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Private Packagist
Company blog · blog.packagist.comprogrammingsecurity
Private Packagist is the company blog at blog.packagist.com, writing about programming and security. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this blog's PHP version usage statistics, such as its 2019 edition, as data on how many sites run PHP 7 or later.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
PHP Package Repositories for Composer
What Hacker News says?
> A lot of those large web properties are going to be using old versions of PHP. Is that true? PHP 5.6 and 7.0 were EOL'd in 2018, and acording to data at https://blog.packagist.com/php-versions-stats-2019-1-edition... the use of PHP 7 and later is ~90%. Web properties like DreamHost have supported PHP 7+ for years, and have deprecated versions before 7.1. > Newer versions have breaking changes that make upgrading a…
Comment linking /php-versions-stats-2019-1-edition/
on “PHP 7.4”Submitted Composer 2.0 is now available as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Update on Composer and Packagist Supply Chain Security as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Composer 2 Development Update as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Composer 2.11 ships dependency cooldowns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immutable Versions on Packagist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Composer 2.10 Release features automatic malware blocking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LogLeak: Composer GitHub Actions token disclosure in error messages, patched as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Versions Stats – 2021.1 Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Preventing Dependency Confusion in PHP with Composer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Versions Stats – 2020.1 Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closing Composer's Download Fallback Paths in Private Packagist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Composer 2.9 Blocks Vulnerable Package Installs by Default as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Private Packagist Is Joining the Open Source Pledge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CVE-2022-24828: Composer Command Injection Vulnerability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Composer 1.10: Composer Fund as a story · 1 points
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