PHP on the road to the 8.3.0 release – Remi’s RPM repository

Version 8.3.0 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-8.3 stream or in the remi-php83 repository for 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 8.3 as Software Collection

Installation : follow the Wizard instructions.

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.3 installation, module way (simplest way on Fedora, EL-8 and EL-9):

dnf module reset php
dnf module install php:remi-8.3
dnf update

Replacement of default PHP by version 8.3 installation, repository way (simplest way on EL-7):

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php83
yum update php*

Parallel installation of version 8.3 as Software Collection (recommended for tests):

yum install php83

To be noticed :

• EL9 rpm are build using RHEL-9.2
• EL8 rpm are build using RHEL-8.8
• EL7 rpm are build using RHEL-7.9
• lot of extensions are also available, see the PHP extension RPM status page and PHP version 8.3 tracker
• follow the comments on this page for update until final version
• proposed as a Fedora 40 change

Information, read:

Base packages (php)

Software Collections (php83)