--- title: "Recently updated PIE extensions #6" url: https://www.exakat.io/recently-updated-pie-extensions-6/ date: 2026-09-10 modified: 2026-09-10 lang: en author: "dams" description: "Recently updated PIE extensions #6 (since September 3rd, 2026) 33 PHP Pie extensions were updated. intermaterium/duckeh (0.7.3): PHP extension for DuckDB iliaal/mdparser (0.6.1): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown..." categories: - "Technology" tags: - "extension" - "php" - "pie" image: https://www.exakat.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/php-pie.320.png word_count: 582 --- # Recently updated PIE extensions #6 ## Recently updated PIE extensions #6 (since September 3rd, 2026) 33 PHP Pie extensions were updated. - [intermaterium/duckeh](https://packagist.org/packages/intermaterium/duckeh) (0.7.3): PHP extension for DuckDB - [iliaal/mdparser](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/mdparser) (0.6.1): 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) (2.11.0): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), audio, video recording, streaming, and input - [php-debugger/php-debugger](https://packagist.org/packages/php-debugger/php-debugger) (0.3.3): A lightweight, high-performance PHP debugger extension. Comptible with Xdebug step-debugging. - [iliaal/php-excel](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/php-excel) (2.8.0): PHP extension for reading and writing Excel files using LibXL - [kreuzberg/kreuzberg](https://packagist.org/packages/kreuzberg/kreuzberg) (4.10.3): High-performance document intelligence for PHP. Extract text, metadata, and structured information from PDFs, Office documents, images, and 75 formats. Powered by Rust core for 10-50x speed improvements. - [iliaal/statgrab](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/statgrab) (2.2.2): PHP extension wrapping libstatgrab, the cross-platform system-statistics library. CPU, memory, disk I/O, filesystems, network interfaces, processes, users. - [iliaal/php_clickhouse](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/php_clickhouse) (0.12.1): 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. - [mongodb/mongodb-extension](https://packagist.org/packages/mongodb/mongodb-extension) (2.5.2): MongoDB driver extension - [xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack) (v1.17.0): Pre-compiled tree-sitter grammars for 371 programming languages - [xberg-io/liter-llm](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/liter-llm) (v2.0.0): Universal LLM API client with Rust-powered polyglot bindings. - [xberg-io/xberg](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/xberg) (v1.1.5): High-performance document intelligence library - [xberg-io/html-to-markdown](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/html-to-markdown) (v3.12.3): High-performance HTML to Markdown converter - [iliaal/phonetic](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/phonetic) (0.4.3): Native phonetic matching for PHP: Double Metaphone, Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching, Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex, NYSIIS, and Match Rating Approach. - [thomas-0816/pdo-duckdb-php](https://packagist.org/packages/thomas-0816/pdo-duckdb-php) (1.5.5.12): PHP PDO Driver for DuckDB, modern analytics - [iliaal/pdo_duckdb](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/pdo_duckdb) (0.7.1): PDO driver for DuckDB, the in-process analytical database. - [iliaal/fast_uuid](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/fast_uuid) (0.7.0): 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. - [intermaterium/phpzmq](https://packagist.org/packages/intermaterium/phpzmq) (2.0.5): ZeroMQ is a software library that lets you quickly design and implement a fast message-based applications - [codelieutenant/scylla-driver](https://packagist.org/packages/codelieutenant/scylla-driver) (v1.5.1): ScyllaDB/Cassandra PHP driver - [goldziher/spikard](https://packagist.org/packages/goldziher/spikard) (v0.17.1): Codegen-first polyglot web toolkit with a Rust core and bindings for 14 languages - [iliaal/phpser](https://packagist.org/packages/iliaal/phpser) (0.6.2): 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) (0.8.0): 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) (1.7.3): 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. - [prateekbhujel/php-terminal](https://packagist.org/packages/prateekbhujel/php-terminal) (v0.7.0): Native terminal primitives for PHP CLI on Unix and Windows - [cachewerk/ext-relay](https://packagist.org/packages/cachewerk/ext-relay) (v0.50.0.1): 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) (2.4.2): Yac is a shared and lockless memory user data cache for PHP. - [xberg-io/crawlberg](https://packagist.org/packages/xberg-io/crawlberg) (v1.6.0): High-performance web crawling engine - [goopil/rabbit-rs-native](https://packagist.org/packages/goopil/rabbit-rs-native) (v0.1.6): High-performance RabbitMQ transport for PHP and Laravel, powered by Rust - [developgravity/lua-ext](https://packagist.org/packages/developgravity/lua-ext) (0.1.0-rc.3): A PHP extension embedding a vendored, patched Lua 5.5 interpreter to run untrusted code under enforced CPU, wall-clock, memory and output limits, with a capability-gated standard library. - [orieg/expanse-extension](https://packagist.org/packages/orieg/expanse-extension) (v0.6.0): Native PHP Zend Engine extension for Expanse: modern Judy arrays in pure Rust (ext-php-rs). Userland API: orieg/expanse. - [xdebug/xdebug](https://packagist.org/packages/xdebug/xdebug) (3.6.0alpha1): Xdebug is a debugging and productivity extension for PHP - [jbboehr/php-yumemi](https://packagist.org/packages/jbboehr/php-yumemi) (v0.1.0): Native extension that adds operators and unit-expression parsing to yumemi.php. - [kumwe/kumwe-engine](https://packagist.org/packages/kumwe/kumwe-engine) (v1.0.1): Bounded Zend binding to the exact embedded Kumwe Engine release of the same version.