Anti-Change Log

I know CWP is probably still busy with tweaking CWP for AL9, but again, PHP came out with 8.2.25 and 8.3.13 on 2024-10-24 (a little over 2 weeks ago), but no update as of yet for CWP.

We've noticed another uptick in PHP attacks.

I know you can manually compile PHP, to do in mass is time consuming, but at this point might be an option.

Edit the file:
/usr/local/cwpsrv/htdocs/resources/conf/el9/php-fpm_selector/versions.ini
(add the necessary PHP versions)
and then try to compile PHP-FPM.

Thanks for the PHP-FPM tip.

We use allot of just PHP-CGI, which uses the main PHP Selector.
Using Sandeep's method we can update manually.

I don't know how much coding is required on the CWP backend to add new version when they come out.
Sometime they are on top of it, other times they skip a point release, and then add 2 when it updates again.

1. You just need to add the version number and nothing else.

2. For main php version (php switcher) modify the file:
/usr/local/cwpsrv/htdocs/resources/conf/el9/php_switcher/versions.ini

PHP 8.4.1 just got released today (2024-11-21)

Along with 8.1.31, 8.3.14 and 8.2.26

Anyone planning on deploying 8.4 yet?

Well PHP released on 2025-01-17:

8.4.3
8.3.16

Both of which have bug fixes/patches.
Thankfully no CVE's.

1. You just need to add the version number and nothing else.

2. For main php version (php switcher) modify the file:
/usr/local/cwpsrv/htdocs/resources/conf/el9/php_switcher/versions.ini

Trying this with 8.3.16, will also try with 8.4, and create that .ini from a copy of 8.3

Edit the file:
/usr/local/cwpsrv/htdocs/resources/conf/el9/php-fpm_selector/versions.ini
(add the necessary PHP versions)
and then try to compile PHP-FPM.

Nice but it fails to download the php.

1. You just need to add the version number and nothing else.

2. For main php version (php switcher) modify the file:
/usr/local/cwpsrv/htdocs/resources/conf/el9/php_switcher/versions.ini

Tried, but didn't work. :/

PHP version where updated on 2025-05-08 to:

PHP 8.4 - 8.4.7

PHP 8.3 - 8.3.21

Unfortunately, now, CWP is 2 versions behind. :/

PHP 8.3.22 and 8.4.8 where just released on 05 Jun 2025

The main question is, When will PHP 8.4.x to added to CWP?

What's the future of CWP?
The Control Web Panel is an excellent panel for me, but the symptoms are that it is being abandoned.
Is there anyone in charge?

It is NOT being 'abandoned', and I hate people posting this misinformation crap about CWP.

Last update came out 2025-05-11.
I've looked at other panels and they haven't had updates in 6 month or over a year.

There have been major changes between what CentOS 7 was, and AlmaLinux 8.
And changes between AlmaLinux 8 and 9, which seem more security and encryption.

Now AlmaLinux 10 is out, and has more changes. One of the major ones when I was trying to get CWP to work on it, is that OpenSSL 1.1.x backward compatibility is gone from the EPEL library.
It's OpenSSL 3.x or nothing. But OpenSSL has been available on AL8 and AL9.

ionCube faced the same problems, and decided just to skip PHP 8.0.x, they leapfrogged from 7.4.x to 8.1.x

Now PHP announced another major change in the PHP 8.5.x structure.

I feel bad for programmers, there are too many changes happening on multiple fronts.