Psalm is one of the biggest and most powerful PHP Static analysis tools, featuring exclusive features like security analysis.

Psalm v6 was recently released, and in Psalm 6.3, a new tool called psalm-review was added.

It allows users to manually review found issues one by one in your favorite IDE: just start it on a JSON report generated by Psalm, and it will open your preferred IDE on the exact line and column where the issue occurred:

Psalm v6 Deep Dive: Copy-on-Write + dynamic task dispatching

Sun, 11 May 2025 13:02:10 +0000

Psalm is one of the biggest and most powerful PHP Static analysis tools, featuring exclusive features like security analysis.

Psalm v6 was recently released, and soon after in Psalm 6.1, I implemented a major refactoring of multithreaded mode (automatically enabled on Linux/Mac OS) based on amphp/parallel, which greatly improved analysis speeds!

Psalm v6 announcement

Sun, 11 May 2025 13:02:08 +0000

Psalm is one of the biggest and most powerful PHP Static analysis tools, featuring exclusive features like security analysis, and Psalm v6 brings support for PHP 8.4, AMPHP v3, PHP-Parser v5 and much more!

I am happy to announce that I, Daniil Gentili, am now the main maintainer of Psalm, and thanks to the newly launched Psalm support contracts, I now have the opportunity to work heavily on Psalm, specifically focusing on major performance improvements and improved security analysis.

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MadelineProto 8.20: video calls, group calls, livestreams and E2E conferences in pure PHP, 250x faster crypto, rich messages and much more

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Announcing Psalm 7

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php-community: a faster-moving, community-driven PHP.

MadelineProto 8.4.18: a major reactive refactoring!

Psalm v7: up to 10x performance!

Official Psalm docker image

Psalm review tool in Psalm 6.3

Psalm v6 Deep Dive: Copy-on-Write + dynamic task dispatching

Psalm v6 announcement

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