PHP 8.5.0, 8.4.15, 8.3.28 Released

PHP 8.5.0 GA release is out now along with PHP 8.4.15 and 8.3.28 bug fix releases. For PHP 8.5.0 migration notes, deprecated features and changes read PHP: Migrating from PHP 8.4.x to PHP 8.5.x - Manual. And read what's new in PHP 8.5 here.

• PHP 8.5.0 is only supported in Centmin Mod 140.00beta01 or newer. You will need to run cmupdate command on 140.00beta01, to get latest updates and then run centmin.sh menu option 5 and specifying PHP 8.5.0 version for updates. If you're on Centmin Mod 132.00stable, max supported PHP version is PHP 8.3.x.
• While Centmin Mod 140.00beta01 or newer has PHP 8.4.x and PHP 8.5.x support.

Releases

• PHP 8.5.0 GA release PHP: News Archive - 2025
• PHP 8.4.15 PHP: News Archive - 2025
• php 8.3.28 PHP: News Archive - 2025

Change Logs

• PHP 8.5.0 GA release PHP: PHP 8 ChangeLog
• PHP 8.4.15 PHP: PHP 8 ChangeLog
• php 8.3.28 PHP: PHP 8 ChangeLog

Example on AlmaLinux 9.7

Code (Text):

--------------------------------------------------------
     Centmin Mod Menu 141.00beta01 centminmod.com    
--------------------------------------------------------
1).  Centmin Install
2).  Add Nginx vhost domain
3).  NSD setup domain name DNS
4).  Nginx Upgrade / Downgrade
5).  PHP Upgrade / Downgrade
6).  MySQL User Database Management
7).  Persistent Config File Management
8).  Option Being Revised (TBA)
9).  Option Being Revised (TBA)
10). Memcached Server Re-install
11). MariaDB MySQL Upgrade & Management
12). Zend OpCache Install/Re-install
13). Install/Reinstall Redis PHP Extension
14). SELinux disable
15). Install/Reinstall ImagicK PHP Extension
16). Change SSHD Port Number
17). Multi-thread compression: zstd,pigz,pbzip2,lbzip2
18). Suhosin PHP Extension install
19). Install FFMPEG and FFMPEG PHP Extension
20). NSD Install/Re-Install
21). Data Transfer
22). Add Wordpress Nginx vhost + Cache Plugin
23). Update Centmin Mod Code Base
24). Exit
--------------------------------------------------------
Enter option [ 1 - 24 ] 5
--------------------------------------------------------

Code (Text):

PHP Upgrade/Downgrade - Would you like to continue? [y/n] y

----------------------------------------------------------------
Install which version of PHP? (i.e. 7.3.33, 7.4.33, 8.0.30, 8.1.33, 8.2.29, 8.3.28, 8.4.15, 8.5.0, NGDEBUG)
PHP 7.x/7.1.x/7.2.x/7.3.x is GA Stable but still may have broken PHP extensions.
NGDEBUG is PHP 8.5 dev builds minus incompatible PHP extensions
----------------------------------------------------------------

Current PHP Version: 8.4.15
Latest PHP Version Installable: 8.5.0, 8.4.15, 8.3.28, 8.2.29, 8.1.33, 8.0.30

Enter PHP Version number you want to upgrade/downgrade to: 8.5.0

Do you still want to continue? [y/n] y

----------------------------------------------------------------
existing php.ini will be backed up at /usr/local/lib/php.ini-oldversion_231125-001657
----------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Detected PHP 8.5 branch.
You can compile Zend OPcache (Zend Optimizer Plus+) support
as an alternative to using APC Cache or Xcache cache.
But Zend OPcache only provides PHP opcode cache and
DOESN'T do data caching, so if your web apps such as Wordpress,
Drupal or vBulletin require data caching to APC or Xcache,
it won't work with Zend OPcache.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do you want to use Zend OPcache [y/n] ? y

Code (Text):

php -v
PHP 8.5.0 (cli) (built: Nov 22 2025 14:11:58) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.5.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.5.0, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

Code (Text):

php-config
Usage: /usr/local/bin/php-config [OPTION]
Options:
  --prefix            [/usr/local]
  --includes          [-I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib]
  --ldflags           [ -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -pie -Wl,-rpath,/opt/remi/libzip/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/../lib64 -L/usr/local/libgd/2.3.3/lib -L/usr/local/lib64 -L/opt/remi/libzip/lib64]
  --libs              [  -ltidy -lncurses -lstdc++ -lbz2 -lm  -lxml2 -lssl -lcrypto -lsqlite3 -lz -lcurl -lxml2 -lenchant -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lffi -lssl -lcrypto -lgd -lgmp -licuio -licui18n -licuuc -licudata -lldap -llber -lsasl2 -lonig -lsqlite3 -ledit -lxml2 -lnetsnmp -lxml2 -lsodium -largon2 -lxml2 -lxml2 -lxml2 -lxslt -lxml2 -lexslt -lxslt -lxml2 -lzip -lz -lssl -lcrypto]
  --extension-dir     [/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20250925]
  --include-dir       [/usr/local/include/php]
  --lib-dir           [/usr/local/lib]
  --lib-embed         [libphp.so]
  --man-dir           [/usr/local/php/man]
  --php-binary        [/usr/local/bin/php]
  --php-sapis         [ cli embed fpm phpdbg cgi]
  --ini-path          [/usr/local/lib]
  --ini-dir           [/etc/centminmod/php.d]
  --configure-options [--enable-fpm --enable-intl --enable-pcntl --with-mcrypt --with-snmp --enable-embed=shared --with-mhash --with-zlib --with-gettext --enable-exif --with-zip --with-bz2 --enable-soap --enable-sockets --enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --with-curl --enable-gd --with-external-gd --with-avif --with-xmlrpc --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-ftp --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-freetype --with-jpeg --with-png-dir=/usr --with-xpm --with-webp --with-t1lib=/usr --enable-shmop --with-pear --enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql=mysqlnd --with-libdir=lib64 --with-mysqli=mysqlnd --enable-pdo --with-pdo-sqlite --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd --enable-inline-optimization --with-imap --with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos --with-readline --with-libedit --with-gmp --with-pspell --with-tidy --with-enchant --with-fpm-user=nginx --with-fpm-group=nginx --with-ldap --with-ldap-sasl --with-pic --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/centminmod/php.d --with-fpm-systemd --with-ffi --with-libzip=/opt/remi/libzip/lib64 --with-password-argon2 --with-sodium=/usr/local --with-xsl PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/remi/libzip/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig: PNG_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include PNG_LIBS=-L/usr/lib64 -lpng16 GDLIB_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/libgd/2.3.3/include GDLIB_LIBS=-L/usr/local/libgd/2.3.3/lib -lgd ICU_CFLAGS=-fPIC ICU_LIBS=-L/usr/lib64 -licuio -licui18n -licuuc -licudata ONIG_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include ONIG_LIBS=-L/usr/lib64 -lonig LIBSODIUM_CFLAGS=-fPIC LIBSODIUM_LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib64 -lsodium ARGON2_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include ARGON2_LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib64 -largon2 LIBZIP_CFLAGS=-I/opt/remi/libzip/include -fPIC LIBZIP_LIBS=-L/opt/remi/libzip/lib64 -lzip]
  --version           [8.5.0]
  --vernum            [80500]

