Latest PECL Releases:

• win32service 1.1.0beta3
  * Fix memory leak on Win32ServiceRightInfo username and domain.

  The binary is also available here: https://github.com/win32service/win32service/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beta3

• rdkafka 6.0.4
  ## Improvements - Added OAUTHBEARER support. New methods: RdKafkaConf::setOauthbearerTokenRefreshCb(), RdKafka::oauthbearerSetToken(), RdKafka::oauthbearerSetTokenFailure() (#546, #547, @cb-freddysart, @scorgn) - Added incremental rebalance support. New methods: RdKafkaKafkaConsumer::incrementalAssign(), RdKafkaKafkaConsumer::incrementalUnassign() (#541, @ikeberlein) - Added RdKafka::getControllerId() (#554, @qkdreyer)

  Bugfixes

  • Add private constructor on Metadata classes (#531, @arnaud-lb)

  Other Changes

  • Improve KafkaErrorException message (#555, @arnaud-lb)
• protobuf 4.29.0RC2
  * See github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v29.0-rc-2 for release notes.
• pinpoint_php 0.6.1
  ## 0.6.1 2024-10-23 - release asynchronous version https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint-c-agent/pull/692
• couchbase 4.2.4
  Enhancements ============

  • PCBC-832: Management API - Analytics Management (#177).

  • Core updated to 1.0.3. Release notes: https://docs.couchbase.com/cxx-sdk/current/project-docs/sdk-release-notes.html#version-1-0-3-22-october-2024

  Fixes

  • PCBC-1009: do not use IS_RESOURCE in function signatures.

  • PCBC-1010: use explicit nullable types where applicable to avoid deprecation warning in PHP 8.4.

  • Fix SearchQuery API docs link in API reference.

• protobuf 4.28.3
  * See github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v28.3 for release notes.

Latest PECL Releases:

• parallel 1.2.5
  - fix memleaks and crashes with PHP 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 (still crashes in 8.1) - thanks Arnaud Le Blanc
  • fix refcounts to make develop branch stable again - thanks to Arnaud Le Blanc
  • fix double runs in CI
• rdkafka 6.0.5
  ## Bug fixes - Fix php 7.0 build (#563, @arnaud-lb) - Fix x32 build (#565, @arnaud-lb) - Fix segmentation fault in setOauthbearerTokenRefreshCb when sasl.oauthbearer.config is unset (#568, @scorgn)
• ibm_db2 2.2.2
  - Support for PHP 8.4 - Update header version

Latest PECL Releases:

• xlswriter 1.5.8
  - Fix: insertDate format.
  • Feat: format rotation.
• brotli 0.15.2
  - fix: argument format of type - fix: incompatible pointer type
• gRPC 1.68.0RC1
  - gRPC Core 1.68.0 update
• zstd 0.14.0
  - feat: output handler (PHP 8.0+) - feat: minimum system libzstd library version to 1.4.0 - update: built-in zstd library to 1.5.6
• brotli 0.15.1
  - fix: output handler

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