The Three Devs and a Maybe podcast has a new episode posted today with special guest Joe Watkins, PHP internals developer and developer on the APCu extension. They catch up with Joe and what's been happening in the world of PHP internals lately (and the flurry of excitement around PHP 7).

On this weeks show we are lucky to be joined by recurring guest and friend of the show Joe Watkins. We start of discussion with the upcoming PHP 7 release, reasoning behind why it has been postponed, the bright future of adoption to the release compared to previous versions and how the release gets packaged up for different distributions.

Other topics mentioned in this latest episode include:

• "uopz" (User Operations for Zend)
• the pthreads polyfill
• the recent APCu events and additions

The show notes also link to several of Joe's projects on GitHub for reference. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. Also be sure to subscribe to their feed if you enjoy the episode and want to hear more.