Update shivammathur/setup-php action to v2.40.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
shivammathur/setup-php	action	minor	2.36.0 → 2.40.0
shivammathur/setup-php	action	minor	2.37.2 → 2.40.0

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shivammathur/setup-php (shivammathur/setup-php)

v2.40.0

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• Added support for PHP 8.7 nightly builds. This installs PHP builds from the master branch of php/php-src.

- name: Setup PHP 8.7
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.7'

• Added support for Ubuntu 26.04 (ubuntu-26.04). (#​1083)

• Added support for pinning tools to SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums. (#​1098, #​1099)

- name: Setup PHP with tools pinned to checksums
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
    tools: >
      composer:2.9.8@sha256:59b2c50e10cafa0d8efc19ede9a326d782f096c674a26baf98cf042ce23de890,
      phpunit:12.5.0@sha512:76430b433bd57f96e5fbbabaefc0c82e3a5b19b1a366bd836614344c441a7a87575d77faa07e0e58ecec52061af67584b036adc4311f0764bd4414bc62be4684

• Fixed support for Couchbase, Oracle, and IBM extensions on Ubuntu 26.04. (#​1123)

• Added support for cpx. (#​1104)

- name: Setup PHP with cpx
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
    tools: cpx

• Added support for Laravel Cloud CLI. (#​1106)

- name: Setup PHP with Laravel Cloud CLI
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
    tools: laravel-cloud

• Added configurable verbose logging using the verbose environment variable. Set it to true or v to show command output, or vv or vvv to also enable tracing. Also, deprecated the verbose and more-verbose tags in favor of this environment variable. (#​1077, #​1118, #​1119)

- name: Setup PHP with verbose logging
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
  env:
    verbose: true

• Improved support for PHP version files, including version aliases, partial versions, and comments. For example, a .php-version file containing 8.x can now be used to set up the latest stable PHP 8 version. (#​1121)

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v7

- name: Setup PHP from a version file
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version-file: '.php-version'

• Improved PHP installation on macOS using cached builds from shivammathur/php-darwin. This should improve the setup-php runtime from around a minute to 5-10s.

• Improved Homebrew extension installation, timeout handling, and retries. (#​1120)

• Improved PHP installation on Windows using release manifests and cached builds from shivammathur/php-builder-windows.

• Improved caching and validation of versioned extensions on Linux, macOS, and Windows. (#​1108)

• Added opt-in support for cached PHP builds on Blacksmith and Depot runners using use_builds_cache environment variable. This is currently experimental and uses the builds cache that we maintain for GitHub hosted runners. (#​1056, #​1129)

- name: Setup PHP with cached builds
  uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
  with:
    php-version: '8.5'
  env:
    use_builds_cache: true

• Switched to Homebrew extension packages for Lua and GEOS extensions on supported macOS PHP versions.

• Deprecated support for Intel macOS and macOS 14 arm64 runners. It is recommended to upgrade to arm64 based macOS runners (macos-15 or newer). (#​1112)

• Updated Node.js dependencies and internal GitHub Actions workflows.

For the complete list of changes, please refer to the Full Changelog

Thanks @​kmaeda-rakus, @​jrfnl, @​WendellAdriel, @​damiantw, @​ibrahimlawal-paystack, @​Perlence, and @​Sainan for the contributions.

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v2.37.2

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• Fixed macOS setup by marking shivammathur/php and shivammathur/extensions as trusted taps.

• Switched to Visual Studio 18 (vs18) builds for PHP 8.6 on Windows.

• Improved looking up environment variables.

• Tightened security in internal GitHub action workflows.

• Updated Node.js dependencies.

For the complete list of changes, please refer to the Full Changelog

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v2.37.1

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Security Updates

• Fixed shell command escaping and PHP version input validation. (GHSA-pqwm-q9pv-ph8r / CVE-2026-46420)

[!NOTE]
This can affect workflows that pass values from users or pull requests to setup-php, for example from comments, dispatch inputs, PR titles/branches, generated matrices, or files such as .php-version and composer.json.
Be especially careful with pull_request_target workflows that use any value from the pull request. Workflows that only use fixed trusted values are not expected to be affected, but updating to 2.37.1 is recommended.

• Fixed GitHub auth handling for Composer versions affected by GHSA-f9f8-rm49-7jv2. It should now skip configuring GitHub OAuth if affected Composer versions are installed and show a warning to upgrade. (GHSA-5wxr-w449-57cm / CVE-2026-45793)

[!NOTE]
This only affects workflows where the composer version is pinned like composer:2.9.7, workflows that do not pin the version or use composer:v2 are not affected as those get automatic updates. In case you pin the version, it is highly recommended to upgrade and have automation to do such timely upgrades in your workflows.

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed support for phalcon on Windows.

• Fixed restoring tools when using cached using previous runs.

• Improved enabling gearman extension on Linux.

• Fixed fallback when installing PhpManager and VcRedist modules on Windows.

• Fixed parsing extension inputs with backslash line continuation.

• Improved workflow examples

  • Added workflow examples for Drupal 11 composer-managed projects and WordPress plugins.
  • Added workflow examples for Yii3 web applications and replaced Yii2 Starter Kit examples.
  • Updated workflow examples to use currently supported PHP versions.

• Updated OS release mappings for newer Ubuntu releases.

• Updated internal workflows for Codecov v6 and NPM trusted publishing.

• Updated Node.js dependencies.

• Fixed composer version in README. (#​1081)

Thanks @​Pyker for the contribution

For the complete list of changes, please refer to the Full Changelog

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v2.37.0

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• Updated the action to use Node.js 24. (#​1049)

• Added support for master in the php-version input. It should now set up a nightly build from the master branch of php-src.

• Added support to install ioncube and zephir_parser extensions on PHP 8.5.

• Expanded support for installing extensions using Homebrew on macOS from the shivammathur/homebrew-extensions tap. This includes pdo_firebird, sqlsrv, pdo_sqlsrv, pecl_http, swow, xhprof, and several other supported extensions.

• Improved switching PHP versions on Linux. Missing alternatives should now be registered automatically before switching versions. #​1067

• Improved support for Homebrew on macOS. It should now retry stuck brew commands with an inactivity watchdog.

• Improved support for adding tools. It should now correctly use the latest release download URL when a version is not specified. (#​1064)

• Improved tool setup and caching on self-hosted runners.

• Improved support for sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv on PHP 8.1 and 8.2.

• Fixed installing pecl_http on Windows. Switched to downloads.php.net for fixing ICU version post install.

• Fixed cached couchbase installs on macOS using the shivammathur/cache-extensions action.

• Replaced @actions/core with local functions to reduce bundle size.

• Refactored to use ES2024+ features for Node 24.

• Updated actions used in examples to their latest versions.

• Updated Node.js dependencies.

Thanks @​theluckystrike for the contribution 🎉

Thanks @​code-kudu, @​ssddanbrown, @​RoundingWell, and @​ntzrbtr for the sponsorship ❤️

For the complete list of changes, please refer to the Full Changelog

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