Remi Collet has released PHP 8.0.19RC1 and 8.1.6RC1 packages for Fedora and RHEL based Linux distributions for testing.

PHP version 8.0.19RC1 and 8.1.6RC1

Release Candidate versions are available in testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) 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 8.1.6RC1 are available

• as SCL in remi-test repository
• as base packages
  • in the remi-php81-test repository for Enterprise Linux 7
  • in the remi-modular-test for Fedora 34-36 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8

RPM of PHP version 8.0.19RC1 are available

• as SCL in remi-test repository
• as base packages
  • in the remi-php81-test repository for Enterprise Linux 7
  • in the remi-modular-test for Fedora 34-36 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8

 

PHP version 7.4 is now in security mode only, so no more RC will be released, this is also the last one for 7.4.

Installation : follow the  wizard instructions.

Parallel installation of version 8.1 as Software Collection:

yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php81

Parallel installation of version 8.0 as Software Collection:

yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php80

Update of system version 8.1 (EL-7) :

yum --enablerepo=remi-php81,remi-php81-test update php\*

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

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-8.1
dnf --enablerepo=remi-modular-test update php\*

Update of system version 8.0 (EL-7) :

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\*

Notice: version 8.1.6RC1 is also in Fedora rawhide for QA.

EL-9 packages are built using RHEL-9.0-Beta

EL-8 packages are built using RHEL-8.5

EL-7 packages are built using RHEL-7.9

RC version is usually the same as the final version (no change accepted after RC, exception for security fix).

PHP version 8.0.19RC1 and 8.1.6RC1 - Remi's RPM repository - Blog