diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/Dockerfile
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index 000000000..05b78dab3
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+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM alpine:3.19
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# these get automatically installed and removed by "docker-php-ext-*" (unless they're already installed)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkgconf \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		openssl \
+		tar \
+		xz
+
+# ensure www-data user exists
+RUN set -eux; \
+	adduser -u 82 -D -S -G www-data www-data
+# 82 is the standard uid/gid for "www-data" in Alpine
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/apache2/apache2.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/lighttpd/lighttpd.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/nginx/nginx.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps gnupg; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .fetch-deps
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		argon2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		curl-dev \
+		gnu-libiconv-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		oniguruma-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+# make sure musl's iconv doesn't get used (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php)
+	rm -vf /usr/include/iconv.h; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv=/usr \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1259
+		--enable-phpdbg \
+		--enable-phpdbg-readline \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+	runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)"; \
+	apk add --no-cache $runDeps; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+CMD ["php", "-a"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88a016c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/cli/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cec4af123
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM alpine:3.19
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# these get automatically installed and removed by "docker-php-ext-*" (unless they're already installed)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkgconf \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		openssl \
+		tar \
+		xz
+
+# ensure www-data user exists
+RUN set -eux; \
+	adduser -u 82 -D -S -G www-data www-data
+# 82 is the standard uid/gid for "www-data" in Alpine
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/apache2/apache2.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/lighttpd/lighttpd.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/nginx/nginx.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps gnupg; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .fetch-deps
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		argon2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		curl-dev \
+		gnu-libiconv-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		oniguruma-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+# make sure musl's iconv doesn't get used (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php)
+	rm -vf /usr/include/iconv.h; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv=/usr \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/bwoebi/phpdbg-docs/issues/1#issuecomment-163872806 ("phpdbg is primarily a CLI debugger, and is not suitable for debugging an fpm stack.")
+		--disable-phpdbg \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		\
+		--disable-cgi \
+		\
+		--enable-fpm \
+		--with-fpm-user=www-data \
+		--with-fpm-group=www-data \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+	runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)"; \
+	apk add --no-cache $runDeps; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+WORKDIR /var/www/html
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	cd /usr/local/etc; \
+	if [ -d php-fpm.d ]; then \
+		# for some reason, upstream's php-fpm.conf.default has "include=NONE/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf"
+		sed 's!=NONE/!=!g' php-fpm.conf.default | tee php-fpm.conf > /dev/null; \
+		cp php-fpm.d/www.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
+	else \
+		# PHP 5.x doesn't use "include=" by default, so we'll create our own simple config that mimics PHP 7+ for consistency
+		mkdir php-fpm.d; \
+		cp php-fpm.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
+		{ \
+			echo '[global]'; \
+			echo 'include=etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf'; \
+		} | tee php-fpm.conf; \
+	fi; \
+	{ \
+		echo '[global]'; \
+		echo 'error_log = /proc/self/fd/2'; \
+		echo; echo '; https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/725#issuecomment-443540114'; echo 'log_limit = 8192'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '[www]'; \
+		echo '; php-fpm closes STDOUT on startup, so sending logs to /proc/self/fd/1 does not work.'; \
+		echo '; https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73886'; \
+		echo 'access.log = /proc/self/fd/2'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo 'clear_env = no'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '; Ensure worker stdout and stderr are sent to the main error log.'; \
+		echo 'catch_workers_output = yes'; \
+		echo 'decorate_workers_output = no'; \
+	} | tee php-fpm.d/docker.conf; \
+	{ \
+		echo '[global]'; \
+		echo 'daemonize = no'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '[www]'; \
+		echo 'listen = 9000'; \
+	} | tee php-fpm.d/zz-docker.conf; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+	{ \
+		echo '; https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/878#issuecomment-938595965'; \
+		echo 'fastcgi.logging = Off'; \
+	} > "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-fpm.ini"
+
+# Override stop signal to stop process gracefully
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/17baa87faddc2550def3ae7314236826bc1b1398/sapi/fpm/php-fpm.8.in#L163
+STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT
+
+EXPOSE 9000
+CMD ["php-fpm"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..86343d803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php-fpm "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/fpm/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bc5ad2df3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM alpine:3.19
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# these get automatically installed and removed by "docker-php-ext-*" (unless they're already installed)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkgconf \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		openssl \
+		tar \
+		xz
+
+# ensure www-data user exists
+RUN set -eux; \
+	adduser -u 82 -D -S -G www-data www-data
+# 82 is the standard uid/gid for "www-data" in Alpine
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/apache2/apache2.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/lighttpd/lighttpd.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/nginx/nginx.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps gnupg; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .fetch-deps
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		argon2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		curl-dev \
+		gnu-libiconv-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		oniguruma-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+# make sure musl's iconv doesn't get used (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php)
+	rm -vf /usr/include/iconv.h; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv=/usr \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1259
+		--enable-phpdbg \
+		--enable-phpdbg-readline \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/939#issuecomment-730501748
+		--enable-embed \
+		\
+		--enable-zts \
+# https://externals.io/message/118859
+		--disable-zend-signals \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+	runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)"; \
+	apk add --no-cache $runDeps; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+CMD ["php", "-a"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88a016c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.19/zts/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e197d7156
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM alpine:3.20
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# these get automatically installed and removed by "docker-php-ext-*" (unless they're already installed)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkgconf \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		openssl \
+		tar \
+		xz
+
+# ensure www-data user exists
+RUN set -eux; \
+	adduser -u 82 -D -S -G www-data www-data
+# 82 is the standard uid/gid for "www-data" in Alpine
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/apache2/apache2.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/lighttpd/lighttpd.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/nginx/nginx.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps gnupg; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .fetch-deps
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		argon2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		curl-dev \
+		gnu-libiconv-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		oniguruma-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+# make sure musl's iconv doesn't get used (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php)
+	rm -vf /usr/include/iconv.h; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv=/usr \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1259
+		--enable-phpdbg \
+		--enable-phpdbg-readline \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+	runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)"; \
+	apk add --no-cache $runDeps; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+CMD ["php", "-a"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88a016c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/cli/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dfced2dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM alpine:3.20
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# these get automatically installed and removed by "docker-php-ext-*" (unless they're already installed)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkgconf \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		openssl \
+		tar \
+		xz
+
+# ensure www-data user exists
+RUN set -eux; \
+	adduser -u 82 -D -S -G www-data www-data
+# 82 is the standard uid/gid for "www-data" in Alpine
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/apache2/apache2.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/lighttpd/lighttpd.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/nginx/nginx.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps gnupg; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .fetch-deps
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		argon2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		curl-dev \
+		gnu-libiconv-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		oniguruma-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+# make sure musl's iconv doesn't get used (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php)
+	rm -vf /usr/include/iconv.h; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv=/usr \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/bwoebi/phpdbg-docs/issues/1#issuecomment-163872806 ("phpdbg is primarily a CLI debugger, and is not suitable for debugging an fpm stack.")
