Installation

Parity is distributed as a Composer package and can also be built as a PHAR for manual deployment.

Requirements

PHP 8.4 or newer
Composer
A test runner capable of producing coverage when coverage rules are enabled

Composer

bash

composer global require testparity/parity
parity --version

Make sure Composer's global bin directory is on your PATH.

Manual PHAR Build

From the parity/ package:

bash

composer install
./vendor/bin/box compile --no-interaction
php parity.phar --version

Use the release checklist in docs/RELEASE.md before publishing a binary.