Version 7.4.0RC1 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-php74 repository for Fedora ≥ 29 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 7 (RHEL, CentOS) 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 7.4 as Software Collection
Installation : read the Repository configuration and choose installation mode.
Replacement of default PHP by version 7.4 installation, module way (simplest way on Fedora and EL-8):
dnf module disable php dnf module install php:remi-7.4 dnf update
Replacement of default PHP by version 7.4 installation, repository way (simplest way on EL-7):
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74 yum update php\*
Parallel installation of version 7.4 as Software Collection (recommended for tests):
yum install php74
To be noticed :
- EL7 rpm are build using RHEL-7.6
- EL6 rpm are build using RHEL-6.10
- lot of extensions are also available, see the PECL extension RPM status page
- follow the comments on this page for update until final version.
Information, read:
Base packages (php)
Software Collections (php74)