+		--disable-phpdbg \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		\
+		--disable-cgi \
+		\
+		--enable-fpm \
+		--with-fpm-user=www-data \
+		--with-fpm-group=www-data \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+	runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)"; \
+	apk add --no-cache $runDeps; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+WORKDIR /var/www/html
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	cd /usr/local/etc; \
+	if [ -d php-fpm.d ]; then \
+		# for some reason, upstream's php-fpm.conf.default has "include=NONE/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf"
+		sed 's!=NONE/!=!g' php-fpm.conf.default | tee php-fpm.conf > /dev/null; \
+		cp php-fpm.d/www.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
+	else \
+		# PHP 5.x doesn't use "include=" by default, so we'll create our own simple config that mimics PHP 7+ for consistency
+		mkdir php-fpm.d; \
+		cp php-fpm.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
+		{ \
+			echo '[global]'; \
+			echo 'include=etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf'; \
+		} | tee php-fpm.conf; \
+	fi; \
+	{ \
+		echo '[global]'; \
+		echo 'error_log = /proc/self/fd/2'; \
+		echo; echo '; https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/725#issuecomment-443540114'; echo 'log_limit = 8192'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '[www]'; \
+		echo '; php-fpm closes STDOUT on startup, so sending logs to /proc/self/fd/1 does not work.'; \
+		echo '; https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73886'; \
+		echo 'access.log = /proc/self/fd/2'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo 'clear_env = no'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '; Ensure worker stdout and stderr are sent to the main error log.'; \
+		echo 'catch_workers_output = yes'; \
+		echo 'decorate_workers_output = no'; \
+	} | tee php-fpm.d/docker.conf; \
+	{ \
+		echo '[global]'; \
+		echo 'daemonize = no'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '[www]'; \
+		echo 'listen = 9000'; \
+	} | tee php-fpm.d/zz-docker.conf; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+	{ \
+		echo '; https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/878#issuecomment-938595965'; \
+		echo 'fastcgi.logging = Off'; \
+	} > "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-fpm.ini"
+
+# Override stop signal to stop process gracefully
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/17baa87faddc2550def3ae7314236826bc1b1398/sapi/fpm/php-fpm.8.in#L163
+STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT
+
+EXPOSE 9000
+CMD ["php-fpm"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..86343d803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php-fpm "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/fpm/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..16a1b8585
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM alpine:3.20
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# these get automatically installed and removed by "docker-php-ext-*" (unless they're already installed)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkgconf \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		openssl \
+		tar \
+		xz
+
+# ensure www-data user exists
+RUN set -eux; \
+	adduser -u 82 -D -S -G www-data www-data
+# 82 is the standard uid/gid for "www-data" in Alpine
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/apache2/apache2.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/lighttpd/lighttpd.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+# https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/nginx/nginx.pre-install?h=3.14-stable
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps gnupg; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .fetch-deps
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		argon2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		curl-dev \
+		gnu-libiconv-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		oniguruma-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+# make sure musl's iconv doesn't get used (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php)
+	rm -vf /usr/include/iconv.h; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv=/usr \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1259
+		--enable-phpdbg \
+		--enable-phpdbg-readline \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/939#issuecomment-730501748
+		--enable-embed \
+		\
+		--enable-zts \
+# https://externals.io/message/118859
+		--disable-zend-signals \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+	runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)"; \
+	apk add --no-cache $runDeps; \
+	\
+	apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+CMD ["php", "-a"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88a016c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/alpine3.20/zts/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70340e014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,290 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+
+# prevent Debian's PHP packages from being installed
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542
+RUN set -eux; \
+	{ \
+		echo 'Package: php*'; \
+		echo 'Pin: release *'; \
+		echo 'Pin-Priority: -1'; \
+	} > /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-debian-php
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# (see persistent deps below)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkg-config \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		xz-utils \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+ENV APACHE_CONFDIR /etc/apache2
+ENV APACHE_ENVVARS $APACHE_CONFDIR/envvars
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends apache2; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# generically convert lines like
+#   export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
+# into
+#   : ${APACHE_RUN_USER:=www-data}
+#   export APACHE_RUN_USER
+# so that they can be overridden at runtime ("-e APACHE_RUN_USER=...")
