October 2016 PHP updates and Kafka support

Change effective on 19 October 2016

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

  • PHP 5.6.27
  • PHP 7.0.12

The following PHP extensions have been updated:

  • ext-apcu, version 5.1.6
  • ext-blackfire, version 1.13.0
  • ext-newrelic, version 6.7.0

Heroku Kafka is now supported with the addition of the following PHP extensions:

  • ext-rdkafka, version 1.0.0 (for PHP 5)
  • ext-rdkafka, version 2.0.0 (for PHP 7)