The PHP team is happy to announce that version 2.1.1 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This version upgrades the bundled libmongoc library to 1.30.5 to fix UTF-8 validation errors.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-2.1.1

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-2.1.1

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 1.21.1 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This version upgrades the bundled libmongoc library to 1.30.5 to fix UTF-8 validation errors.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Please note that version 2 of the MongoDB Driver for PHP has been released. Support for version 1 of the driver will end on April 10, 2026.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-1.21.1

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-1.21.1

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 2.1.0 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This release introduces support for the new bulkwrite command added in MongoDB 8.0. The bundled libmongoc dependency is bumped to 1.30.4, and support for MongoDB 4.0 has been removed.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net, including for the new BulkWriteCommand class.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-2.1.0

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-2.1.0

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 2.0.0 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This major release introduces a number of backwards-incompatible changes aimed at simplifying and modernizing the extension's API, cleaning up deprecated functionality, and improving type safety and runtime behavior.

API Cleanups and Removals

• Deprecated constructor options have been removed from the Query and Manager classes.
• The getServer() method and internal Manager references have been removed from APM event classes to streamline event data structures.
• The CursorId class has been removed; Cursor::getId() now returns an Int64 directly.
• Support for passing WriteConcern and ReadPreference objects directly to execute methods has been removed in favor of using readPreference and writeConcern options.
• Legacy exceptions such as WriteException and SSLConnectionException have been removed.

Stronger Typing and Safer APIs

• The UTCDateTime constructor no longer accepts strings or floats. It now only accepts integer millisecond timestamps or instances of DateTimeInterface.
• WriteResult getters will now throw exceptions when called on unacknowledged writes, making error states more explicit.
• The ReadPreference class now requires string mode constants in its constructor. Support for legacy integer constants has been removed.

Deprecation and Legacy Cleanup

• The Serializable interface has been removed from BSON classes, following its deprecation in PHP 8.1.
• All deprecated global BSON functions have been removed; users should use methods on the Document class instead.
• Several configure options (--with-libbson, --with-libmongoc, --enable-system-ciphers, --with-openssl-dir) have been removed to simplify the build process.

New Features and Improvements

• CursorInterface now extends PHP’s native Iterator interface.
• UTCDateTimeInterface introduces a new toDateTimeImmutable() method.
• URI options that expect booleans will now throw if a non-boolean value is provided, preventing silent misconfiguration.

Library Upgrades

• The extension now bundles libmongoc 1.30.3, bringing in the latest stability and feature improvements.

Compatibility updates

• This release requires an upgrade to the mongodb/mongodb Composer library, which introduces compatibility changes for this extension version. Be sure to update your Composer dependencies accordingly.
• PHP 8.1+ Required: The minimum required PHP version is now 8.1, as support for older versions (PHP 7.4 and 8.0) has been dropped.
• MongoDB 4.2+ Required: Future versions of the library will require MongoDB 4.2 or later. MongoDB 4.0 support is deprecated.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or install the extension via PECL:

pecl install mongodb-2.0.0

Or update an existing installation with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-2.0.0

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 1.21.0 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This release adds a few quality of life features:

• Support for the sort option in replaceOne and updateOne operations was added to better control which documents get updated
• When using array access on MongoDB\BSON\Document instances, integers are now accepted to access numeric keys in a BSON document

In this release, we also deprecated a number of features in preparation for an upcoming 2.0 release:

• Float arguments when constructing MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime are now deprecated
• Passing a WriteConcern or ReadPreference instance to the executeQuery, executeCommand, executeReadCommand, executeReadWriteCommand, and executeWriteCommand methods in MongoDB\Driver\Manager and MongoDB\Driver\Server is deprecated. Please use the corresponding writeConcern and readPreference options instead.
• Passing a negative limit option to queries is now deprecated. Instead of negative limits, use a positive limit option and use the singleBatch option to receive to only receive a single batch of results.

This release drops support for PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0 - PHP 8.1 is now the minimum version for the PHP driver. The libmongoc and libmongocrypt dependencies have been bumped to 1.30.1 and 1.12.0 respectively.

Support for MongoDB 4.0 is now deprecated. A future release of the driver will bump the minimum requirement to MongoDB 4.2.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-1.21.0

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-1.21.0

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 1.20.1 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This release updates the bundled versions of libmongoc and libmongocrypt to 1.28.1.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-1.20.1

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-1.20.1

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 1.20.0 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL. This release introduces support for MongoDB 8.0.

Release Highlights

This release adds support for Queryable Encryption Range Queries when using MongoDB 8.0.

New getHost() and getPort() methods have been added to the CommandSucceededEvent and CommandFailedEvent classes. The getServer() method has been deprecated.

This release updates the bundled versions of libmongoc and libmongocrypt to 1.28.0 and 1.11.0, respectively.

This release drops support for MongoDB 3.6. A future release will drop support for PHP 7.4 and 8.0.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-1.20.0

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-1.20.0

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 1.19.4 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This release fixes an issue when creating DateTime instances from a MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime instance for dates before the Unix Epoch, and optimises comparison of MongoDB\BSON\Int64 instances with scalar values to avoid casting, which could lose precision on 32-bit systems.

The bundled libmongoc and libmongocrypt versions were updated to 1.27.6 and 1.10.1 respectively.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-1.19.4

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-1.19.4

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 1.19.3 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This version contains no user-facing changes but was made for internal compliance reasons.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-1.19.3

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-1.19.3

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version 1.19.2 of the mongodb PHP extension is now available on PECL.

Release Highlights

This release updates the bundled libmongoc version to 1.27.2.

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in JIRA.

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net.

Installation

You can either download and install the source manually, or you can install the extension with:

pecl install mongodb-1.19.2

or update with:

pecl upgrade mongodb-1.19.2

Windows binaries are attached to the GitHub release notes.