Remi Collet has made available the release candidates for PHP versions 8.1.15 and 8.2.2 for Linux distributions based on Fedora and RHEL.

PHP version 8.1.15RC1 and 8.2.2RC1

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 8.2.2RC1 are available

• as base packages
  • in the remi-php82-test repository for Enterprise Linux 7
  • in the remi-modular-test for Fedora 35-37 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8
• as SCL in remi-test repository

RPM of PHP version 8.1.15RC1 are available

• as base packages
  • in the remi-php81-test repository for Enterprise Linux 7
  • in the remi-modular-test for Fedora 35-37 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8
• as SCL in remi-test repository

PHP version 8.0 is now in security mode only, so no more RC will be released.

Installation : follow the  wizard instructions.

Parallel installation of version 8.2 as Software Collection:

yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php82

Parallel installation of version 8.1 as Software Collection:

yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php81

Update of system version 8.2 (EL-7) :

yum --enablerepo=remi-php82,remi-php82-test update php\*

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

dnf module reset php
dnf module enable php:remi-8.2
dnf --enablerepo=remi-modular-test update php\*

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\*

Notice: version 8.2.2RC1 is in Fedora rawhide for QA.

PHP version 8.1.15RC1 and 8.2.2RC1 - Remi's RPM repository - Blog