🎲 PHP on the road to the 8.5.0 release
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Par Remi le vendredi 26 septembre 2025, 07:04 - RPM - Lien permanent
Version 8.5.0 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-8.5 stream for Fedora ≥ 41 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 8.5 as Software Collection
ℹ️ Installation : follow the Wizard instructions.
Replacement of default PHP by version 8.5 installation, module way (simplest way):
Using dnf 4 on Enterprise Linux
dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.5/common
Using dnf 5 on Fedora
dnf module reset php dnf module enable php:remi-8.5 dnf update
Parallel installation of version 8.5 as Software Collection (recommended for tests):
dnf install php85
⚠️ To be noticed :
- EL-10 RPMs are built using RHEL-10.0
- EL9 rpm are build using RHEL-9.6
- EL8 rpm are build using RHEL-8.10
- lot of extensions are also available, see the PHP extension RPM status page and PHP version 8.5 tracker
- follow the comments on this page for update until final version
- proposed as a Fedora 44 change
ℹ️ Information, read:
Base packages (php)
Software Collections (php84)