After 2,086 days, 1,632 commits, and 75 releases I'm pleased to share that...

league/commonmark has been downloaded over 10 million times! 🎉🎉🎉

Not only that, but as of today league/commonmark is also the fastest-growing PHP Markdown parser based on monthly Packagist installs:

We couldn't have hit these milestones without help from the community. A special thanks to:

• The 61+ contributors who offered feedback, reported issues, and contributed other enhancements.
• Projects like Laravel, Cachet, and others for integrating this library into their projects.
• The PHP League for giving this project a home
• The entire PHP community for sharing thoughts, knowledge, and code with others, as well as spreading the word about this package
• My wife for putting up with the long hours I put into this project each week 😅

Future Roadmap

I'm also excited to share that we've set a roadmap for the new two releases:

Version 1.5

Development on the 1.5 branch is underway! This next minor release will be packed with new features, including:

• Three new extensions in core!
  • Support for footnotes via the FootnotesExtension (ported from rezozero/commonmark-ext-footnotes)
  • Ability to define custom HTML attributes from within the Markdown courtesy of the AttributeExtension (ported from webuni/commonmark-attributes-extension)
  • A dynamic MentionParser to allow for easy custom "mentions" without writing any parser logic
• The ability to place Table of Contents anywhere within the document
• Additional customization options
• As much forward-compatibility as we can squeeze in for 2.x!

Version 2.0

That's right, we're also working on a 2.0 release! The internal bits are getting a major overhaul to correct some deficiencies with our current architecture and pave the way for the next generation of custom extensions. Features and highlights will include:

• Backward-compatibility with the most commonly used external-facing classes and methods
• A 30-40% boost in performance
• A YAML frontmatter extension (that even lets you set configuration options on-the-fly!)
• Parsing that is fully decoupled from AST elements and which supports nested parsers
• A significantly simplified rendering process
• Better configuration support
• Improvements to the AST and event implementations
• Purity markers and types everywhere
• And much more!

If you'd like to support the development of these next two releases, please consider becoming a sponsor: