This is a docker php image is based on an alpine (and ubuntu) distribution including some tools and php extensions. You can find more details at the respective release pages on github.
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| 8.3 | release/8.3 |  |
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| 8.2 | release/8.2 |  |
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| 8.1 | release/8.1 |  |
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| Version | Branch | Latest Release | Status | Vulnerability Report | Fitness Functions |
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| 8.3 (ZTS) | release/8.3-zts |  |
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| 8.2 (ZTS) | release/8.2-zts |  |
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| 8.3 (Ubuntu) | release/8.3-ubuntu |  |
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| 8.2 (Ubuntu) | release/8.2-ubuntu |  |
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| 8.1 (Ubuntu) | release/8.1-ubuntu |  |
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Unsupported as of php's eol list at https://www.php.net/eol.php
| Version | Branch | Latest Release | Status | Vulnerability Report |
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| 8.0 | release/8.0 |  |
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This is the successor of the deprecated exozet/php-fpm docker image. We collected ideas on how a new (including breaking changes) version of our heavily used php-fpm image could look like.
We figured that our old approach had some disadvantages (it was a php-fpm build based on official docker php images):
- it is based on a source build from php, so we could not use any packages from alpine/debian to speed up the build time
- there are differences between the php package on debian/alpine
- there is no official alpine apache2 build
- we cannot add nginx unit to alpine build, as it lacks php embed SAPI comment on php!1355
- the non-alpine image has lots of (fixable) CVEs, we cannot fix (e.g. trivy image --ignore-unfixed php:8.1.13-fpm-buster says: Total: 23)
- depends on what the docker library team thinks fits into a docker image for php, it is not the php team releasing it
The new approach has some advantages:
- It uses the latest package distributed by alpine team/community (which is pretty fast when it comes to security updates - 1 or 2 days after release) and official ubuntu packages
- The precompiled packages (e.g. xdebug) are very fast installed
- No need for custom scripts like docker-php-ext-install
- It ships with httpd binary (for apache2), unitd binary (for nginx unit) and php-fpm binary (for php fpm) to execute php web requests
- For apache2 and nginx unit variants an external webserver (like nginx) is not necessary anymore
- It ships linux/arm64/v8 and linux/amd64 version of the image
- The web server and the web requests are executed as non-privileged user www-data
- The github release notes (including tool versions and php extension versions) is automatically generated if a commit is tagged
- The release is available only as endava/php:8.1.16 (no suffix for -root, -xdebug -alpine or -sudo or others)
- The CI/CD pipeline includes tests to validate the image as nginx unit or apache2 delivery
- The CI/CD pipeline only builds the latest version (if necessary we can git checkout -b 8.1.13 if you really want to fix something in a release)
The new approach has a disadvantage:
- We depend on the release of php packages at alpine and ubuntu (e.g. on 2023/01/03 the php82 was not officially packaged on alpine including nginx unit - so we cannot support it. at the same time it is available as docker image on official docker php). If the packaged package version number is not available on alpine anymore - we cannot recreate the docker image (we have a workaround to build older apk's for it - takes more time, but is 100% viable solution!)
Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md.
Please refer to LICENSE.