Code (Text):

php -m
[PHP Modules]
bcmath
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
enchant
exif
FFI
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
geoip
gettext
gmp
hash
iconv
igbinary
imagick
intl
json
ldap
lexbor
libxml
mailparse
mbstring
mcrypt
memcache
memcached
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
pdo_sqlite
Phar
posix
random
readline
redis
Reflection
session
shmop
SimpleXML
snmp
soap
sockets
sodium
SPL
sqlite3
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tidy
timezonedb
tokenizer
uri
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
xsl
Zend OPcache
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]
Zend OPcache

Note for PHP 8.5, the Opcache extension is now always built into the PHP binary and is always loaded. The INI directives opcache.enable and opcache.enable_cli are still honored but you no longer require zend_extension variable to load opcache.so so Centmin Mod automatically comments it out to disable it with semi-colon in front in /etc/centminmod/php.d/zendopcache.ini

Code (Text):

;zend_extension=opcache.so
;opcache.error_log=/var/log/php_opcache_error.log
opcache.enable=1
opcache.memory_consumption=80
opcache.interned_strings_buffer=64
opcache.max_wasted_percentage=5
opcache.max_accelerated_files=65407
; http://php.net/manual/en/opcache.configuration.php#ini.opcache.revalidate-freq
; defaults to zend opcache checking every 180 seconds for PHP file changes
; set to zero to check every second if you are doing alot of frequent
; php file edits/developer work
; opcache.revalidate_freq=0
opcache.revalidate_freq=180
opcache.fast_shutdown=0
opcache.enable_cli=0
opcache.save_comments=1
opcache.enable_file_override=1
opcache.validate_timestamps=1
;opcache.huge_code_pages=1

Interesting PHP 8.5 has a new setting for --ini=diff that can print out non-default PHP ini settings

Code (Text):

php --ini=diff
Non-default INI settings:
allow_url_include: "0" -> ""
auto_append_file: (none) -> ""
auto_prepend_file: (none) -> ""
curl.cainfo: "" -> "/etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem"
display_errors: "1" -> ""
display_startup_errors: "1" -> ""
enable_dl: "1" -> ""
error_reporting: (none) -> "22527"
expose_php: "1" -> ""
geoip.custom_directory: (none) -> "/usr/share/GeoIP"
html_errors: "1" -> "0"
ignore_repeated_errors: "0" -> ""
ignore_repeated_source: "0" -> ""
implicit_flush: "0" -> "1"
log_errors: "0" -> "1"
mail.add_x_header: "0" -> ""
mail.mixed_lf_and_crlf: "0" -> ""
max_execution_time: "30" -> "0"
max_input_nesting_level: "64" -> "128"
max_input_vars: "1000" -> "10000"
memcached.sess_connect_timeout: "0" -> "3000"
memcached.sess_consistent_hash: "1" -> "0"
memory_limit: "128M" -> "800M"
mysqli.default_host: (none) -> ""
mysqli.default_pw: (none) -> ""
mysqli.default_user: (none) -> ""
mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics: "0" -> ""
mysqlnd.net_cmd_buffer_size: "4096" -> "16384"
opcache.enable_file_override: "0" -> "1"
opcache.interned_strings_buffer: "8" -> "64"
opcache.max_accelerated_files: "10000" -> "65407"
opcache.memory_consumption: "128" -> "480"
opcache.revalidate_freq: "2" -> "180"
post_max_size: "8M" -> "800M"
realpath_cache_size: "4096K" -> "4096k"
realpath_cache_ttl: "120" -> "43200"
request_order: (none) -> "GP"
session.cookie_httponly: "0" -> ""
session.gc_divisor: "100" -> "1000"
tidy.clean_output: "0" -> ""
unserialize_callback_func: (none) -> ""
upload_max_filesize: "2M" -> "800M"
user_dir: (none) -> ""
variables_order: "EGPCS" -> "GPCS"
zend.assertions: "1" -> "-1"
zend.exception_ignore_args: "0" -> "1"
zend.exception_string_param_max_len: "15" -> "0"
zlib.output_compression: "0" -> ""

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