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PHP For Windows

This site is dedicated to supporting PHP on Microsoft Windows. It also supports ports of PHP extensions or features as well as providing special builds for the various Windows architectures.

If you like to build your own PHP binaries, instructions can be found on the Wiki.

PECL For Windows

PECL extensions for Windows is being worked on. Windows DLL can be downloaded right from the PECL website.

The PECL extension release and snapshot build directories are browsable directly.

Which version do I choose?

If you are using PHP as FastCGI with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP.

Apache

Please use the Apache builds provided by Apache Lounge. They provide VC15 and VS16 builds of Apache for x86 and x64. We use their binaries to build the Apache SAPIs.

With Apache, using the apache2handler SAPI, you have to use the Thread Safe (TS) versions of PHP.

VC15 & VS16

More recent versions of PHP are built with VC15 or VS16 (Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 compiler respectively) and include improvements in performance and stability.

— The VC15 and VS16 builds require to have the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2019 x64 or x86 installed

TS and NTS

TS refers to multithread capable builds. NTS refers to single thread only builds. Use case for TS binaries involves interaction with a multithreaded SAPI and PHP loaded as a module into a web server. For NTS binaries the widespread use case is interaction with a web server through the FastCGI protocol, utilizing no multithreading (but also for example CLI).

What is PGO?

Profile Guided Optimization is an optimization feature available in Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler that allows you to optimize an output file based on profiling data collected during test runs of the application or module.

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amd64 (x86_64) Builds

PHP 7 provides full 64-bit support. The x64 builds of PHP 7 support native 64-bit integers, LFS, 64-bit memory_limit and much more.

x64 builds are recommended (almost all Windows installations support x64).

Long and multibyte path

PHP 7.1+ supports long and UTF-8 paths. See the manual for details.

Archives

Past releases are available from our archives, older versions not found there can be found at the Museum.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

Are you seeing a warning from Windows Defender? Check out this info.

PHP For Windows

This site is dedicated to supporting PHP on Microsoft Windows. It also supports ports of PHP extensions or features as well as providing special builds for the various Windows architectures.

If you like to build your own PHP binaries, instructions can be found on the Wiki.

PECL For Windows

PECL extensions for Windows is being worked on. Windows DLL can be downloaded right from the PECL website.

The PECL extension release and snapshot build directories are browsable directly.

Which version do I choose?

If you are using PHP as FastCGI with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP.

Apache

Please use the Apache builds provided by Apache Lounge. They provide VC15 and VS16 builds of Apache for x86 and x64. We use their binaries to build the Apache SAPIs.

With Apache, using the apache2handler SAPI, you have to use the Thread Safe (TS) versions of PHP.

VC15 & VS16

More recent versions of PHP are built with VC15 or VS16 (Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 compiler respectively) and include improvements in performance and stability.

— The VC15 and VS16 builds require to have the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2019 x64 or x86 installed

TS and NTS

TS refers to multithread capable builds. NTS refers to single thread only builds. Use case for TS binaries involves interaction with a multithreaded SAPI and PHP loaded as a module into a web server. For NTS binaries the widespread use case is interaction with a web server through the FastCGI protocol, utilizing no multithreading (but also for example CLI).

What is PGO?

Profile Guided Optimization is an optimization feature available in Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler that allows you to optimize an output file based on profiling data collected during test runs of the application or module.

Links:

amd64 (x86_64) Builds

PHP 7 provides full 64-bit support. The x64 builds of PHP 7 support native 64-bit integers, LFS, 64-bit memory_limit and much more.

x64 builds are recommended (almost all Windows installations support x64).

Long and multibyte path

PHP 7.1+ supports long and UTF-8 paths. See the manual for details.

QA binaries are NOT intended for production use; please use the binaries at PHP Windows downloads.

Archives

Past releases are available from our archives, older versions not found there can be found at the Museum.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

Are you seeing a warning from Windows Defender? Check out this info.

PHP For Windows

This site is dedicated to supporting PHP on Microsoft Windows. It also supports ports of PHP extensions or features as well as providing special builds for the various Windows architectures.

If you like to build your own PHP binaries, instructions can be found on the Wiki.

PECL For Windows

PECL extensions for Windows is being worked on. Windows DLL can be downloaded right from the PECL website.

The PECL extension release and snapshot build directories are browsable directly.

Which version do I choose?

If you are using PHP as FastCGI with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP.

Apache

Please use the Apache builds provided by Apache Lounge. They provide VC15 and VS16 builds of Apache for x86 and x64. We use their binaries to build the Apache SAPIs.

With Apache, using the apache2handler SAPI, you have to use the Thread Safe (TS) versions of PHP.

VC15 & VS16

More recent versions of PHP are built with VC15 or VS16 (Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 compiler respectively) and include improvements in performance and stability.