+	sed -ri 's/^export ([^=]+)=(.*)$/: ${\1:=\2}\nexport \1/' "$APACHE_ENVVARS"; \
+	\
+# setup directories and permissions
+	. "$APACHE_ENVVARS"; \
+	for dir in \
+		"$APACHE_LOCK_DIR" \
+		"$APACHE_RUN_DIR" \
+		"$APACHE_LOG_DIR" \
+# https://salsa.debian.org/apache-team/apache2/-/commit/b97ca8714890ead1ba6c095699dde752e8433205
+		"$APACHE_RUN_DIR/socks" \
+	; do \
+		rm -rvf "$dir"; \
+		mkdir -p "$dir"; \
+		chown "$APACHE_RUN_USER:$APACHE_RUN_GROUP" "$dir"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+		chmod 1777 "$dir"; \
+	done; \
+	\
+# delete the "index.html" that installing Apache drops in here
+	rm -rvf /var/www/html/*; \
+	\
+# logs should go to stdout / stderr
+	ln -sfT /dev/stderr "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/error.log"; \
+	ln -sfT /dev/stdout "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/access.log"; \
+	ln -sfT /dev/stdout "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/other_vhosts_access.log"; \
+	chown -R --no-dereference "$APACHE_RUN_USER:$APACHE_RUN_GROUP" "$APACHE_LOG_DIR"
+
+# Apache + PHP requires preforking Apache for best results
+RUN a2dismod mpm_event && a2enmod mpm_prefork
+
+# PHP files should be handled by PHP, and should be preferred over any other file type
+RUN { \
+		echo '<FilesMatch \.php$>'; \
+		echo '\tSetHandler application/x-httpd-php'; \
+		echo '</FilesMatch>'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo 'DirectoryIndex disabled'; \
+		echo 'DirectoryIndex index.php index.html'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '<Directory /var/www/>'; \
+		echo '\tOptions -Indexes'; \
+		echo '\tAllowOverride All'; \
+		echo '</Directory>'; \
+	} | tee "$APACHE_CONFDIR/conf-available/docker-php.conf" \
+	&& a2enconf docker-php
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		apache2-dev \
+		libargon2-dev \
+		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+		libonig-dev \
+		libreadline-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libsqlite3-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	debMultiarch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)"; \
+# https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74125
+	if [ ! -d /usr/include/curl ]; then \
+		ln -sT "/usr/include/$debMultiarch/curl" /usr/local/include/curl; \
+	fi; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/bwoebi/phpdbg-docs/issues/1#issuecomment-163872806 ("phpdbg is primarily a CLI debugger, and is not suitable for debugging an fpm stack.")
+		--disable-phpdbg \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		--with-libdir="lib/$debMultiarch" \
+		\
+		--disable-cgi \
+		\
+		--with-apxs2 \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+# https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/stopping.html#gracefulstop
+STOPSIGNAL SIGWINCH
+
+COPY apache2-foreground /usr/local/bin/
+WORKDIR /var/www/html
+
+EXPOSE 80
+CMD ["apache2-foreground"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/apache2-foreground b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/apache2-foreground
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..5fe22e26f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/apache2-foreground
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+# Note: we don't just use "apache2ctl" here because it itself is just a shell-script wrapper around apache2 which provides extra functionality like "apache2ctl start" for launching apache2 in the background.
+# (also, when run as "apache2ctl <apache args>", it does not use "exec", which leaves an undesirable resident shell process)
+
+: "${APACHE_CONFDIR:=/etc/apache2}"
+: "${APACHE_ENVVARS:=$APACHE_CONFDIR/envvars}"
+if test -f "$APACHE_ENVVARS"; then
+	. "$APACHE_ENVVARS"
+fi
+
+# Apache gets grumpy about PID files pre-existing
+: "${APACHE_RUN_DIR:=/var/run/apache2}"
+: "${APACHE_PID_FILE:=$APACHE_RUN_DIR/apache2.pid}"
+rm -f "$APACHE_PID_FILE"
+
+# create missing directories
+# (especially APACHE_RUN_DIR, APACHE_LOCK_DIR, and APACHE_LOG_DIR)
+for e in "${!APACHE_@}"; do
+	if [[ "$e" == *_DIR ]] && [[ "${!e}" == /* ]]; then
+		# handle "/var/lock" being a symlink to "/run/lock", but "/run/lock" not existing beforehand, so "/var/lock/something" fails to mkdir
+		#   mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lock': File exists
+		dir="${!e}"
+		while [ "$dir" != "$(dirname "$dir")" ]; do
+			dir="$(dirname "$dir")"
+			if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
+				break
+			fi
+			absDir="$(readlink -f "$dir" 2>/dev/null || :)"
+			if [ -n "$absDir" ]; then
+				mkdir -p "$absDir"
+			fi
+		done
+
+		mkdir -p "${!e}"
+	fi
+done
+
+exec apache2 -DFOREGROUND "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3d36d5e8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- apache2-foreground "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/apache/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..993baaa05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,222 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+
+# prevent Debian's PHP packages from being installed
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542
+RUN set -eux; \
+	{ \
+		echo 'Package: php*'; \
+		echo 'Pin: release *'; \
+		echo 'Pin-Priority: -1'; \
+	} > /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-debian-php
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# (see persistent deps below)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkg-config \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		xz-utils \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		libargon2-dev \
+		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+		libonig-dev \
+		libreadline-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libsqlite3-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	debMultiarch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)"; \
+# https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74125
+	if [ ! -d /usr/include/curl ]; then \
+		ln -sT "/usr/include/$debMultiarch/curl" /usr/local/include/curl; \
+	fi; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1259
+		--enable-phpdbg \
+		--enable-phpdbg-readline \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		--with-libdir="lib/$debMultiarch" \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/939#issuecomment-730501748
+		--enable-embed \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+CMD ["php", "-a"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88a016c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/cli/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..23477e357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+
+# prevent Debian's PHP packages from being installed
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542
+RUN set -eux; \
+	{ \
+		echo 'Package: php*'; \
+		echo 'Pin: release *'; \
+		echo 'Pin-Priority: -1'; \
+	} > /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-debian-php
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# (see persistent deps below)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkg-config \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		xz-utils \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		libargon2-dev \
+		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+		libonig-dev \
+		libreadline-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libsqlite3-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	debMultiarch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)"; \
+# https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74125
+	if [ ! -d /usr/include/curl ]; then \
+		ln -sT "/usr/include/$debMultiarch/curl" /usr/local/include/curl; \
+	fi; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/bwoebi/phpdbg-docs/issues/1#issuecomment-163872806 ("phpdbg is primarily a CLI debugger, and is not suitable for debugging an fpm stack.")
