AmsterdamPHP Monthly Meeting Nov 2026: PHP 8.6 Is Here

AmsterdamPHP's monthly meetup is back after three cancelled months, and it lands on the day PHP 8.6 ships.

Damien Seguy gives the main talk, "PHP 8.6 Is Here: Let's Dive In!": partial function application and the new ? placeholder syntax, the native Io\Poll polling API that lays groundwork for async PHP, the Duration class, readonly property defaults and a built-in clamp(). He also covers the deprecations and stricter session defaults to check before you upgrade, with real code and upgrade tips.

Digital Natives hosts at Barentszplein 7. Doors 19:00, talk at 19:40, then raffles, food and drinks from 20:45. Free on Meetup, around 40 places.

Why go: a release-day walkthrough of a new PHP version, so you leave knowing what to change in your own codebase. Best for PHP, Laravel and Symfony developers with production apps to upgrade.