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PHP October 2026, update 2: what changed in v1.3.0
From v1.2.0 (2026-10-25, 56972098f) to v1.3.0 (2026-10-27, db67c5ce1), paragraph by paragraph.
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!shot dy-telemetry-filters.webp | images/ | The PHP site's telemetry dashboard (v0.4.0) on 23 October: 1,093 page views from 13:43 UTC on 22 October to 20:26 UTC on 23 October, splitfiltered into readers, the editor, power users and the team, synthetic readers and crawlers, with every chart and number a filter. Here:to readers in the United Kingdom,Kingdom with phones left out, in three clicks.out. | screenshot
19 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, The story {#the-story}, A site that watches its own readers {#telemetry}
!shot dy-telemetry-who.webp | images/ | All 1,093 page views by group: 233 by readers in 168 sessions, 110 byreaders, the editor, 9 by power users and the team, 176synthetic synthetic,readers 565 byand crawlers. | screenshot
!shot dy-telemetry-timeline.webp | images/ | Page views per hour from 13:00 on 22 October to 20:00 on 23 October, by group:group, with the crawler working through the night, readers steadiest in the UK morning and afternoon.night. | screenshot
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!shot dy-telemetry-map.webp | images/ | Readers by country, on a log scale: eighteen countries, with the United Kingdom first by far, then the United States and Norway.far. | screenshot
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!shot dy-telemetry-journeys.webp | images/ | How reader sessions move through the PHP site, step by step:step, most start onfrom the front page,page and most of those end there, at the grey block marked (left).onward. | screenshot
!shot dy-telemetry-network.webp | images/ | The same moves as a network: each page a node sized by the sessions that saw it.it, Thewith the front page isas the hub; the one route that bypasses it runs from a source page to the claims.hub. | screenshot
!shot dy-telemetry-what-works.webp | images/ | What works, page by page: further right is read more, higher up is where readers go on. The front page is far right and low: read most, sending about one in five on. | screenshot
4 unchanged paragraphs, under A reader's ideas, turned into a tool in hours {#ci-002}
!shot dy-risk-explore.webp | images/ | Exploring theThe PHP story's risk graph from one node:explored from CVE-2026-109618 to the fix, the tests that check it and the risks it touches,CVE-2026-109618, with inferred links dashed and hideable. | screenshot
!shot dy-risk-gaps.webp | images/ | What the risk graph is missing, computed at every release over its 713 nodes and 1,418 edges: 95 of 95 controls joined to no code or test, 16 of 16 code nodes with no owner one step away, 9 of 16 that no test reaches, 14 of 34 risks no story tells, and 815 links inferred by an agent and not yet checked.edges. | screenshot
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!shot dy-redesign-a.webp | images/ | Mockup A of the PHP site's redesign, for review:redesign: a board member's front page with the Focus, Standard and Everything dial and an answer in thirty seconds.dial. Not the live site.live. | screenshot
21 unchanged paragraphs, under Agents on a schedule {#scheduled}, Security, as it went {#security}, What waits on me {#waits}…