End of life, severity low

PHP 8.2 reaches end of life on 2026-12-31

Published October 31, 2026

PHP 8.2 stops getting security fixes on 2026-12-31. Plan the upgrade before then.

Deadline: December 31, 2026

What's affected

• php runtime>=8.2 <8.3

What to do

1. Upgrade PHP to a supported version (latest 8.2.x is 8.2.35; move to a newer cycle).

Check whether you were affected

Pharon tells teams automatically when this affects something they run. To check a machine, run this in Claude Code with the Pharon plugin, in the repository that uses it:

/pharon:check-incident eol-php-8-2

References

• https://endoflife.date/php

Notice eol-php-8-2, signed with key feed-prod-2026-10 (Ed25519). The Pharon CLI verifies the signature before using a notice.