# Swoole

Coroutine-based PHP extension for concurrent networking and TCP, UDP, Unix socket, HTTP and WebSocket servers.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/swoole/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-19
Listed since: 2026-10-19

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.swoole.com
- repository: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src
- docs: https://wiki.swoole.com/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Han Tianfeng
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: php
- language: cpp
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 8.2
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: pecl-package

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0, Apache2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 6
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-22

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 18926
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: unknown
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://www.swoole.com/ (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://wiki.swoole.com/ (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainer: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainerType: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole (read 2026-10-19)
- category: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole (read 2026-10-19)
- language: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src (read 2026-10-19)
- runtime: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole (read 2026-10-19)
- runtimeMin: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole (read 2026-10-19)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src/releases/latest (read 2026-10-19)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src/releases/latest (read 2026-10-19)
- license: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src (read 2026-10-19)
- license: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole (read 2026-10-19)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src (read 2026-10-19)
- installMethod: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole (read 2026-10-19)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/swoole/swoole-src (read 2026-10-19)
- runsAs: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole (read 2026-10-19)

## Notes

Swoole is a coroutine-based PHP extension written in C++ that adds networking to PHP, including TCP, UDP, Unix socket, HTTP and WebSocket servers. Because it loads as a PHP extension, the server code runs inside a PHP process. Han Tianfeng is the lead maintainer.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0