Neuron v2 is Here 🚀

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Hey everyone,

I'm sitting here at my desk, still processing what we've just accomplished together. After months of your feedback, discussions, and the countless "can PHP really do this?" conversations, Neuron v2 is officially live.

When I started this journey, I had one burning question: "Is PHP ready for agentic application development?" Today, I can finally give you a definitive answer. Not just with words, but with code that works, workflows that scale, and capabilities that I honestly wasn't sure were possible when I started working on this project.

What This Release Means

v2 isn't just an update – it's a complete reimagining of how we approach AI workflows in PHP. We've moved Workflow from the experimental graph-based approach to an event-driven architecture that makes complex agentic systems not just possible, but genuinely enjoyable to build.

The streaming capabilities alone was very challenging. You can create multi-agent systems streaming real-time feedback of what's happening inside. Now users could see the planning, watch the research happen, observe content generation in real-time, like a single agent, even if there is a complex multi-agent system working on the task. It's the difference between a black box and a transparent, trustworthy system.

Your Upgrade Path

First – check out the Upgrade Guide. I know migrations can be a concern, but we've kept backward compatibility where possible and made the breaking changes worth it.

My Gift to You: Deep Research Agent

But here's the part I'm most excited about. I've built something special to show you what Neuron v2 can really do: a fully functional Deep Research Agent that demonstrates the new workflow capabilities in action.

👉 github.com/inspector-apm/deep-research-agent

This isn't just a demo – it's a complete implementation that creates comprehensive research reports by orchestrating multiple AI services. Planning, research, content generation, formatting – all streaming in real-time, all built with the new event-driven workflow architecture.

Clone it, run it, break it apart, and see how complex agentic workflows can remain clean and maintainable in PHP. This is what I wished existed when we started this journey.

Looking Forward

The question that drove me for months – whether PHP is ready for serious agentic development – finally has its answer. But honestly, that was never really the question. The real question was whether we were ready to push PHP beyond what everyone thought was possible, and finally remove the fear of having to look at Python.

You've proven that we were.

Every discussion post, every bug report, every "what if we could..." suggestion has led us to this release. To a framework that doesn't just compete with Python implementations, but offers capabilities that feel uniquely suited to how PHP developers think and work.

So what are you going to build with it?

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P.S. – Yes, we dropped "AI" from the name. At this point, intelligence is just what Neuron does. 😉

Resources:

• 📖 Upgrade Guide
• 🧠 Deep Research Agent Demo
• 📚 v2 Documentation

Let's see what impossible things we can make possible next.

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