[doc-en] master: oci8: note that OCI8 is unbundled as of PHP 8.4 in requirements (#5918)

Author: Satvik Mishra (SatvikMishra08) Committer: GitHub (web-flow) Pusher: lacatoire Date: 2026-10-07T13:01:11+02:00 Commit: https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/6df4c567668880eb5cd75fac57c5fc2c39d0fbc4 Raw diff: https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/6df4c567668880eb5cd75fac57c5fc2c39d0fbc4.diff oci8: note that OCI8 is unbundled as of PHP 8.4 in requirements (#5918) * oci8: note that OCI8 is unbundled as of PHP 8.4 in requirements Fixes #4889 * Use simpara for the OCI8 requirements paragraph Changed paths: M reference/oci8/setup.xml Diff: diff --git a/reference/oci8/setup.xml b/reference/oci8/setup.xml index 9defde169630..76fcccf5636a 100644 --- a/reference/oci8/setup.xml +++ b/reference/oci8/setup.xml @@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ <!-- {{{ Requirements --> <section xml:id="oci8.requirements"> &reftitle.required; - <para> - OCI8 3.0 is included with PHP 8. It is also available from &link.pecl;. For + <simpara> + OCI8 3 is included with PHP 8.0 to 8.3. As of PHP 8.4.0 it is no longer + bundled with PHP and has to be installed from &link.pecl;. For PHP 7, use OCI8 2.2 from &link.pecl;. OCI8 requires Oracle 10<emphasis>g</emphasis> or later Oracle client libraries. - </para> + </simpara> <para> If the Oracle Database is on the same machine as PHP, the database software already contains the necessary libraries and header files. When PHP is on a