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 parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than pure-PHP parsers, zero runtime dependencies. phpolygon/php-vio (2.11.0): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, […]
Recently updated PIE extensions #5 (since August 27th, 2026) 27 PHP Pie extensions were updated. iliaal/mdparser (0.6.0): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than pure-PHP parsers, zero runtime dependencies. iliaal/php-excel (2.7.0): PHP extension for reading and writing Excel files using LibXL mongodb/mongodb-extension (2.5.0): MongoDB […]
Recently updated PIE extensions (since August 13th, 2026) 25 PHP Pie extensions were updated. bsn4/grpc (v0.4.0): Rust-based gRPC extension for PHP — drop-in replacement for ext-grpc paragonie/ext-pqcrypto (v0.3.2): PHP extension for post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM, X-Wing, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA) mongodb/mongodb-extension (2.4.0): MongoDB driver extension phalcon/cphalcon (v5.19.0): Phalcon is an open source web framework delivered as a C […]
Recently updated PIE extensions (since July 30th, 2026) #1 17 PHP Pie extensions were updated. php-debugger/php-debugger (0.2.3): A lightweight, high-performance PHP debugger extension. Comptible with Xdebug step-debugging. phalcon/cphalcon (v5.18.2): Phalcon is an open source web framework delivered as a C extension for the PHP language providing high performance and lower resource consumption. xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack (v1.14.3): Pre-compiled […]
Exakat 1.5.6 Review This week, on radio Exakat 1.5.6 : we added analysis to report the too verbose isset($a) && isset($a[1]), support for the SDL extension, and a check on useless trait’s method aliases. We also fixed a nest of nasty syntax, thanks to PHP own unit tests. Quick, Robin, to the Exakat 1.5.6 review. […]


