PHP Extension 5.9.0 released

  • Notice: Active development for PHP 7.0 and 7.1 has been discontinued. While new features will only be available for PHP 7.2+, our future releases will continue to ship with support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1 with the current feature set.
  • Improvement: Various internal refactoring have been performed, improving debuggability, performance and reducing memory usage.
  • Bugfix: Fix instrumentation of rdkafka’s poll() and flush() functions when internal functions are instrumented with the observer API.
  • Bugfix: Fix memory leak during sending of PHP Info when tideways.features.stats is active.

About the author

Tim Düsterhus

I’m a Software Engineer at Tideways, where I work on the PHP extension. My focus is on helping developers gain accurate insights into the runtime behavior of their applications with minimal overhead.

I’m interested in PHP internals and regularly contribute performance improvements to the PHP engine. I enjoy working on problems where small changes can have a measurable impact on the performance and efficiency of PHP applications. Several of my performance optimizations have become part of PHP itself, helping improve the language for developers worldwide.