Remi Collet has released PHP version 7.3.29, 7.4.21, and 8.0.8 packages for Fedora and RHEL based Linux distributions.

PHP version 7.3.29, 7.4.21 and 8.0.8

RPMs of PHP version 8.0.8 are available in remi-php80 repository for Fedora 32-34 and Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS).

RPMs of PHP version 7.4.21 are available in remi repository for Fedora 32-34 and remi-php74 repository Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS).

RPMs of PHP version 7.3.29 are available in remi-php73 repository for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS).

PHP version 7.2 have reached its end of life and is no longer maintained by the  PHP project.

These versions are also available as Software Collections in the remi-safe repository and as module for Fedora 32-34 and EL-8.

These versions fix a few security bugs, so update is strongly recommended.

Version announcements:

• PHP 8.0.8 Release Annoucement
• PHP 7.4.21 Release Annoucement
• PHP 7.3.29 Release Annoucement

Installation: use the  Configuration Wizard and choose your version and installation mode.

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.0 installation (simplest):

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php80
yum update

or, the modular way (Fedora and EL 8):

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-8.0
dnf update php\*

Parallel installation of version 8.0 as  Software Collection

yum install php80

Replacement of default PHP by version 7.4 installation (simplest):

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74
yum update

or, the modular way (Fedora and EL 8):

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-7.4
dnf update php\*

Parallel installation of version 7.4 as  Software Collection

yum install php74

Replacement of default PHP by version 7.3 installation (simplest):

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73
yum update php\*

or, the modular way (Fedora and EL 8):

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-7.3
dnf update php\*

Parallel installation of version 7.3 as  Software Collection

yum install php73

And soon in the official updates:

• Fedora Rawhide now have PHP version 8.0.8
• Fedora 34 - PHP 7.4.21
• Fedora 33 - PHP 7.4.21

To be noticed :

• EL-8 RPMs are build using RHEL-8.4
• EL-7 RPMs are build using RHEL-7.9
• EL-7 builds now use libicu65 (version 65.1)
• EL builds now uses oniguruma5php (version 6.9.5, instead of outdated system library)
• oci8 extension now uses Oracle Client version 21.1
• a lot of extensions are also available, see the  PHP extensions RPM status (from PECL and other sources) page

Information:

• Migrating from PHP 7.2.x to PHP 7.3.x
• Migrating from PHP 7.3.x to PHP 7.4.x
• Migrating from PHP 7.4.x to PHP 8.0.x

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