heroku/heroku-buildpack-php

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Heroku's classic buildpack for PHP apps

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The maintainers of heroku/heroku-buildpack-php usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Indexed issues
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3h 46m
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Last GitHub push
Nov 2, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 17, 2026
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How to contribute to heroku/heroku-buildpack-php

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  4. Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Bootstrap Composer 2.9 flags lock files from Composer 2.11 as out of date when `config.policy` is set
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#1024 ·

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  • Boot scripts fall back to 512M RAM when cgroup v1 memory.limit_in_bytes is unlimited but /proc/meminfo is correct
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#1016 · 8 comments ·

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  • Add support for the deepclone extension of Symfony
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#996 ·

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  • Support PIE Extension Builds
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#980 · 3 comments ·

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  • `waitforit.sh` script not compatible with Rust based `coreutils` (Ubuntu 26.04 / Heroku-26)
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#931 · 4 comments ·

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  • extension_dir default points to non-existent path when using custom php.ini with FPM (CNB buildpack)
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#916 · 2 comments ·

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  • Enhance Bootstrap failures when due to missing snapshot or bootstrap PHP binary
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#802 · 2 comments ·

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  • Enhancement for repo snapshots modification safety
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#798 ·

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  • Encourage `COMPOSER_AUTH` over `COMPOSER_GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN`
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#790 ·

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  • Add HTTP/2 Support for NGINX in Heroku PHP Buildpack ?
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#786 · 1 comment · 3 reactions ·

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  • Find a way to get back on main for `heroku_hatchet`
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#734 ·

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  • ZTS support
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    feature request

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#695 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add support for ext-parallel
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#693 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Add support for FrankenPHP
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#675 · 3 comments · 7 reactions ·

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  • Supporting Excimer
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#669 · 3 comments · 24 reactions ·

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  • Configure the AMQP CA path automatically
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    feature request

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#665 · 3 comments ·

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  • Allowing skipping the installation of the webserver that is not used
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#663 · 1 comment ·

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  • Blackfire issue on CI
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#532 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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  • Need Tidy extension
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    feature request

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#516 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Add ext-ds extention support
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#492 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Support for FFI extension on PHP 7.4+
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#467 · 2 reactions ·

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  • Composer cache is written to /app
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#459 · 2 comments ·

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  • Consider implementing ngx_security_headers
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#446 ·

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  • Consider implementing headers-more-nginx-module
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#430 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Support for the PHP Decimal extension
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#429 · 7 comments ·

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  • Evolution of Blackfire support
    May be free again Open
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    feature request

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#419 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add ext-sqlsrv support
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#417 · 26 comments ·

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  • ability to use php 7.4 preloading
    May be free again Open
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    feature request

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#409 · 12 comments · 9 reactions · 1 assignee ·

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  • Need sysvsem extension
    May be free again Open
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    feature request

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#408 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Automatically build extensions available on PECL
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#377 · 14 comments · 25 reactions ·

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  • Fix Building a New Extension Using Heroku Tooling and Composer documentation
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    support

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#375 ·

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  • Support for Snowflake or ODBC?
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    • Is something wrong?
    feature request support

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#363 · 2 comments ·

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  • Brotli support
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#356 · 7 comments · 8 reactions ·

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  • Xdebug support
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#235 · 14 comments · 6 reactions ·

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  • Easy way to add an extra file for php.ini settings
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    feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#231 · 5 comments · 2 reactions ·

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  • Support for advanced autoloader optimizations for Composer
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#230 · 13 comments · 6 reactions ·

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  • Packages should be trimmed down
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    support

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#164 · 5 comments ·

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  • Allow to influence the arguments handed over to Composer
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    feature request

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#151 ·

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  • Any reason Gzip is commented out in nginx config?
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    support

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#127 · 16 comments ·

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  • V8JS Extension
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#80 · 11 comments · 4 reactions ·

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  • Support Debianisms for local execution
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    feature request

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    heroku/heroku-buildpack-php#55 · 20 comments ·

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