March 2017 PHP updates

Change effective on 27 March 2017

The following new runtime versions are now available for PHP applications:

  • PHP 7.0.17
  • PHP 7.1.3

The following PHP extensions have been added or updated:

  • ext-amqp, version 1.9.0 (available on the heroku-16 stack)
  • ext-blackfire, version 1.15.0
  • ext-cassandra, version 1.3.0
  • ext-event, version 2.3.0
  • ext-mongodb, version 1.2.8 (for PHP 7)
  • ext-newrelic, version 7.1.0.187
  • ext-phalcon, version 3.1.1
  • ext-redis, version 3.1.2

The version of Composer that is used during builds and available at runtime is now 1.4.1.

Empty and missing Procfiles will now result in a default of web: heroku-php-apache2 in all cases.