v1.12.0

What's Changed

Official, native Windows support has arrived!

This highly anticipated release brings 100% compatibility, Worker Mode, and Hot Reloading to Windows, delivering up to a 3.6x performance boost over traditional Nginx/PHP-FPM setups. Thanks to new compiler capabilities in Go 1.26, FrankenPHP now links directly against official Visual Studio-compiled PHP binaries for ultimate stability and full extension support.

Huge thanks to Intelligence X and Les-Tilleuls.coop for sponsoring this milestone.

Learn more about the story of the Windows port in this dedicated blog post.

This version also includes some performance optimizations and Caddy 2.11.2.

✨ New Features

• Windows support by @dunglas, @henderkes and many other contributors in #2119, #2227 and #2228
• Add configurable max_idle_time for autoscaled threads by @firecow in #2225

🚀 Performance Improvements

• Move sandboxed environment to the C side by @AlliBalliBaba in #2058
• Refactor CGI strings creation by @AlliBalliBaba in #2188
• Use ldflags to set Server header by @dunglas in #2221

📖 Documentation

• Spanish translation by @PhilDaiguille in #2096
• Improved hardened Docker image by @AlliBalliBaba in #2229
• Contributing on Windows by @dunglas in #2222

New Contributors

• @PhilDaiguille made their first contribution in #2096
• @firecow made their first contribution in #2225

Full Changelog: v1.11.3...v1.12.0