2.40.0

Changelog

• Added support for PHP 8.7 nightly builds. This installs PHP builds from the master branch of php/php-src.

- name: Setup PHP 8.7
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.7'

• Added support for Ubuntu 26.04 (ubuntu-26.04). (#1083)

• Added support for pinning tools to SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums. (#1098, #1099)

- name: Setup PHP with tools pinned to checksums
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
    tools: >
      composer:2.9.8@sha256:59b2c50e10cafa0d8efc19ede9a326d782f096c674a26baf98cf042ce23de890,
      phpunit:12.5.0@sha512:76430b433bd57f96e5fbbabaefc0c82e3a5b19b1a366bd836614344c441a7a87575d77faa07e0e58ecec52061af67584b036adc4311f0764bd4414bc62be4684

• Fixed support for Couchbase, Oracle, and IBM extensions on Ubuntu 26.04. (#1123)

• Added support for cpx. (#1104)

- name: Setup PHP with cpx
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
    tools: cpx

• Added support for Laravel Cloud CLI. (#1106)

- name: Setup PHP with Laravel Cloud CLI
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
    tools: laravel-cloud

• Added configurable verbose logging using the verbose environment variable. Set it to true or v to show command output, or vv or vvv to also enable tracing. Also, deprecated the verbose and more-verbose tags in favor of this environment variable. (#1077, #1118, #1119)

- name: Setup PHP with verbose logging
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
  env:
    verbose: true

• Improved support for PHP version files, including version aliases, partial versions, and comments. For example, a .php-version file containing 8.x can now be used to set up the latest stable PHP 8 version. (#1121)

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v7

- name: Setup PHP from a version file
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version-file: '.php-version'

• Improved PHP installation on macOS using cached builds from shivammathur/php-darwin. This should improve the setup-php runtime from around a minute to 5-10s.

• Improved Homebrew extension installation, timeout handling, and retries. (#1120)

• Improved PHP installation on Windows using release manifests and cached builds from shivammathur/php-builder-windows.

• Improved caching and validation of versioned extensions on Linux, macOS, and Windows. (#1108)

• Added opt-in support for cached PHP builds on Blacksmith and Depot runners using use_builds_cache environment variable. This is currently experimental and uses the builds cache that we maintain for GitHub hosted runners. (#1056, #1129)

- name: Setup PHP with cached builds
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
  env:
    use_builds_cache: true

• Switched to Homebrew extension packages for Lua and GEOS extensions on supported macOS PHP versions.

• Deprecated support for Intel macOS and macOS 14 arm64 runners. It is recommended to upgrade to arm64 based macOS runners (macos-15 or newer). (#1112)

• Updated Node.js dependencies and internal GitHub Actions workflows.

For the complete list of changes, please refer to the Full Changelog

Thanks @kmaeda-rakus, @jrfnl, @WendellAdriel, @damiantw, @ibrahimlawal-paystack, @Perlence, and @Sainan for the contributions.

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