Remi Collet has released PHP 7.4.25 RC1 and 8.0.12 RC1 packages for Fedora and RHEL based Linux distributions.

PHP version 7.4.25RC1 and 8.0.12RC1

Release Candidate versions are available in testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for a parallel installation, perfect solution for such tests, and also as base packages.

RPM of PHP version 8.0.12RC1 are available as SCL in remi-test repository and as base packages in the remi-php80-test repository for Fedora 33-34 and Enterprise Linux.

RPM of PHP version 7.4.25RC1 are available as SCL in remi-test repository and as base packages in the remi-test repository for Fedora 33-34 or remi-php74-test repository for Enterprise Linux.

PHP version 7.3 is now in security mode only, so no more RC will be released.

Installation : read the  Repository configuration and choose your version.

Parallel installation of version 8.0 as Software Collection:

yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php80

Parallel installation of version 7.4 as Software Collection:

yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php74

Update of system version 8.0:

yum --enablerepo=remi-php80,remi-php80-test update php\*

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

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-8.0
dnf --enablerepo=remi-modular-test update php\*

Update of system version 7.4:

yum --enablerepo=remi-php74,remi-php74-test update php\*

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

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-7.4
dnf --enablerepo=remi-modular-test update php\*

Notice: version 8.0.12RC1 is also in Fedora rawhide for QA.

PHP version 7.4.25RC1 and 8.0.12RC1