App Engine PHP 7.3

[James Castillo]

Does anyone know when Google might add a PHP 7.3 enviornment to App Engine?

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello James, 

It is difficult to offer even an appropriate release date for PHP versions. Development speed is known to depend on many factors, testing results are not known in advance, and decisions might be taken in the last moment. Assuming you use App Engine Flexible, you'll need to still stay with PHP version 7.2 for now. What are the advantages of 7.3 that you find important for your application? What features are sorely needed, that only 7.3 offers? A feature request needs the support of a well-motivated use case to prove its point and convince.  

[James Castillo]

I don't need any other reason than because that's what I want. If App Engine won't provide it then I won't use it.

[Elliott (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello James,

For both runtime environments, namely App Standard and App Flex, PHP 7.3 is not offered at this time. I have placed a feature request on your behalf to upgrade PHP to that version.

I am providing some links below with the information you’ll need to build your custom runtime using  PHP 7.3.

• About Custom Runtimes

• Quickstart for Custom Runtimes in the App Engine Flexible Environment

• Building Custom Runtimes

• Configuring your App with app.yaml

• Testing and Deploying Your Application

Should you need further information, please do let us know.