Remi Collet has released PHP 8.0.21 and 8.1.8 packages for Fedora and RHEL based Linux distributions.

PHP version 8.0.21 and 8.1.8

RPMs of PHP version 8.1.8 are available in remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 34 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...) and in remi-php81 repository for EL 7.

RPMs of PHP version 8.0.21 are available in remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 34 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...) and in remi-php80 repository for EL 7.

No security fix this month for 7.4 and 8.0, so no update for version  7.4.30.

PHP version 7.3 have reached its end of life and is no longer maintained by the  PHP project.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.

Version 8.1.8 fixes 1 security bug, so update is strongly recommended.

Version announcements:

• PHP 8.1.8 Release Annoucement
• PHP 8.0.21 Release Annoucement

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

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.1 installation (simplest):

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-8.1
dnf update php\*

or, the old EL-7 way:

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php81
yum update php\*

Parallel installation of version 8.1 as  Software Collection

yum install php81

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

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

or, the old EL-7 way:

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

Parallel installation of version 8.0 as  Software Collection

yum install php80

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

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

or, the old EL-7 way:

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

Parallel installation of version 7.4 as  Software Collection

yum install php74

And soon in the official updates:

• Fedora Rawhide now have PHP version 8.1.8
• Fedora 36 - PHP 8.1.8
• Fedora 35 - PHP 8.0.21

To be noticed :

• EL-8 RPMs are build using RHEL-8.6
• EL-7 RPMs are build using RHEL-7.9
• EL-7 builds now use libicu69 (version 69.1)
• EL builds now uses oniguruma5php (version 6.9.5, instead of outdated system library)
• oci8 extension now uses Oracle Client version 21.6
• a lot of extensions are also available, see the  PHP extensions RPM status (from PECL and other sources) page

Information:

• Migrating from PHP 7.3.x to PHP 7.4.x
• Migrating from PHP 7.4.x to PHP 8.0.x
• Migrating from PHP 8.0.x to PHP 8.1.x

PHP version 8.0.21 and 8.1.8