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• rdkafka 7.0.0alpha1 (alpha) 2026-05-07
  ## Other Changes
  - Drop unsupported php versions and old librdkafka versions (#559, @arnaud-lb)
  - Fix types (#560, @arnaud-lb)
  - Cleanup php 7 compatibility code (#564, @arnaud-lb)
  - Run workflows on Ubuntu 24 (#583, @arnaud-lb)
  - SASL_SSL OAUTHBEARER support for high level consumer (#581, @Rastusik)
  - Docker environment for local development, fix tests so artifacts and helpers don't get deleted ( ...
• protobuf 5.35.0RC2 (beta) 2026-05-06
  * See github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v35.0-rc2 for release notes.
• datadog_trace 1.19.2 (stable) 2026-05-06
  ## Tracer
  ### Changed
  - Restrict the accepted amount of extracted tags and baggage #3854
  
  ### Fixed
  - Fix parentId refcount underflow #3851
  - Fix SpanStack active reference corruption #3853
  - Retry FFI telemetry batches when session config not yet available DataDog/libdatadog#1929
  - Fallback to ftruncate if fallocate gets EPERM DataDog/libdatadog#1938
• bsdiff 0.2.0 (stable) 2026-05-05
  - Use emalloc/efree for internal allocations so bsdiff respects memory_limit and is visible to PHP's memory tracking.
  - Replace POSIX file I/O with PHP streams and consolidate cleanup.
  - Explicit binary-mode flag ("wb"/"rb") for diff files, fixing potential corruption on Windows.
  - Improve BZip2 auto-detection in config.m4.
  - Add PHP 8.3, 8.4, and 8.5 to CI matrix.
• sqlsrv 5.13.1 (stable) 2026-04-30
  Fixed
  - Fixed access token identity leaking across pooled connections — connections with different tokens could share the same pool entry, causing identity cross-contamination and use-after-free ([PR #1592](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1592))
  - Fixed prepared statement silently failing on insert when triggers or SET NOCOUNT OFF produce extra result sets, causing implicit transactio ...

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