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Remi Collet: PHP on the road to the 8.6.0 release

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Executive Summary

Version 8.6.0 Release Candidate 2 has been released. It's now entering the stabilisation phase for the developers , and the test phase for the users. RPMs are available in the php:remi-8.6 stream for Fedora ≥ 43 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, CentOS, Alma, Rocky...) and as Software Collection in the remi-safe repository (or remi for Fedora) ️ The repository provides development versions which are not suitable for production usage.

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