PHP on the road to the 7.4.0 release
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 (x86_64 only, 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)