This release is an early preview of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server on Linux - RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu. This release includes the sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv drivers for Ubuntu and sqlsrv driver for RedHat/CentOS. The Linux drivers only support PHP 7.
Check out the detailed release notes HERE
To get started check out the instructions HERE. Should you have questions feel free to email me at meetb@microsoft.com or open a GitHub issue.
Going forward we will be improving the installation experience and fix several of the limitations listed HERE
Thanks,
SQL Server Engineering Team