— The VC15 and VS16 builds require to have the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2019 x64 or x86 installed

TS and NTS

TS refers to multithread capable builds. NTS refers to single thread only builds. Use case for TS binaries involves interaction with a multithreaded SAPI and PHP loaded as a module into a web server. For NTS binaries the widespread use case is interaction with a web server through the FastCGI protocol, utilizing no multithreading (but also for example CLI).

What is PGO?

Profile Guided Optimization is an optimization feature available in Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler that allows you to optimize an output file based on profiling data collected during test runs of the application or module.

Links:

amd64 (x86_64) Builds

PHP 7 provides full 64-bit support. The x64 builds of PHP 7 support native 64-bit integers, LFS, 64-bit memory_limit and much more.

x64 builds are recommended (almost all Windows installations support x64).

Long and multibyte path

PHP 7.1+ supports long and UTF-8 paths. See the manual for details.

Archives

Past releases are available from our archives, older versions not found there can be found at the Museum.

OCI DLLs missing from PHP 8.0.0 pre-release builds

Due to a build system error which only has been noticed recently, so far the PHP 8.0.0 pre-release builds didn’t contain php_oci8_12c.dll and php_pdo_oci.dll in the ext/ folder. You can now separately download these files and copy them in your existing PHP-8.0.0beta1 installation (the DLLs are not suitable for the alpha releases). Make sure that you use the appropriate package (x64 vs. x86, and non thread-safe vs. thread-safe).

Windows Defender Warnings

A few days ago, we have noticed that Windows Defender reports some files in the PHP source and test packages as severe threat, claiming they would constitute a backdoor (e.g. Backdoor:PHP/Dirtelti.MTF). These files are auxiliary test files containing eval statements. Are these files backdoors? That depends on the context, i.e. in this case whether they are accessible via the Web. If they are, because they have been uploaded to the webroot of a publicly available Webserver, for instance, they may pose a serious threat. On the other hand, if they are just used on a local machine for development and testing purpuses, they are not malicious in any way.

So, if you experience such Windows Defender warnings, examine the reported files, make sure they don’t pose any threat, and then unblock them.

Happy PHPing on Windows!

OpenSSL default config path changed

As of PHP 7.4.0, the OpenSSL default config path changes from c:\usr\local\ssl\openssl.cnf to C:\Program Files\Common Files\SSL\openssl.conf for x64 builds, and C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SSL\openssl.conf for x86 builds. These paths match the defaults of OpenSSL 1.1, and are more inline with the Windows folder structure than the old settings. Note that this path is still configurable via the environment variable OPENSSL_CONF. See also the installation section in the PHP manual.

PHP 7.4 builds use Visual Studio 2017

We used Visual Studio 2019 to build the early releases of PHP 7.4 (up to and including 7.4.0beta2). And although Visual Studio 2019 is generally an improvement over Visual Studio 2017, due to compatibility issues we have decided to switch back to Visual Studio 2017 for our PHP 7.4 builds, and we are planning to stick with this for the complete lifetime of PHP 7.4.

Note that it is still possible to use Apache VS16 builds from Apachelounge in combination with PHP 7.4, since VS 2019 is forward compatible with VS 2017.

Our master snapshots are still built with Visual Studio 2019, and we are planning to stick with Visual Studio 2019 for PHP 8.0.

Visual Studio 2019 Builds

All binary packages we were offering contained «vc#» (for instance, «vc14») in the filename to designate the Visual Studio version which has been used to build them. This number («#») has tradionally been the major number of the respective platform toolset. The preview releases of Visual Studio 2017 shipped with platform toolset 15.00, so we used «vc15» to mark the files. The first GA release of Visual Studio 2017, however, shipped with platform toolset 14.10 (to signal the backward compatibility), but the internal Visual Studio version number stayed 15.00. To avoid confusion with already distributed packages, we stuck with the «vc15» marker. For our Visual Studio 2019 builds (PHP 7.4 and master) we finally changed from «vc#» to «vs#» (note the «s»), where the number now designates the major internal Visual Studio version number. We are planning to stick with this new naming scheme for the foreseeable future.

OpenSSL 1.1.1a

The recent release candidates 7.2.14RC1 and 7.3.1RC1 use the latest OpenSSL 1.1.1 release branch. Please help testing these release candidates with the regard to the OpenSSL compatibility and report bugs. This concerns the OpenSSL extension itself as well as the extensions depending on OpenSSL like cURL.

The windows.php.net site uses SSL by default

Thanks to «Let’s Encrypt», the site now uses SSL by default. All the non SSL links are transparently redirected to the SSL locations.

WinXP users might experience connection issues. It is a high time to switch away from WinXP to some more recent OS version.

AVX builds

In addition to the usual regular snapshots, the current master builds deliver binaries with AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) support. AVX is an instruction set available in many modern CPUs. The internal PHP implementation uses these specific CPU instructions to improve performance.

Processors, manufactured after 2011, most likely support AVX. The exact information about the hardware can be retrieved by using the Coreinfo tool.

Help us to test these new flavours, any feedback appreciated!

