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title: "Recently updated PIE extensions #13 (since October 23rd, 2026)"
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description: "Recently updated PIE extensions #13 (since October 23rd, 2026) 43 PHP Pie extensions were updated. iliaal/mdparser (0.8.2): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31..."
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# Recently updated PIE extensions #13 (since October 23rd, 2026)

## Recently updated PIE extensions #13 (since October 23rd, 2026)

43 PHP Pie extensions were updated.

- [iliaal/mdparser](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/mdparser) (0.8.2): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than pure-PHP parsers, zero runtime dependencies.
- [phpolygon/php-vio](https://packagist.org/packages/phpolygon/php-vio) (2.38.1): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), audio, video recording, streaming, and input
- [iliaal/lchash](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/lchash) (1.0.1): String-keyed hash table extension for PHP, backed by vendored klib khash.
- [iliaal/php_clickhouse](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/php_clickhouse) (0.13.1): Native PHP extension for ClickHouse using the official ClickHouse/clickhouse-cpp client. Connects over the native TCP protocol with LZ4 / ZSTD compression and optional TLS.
- [php-io-extensions/sdl3](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/sdl3) (v0.11.0): 1:1 PHP bindings of SDL 3: windows, surfaces, the GL, Metal and Vulkan hooks, and SDL_GPU
- [xberg-io/liter-llm](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/liter-llm) (v2.4.3): Universal LLM API client with Rust-powered polyglot bindings.
- [iliaal/phonetic](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/phonetic) (0.4.6): Native phonetic matching for PHP: Double Metaphone, Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching, Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex, NYSIIS, and Match Rating Approach.
- [grpc/grpc-php-ext](https://packagist.org/packages/grpc/grpc-php-ext) (v1.85.1): gRPC PHP Extension
- [iliaal/pdo_duckdb](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/pdo_duckdb) (0.8.1): PDO driver for DuckDB, the in-process analytical database.
- [extport/grpc](https://packagist.org/packages/extport/grpc) (1.85.0): Unofficial PIE-compatible mirror of grpc/grpc
- [displace/ext-whisper](https://packagist.org/packages/displace/ext-whisper) (v0.1.3): PHP 8.3+ native, in-process speech-to-text via whisper.cpp: 16kHz WAV in, text + timestamped segments out.
- [displace/ext-turbovec](https://packagist.org/packages/displace/ext-turbovec) (v0.2.1): PHP 8.3+ native, in-process vector indexing and ANN search via TurboQuant.
- [displace/ext-infer](https://packagist.org/packages/displace/ext-infer) (v0.2.2): PHP 8.3+ native, in-process LLM inference and embeddings via llama.cpp.
- [iliaal/fast_uuid](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/fast_uuid) (0.8.2): Fast RFC 9562 UUID generation (v1/v2/v3/v4/v5/v6/v7/v8 + nil/max) as a PHP C extension, with a ramsey/uuid-shaped object API and procedural fast-path functions.
- [php-io-extensions/ftdi](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/ftdi) (0.11.0): PHP bindings of libftdi1: FTDI USB devices, MPSSE, async transfers and EEPROM
- [iliaal/phpser](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/phpser) (0.10.2): Fast binary serializer for PHP cache workloads. Decoder-optimized, beats igbinary on packed numerics, deep-nested structures, and same-class DTO batches.
- [iliaal/fastjson](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/fastjson) (0.10.2): Fast JSON encode/decode/validate for PHP 8.1+, backed by yyjson. Drop-in alternative to ext/json with namespaced fastjson** functions and json*last_error-compatible error reporting.
- [iliaal/fastchart](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/fastchart) (1.8.1): Native C PHP extension for fast chart rendering: 38 chart families (line, area, bar, pie, scatter, bubble, stock with technical indicators, radar, polar, surface, contour, treemap, funnel, waterfall, heatmap, gauge, linear meter, gantt, box plot, bullet, pareto, calendar heatmap, sunburst, sankey, marimekko, vector, arc diagram, chord diagram, network, population pyramid, violin plot, circle packing, pictogram, venn diagram, word cloud, serpentine timeline, dendrogram, partition) plus a 2-class Symbol family (Code128, QrCode). SVG-canonical pipeline rasterized via vendored plutovg + plutosvg; PNG / JPEG / WebP encoders via libpng / libjpeg-turbo / libwebp.