+		--disable-phpdbg \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		--with-libdir="lib/$debMultiarch" \
+		\
+		--disable-cgi \
+		\
+		--enable-fpm \
+		--with-fpm-user=www-data \
+		--with-fpm-group=www-data \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+WORKDIR /var/www/html
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	cd /usr/local/etc; \
+	if [ -d php-fpm.d ]; then \
+		# for some reason, upstream's php-fpm.conf.default has "include=NONE/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf"
+		sed 's!=NONE/!=!g' php-fpm.conf.default | tee php-fpm.conf > /dev/null; \
+		cp php-fpm.d/www.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
+	else \
+		# PHP 5.x doesn't use "include=" by default, so we'll create our own simple config that mimics PHP 7+ for consistency
+		mkdir php-fpm.d; \
+		cp php-fpm.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
+		{ \
+			echo '[global]'; \
+			echo 'include=etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf'; \
+		} | tee php-fpm.conf; \
+	fi; \
+	{ \
+		echo '[global]'; \
+		echo 'error_log = /proc/self/fd/2'; \
+		echo; echo '; https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/725#issuecomment-443540114'; echo 'log_limit = 8192'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '[www]'; \
+		echo '; php-fpm closes STDOUT on startup, so sending logs to /proc/self/fd/1 does not work.'; \
+		echo '; https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73886'; \
+		echo 'access.log = /proc/self/fd/2'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo 'clear_env = no'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '; Ensure worker stdout and stderr are sent to the main error log.'; \
+		echo 'catch_workers_output = yes'; \
+		echo 'decorate_workers_output = no'; \
+	} | tee php-fpm.d/docker.conf; \
+	{ \
+		echo '[global]'; \
+		echo 'daemonize = no'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '[www]'; \
+		echo 'listen = 9000'; \
+	} | tee php-fpm.d/zz-docker.conf; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+	{ \
+		echo '; https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/878#issuecomment-938595965'; \
+		echo 'fastcgi.logging = Off'; \
+	} > "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-fpm.ini"
+
+# Override stop signal to stop process gracefully
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/17baa87faddc2550def3ae7314236826bc1b1398/sapi/fpm/php-fpm.8.in#L163
+STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT
+
+EXPOSE 9000
+CMD ["php-fpm"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..86343d803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php-fpm "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/fpm/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..575203b03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+
+# prevent Debian's PHP packages from being installed
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542
+RUN set -eux; \
+	{ \
+		echo 'Package: php*'; \
+		echo 'Pin: release *'; \
+		echo 'Pin-Priority: -1'; \
+	} > /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-debian-php
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# (see persistent deps below)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkg-config \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		xz-utils \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		libargon2-dev \
+		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+		libonig-dev \
+		libreadline-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libsqlite3-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	debMultiarch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)"; \
+# https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74125
+	if [ ! -d /usr/include/curl ]; then \
+		ln -sT "/usr/include/$debMultiarch/curl" /usr/local/include/curl; \
+	fi; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1259
+		--enable-phpdbg \
+		--enable-phpdbg-readline \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		--with-libdir="lib/$debMultiarch" \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/939#issuecomment-730501748
+		--enable-embed \
+		\
+		--enable-zts \
+# https://externals.io/message/118859
+		--disable-zend-signals \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+CMD ["php", "-a"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88a016c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bookworm/zts/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5b6854468
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,288 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM debian:bullseye-slim
+
+# prevent Debian's PHP packages from being installed
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542
+RUN set -eux; \
+	{ \
+		echo 'Package: php*'; \
+		echo 'Pin: release *'; \
+		echo 'Pin-Priority: -1'; \
+	} > /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-debian-php
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# (see persistent deps below)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkg-config \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		xz-utils \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+ENV APACHE_CONFDIR /etc/apache2
+ENV APACHE_ENVVARS $APACHE_CONFDIR/envvars
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends apache2; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# generically convert lines like
+#   export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
+# into
+#   : ${APACHE_RUN_USER:=www-data}
+#   export APACHE_RUN_USER
+# so that they can be overridden at runtime ("-e APACHE_RUN_USER=...")
