{"id":47635,"date":"2024-11-28T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=47635"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:35:30","slug":"install-or-upgrade-to-php-8-4-in-ubuntu-24-04-22-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/install-or-upgrade-to-php-8-4-in-ubuntu-24-04-22-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install or Upgrade to PHP 8.5 in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PHP, the popular scripting language for web development, announced new 8.5 release few days ago. Here’s how to install or upgrade to Php 8.5 in Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 to work with Apache2 or Nginx web server.<\/p>\n

PHP 8.5 introduced a number of new features such as new “URI” extension, new pipe operator (|>), new #[\\NoDiscard] attribute, support for closures, casts, and first class callables in constant expressions, and much more. See the release page<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n

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Why you need to upgrade PHP<\/h3>\n

The most obvious reason to upgrade php is security<\/b>! Older versions are more likely to have security vulnerabilities and outdated code that is not longer supported.<\/p>\n

Newer versions may support new features and functionality great for web development. It usually includes performance improvements to make your website load faster<\/b>!<\/p>\n

And, you can generally expect to see a decrease in memory usage<\/b> when upgrading php from older to newer versions, which is really helpful for server with small amount of RAM.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Install PHP 8.5 in Ubuntu 22.04 | 24.04<\/h3>\n

PHP 8.5 is easy to install in all current Ubuntu LTS releases through Ondrej Sury’s PPA<\/a>, which is practically “official”, as it’s maintained by the maintainer of official Debian PHP packages.<\/p>\n

NOTE: If you’re trying to upgrade from PHP 7.x or even earlier versions. You needs to do some searches first, as it may break your site!!<\/b><\/p>\n

1.<\/b> First, connect to your Ubuntu server, then run command to install the package for the add-apt-repository<\/code> tool.<\/p>\n

sudo apt install software-properties-common<\/pre>\n
2.<\/b> Next, run command to add the PPA repository and hit Enter to continue:<\/p>\n
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej\/php<\/pre>\n
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3.<\/b> Adding PPA now automatically refresh package cache. Just in case, you may run sudo apt update<\/code> to update cache manually.<\/p>\n
Finally, install PHP 8.5 depends on your web server:<\/p>\n