OpenSSL security update

The OpenSSL Security Advisory [19 Mar 2015] announces the availability of the OpenSSL 0.9.8zf and 1.0.1m which fix twelve security vulnerabilities. The latest PHP releases 5.4.39, 5.5.23 and 5.6.7 already contain the updated OpenSSL library. All PHP users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the corresponding patch versions.

Alternatively, the updated OpenSSL dependency DLLs can be downloaded separately as replacement for the older PHP and Apache versions.

OpenSSL security update

The OpenSSL Security Advisory [07 Apr 2014] announces the availability of the OpenSSL 1.0.1g which fixes CVE-2014-0160. In this regard the latest PHP release 5.5.11 was rebuilt with the OpenSSL 1.0.1g. All PHP users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.5.11. If you already have downloaded this version before 10-Apr-2014, please redownload. The existing private keys should be regenerated as soon as possible.

Alternatively, the updated OpenSSL dependency DLLs can be downloaded separately as replacement for the older PHP versions. Though be aware that this issue affects only OpenSSL 1.0.x and the DLL packages are only applicable to PHP 5.5 and upper.

PHP 5.4 and lower is not affected by this issue.

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PHP releases on hold

As announced on the php.internals mailing list, a pair of malicious commits were made in the PHP source code repository over the weekend. These commits were immediately noticed and reverted, and thus never reached end users. The investigation into the root cause and exact scope of the compromise is still ongoing, therefore releases will be put on hold for two weeks assuming no further issues are discovered.

Thank you for bearing with us while we endeavor to ensure that PHP is a stable and reliable platform for web development.

PHP 8.0.3 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.0.3. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 8.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.3 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 7.4.16 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.16. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.4.16 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 8.0.2 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.0.2. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 8.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.2 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 7.4.15 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.15. This is a security release.

All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.4.15 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 7.3.27 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.27. This is a security release.

All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.3.27 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 8.0.1 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.0.1. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 8.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.1 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 7.3.26 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.26. This is a security release.

All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.3.26 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 7.4.14 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.14. This is a security release.

All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.4.14 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 8.0.0 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.0.0. This release marks the latest major release of the PHP language.

PHP 8.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:

• Union Types
• Named Arguments
• Match Expressions
• Attributes
• Constructor Property Promotion
• Nullsafe Operator
• Weak Maps
• Just In Time Compilation
• And much much more.

Take a look at the PHP 8.0 Announcement Addendum for more information.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.

Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!

PHP 7.3.25 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.25. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.3.25 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 7.4.13 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.13. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.4.13 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 5 available for testing

The PHP team is pleased to announce the eleventh testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 5.

This is an extra unplanned release, but we’re not planning to adjust the GA date, however, this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 5 please visit the download page.

Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.

Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.

For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.

The next release will be the General Availability, planned for Nov 26 2020.

The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.

Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 4 available for testing

The PHP team is pleased to announce the tenth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 4.

At this time, we’re not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 4 please visit the download page.

Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.

Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.

For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.

The next release will be the General Availability, planned for Nov 26 2020.

The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.

Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

PHP 7.4.12 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.12. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.4.12 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 3 available for testing

The PHP team is pleased to announce the tenth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 3.

At this time, we’re not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 3 please visit the download page.

Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.

Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.

For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.

The next release will be the Release Candidate 4, planned for Nov 12 2020.

The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.

Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

PHP 7.3.24 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.24. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.3.24 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 2 available for testing

The PHP team is pleased to announce the ninth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 2.

At this time, we’re not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 2 please visit the download page.

Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.

Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.

For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.

The next release will be the Release Candidate 3, planned for Oct 29 2020.

The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.

Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 1 available for testing

The PHP team is pleased to announce the eighth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 1.

At this time, we’re not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 1 please visit the download page.

Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.

Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.

For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.

The next release will be the Release Candidate 2, planned for Oct 15 2020.

The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.

Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

PHP 7.3.23 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.23. This is a security release.

All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.3.23 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 7.4.11 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.11. This is a security release.

All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.4.11 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 7.2.34 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.34. This is a security release.

All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.2.34 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

PHP 8.0.0 Beta 4 available for testing

The PHP team is pleased to announce the seventh testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Beta 4. This point in the release cycle would normally be RC1, however we’re still finalizing development of the JIT and squaring away named arguments, so we’ve opted for an extra beta release with plans to start the RC cycle in two weeks.

At this time, we’re not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Beta 4 please visit the download page.

Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.

Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.

For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.

The next release will be the Release Candidate 1, planned for Oct 1 2020.

The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.

Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

PHP 8.0.0 Beta 3 available for testing

The PHP team is pleased to announce the sixth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Beta 3. This continues the PHP 8.0 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki.

For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Beta 3 please visit the download page.

Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.

Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.

For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.

The next release will be the Release Candidate 1, planned for Sep 17 2020.

The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.

Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

PHP 7.4.10 Released!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.10. This is a bug fix release.

All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.