--- title: "Recently updated PIE extensions #15 (since November 5th, 2026)" url: https://www.exakat.io/recently-updated-pie-extensions-15-since-november-5th-2026/ date: 2026-11-12 modified: 2026-11-12 lang: en author: "dams" description: "Recently updated PIE extensions #15 (since November 5th, 2026) 35 PHP Pie extensions were updated. They fall into three groups: Native GUI and graphics bindings (12): the php-io-extensions family (SDL3,..." categories: - "Technology" tags: - "php" - "pie" image: https://www.exakat.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/php-pie.640.png word_count: 574 --- # Recently updated PIE extensions #15 (since November 5th, 2026) ## Recently updated PIE extensions #15 (since November 5th, 2026) 35 PHP Pie extensions were updated. They fall into three groups: - **Native GUI and graphics bindings** (12): the `php-io-extensions` family (SDL3, GLFW, Vulkan, OpenGL, Metal, AppKit, GTK, Qt, fontconfig, rasterize, fb) plus `phpolygon/php-vio`. - **Rust-powered** (5): liter-llm, corvus-json-schema, expanse, phit and mongo-php-async-driver, which state Rust as their core. - **Databases and data stores** (4): the MongoDB extension and async driver, pdo-duckdb-php and valkey-glide-php.   - [phpolygon/php-vio](https://packagist.org/packages/phpolygon/php-vio) (2.45.0): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), audio, video recording, streaming, and input - [paragonie/ext-pqcrypto](https://packagist.org/packages/paragonie/ext-pqcrypto) (v0.3.3): PHP extension for post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM, X-Wing, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA) - [intelligent-intern/king-ext](https://packagist.org/packages/intelligent-intern/king-ext) (v1.0.14-beta): King native PHP extension packaged for PIE - [mongodb/mongodb-extension](https://packagist.org/packages/mongodb/mongodb-extension) (2.5.7): MongoDB driver extension - [php-io-extensions/sdl3](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/sdl3) (v0.11.1): 1:1 PHP bindings of SDL 3: windows, surfaces, the GL, Metal and Vulkan hooks, and SDL_GPU - [xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack) (v1.25.0): Pre-compiled tree-sitter grammars for 371 programming languages - [xberg-io/liter-llm](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/liter-llm) (v2.7.0): Universal LLM API client with Rust-powered polyglot bindings. - [xberg-io/html-to-markdown](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/html-to-markdown) (v3.22.0): High-performance HTML to Markdown converter - [thomas-0816/pdo-duckdb-php](https://packagist.org/packages/thomas-0816/pdo-duckdb-php) (2.0.0.0-beta5): PHP PDO Driver for DuckDB, modern analytics - [grpc/grpc-php-ext](https://packagist.org/packages/grpc/grpc-php-ext) (v1.85.2): gRPC PHP Extension - [php-io-extensions/glfw](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/glfw) (v0.11.1): 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 - [open-telemetry/ext-opentelemetry](https://packagist.org/packages/open-telemetry/ext-opentelemetry) (1.5.0): Auto-instrumentation extension for OpenTelemetry - [php-io-extensions/vulkan](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/vulkan) (v0.11.1): 1:1 PHP bindings of Vulkan: devices, memory, pipelines, commands, swapchains and the Linux dmabuf export - [php-io-extensions/open-gl](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/open-gl) (v0.11.1): 1:1 PHP bindings of the OpenGL 4.1 core / OpenGL ES 3 calls both dialects share, with CGL on macOS and EGL on Linux - [php-io-extensions/metal](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/metal) (v0.11.1): 1:1 PHP bindings of Metal and CAMetalLayer, as classes named after their native counterparts - [xberg-io/crawlberg](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/crawlberg) (v1.13.0): High-performance web crawling engine - [pecl/krb5](https://packagist.org/packages/pecl/krb5) (v1.3.0): Kerberos/GSSPI and KAdmin bindings for PHP - [php-io-extensions/appkit](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/appkit) (v0.11.1): 1:1 PHP bindings of AppKit and the CoreFoundation run loop it runs on, as classes named after their native counterparts - [php-io-extensions/gtk](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/gtk) (v0.11.1): 1:1 PHP bindings of GTK 4 and the GLib main loop it runs on, as functions and classes named after their C counterparts - [valkey-io/valkey-glide-php](https://packagist.org/packages/valkey-io/valkey-glide-php) (v1.2.0-rc2): Valkey GLIDE for PHP - [orieg/expanse-extension](https://packagist.org/packages/orieg/expanse-extension) (v0.18.0): Native PHP Zend Engine extension for Expanse: modern Judy arrays in pure Rust (ext-php-rs). Userland API: orieg/expanse. - [ptondereau/biscuit-php](https://packagist.org/packages/ptondereau/biscuit-php) (v0.8.1): PHP bindings for Biscuit authorization tokens - [mosuka/litsea](https://packagist.org/packages/mosuka/litsea) (v0.16.0): 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) (v0.11.1): Pixel storage in C: FbFormat describes a byte layout, FbBuffer holds one surface in it and reads, writes, converts and copies it - [corvus-dotnet/corvus-json-schema](https://packagist.org/packages/corvus-dotnet/corvus-json-schema) (0.2.2): A high-performance JSON Schema evaluator (draft 4, 6, 7, 2019-09 and 2020-12) as a PHP extension, backed by Rust. - [php-io-extensions/rasterize](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/rasterize) (v0.11.1): 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) (v0.11.1): 1:1 PHP bindings of Qt 6 as classes named after their C++ counterparts - [phasync/ext-phasync](https://packagist.org/packages/phasync/ext-phasync) (2.0.8): 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()). - [vanta/meminfo](https://packagist.org/packages/vanta/meminfo) (0.2.1): PHP extension that dumps the content of PHP memory as JSON, to hunt down memory leaks - [phpstats/phit](https://packagist.org/packages/phpstats/phit) (v0.9.0): Native Rust statistical modeling for PHP: regression, likelihood, and mixed models - [caronc/dateblock](https://packagist.org/packages/caronc/dateblock) (v2.2.0): Block (sleep) until a cron-style moment in time - [sentry/sentry-php-tracer](https://packagist.org/packages/sentry/sentry-php-tracer) (0.1.1): Experimental Sentry tracing extension for PHP - [php-io-extensions/fontconfig](https://packagist.org/packages/php-io-extensions/fontconfig) (v0.11.1): 1:1 PHP bindings of fontconfig: configuration, patterns, font matching and sorting, and character sets - [chrfritsch/nocopy](https://packagist.org/packages/chrfritsch/nocopy) (0.0.5): Zero-copy shared-memory cache for PHP - [danog/mongo-php-async-driver](https://packagist.org/packages/danog/mongo-php-async-driver) (v0.1.2): Drop-in replacement for the mongodb PHP extension (ext-mongodb 2.5.6) in pure Rust, with async I/O in fibers through Revolt