It is known that Fedora tends to use state-of-the-art package versions, and next spring Fedora Linux 38 will provide PHP 8.2 for those who want to run LAMP on this modern, Red Hat-sponsored Linux distribution. Last week, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) appro

People know that Fedora tends to use the most advanced package version, and next spring Fedora Linux 38 will provide PHP 8.2 for those who want to run LAMP on this modern, Red Hat-sponsored Linux distribution. Last week, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved the upgrade of the F38's PHP package to PHP 8.2.

Given that PHP 8.2 will be released as a regular annual main feature version around the end of November, this leaves plenty of time for incorporating PHP 8.2 into Fedora 38 and doing good testing before releasing the Linux distribution in the spring.

Like most packages, Fedora Linux tends to always carry the latest PHP version when it is released, and PHP 8.2 has not been small improvements.

PHP 8.2 allows to define constants in features, define specific extension exceptions/errors in random code, update the MIME type table for the built-in Web server , reduce the memory usage of string returned by various functions, add new random extensions, enable arc4random_buf and Glibc 2.36+ random bytes for Linux, initially support cross-building on Windows with ARM64, allocate the JIT buffer Opcache to a place close to the PHP .text segment to allow direct IP-related calls and jumps, new options for PHP Sockets, support for new Curl options, new ZipArchive methods, and various performance optimizations.

Users who want to know the current PHP 8.2 release schedule can be found through PHP.net:

https://wiki.php.net/todo/php82

With Fedora 37 released in the next week or two, it is expected to hear more about the features of Fedora 38 in the coming weeks.