Remi Collet has released PHP 8.1.28, 8.2.18 and 8.3.6 packages for Fedora Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux based distributions.

PHP version 8.1.28, 8.2.18 and 8.3.6

RPMs of PHP version 8.3.6 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 38 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...) and in the remi-php83 repository for EL 7.

RPMs of PHP version 8.2.18 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 38 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...) and in the remi-php82 repository for EL 7.

RPMs of PHP version 8.1.28 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 38 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...) and in the remi-php81 repository for EL 7.

The Fedora 39, 40, EL-8 and EL-9 packages (modules and SCL) are available for x86_64 and aarch64.

  PHP version 8.0 has reached its end of life and is no longer maintained by the  PHP project.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.

These Versions fix 3 security bugs (CVE-2024-2756, CVE-2024-3096 and CVE-2024-2757), so update is strongly recommended.

Version announcements:

• PHP 8.3.6 Release Annoucement
• PHP 8.2.18 Release Annoucement
• PHP 8.1.28 Release Annoucement

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

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.3 installation (simplest):

dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.3/common

or, the old EL-7 way:

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php83
yum update php\*

Parallel installation of version 8.3 as  Software Collection

yum install php83

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.2 installation (simplest):

dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.2/common

or, the old EL-7 way:

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php82
yum update

Parallel installation of version 8.2 as  Software Collection

yum install php82

And soon in the official updates:

• Fedora Rawhide now has PHP version 8.3.6
• Fedora 40 - PHP 8.3.6
• Fedora 39 - PHP 8.2.18
• Fedora 38 - PHP 8.2.18

To be noticed :

• EL-9 RPMs are built using RHEL-9.3
• EL-8 RPMs are built using RHEL-8.9
• EL-7 RPMs are built using RHEL-7.9
• intl extension now uses libicu73 (version 73.2)
• mbstring extension (EL builds) now uses oniguruma5php (version 6.9.9, instead of the outdated system library)
• oci8 extension now uses the RPM of Oracle Instant Client version 21.13 on x86_64, 19.19 on aarch64
• a lot of extensions are also available, see the  PHP extensions RPM status (from PECL and other sources) page

Information:

• Migrating from PHP 8.0.x to PHP 8.1.x
• Migrating from PHP 8.1.x to PHP 8.2.x
• Migrating from PHP 8.2.x to PHP 8.3.x

PHP version 8.1.28, 8.2.18 and 8.3.6