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Version 7.1 being close to its end of life, in December 2019, an upgrade to a higher version is recommended.

Version announcements:

• PHP 7.3.11 Release Annoucement
• PHP 7.2.24 Release Annoucement
• PHP 7.1.33 Release Annoucement (security only)

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

Replacement of default PHP by version 7.3 installation (simplest):

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73
yum update php\*

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

dnf module enable php:remi-7.3
dnf update php\*

Parallel installation of version 7.3 as Software Collection

yum install php73

Replacement of default PHP by version 7.2 installation (simplest):

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72
yum update

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

dnf module enable php:remi-7.2
dnf update php\*

Parallel installation of version 7.2 as Software Collection

yum install php72

And soon in the official updates:

• Fedora rawhide now have PHP 7.4.0RC4
• Fedora 31 - PHP 7.3.11
• Fedora 30 - PHP 7.3.11
• Fedora 29 - PHP 7.2.24

To be noticed :

• EL-8 rpm are build using RHEL-8.0
• EL-7 rpm are build using RHEL-7.7
• EL-6 rpm are build using RHEL-6.10
• EL-7 builds now use libicu62 (version 62.1)
• EL builds now uses oniguruma5 (version 6.9.3 ,instead of bundle copy)
• oci8 extension now uses Oracle Client version 19.3 (excepted on EL-6)
• a lot of new extensions are also available, see the PECL extension RPM status page

Information, read:

• Migrating from PHP 7.1.x to PHP 7.2.x
• Migrating from PHP 7.2.x to PHP 7.3.x

Base packages (php)

Software Collections (php71 / php72 / php73)