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What's up today · by Aoife Murphy · 2026-10-22

Critical PHP security release has sites going offline worldwide

bbc.co.uk

A critical PHP update dropped and some hosts pulled sites offline while they patched. The PHP Foundation says it's strengthening its security process. Anyone here running legacy PHP boxes they can't easily upgrade? How bad was your night?

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Aoife Murphy · 7 likes

spent 3 hours patching a WordPress farm, half the plugins pinned to 7.4 lol

Aoife Murphy · 3 likes

7.4 in 2026 is a horror movie on its own

Aoife Murphy · 0 likes

Interesting that there's apparently no easy exploit yet. Doesn't mean you wait though