PHP 8.1.34: Downloads, Changelog, News

Release Information

Release
8.1.34
PHP Version
PHP 8.1
Release Date
Release Type
Security Update
Release Status
Latest
Branch Status
Security-Fixes Only

PHP 8.1 is currently only receiving security fixes, and scheduled to reach EOL on 2025-12-31

Downloads

Source Code

Git Clone
Use Git to clone the 8.1.34 tag from the PHP Git repository.
git clone https://github.com/php/php-src.git --depth 1 --branch php-8.1.34
How to compile PHP
PHP can be compiled by setting up the dependencies, building the configure script (./buildconf), configuring the build ./configure, and running make.
Detailed articles on how to compile PHP are available for Ubuntu/Debian based systems and Fedora/RHEL based systems.

Windows binaries
Non-Thread Safe Builds
Non-Thread Safe (NTS) builds are single-threaded PHP builds. They can be used on web servers that integrate PHP over FastCGI protocol, such as Nginx, Caddy, and IIS.
php-8.1.34-x64NTS.zip
Size: 29.39 MiB SHA256: 9cfe246cb144076c16f5913a3ef88a474c3dd7e60f0f0c8bb95faf68674016cc
php-8.1.34-x86NTS.zip
Size: 26.44 MiB SHA256: 925f3b6b098cfc4b324056b8b8b8b870ad11cd22c15c2c29a03067a5eb14dc4c
Thread-Safe Builds
Thread-Safe (TS) builds are multi-thread PHP builds, often used to integrate PHP as a Server API for multithreaded servers. The most common use case is using PHP as an Apache module.
php-8.1.34-x64TS.zip
Size: 29.5 MiB SHA256: 8e17e0804fe48d3a032c9bef16f0f922996e0b1b237061b7ce94485394db5d1b
php-8.1.34-x86TS.zip
Size: 26.42 MiB SHA256: f81e25dac62f0d32b10d77ddb3d9c2f52da4092608ece1181ab855fc97c2628e

Docker/Podman Containers

PHP CLI
PHP CLI Containers images only include the PHP CLI, and no FPM or Apache modules. The Alpine builds are lightweight, but may introduce incompatibilities due to their musl builds. Albeit their larger size, the Debian-based (without the "-alpine" suffix) images are more complete, and widely used.

Alpine-based: Lightweight, but may introduce incompatibilities due to their musl builds.
docker pull php:8.1.34-cli-alpine

Debian-based: More compatible with other components, complete, and are widely used.
docker pull php:8.1.34-cli
PHP CLI + Web Server Integration
These container images include PHP CLI, and a web server integration. FPM container images can be integrated with web servers such as Nginx, Caddy, and Apache with Event MPM. The Apache container images include Apache web server, integrating PHP as an Apache module.

Alpine-based: Lightweight, but may introduce incompatibilities due to their musl builds.
docker pull php:8.1.34-fpm-alpine

Debian-based ZTS Apache: Includes Apache web server integrating PHP as an Apache module.
docker pull php:8.1.34-apache

Debian-based NTS FPM: PHP-FPM, can be integrated with Nginx, Caddy, and other web servers over Fast CGI.
docker pull php:8.1.34-fpm

ChangeLog

Curl

  • Fix curl build and test failures with version 8.16.

Opcache

  • Reset global pointers to prevent use-after-free in zend_jit_status().

PDO

Standard

Commit List

Arnaud Le Blanc

Ben Ramsey

Dmitry Stogov

  • Disable inlining and inter-procedure-analyses for zend_string_equal_val() function that may be overriden for valgrind in GH-13099

Florian Engelhardt

  • Reset global pointers to prevent use-after-free in 3aaa8d3526

George Wang

Ilija Tovilo

  • Disable JIT on Apple Silicon + ZTS in b6660634b4
  • Upgrade to macOS 14 and backport necessary changes in e9e432a35d
  • COMMUNTIY build grouping adjustments in a63e97667e
  • Fix ERROR_CODE handling in COMMUNITY build in 2cd9233e42
  • Fix curl 8.16.0 compilation with zts in da75e41a6f
  • Fix more curl 8.16 issues in b810a23587
  • Create separate workflow for nightly slack notification in 90bc40ecc0
  • Suppress libxml deprecations in f7fb13eb07
  • Update clang in macOS build in cb413b5d5f
  • Fix xcode-select in 6cdb8bf0a2

Jakub Zelenka

Max Kellermann

  • sapi/fpm: remove use of variable-length arrays in GH-10645

Michael Orlitzky

  • ext/pcre/tests: support libpcre2-10.47 in bdf62b55bb

Niels Dossche

Shivam Mathur

  • Fix master branch check in find-target-branch.bat in GH-19385
  • Change master branch check to 8.6 in 107075605d
  • Skip lc_ctype_inheritance.phpt on macos 15+ in 2f2fb1fbf1

Tim Düsterhus

  • ext/xml: Suppress libxml deprecation for _xmlParserCtxt.inState in GH-19131
  • Update GitHub Action workflows to actions/checkout@v5 in 2650248a92
  • github: Bust the nightly CI cache on Sunday instead of Monday in GH-20242
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