Provide that latest version of PHP 7.4.xx within a reasonable timeline

Hey @agendablanca.com , Welcome to the Local Community Forums!

Thanks for creating this topic! I’ve moved this to the Feature Request category since this is something that we are wanting to improve on!

As for why Local’s versions of PHP are slightly behind the published minor versions of PHP – that’s mostly due to us having to manually compile them. Currently this is a fairly complicated process that takes our developers a while to complete for all the OSes and versions of PHP we provide.

We’re still working out a better way of automating this so that these versions of PHP are:

  1. Current!
  2. Available for all OSes!
  3. Include all the PHP extensions (and more!) that a WordPress site expects.
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