+	sed -ri 's/^export ([^=]+)=(.*)$/: ${\1:=\2}\nexport \1/' "$APACHE_ENVVARS"; \
+	\
+# setup directories and permissions
+	. "$APACHE_ENVVARS"; \
+	for dir in \
+		"$APACHE_LOCK_DIR" \
+		"$APACHE_RUN_DIR" \
+		"$APACHE_LOG_DIR" \
+	; do \
+		rm -rvf "$dir"; \
+		mkdir -p "$dir"; \
+		chown "$APACHE_RUN_USER:$APACHE_RUN_GROUP" "$dir"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+		chmod 1777 "$dir"; \
+	done; \
+	\
+# delete the "index.html" that installing Apache drops in here
+	rm -rvf /var/www/html/*; \
+	\
+# logs should go to stdout / stderr
+	ln -sfT /dev/stderr "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/error.log"; \
+	ln -sfT /dev/stdout "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/access.log"; \
+	ln -sfT /dev/stdout "$APACHE_LOG_DIR/other_vhosts_access.log"; \
+	chown -R --no-dereference "$APACHE_RUN_USER:$APACHE_RUN_GROUP" "$APACHE_LOG_DIR"
+
+# Apache + PHP requires preforking Apache for best results
+RUN a2dismod mpm_event && a2enmod mpm_prefork
+
+# PHP files should be handled by PHP, and should be preferred over any other file type
+RUN { \
+		echo '<FilesMatch \.php$>'; \
+		echo '\tSetHandler application/x-httpd-php'; \
+		echo '</FilesMatch>'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo 'DirectoryIndex disabled'; \
+		echo 'DirectoryIndex index.php index.html'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '<Directory /var/www/>'; \
+		echo '\tOptions -Indexes'; \
+		echo '\tAllowOverride All'; \
+		echo '</Directory>'; \
+	} | tee "$APACHE_CONFDIR/conf-available/docker-php.conf" \
+	&& a2enconf docker-php
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		apache2-dev \
+		libargon2-dev \
+		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+		libonig-dev \
+		libreadline-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libsqlite3-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	debMultiarch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)"; \
+# https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74125
+	if [ ! -d /usr/include/curl ]; then \
+		ln -sT "/usr/include/$debMultiarch/curl" /usr/local/include/curl; \
+	fi; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/bwoebi/phpdbg-docs/issues/1#issuecomment-163872806 ("phpdbg is primarily a CLI debugger, and is not suitable for debugging an fpm stack.")
+		--disable-phpdbg \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		--with-libdir="lib/$debMultiarch" \
+		\
+		--disable-cgi \
+		\
+		--with-apxs2 \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+# https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/stopping.html#gracefulstop
+STOPSIGNAL SIGWINCH
+
+COPY apache2-foreground /usr/local/bin/
+WORKDIR /var/www/html
+
+EXPOSE 80
+CMD ["apache2-foreground"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/apache2-foreground b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/apache2-foreground
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..5fe22e26f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/apache2-foreground
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+# Note: we don't just use "apache2ctl" here because it itself is just a shell-script wrapper around apache2 which provides extra functionality like "apache2ctl start" for launching apache2 in the background.
+# (also, when run as "apache2ctl <apache args>", it does not use "exec", which leaves an undesirable resident shell process)
+
+: "${APACHE_CONFDIR:=/etc/apache2}"
+: "${APACHE_ENVVARS:=$APACHE_CONFDIR/envvars}"
+if test -f "$APACHE_ENVVARS"; then
+	. "$APACHE_ENVVARS"
+fi
+
+# Apache gets grumpy about PID files pre-existing
+: "${APACHE_RUN_DIR:=/var/run/apache2}"
+: "${APACHE_PID_FILE:=$APACHE_RUN_DIR/apache2.pid}"
+rm -f "$APACHE_PID_FILE"
+
+# create missing directories
+# (especially APACHE_RUN_DIR, APACHE_LOCK_DIR, and APACHE_LOG_DIR)
+for e in "${!APACHE_@}"; do
+	if [[ "$e" == *_DIR ]] && [[ "${!e}" == /* ]]; then
+		# handle "/var/lock" being a symlink to "/run/lock", but "/run/lock" not existing beforehand, so "/var/lock/something" fails to mkdir
+		#   mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lock': File exists
+		dir="${!e}"
+		while [ "$dir" != "$(dirname "$dir")" ]; do
+			dir="$(dirname "$dir")"
+			if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
+				break
+			fi
+			absDir="$(readlink -f "$dir" 2>/dev/null || :)"
+			if [ -n "$absDir" ]; then
+				mkdir -p "$absDir"
+			fi
+		done
+
+		mkdir -p "${!e}"
+	fi
+done
+
+exec apache2 -DFOREGROUND "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3d36d5e8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- apache2-foreground "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/apache/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7da6b0e4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,222 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM debian:bullseye-slim
+
+# prevent Debian's PHP packages from being installed
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542
+RUN set -eux; \
+	{ \
+		echo 'Package: php*'; \
+		echo 'Pin: release *'; \
+		echo 'Pin-Priority: -1'; \
+	} > /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-debian-php
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# (see persistent deps below)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkg-config \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		xz-utils \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		libargon2-dev \
+		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+		libonig-dev \
+		libreadline-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libsqlite3-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	debMultiarch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)"; \
+# https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74125
+	if [ ! -d /usr/include/curl ]; then \
+		ln -sT "/usr/include/$debMultiarch/curl" /usr/local/include/curl; \
+	fi; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1259
+		--enable-phpdbg \
+		--enable-phpdbg-readline \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		--with-libdir="lib/$debMultiarch" \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/939#issuecomment-730501748
+		--enable-embed \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+CMD ["php", "-a"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88a016c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/cli/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d193396cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM debian:bullseye-slim
+
+# prevent Debian's PHP packages from being installed
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542
+RUN set -eux; \
+	{ \
+		echo 'Package: php*'; \
+		echo 'Pin: release *'; \
+		echo 'Pin-Priority: -1'; \
+	} > /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-debian-php
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# (see persistent deps below)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkg-config \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		xz-utils \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		libargon2-dev \
+		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+		libonig-dev \
+		libreadline-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libsqlite3-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	debMultiarch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)"; \
+# https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74125
+	if [ ! -d /usr/include/curl ]; then \
+		ln -sT "/usr/include/$debMultiarch/curl" /usr/local/include/curl; \
+	fi; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/bwoebi/phpdbg-docs/issues/1#issuecomment-163872806 ("phpdbg is primarily a CLI debugger, and is not suitable for debugging an fpm stack.")
