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Red Hat still ships ancient versions of PHP in their official packages.

I wouldn't bet on a backport unless you have a lot of clout (a.k.a. purchasing power) behind you.

I can understand why RHEL would still ship ancient PHP versions to keep legacy apps running, but I think WireGuard would be an easier sell considering it's so unobtrusive and has no legacy software to worry about breaking.

The problem isn't "RHEL ships ancient PHP for legacy apps".

The problem is "RHEL doesn't also ship newer PHP as an alternative and you need to instead rely on third-party repositories".

RHEL themselves vendor RHSCL -- https://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/o...

For CentOS and friends there is https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/

https://access.redhat.com/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/... are maintained by RedHat directly.

RHEL 8.2 beta brings in some kernel changes that are (maybe coincidentally) also used by Wireguard, so I don't think it's far-fetched.

I hope that it does, in the offchance that I need to do anything running on RHEL 10-15 years from now.

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