Amazon Linux 2 amazon-linux-extras PHP 8.1 support

The official Beanstalk roadmap for all platforms is here: https://github.com/aws/elastic-beanstalk-roadmap/projects/1 . PHP 8.1 is in the "we're working on it" status.

I have no answer, I just continue to wait week after week, month after month with no indication how to request this feature in a better way. PHP 8.1 was released in November of 2021, so we've waited November, December, January, February and now into March. What is going on?

I'm waiting on this too. It feels like Amazon Linux 2 has been neglected ever since AL 2022 was announced. PHP updates are delayed, MariaDB is 5 versions behind, awscli is very outdated, etc.

I wonder when AWS will finally make PHP 8.1 available on amazon-linux-extras, such that it can be used with Amazon Linux 2? We have been waiting for this for months now. Please speed it up!

Here is how to upgrade from PHP 8.0 to PHP 8.1 on Amazon Linux 2 w/o Remi which does not supply binaries for ARM i.e. Apple Silicon, AWS ARM Graviton. This approach also works on x86.

Remove PECL imagick package, as it will conflict with the upgrade. AWS forgot to include Imagick as an installable package.

yum remove php-pecl-imagick

Disable PHP 8.0

amazon-linux-extras disable php8.0

Enable PHP 8.1

amazon-linux-extras enable php8.1

Install all packages including those required for building Imagick.

yum clean metadata
yum install php-cli php-pdo php-fpm php-json php-mysqlnd php-devel php-pear gcc make tar ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-perl

Install and enable Imagick

pecl install imagick
echo "extension=imagick" > /etc/php.d/20-imagick.ini

If you are doing this in a docker container, your Dockerfile should look something like this depending on all the PHP modules you need. With this config, you get all the base PHP modules + Imagick + MySQL.

FROM amazonlinux:latest

RUN yum install -y \
    ruby \
    nodejs \
    php-pear \
    php \
    php-cli \
    php-devel \
    php-gmp \
    php-fpm \
    php-mbstring \
    php-opcache \
    php-common \
    php-pdo \
    php-mysqlnd \
    php-gd \
    php-sodium \
    php-xml \
    php-process \
    python3-pip

# Install dev libraries for PECL
RUN yum install -y \
    php-devel \
    php-pear \
    gcc \
    make \
    tar \
    ImageMagick \
    ImageMagick-devel \
    ImageMagick-perl

RUN pecl install imagick && echo "extension=imagick" > /etc/php.d/20-imagick.ini

# Remove the dev stuff to keep the container small
RUN yum remove -y \
    php-devel \
    php-pear \
    gcc \
    make \
    ImageMagick-devel \
    ImageMagick-perl

And then we wait for Laravel 10 to be released!

Cheers, Juha

php8.1 was created in "amazon-linux-extras", but

The file doesn't seem to exist.

php8.1=latest enabled

Could not retrieve mirrorlist https://amazonlinux-2-repos-ap-northeast-2.s3.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com/2/extras/php8.1/latest/aarch64/mirror.list error was 14: HTTPS Error 403 - Forbidden!

Please make the update to PHP 8.1 please, it's would be really helpful! It's been release for nearly a year now....

Symfony 6.1 is loaded as a dependency when installing Laravel 8.8. Symfony 6.1 requires PHP 8.1. I guess AWS does not plan to support Laravel 8 or 9 on its EC2 instances?

Given the (presumably) pending release of AL2022, I wouldn't hold your breath. In any case, I've found that if you want to keep PHP up to date, you're better off installing it from another source (e.g. https://rpms.remirepo.net/), although of course you have to do your due diligence to ensure it meets your security and audit requirements.