Tomas Votruba has written up a new post to his site sharing an update to a project he has to make it easier to enforce various coding standards in your application's codebase. In this update he talks about the Easy Coding Standard project's v4 alpha that includes a "clean" Symfony standard with support for Yaml and Services.

I wrote about news in Easy Coding Standard 3 a while ago. EasyCodingStandard 4 is not released yet (still in alpha), but soon you'll be able to use all the news I'll show you today.

And what are they? Neon to Yaml, semi-static to Services, customizable caching, even simpler skipper, short bin and more.

He breaks the new features down into a list of six updates:

• Configure Caching Directory
• Skip Anything, Anywhere
• Short vendor/bin/ecs is the King
• DI Migration Finished: From Neon to Yaml
• From Semi-Static Checkers to Services as First-Class Citizen
• Good Bye Neon Class Autocomplete Or not?

For each there's a brief snippet showing how to configure it a brief description of what it enforces.

On the Symfony blog they've posted the official announcement about the release of Symfony 4.0.0, the latest major version of the popular framework.

Symfony 4.0.0 has just been released. [...] Read the Hello Symfony 4! blog post for a quick overview of the best new features of Symfony 4 and the best way to upgrade your existing applications to Symfony 4.

The post includes a listing of the items fixed since the previous version and links to an upgrade guide that can help you bring your apps up and working in this latest version.

The Laravel News site has a new post announcing the release of the latest version of Laravel Homestead, the Vagrant-driven environment that makes it easy to set up a Laravel environment. In this latest version, 4.0, there's a few changes including a major one: support for PHP 7.1.

Laravel Homestead the Vagrant box for easily running Laravel on any platform has just released v4.0 that includes support for the just released PHP 7.1.

The upgrade is easy but the instructions do vary depending on how you have it installed.

They walk you through the steps for the upgrade:

• Backup all your Homestead databases
• update the Homestead Global installation (or per-project installation)
• Destroy the current Vagrant box
• Use "vagrant up" to download the latest version and bring the box back up

It's a pretty easy process that should be pretty painless. Everyone's setup is slightly different so there might be a few issues in your own upgrade and minor version releases will be made if there are issues because of the upgrade.

Michael Dowling has announced the release of Guzzle 4.0.0 on his site today. Guzzle is one of the most widely used, popular HTTP clients in the PHP community today. Its used in both corporate and open source projects as a primary means for making HTTP requests and RESTful web service clients.

Guzzle 4.0 has arrived! The new version of Guzzle is now simpler, faster, more flexible, and more powerful than ever. [...] Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to work with HTTP/1.1 and takes the pain out of consuming web services.

He includes a quick example of it in use making a request to the GitHub API to fetch user information. He lists out some of the changes made in this release but points to this other post for the full list. He's also tagged other related projects to match this 4.0.0 release including Guzzle Streams and the Log Subscriber.