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PHP on the road to the 8.1.0 release

Version 8.1.0 Release Candidate 1 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-php81 repository for Fedora  33 and Enterprise Linux  7 (RHEL, CentOS), or in the php:remi-8.1 stream, and as Software Collection in the remi-safe repository (or remi for Fedora)

 

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The repository provides development versions which are not suitable for production usage.

Also read: PHP 8.1 as Software Collection

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Installation : read the Repository configuration and choose installation mode.

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.1 installation, module way (simplest way on Fedora and EL-8):

dnf module reset php
dnf module install php:remi-8.1
dnf update

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.1 installation, repository way (simplest way on EL-7):

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php81
yum update php\*

Parallel installation of version 8.1 as Software Collection (recommended for tests):

yum install php81

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To be noticed :

  • EL8 rpm are build using RHEL-8.4
  • EL7 rpm are build using RHEL-7.9
  • lot of extensions are also available, see the PHP extension RPM status page and PHP version 8.1 tracker
  • follow the comments on this page for update until final version
  • should be proposed for Fedora 36

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