Recent events made patching many things PHP-related rather urgent. Case in point: I know of a host running php81-8.1.20 on FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p10 – this was from the 2023Q3 ports tree. This host could not be updated, for reasons. Earlier in the day, I had built php83 on both 2025Q2 and 2025Q3 for FreeBSD 14.2 and 14.3 respectively. Again, for hosts which would not be upgraded. That was a simple process: Update PORTVERSION make […]