When can we expect 8.4 support?

For anyone else, PHP 8.4 appears to be available now.

Thanks for getting the PHP 8.4 feature request started! We started upgrading our CI/CD pipelines that build PHP and compiling it this morning across the various OSes - should be very soon! Reminder that PHP releases don’t require a new version of Local, so when they’re ready to release they’ll ap…

It’s been three months since you said “very soon”, what’s the status? I’m sure many want to implement property hooks from PHP 8.4 in their local development. Thanks Austin.

@SpiZeak We hit some snags compiling for Windows and macOS Intel (each time we update PHP, Local custom-compiles the binaries for the four platforms we support to include extension support for each new version — it’s not just a case of downloading the binaries and shipping them with Local). We’re w…

Thank you for your response, hope you manage to find a way :pray:

abandon INTEL compatibility :slight_smile:

[image] austinwendt: should be very soon! It’s now been almost a month since the last official reply. Are we any closer to getting PHP 8.4 support?

Are we any closer to getting PHP 8.4 support? @arecian Yes! We’ve compiled 8.4 successfully with extensions on all platforms, and just deployed to our beta server for testing. If you’d like to test it you can use the latest Local beta , where you’ll see PHP 8.4 in the list for “custom” sites. (Not…

Thank you! Just to be clear, I thought that new versions of PHP would not require a new Local update. Is that no longer the case?

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