Release beta with support for PHP 8.3 RC 1

[theodorejb]

Release beta with support for PHP 8.3 RC 1

[theodorejb]

Why wait so long? The GA release of PHP 8.3 is scheduled for November 23, so waiting until December would prevent testing with any of the release candidates before PHP 8.3 is finalized.

[SharkMachine]

I'm with @theodorejb. I could have targeted 8.3 at work but I can't :(

[v-makouz]

We are expecting the beta release within this month

[SharkMachine]

We are expecting the beta release within this month

Thank you :)

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I'm not criticizing individual developers with the following statement. The PHP release schedule has been the same since 7.0 (2015). There is no other excuse for being late than not being bothered being on time. It is possible to plan for 8.4 right now, the first alpha will most likely be released in June and GA in November or December.

[absci]

We are expecting the beta release within this month

Thank you :)

I'm not criticizing individual developers with the following statement. The PHP release schedule has been the same since 7.0 (2015). There is no other excuse for being late than not being bothered being on time. It is possible to plan for 8.4 right now, the first alpha will most likely be released in June and GA in November or December.

We have discussed this and possibly release on October for the next version.

[SharkMachine]

The license for SQL Server is not cheap and the company I work at is paying for it. We need this as well, please make it happen.

[SharkMachine]

@v-makouz @yitam Are we paying for nothing?

[PiotrZ5]

Lets hope that early December is not 31 December ;) I can't wait!

[theodorejb]

Closing now that a stable release supporting PHP 8.3 is available.

[Nirator78]

Do we have a release date for version 8.3 ?

[MichaelSun90]

Hi @SharkMachine, Thanks for the feed back. Will let people know when we actually got GA release date finalized.

[SharkMachine]

https://wiki.php.net/todo/php84

[v-makouz]

I believe that PHP driver beta version with 8.3 support is scheduled for early December or so.

[przemo-hemmersbach]

PHP 8.2 support availability was discussed here: #1420

Looks like msphpsql do not follow PHP release cadence by default but lags varied amount of time.

(I'm not affiliated with msphpsql in any way)

[Nirator78]

Lets hope that early December is not 31 December ;) I can't wait!

Yes me too i need it soon for production.

[SharkMachine]

The beta works like charm, thank you ❤️ .

Is there a schedule for a GA release? If it's in January or February, I'm happy.

[felipito2023]

Is there an update to get sqlsrv extension for PHP 8.3 at this moment?

[CaledoniaProject]

For anyone who wants to build this on MacOS + PHP 8.3,

1. Download the source code.
2. Use packagize.sh to copy shared files to each module directory
3. Use phpize and configure to create the Makefile
4. Modify Makefile to include unixodbc path to includes folders

Copy the libs to php modules dir, and enjoy :-)

[lionslair]

Didn't know it was released

[SharkMachine]

Thank you. We will be using PHP 8.3 support :)