php_clickhouse 0.8.1: Three Releases Later, Stable

The launch post for php_clickhouse 0.6.0 covered the framing: native binary protocol, soft fork of the stalled SeasClick, modern ClickHouse types, 30-40% faster than HTTP at high throughput. That post landed April 25, 2026. Today (May 1, 2026) the current tag is 0.8.1, and I'm calling the extension stable. The six days in between were a focused quality cycle, not a feature sprint. Three buckets: Performance. Insert and write paths build native ClickHouse columns one at a time directly from row-m