PHP Monitor 25 will use a new numbering scheme, following the format:
25.06 = 25 . 06 . 0
M m p
(Minor, minor and patch.)
So what was supposed to be PHP Monitor 7.3 will now be version 25, with
the minor version number decided by the release month.
The cut-off date for PHP Monitor 7.2 is currently 2025-11-30, so I have
time but I'd prefer to have two releases out this year:
- One release migrating to the new numbering scheme
- One release with full support for macOS 26
Since I plan on only doing maintenance releases with no patches except
when bugs pop up, the major/minor version notation combination should
suffice.
With this release, the minimum supported version of macOS will become
macOS Ventura 13.5.
That means that support is dropped for Monterey and Ventura's older
builds. Since Homebrew is also changing with built-in service management
I think it's time to drop support for these older versions of macOS,
which I no longer intend to test for.
Older versions of PHP Monitor will, of course, remain functional, but
since Homebrew is an ever-changing thing, I cannot guarantee nothing
will break in those older versions with the newer API.
Improved the accuracy of the brew output. Often, when multiple console
messages were returned, the progress prompt in the PHP version manager
would display the earliest found step, not the latest, thus unfortunately
misrepresenting the progress of the installation steps.
This fixes that by reversing the return order, but also extracts
relevant information from the commands, too, so that contextual info
is now included (for pouring, installing and downloading steps).
(This makes it a little bit more transparent for the end user to find
out what is taking up all this time. I wish that Homebrew was faster,
too, but there's a reason I'm not using statically compiled PHP for
this project. Either way, this is a nice QoL change.)
Thankfully, these changes are simple. Before releasing, I will be
testing the new build, though.
Here's what constants I changed, and why:
- Homebrew PHP formulae are now consistently sourced from the
`shivammathur/php` tap. This should make the transition to new PHP
releases a little bit easier, but I need to verify this works without
issues before publishing this update.
- Bumped the PHP formulae cutoff date to Nov 30, 2025.
At this point, PHP 8.5 should be released.
- Added support for pre-release (daily) versions of PHP 8.5.
