Pest 4 lands with first-class browser testing (Playwright-powered), smoke & visual regression checks, test sharding, faster type coverage, and small but handy CLI/arch tweaks. Here’s what’s new and how to upgrade from Pest 3.
PHP 8.5 arrives November 20, 2025: pipe operator, URI extension, clone with v2, array_first/array_last, fatal error backtraces, Intl updates, and more.
Discover how Pest 3 simplifies architecture testing with pre-configured presets, making it effortless to enforce best practices and maintain code quality in your projects.
Learn what’s new in Pest 3: architecture testing presets, mutation testing, and Team Management, plus how to upgrade from Pest 2 to Pest 3 with composer update.
Learn PHP’s explode() to split strings into arrays. See syntax, limit behavior (0 and negative), edge cases, and alternatives like preg_split and str_getcsv.