+		--disable-phpdbg \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		--with-libdir="lib/$debMultiarch" \
+		\
+		--disable-cgi \
+		\
+		--enable-fpm \
+		--with-fpm-user=www-data \
+		--with-fpm-group=www-data \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+WORKDIR /var/www/html
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	cd /usr/local/etc; \
+	if [ -d php-fpm.d ]; then \
+		# for some reason, upstream's php-fpm.conf.default has "include=NONE/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf"
+		sed 's!=NONE/!=!g' php-fpm.conf.default | tee php-fpm.conf > /dev/null; \
+		cp php-fpm.d/www.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
+	else \
+		# PHP 5.x doesn't use "include=" by default, so we'll create our own simple config that mimics PHP 7+ for consistency
+		mkdir php-fpm.d; \
+		cp php-fpm.conf.default php-fpm.d/www.conf; \
+		{ \
+			echo '[global]'; \
+			echo 'include=etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf'; \
+		} | tee php-fpm.conf; \
+	fi; \
+	{ \
+		echo '[global]'; \
+		echo 'error_log = /proc/self/fd/2'; \
+		echo; echo '; https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/725#issuecomment-443540114'; echo 'log_limit = 8192'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '[www]'; \
+		echo '; php-fpm closes STDOUT on startup, so sending logs to /proc/self/fd/1 does not work.'; \
+		echo '; https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73886'; \
+		echo 'access.log = /proc/self/fd/2'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo 'clear_env = no'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '; Ensure worker stdout and stderr are sent to the main error log.'; \
+		echo 'catch_workers_output = yes'; \
+		echo 'decorate_workers_output = no'; \
+	} | tee php-fpm.d/docker.conf; \
+	{ \
+		echo '[global]'; \
+		echo 'daemonize = no'; \
+		echo; \
+		echo '[www]'; \
+		echo 'listen = 9000'; \
+	} | tee php-fpm.d/zz-docker.conf; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+	{ \
+		echo '; https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/878#issuecomment-938595965'; \
+		echo 'fastcgi.logging = Off'; \
+	} > "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-fpm.ini"
+
+# Override stop signal to stop process gracefully
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/17baa87faddc2550def3ae7314236826bc1b1398/sapi/fpm/php-fpm.8.in#L163
+STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT
+
+EXPOSE 9000
+CMD ["php-fpm"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..86343d803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php-fpm "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/fpm/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/Dockerfile b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2bca02ad9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+#
+# NOTE: THIS DOCKERFILE IS GENERATED VIA "apply-templates.sh"
+#
+# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT IT DIRECTLY.
+#
+
+FROM debian:bullseye-slim
+
+# prevent Debian's PHP packages from being installed
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542
+RUN set -eux; \
+	{ \
+		echo 'Package: php*'; \
+		echo 'Pin: release *'; \
+		echo 'Pin-Priority: -1'; \
+	} > /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-debian-php
+
+# dependencies required for running "phpize"
+# (see persistent deps below)
+ENV PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		autoconf \
+		dpkg-dev \
+		file \
+		g++ \
+		gcc \
+		libc-dev \
+		make \
+		pkg-config \
+		re2c
+
+# persistent / runtime deps
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		$PHPIZE_DEPS \
+		ca-certificates \
+		curl \
+		xz-utils \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PHP_INI_DIR /usr/local/etc/php
+RUN set -eux; \
+	mkdir -p "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d"; \
+# allow running as an arbitrary user (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/743)
+	[ ! -d /var/www/html ]; \
+	mkdir -p /var/www/html; \
+	chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html; \
+	chmod 1777 /var/www/html
+
+# Apply stack smash protection to functions using local buffers and alloca()
+# Make PHP's main executable position-independent (improves ASLR security mechanism, and has no performance impact on x86_64)
+# Enable optimization (-O2)
+# Enable linker optimization (this sorts the hash buckets to improve cache locality, and is non-default)
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/272
+# -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.filesystem.php)
+ENV PHP_CFLAGS="-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ENV PHP_CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS"
+ENV PHP_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -pie"
+
+ENV GPG_KEYS AFD8691FDAEDF03BDF6E460563F15A9B715376CA 9D7F99A0CB8F05C8A6958D6256A97AF7600A39A6 0616E93D95AF471243E26761770426E17EBBB3DD
+
+ENV PHP_VERSION 8.4.0alpha1
+ENV PHP_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz" PHP_ASC_URL="https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc"
+ENV PHP_SHA256="65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e"
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	mkdir -p /usr/src; \
+	cd /usr/src; \
+	\
+	curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz "$PHP_URL"; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_SHA256" ]; then \
+		echo "$PHP_SHA256 *php.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	if [ -n "$PHP_ASC_URL" ]; then \
+		curl -fsSL -o php.tar.xz.asc "$PHP_ASC_URL"; \
+		export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+		for key in $GPG_KEYS; do \
+			gpg --batch --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "$key"; \
+		done; \
+		gpg --batch --verify php.tar.xz.asc php.tar.xz; \
+		gpgconf --kill all; \
+		rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME"; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false
+
+COPY docker-php-source /usr/local/bin/
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		libargon2-dev \
+		libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+		libonig-dev \
+		libreadline-dev \
+		libsodium-dev \
+		libsqlite3-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		libxml2-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	export \
+		CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" \
+		CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" \
+		LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
+# https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/d6299206dd828382753453befd1b915491b741c6/configure.ac#L1496-L1511
