Michael Cullum has posted the October 2017 edition of what has been happening in the PHP-FIG group for the month over on Medium.com.

As part of the effort to communicate better what’s going on within the PHP FIG we’re starting a new series of ‘A month of PHP FIG’ articles to be released towards the end of each month, each being a 2 minute read or less.

Topics mentioned in this month's edition include:

• PSR-12 being formally re-introduced into the draft stage
• a start of the voting for the secretary elections for two secretary posts
• a discussion as to whether or not new PSRs should require PHP 7 or PHP 5 still
• an agreement that PSR-18 will not cater to async http client requests due to the lack of a Promise PSR standard

There were also several new PSR ideas proposed including ones for internationalization, cache tagging and deprecation handling. You can read the full post here

php[architect] magazine has an announcement on their site about the release of the latest edition of the publication, the October 2017 issue: Composing Software.

Articles in this month's edition include:

• Managing Private Dependencies by Andrew Cassell.
• Alain Schlesser writes about Uncommon Ab(Uses) of Composer.
• Read about Building Software that Lasts by Susanne Moog.
• Continue Building Software that Lasts by Edward Barnard.

The usual columns return as well - Education Station, Artisanal, The Dev Lead Trenches (and many more). You can pick up a copy of your own directly from the site, either opting to get the single issue or a year-long subscription. If you want to "try before you buy" and see what the content is like, you can check out this free article about managing private Composer dependencies.