PHP 8.2 release not available on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

[Matthew Ruffell]

Hi Milan,

Once an Ubuntu series is finalised and released, it is essentially frozen
for stability reasons.

There are certain circumstances when packages are updated, which is set out
in the Stable Release Updates process:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

This normally involves taking a specific patch from a newer release and
placing it ontop of the older release to fix a specific issue.
We don't normally do updates to upstream point releases or new versions, as
it may introduce regressions.

In the case of php, it isn't just one package. There are 1-2 thousand
packages that depend on php in the Ubuntu archive.
Moving major php releases is a difficult task, as all of those packages
need to be fixed and updated to migrate to the new php version.

Anyway, 23.10 has php 8.2 in its repositories. 24.04 will have 8.3 landing
shortly.

 php | 2:8.1+92ubuntu1   | jammy          | all
 php | 2:8.2+93ubuntu1   | mantic         | all
 php | 2:8.2+93ubuntu1   | noble          | all
 php | 2:8.3+93ubuntu2   | noble-proposed | all

If you don't want to stray from the official Ubuntu archives, maybe you
want to use 23.10 which is supported until July, or wait until 24.04 comes
out in April, which is supported for 10 years.

Thanks,
Matthew

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 at 09:38, Milan Ponjevic <MPonjevic at iwm.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi guys
> I am trying to upgrade php on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS to 8.2 version, but it
> seems to be only available is 8.1?
> I am using only official Ubuntu repositories, cause of our internal
> security policy.
>
> How come there are no 8.2 in official Ubuntu repositories? What should I
> do to get 8.2?
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
>
> *Milan Ponjevic*
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