+		PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER='https://github.com/docker-library/php' \
+		PHP_UNAME='Linux - Docker' \
+	; \
+	docker-php-source extract; \
+	cd /usr/src/php; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	debMultiarch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)"; \
+# https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74125
+	if [ ! -d /usr/include/curl ]; then \
+		ln -sT "/usr/include/$debMultiarch/curl" /usr/local/include/curl; \
+	fi; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--with-config-file-path="$PHP_INI_DIR" \
+		--with-config-file-scan-dir="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d" \
+		\
+# make sure invalid --configure-flags are fatal errors instead of just warnings
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/439
+		--with-mhash \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/822
+		--with-pic \
+		\
+# --enable-mbstring is included here because otherwise there's no way to get pecl to use it properly (see https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/195)
+		--enable-mbstring \
+# --enable-mysqlnd is included here because it's harder to compile after the fact than extensions are (since it's a plugin for several extensions, not an extension in itself)
+		--enable-mysqlnd \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argon2_password_hash
+		--with-password-argon2 \
+# https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium
+		--with-sodium=shared \
+# always build against system sqlite3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6083a387a81dbbd66d6316a3a12a63f06d5f7109)
+		--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
+		--with-sqlite3=/usr \
+		\
+		--with-curl \
+		--with-iconv \
+		--with-openssl \
+		--with-readline \
+		--with-zlib \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/1259
+		--enable-phpdbg \
+		--enable-phpdbg-readline \
+		\
+# in PHP 7.4+, the pecl/pear installers are officially deprecated (requiring an explicit "--with-pear")
+		--with-pear \
+		\
+		--with-libdir="lib/$debMultiarch" \
+		\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/939#issuecomment-730501748
+		--enable-embed \
+		\
+		--enable-zts \
+# https://externals.io/message/118859
+		--disable-zend-signals \
+	; \
+	make -j "$(nproc)"; \
+	find -type f -name '*.a' -delete; \
+	make install; \
+	find \
+		/usr/local \
+		-type f \
+		-perm '/0111' \
+		-exec sh -euxc ' \
+			strip --strip-all "$@" || : \
+		' -- '{}' + \
+	; \
+	make clean; \
+	\
+# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/692 (copy default example "php.ini" files somewhere easily discoverable)
+	cp -v php.ini-* "$PHP_INI_DIR/"; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	docker-php-source delete; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+# update pecl channel definitions https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/443
+	pecl update-channels; \
+	rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+	\
+# smoke test
+	php --version
+
+COPY docker-php-ext-* docker-php-entrypoint /usr/local/bin/
+
+# sodium was built as a shared module (so that it can be replaced later if so desired), so let's enable it too (https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/598)
+RUN docker-php-ext-enable sodium
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-php-entrypoint"]
+CMD ["php", "-a"]
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-entrypoint b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-entrypoint
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..88a016c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- php "$@"
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-configure b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..34fc1337d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 ext-name [configure flags]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/something"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+ext="$1"
+if [ -z "$ext" ] || [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+shift
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps-configure $PHPIZE_DEPS
+	fi
+fi
+
+if command -v dpkg-architecture > /dev/null; then
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"
+	set -- --build="$gnuArch" "$@"
+fi
+
+cd "$ext"
+phpize
+./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal "$@"
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-enable b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-enable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..41d20bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-enable
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+extDir="$(php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"
+cd "$extDir"
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [options] module-name [module-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc"
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for module-name:'
+	find -maxdepth 1 \
+			-type f \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?' --long 'help,ini-name:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+modules=
+for module; do
+	if [ -z "$module" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if ! [ -f "$module" ] && ! [ -f "$module.so" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: '$module' does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	modules="$modules $module"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$modules" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if \
+		[ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ] \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null \
+		&& ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null \
+	; then
+		apk add --no-cache --virtual '.docker-php-ext-enable-deps' binutils
+		apkDel='.docker-php-ext-enable-deps'
+	fi
+fi
+
+for module in $modules; do
+	moduleFile="$module"
+	if [ -f "$module.so" ] && ! [ -f "$module" ]; then
+		moduleFile="$module.so"
+	fi
+	if readelf --wide --syms "$moduleFile" | grep -q ' zend_extension_entry$'; then
+		# https://wiki.php.net/internals/extensions#loading_zend_extensions
+		line="zend_extension=$module"
+	else
+		line="extension=$module"
+	fi
+
+	ext="$(basename "$module")"
+	ext="${ext%.*}"
+	if php -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(extension_loaded("'"$ext"'") ? 0 : 1);'; then
+		# this isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing
+		# (for example, 'opcache.so' presents inside PHP as 'Zend OPcache', not 'opcache')
+		echo >&2
+		echo >&2 "warning: $ext ($module) is already loaded!"