- [phpstan/turbo](https://packagist.org/packages/phpstan/turbo) (2.3.4): Native acceleration extension for PHPStan
- [osmanov/pecl-event](https://packagist.org/packages/osmanov/pecl-event) (3.2.0): Provides interface to libevent library.
- [php-io-extensions/glfw](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/glfw) (v0.11.0): 1:1 PHP bindings of GLFW 3.4 for staged windows: monitors and video modes, windows, hints, attributes and callbacks, events, contexts, Vulkan surfaces and native handles
- [satwareag/pdo-fbird](https://packagist.org/packages/satwareag/pdo-fbird) (v13.3.1): PDO driver for Firebird SQL (pdo_fbird) — separate from the main php-firebird extension
- [satwareag/php-firebird](https://packagist.org/packages/satwareag/php-firebird) (v13.3.1): PHP Firebird database extension — native fbird_* API for PHP 8.2+
- [cachewerk/ext-relay](https://packagist.org/packages/cachewerk/ext-relay) (v0.61.0): The fastest Redis client for PHP. 100× faster cache reads, near-zero bandwidth, no code changes required.
- [laruence/yac](https://packagist.org/packages/laruence/yac) (3.0.2): Yac is a shared and lockless memory user data cache for PHP.
- [kjdev/brotli](https://packagist.org/packages/kjdev/brotli) (0.21.1): A compression/decompression with Brotli
- [goopil/rabbit-rs-native](https://packagist.org/packages/goopil/rabbit-rs-native) (v0.3.14): High-performance RabbitMQ transport for PHP and Laravel, powered by Rust
- [orieg/expanse-extension](https://packagist.org/packages/orieg/expanse-extension) (v0.16.0): Native PHP Zend Engine extension for Expanse: modern Judy arrays in pure Rust (ext-php-rs). Userland API: orieg/expanse.
- [pecl/timezonedb](https://packagist.org/packages/pecl/timezonedb) (2026.6): This extension is a drop-in replacement for the builtin timezone database that comes with PHP.
- [php-io-extensions/pcurl](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/pcurl) (0.11.0): libcurl's multi socket API bound 1:1 into PHP on top of ext-curl handles
- [mosuka/litsea](https://packagist.org/packages/mosuka/litsea) (v0.15.0): PHP extension for Litsea, a compact word segmentation and POS tagging library (no embedded models)
- [php-io-extensions/fb](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/fb) (v0.11.0): Pixel storage in C: FbFormat describes a byte layout, FbBuffer holds one surface in it and reads, writes, converts and copies it
- [php-io-extensions/epoll](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/epoll) (v0.11.0): Linux epoll(7) bindings as global PHP functions
- [php-io-extensions/kqueue](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/kqueue) (v0.11.0): 1:1 PHP bindings of kqueue(2): kqueue(), kevent(), kevent64(), EV*SET(), EV*SET64()
- [php-io-extensions/imgdec](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/imgdec) (v0.11.0): PNG, JPEG and TIFF into straight RGBA8 in C, through libpng, libjpeg and libtiff
- [php-io-extensions/rasterize](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/rasterize) (v0.11.0): Shapes into coverage spans in C: RasterScanner answers paths, ellipses, rings and one-pixel polylines as span bytes, hard-edged or anti-aliased
- [php-io-extensions/qt](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/qt) (v0.11.0): 1:1 PHP bindings of Qt 6 as classes named after their C++ counterparts
- [php-io-extensions/box2d](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/box2d) (v0.11.0): 1:1 PHP bindings of Box2D 3.1.1, with the library compiled into the extension
- [phasync/ext-phasync](https://packagist.org/packages/phasync/ext-phasync) (2.0.7): PHP extension that makes blocking I/O (PDO, mysqli, curl, streams, sleep) wait cooperatively in fibers an event loop manages (phasync\ext\Suspension), and per-coroutine requests (sapi()).
- [fiber-interop/ext-scope](https://packagist.org/packages/fiber-interop/ext-scope) (v0.6.0): The Scope class from the PHP RFC "Scope", as a PHP extension (PHP 8.2+).
- [corvus-dotnet/corvus-regex-ecma262](https://packagist.org/packages/corvus-dotnet/corvus-regex-ecma262) (0.2.5): ECMA-262 (JavaScript) regular expressions as a PHP extension: the grammar and the answers of RegExp, every flag, UTF-8 and UTF-16, backed by Rust.
- [vanta/meminfo](https://packagist.org/packages/vanta/meminfo) (0.2.0): PHP extension that dumps the content of PHP memory as JSON, to hunt down memory leaks
- [mindee/bernard-ledit](https://packagist.org/packages/mindee/bernard-ledit) (v0.1.0): PDF and image processing for the Mindee PHP SDK, as a native PHP extension.