Remi Collet has released PHP versions 8.1.30, 8.2.24, and 8.3.12 for Fedora and RHEL-based Linux distributions.

PHP version 8.1.30, 8.2.24 and 8.3.12

RPMs of PHP version 8.3.12 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 39 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).

RPMs of PHP version 8.2.24 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 39 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).

RPMs of PHP version 8.1.30 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 39 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).

The packages 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  PHP version 8.0 has reached its end of life and is no longer maintained by the  PHP project.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 4 security bugs (CVE-2024-8925, CVE-2024-8926, CVE-2024-8927, CVE-2024-9026), so update is strongly recommended.

Version announcements:

• PHP 8.3.12 Release Annoucement
• PHP 8.2.24 Release Annoucement
• PHP 8.1.30 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

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

Parallel installation of version 8.2 as  Software Collection

yum install php82

And soon in the official updates:

• Fedora Rawhide now has PHP version 8.3.11
• Fedora 41 - PHP 8.3.12
• Fedora 40 - PHP 8.3.12
• Fedora 39 - PHP 8.2.24

To be noticed :

• EL-9 RPMs are built using RHEL-9.4
• EL-8 RPMs are built using RHEL-8.10
• EL-7 repository is closed
• intl extension now uses libicu74 (version 74.2)
• mbstring extension (EL builds) now uses oniguruma5php (version 6.9.9, instead of the outdated system library)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 23.5 on x86_64, 19.24 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 8.1.30, 8.2.24 and 8.3.12