PHP on the road to the 8.4.0 release
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Par Remi le vendredi 27 septembre 2024, 10:31 - RPM - Lien permanent
Version 8.4.0 Release Candidate 1 is released. It's now enter the stabilisation phase for the developers, and the test phase for the users.
RPMs are available in the php:remi-8.4 stream for Fedora ≥ 39 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, CentOS, Alma, Rocky...) 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 8.4 as Software Collection
Installation : follow the Wizard instructions.
Replacement of default PHP by version 8.4 installation, module way (simplest way):
dnf module reset php dnf module install php:remi-8.4 dnf update
Parallel installation of version 8.4 as Software Collection (recommended for tests):
yum install php84
To be noticed :
- EL9 rpm are build using RHEL-9.4
- EL8 rpm are build using RHEL-8.10
- lot of extensions are also available, see the PHP extension RPM status page and PHP version 8.4 tracker
- follow the comments on this page for update until final version
- proposed as a Fedora 42 change
Information, read:
Base packages (php)
Software Collections (php84)
