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title: "Why is Acquia CLI running a different PHP version than my application?"
date: "2025-05-08T07:32:24+00:00"
summary: "Discover why Acquia CLI uses a different PHP version than your app and how it impacts your development workflow."
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[Acquia CLI](https://github.com/acquia/cli) is a modern Symfony Console application that is pinned to use the latest PHP version available in Cloud IDE. As such, even when you select a different PHP version to use for your application, it does not affect the PHP version used by Acquia CLI.