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PhpStorm 2026.3 is here! This release includes a new workspace for agentic development, support for PHP 8.6, improvements to Git worktrees, and more.
Summary The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were compromised. A network attacker could use them to impersonate websites and services that JetBrains tools connect to. JetBrains IDEs, the Toolbox App, Gateway, and ReSharper are affected because they use the trust store o…
A year ago, we introduced the first wave of PhpStorm’s open-source sponsorships. We truly believe in the power of open source and the importance of it to the PHP community, and so we want to do our bit, too. Each year, we pick five open-source projects to sponsor for a whole year. Our goal …
JetBrains IDEs have worked with WSL for many years, and over time, several ways of using it have emerged across our products. Depending on the entry point, the IDE could rely on a different underlying architecture, leading to a different experience. Starting with the 2026.2 release, there is one …
Welcome to the PhpStorm 2026.2 release overview. This version advances PhpStorm as a platform for your preferred coding agents, models, and AI subscriptions, improves PHP and Laravel support, and delivers productivity gains for working with Git repositories, databases, and the built-in terminal. …
On June 9, PHPverse 2026 brought together PHP developers from different backgrounds to watch talks by domain experts, exchange opinions, and even try to catch a running elePHPant. The five-hour live stream has been viewed 15,000 times in total and received 10,206 live chat comments, with over 2,600 …
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Together with The PHP Foundation, we’re embarking on an exciting expedition – the first annual State of PHP census that aims to tally the elePHPant population across the world. Come join us! With the help of the community, we’ve designed a comprehensive survey that aims to unearth the PHP devel…
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing recent improvements and what’s next for assistive technologies, navigation, and non-visual feedback.
We’re opening the EAP for PhpStorm 2026.2 that will feature major improvements in performance and WSL 2 scenarios.
JetBrains PHPverse – a community-inspired professional event for PHP developers – returns once more on June 9, 2026. This year, we’re gathering some of the most influential voices in the PHP ecosystem to share their insights on shaping the modern PHP language, the internals of ecosystem tools and fr…
Welcome to PhpStorm 2026.1! This release brings new PhpStorm MCP tools, new third-party agents inside your IDE, support for Git worktrees, and lots of other productivity-enhancing features for PHP and Laravel developers. Download PhpStorm 2026.1 PhpStorm MCP tools In PhpStorm 2025.2, we…
For years, PhpStorm has been the go-to IDE for PHP developers – powerful and deeply integrated with the language. But there was one thing many kept asking for: Laravel support out of the box. It should come with built-in— Amdadul Haq (@amdad121) July 30, 2025 Starting with PhpStorm 2025…
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