+		echo >&2
+		continue
+	fi
+
+	case "$iniName" in
+		/*)
+			# allow an absolute path
+			ini="$iniName"
+			;;
+		*)
+			ini="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/${iniName:-"docker-php-ext-$ext.ini"}"
+			;;
+	esac
+	if ! grep -qFx -e "$line" -e "$line.so" "$ini" 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "$line" >> "$ini"
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-install b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-install
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..aa0b96c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-ext-install
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# prefer user supplied CFLAGS, but default to our PHP_CFLAGS
+: ${CFLAGS:=$PHP_CFLAGS}
+: ${CPPFLAGS:=$PHP_CPPFLAGS}
+: ${LDFLAGS:=$PHP_LDFLAGS}
+export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
+
+srcExists=
+if [ -d /usr/src/php ]; then
+	srcExists=1
+fi
+docker-php-source extract
+if [ -z "$srcExists" ]; then
+	touch /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me
+fi
+
+cd /usr/src/php/ext
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]"
+	echo "   ie: $0 gd mysqli"
+	echo "       $0 pdo pdo_mysql"
+	echo "       $0 -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop"
+	echo
+	echo 'if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure'
+	echo
+	echo 'Possible values for ext-name:'
+	find . \
+			-mindepth 2 \
+			-maxdepth 2 \
+			-type f \
+			-name 'config.m4' \
+		| xargs -n1 dirname \
+		| xargs -n1 basename \
+		| sort \
+		| xargs
+	echo
+	echo 'Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check'
+	echo 'the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.'
+}
+
+opts="$(getopt -o 'h?j:' --long 'help,ini-name:,jobs:' -- "$@" || { usage >&2 && false; })"
+eval set -- "$opts"
+
+j=1
+iniName=
+while true; do
+	flag="$1"
+	shift
+	case "$flag" in
+		--help|-h|'-?') usage && exit 0 ;;
+		--ini-name) iniName="$1" && shift ;;
+		--jobs|-j) j="$1" && shift ;;
+		--) break ;;
+		*)
+			{
+				echo "error: unknown flag: $flag"
+				usage
+			} >&2
+			exit 1
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+exts=
+for ext; do
+	if [ -z "$ext" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ ! -d "$ext" ]; then
+		echo >&2 "error: $PWD/$ext does not exist"
+		echo >&2
+		usage >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	exts="$exts $ext"
+done
+
+if [ -z "$exts" ]; then
+	usage >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+pm='unknown'
+if [ -e /lib/apk/db/installed ]; then
+	pm='apk'
+fi
+
+apkDel=
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ]; then
+	if [ -n "$PHPIZE_DEPS" ]; then
+		if apk info --installed .phpize-deps-configure > /dev/null; then
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps-configure'
+		elif ! apk info --installed .phpize-deps > /dev/null; then
+			apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS
+			apkDel='.phpize-deps'
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+popDir="$PWD"
+for ext in $exts; do
+	cd "$ext"
+
+	[ -e Makefile ] || docker-php-ext-configure "$ext"
+
+	make -j"$j"
+
+	if ! php -n -d 'display_errors=stderr' -r 'exit(ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD ? 0 : 1);' > /dev/null; then
+		# only "strip" modules if we aren't using a debug build of PHP
+		# (none of our builds are debug builds, but PHP might be recompiled with "--enable-debug" configure option)
+		# https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/1268
+
+		find modules \
+			-maxdepth 1 \
+			-name '*.so' \
+			-exec sh -euxc ' \
+				strip --strip-all "$@" || :
+			' -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
+	make -j"$j" install
+
+	find modules \
+		-maxdepth 1 \
+		-name '*.so' \
+		-exec basename '{}' ';' \
+			| xargs -r docker-php-ext-enable ${iniName:+--ini-name "$iniName"}
+
+	make -j"$j" clean
+
+	cd "$popDir"
+done
+
+if [ "$pm" = 'apk' ] && [ -n "$apkDel" ]; then
+	apk del --no-network $apkDel
+fi
+
+if [ -e /usr/src/php/.docker-delete-me ]; then
+	docker-php-source delete
+fi
diff --git a/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-source b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-source
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9033d243d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8.4-rc/bullseye/zts/docker-php-source
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+dir=/usr/src/php
+
+usage() {
+	echo "usage: $0 COMMAND"
+	echo
+	echo "Manage php source tarball lifecycle."
+	echo
+	echo "Commands:"
+	echo "   extract  extract php source tarball into directory $dir if not already done."
+	echo "   delete   delete extracted php source located into $dir if not already done."
+	echo
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	extract)
+		mkdir -p "$dir"
+		if [ ! -f "$dir/.docker-extracted" ]; then
+			tar -Jxf /usr/src/php.tar.xz -C "$dir" --strip-components=1
+			touch "$dir/.docker-extracted"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+	delete)
+		rm -rf "$dir"
+		;;
+
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
diff --git a/versions.json b/versions.json
index f9fc3ebb0..acab85d8f 100644
--- a/versions.json
+++ b/versions.json
@@ -110,5 +110,26 @@
     ],
     "version": "8.3.9RC1"
   },
-  "8.4-rc": null
+  "8.4-rc": {
+    "ascUrl": "https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz.asc",
+    "sha256": "65903a7add51350540b567f8cd2d964ac11366bf33e1b287489765feac45278e",
+    "url": "https://downloads.php.net/~saki/php-8.4.0alpha1.tar.xz",
+    "variants": [
+      "bookworm/cli",
+      "bookworm/apache",
+      "bookworm/fpm",
+      "bookworm/zts",
+      "bullseye/cli",
+      "bullseye/apache",
+      "bullseye/fpm",
+      "bullseye/zts",
+      "alpine3.20/cli",
+      "alpine3.20/fpm",
+      "alpine3.20/zts",
+      "alpine3.19/cli",
+      "alpine3.19/fpm",
+      "alpine3.19/zts"
+    ],
+    "version": "8.4.0alpha1"
+  }
 }