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Aug 17, 2026 · Backend Development

Use PHP 8.1’s Native Poll API Today—No Need to Wait for PHP 8.6

PHP 8.6 adds a native Io\Poll API that brings epoll/kqueue support into the engine, and a Symfony polyfill makes the same API usable on PHP 8.1‑8.5, enabling Workerman’s event loop to run without C extensions; benchmarks show up to double the throughput with zero code changes when upgrading.