PHP on the road to the 8.0.0 release - Remi's RPM repository

PHP on the road to the 8.0.0 release

Par Remi le samedi 12 septembre 2020, 08:28 - Archives - Lien permanent

Version 8.0.0 Beta 3 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-php80 repository for Fedora ≥ 31 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 7 (RHEL, CentOS), or in the php:remi-8.0 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 8.0 as Software Collection

Installation : read the Repository configuration and choose installation mode.

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.0 installation, module way (simplest way on Fedora and EL-8):

dnf module disable php
dnf module install php:remi-8.0
dnf update

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.0 installation, repository way (simplest way on EL-7):

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php80
yum update php\*

Parallel installation of version 8.0 as Software Collection (recommended for tests):

yum install php80

To be noticed :

EL8 rpm are build using RHEL-8.2
EL7 rpm are build using RHEL-7.8
lot of extensions are also available, see the PHP extension RPM status and PHP extensions status with upcoming PHP 8.0 pages
follow the comments on this page for update until final version.

Information, read:

Base packages (php)