Remi Collet has released PHP 8.1.0 RC1 packages for Fedora and RHEL based Linux distributions for testing.

PHP on the road to the 8.1.0 release

Version  8.1.0 Release Candidate 1 is released. It's now enter the stabilisation phase for the developers, and the test phase for the users.

RPM are available in the remi-php81 repository for Fedora ≥ 33 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 7 (RHEL, CentOS), or in the php:remi-8.1 stream, and as Software Collection in the remi-safe repository (or remi for Fedora)

 

The repository provides development versions which are not suitable for production usage.

Also read:  PHP 8.1 as Software Collection

Installation : read the  Repository configuration and choose installation mode.

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.1 installation, module way (simplest way on Fedora and EL-8):

dnf module reset php
dnf module install php:remi-8.1
dnf update

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.1 installation, repository way (simplest way on EL-7):

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

Parallel installation of version 8.1 as  Software Collection (recommended for tests):

yum install php81

PHP on the road to the 8.1.0 release