PHP 5.5.0 is out and available for Debian 7.0 "Wheezy"

June 20, 2013 · Guillaume Plessis

On June 20th 2013, the PHP group has released the first stable version of PHP 5.5.

The key features of PHP 5.5.0 include:

Added generators and coroutines.
Added “finally” keyword.
Added simplified password hashing API.
Added support for constant array/string dereferencing.
Added Class Name Resolution As Scalar Via “class” Keyword
Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions
Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach
Added support for list in foreach
Added Zend Opcache extension and enable building it by default.
The GD library has been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improve existing functionality.
A lot more improvements and fixes

Changes that affect compatibility:

PHP logo GUIDs have been removed
Windows XP and 2003 support dropped
Case insensitivity is no longer locale specific. All case insensitive matching for function, class and constant names is now performed in a locale independent manner according to ASCII rules

I’m proud to announce that the corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.0 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

To upgrade your Wheezy boxes to PHP 5.5.0, just add these two lines to your sources.list :

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php55 all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php55 all

Please note that :

php5-apc is not available for PHP 5.5 yet. Instead, PHP OPcache (the open-sourced Zend Optimizer+) has been included and activated by default in php5-common. And if you need a user cache, please install php5-apcu.
php5-xcache is missing too. Don’t upgrade if you need it.
PHP 5.4 will still be considered as default branch on Debian 7.0
PHP 5.5 won’t be packaged for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”. Upgrade to Wheezy instead.

Please read the Changelog and the migration guide (be aware of the backward incompatible changes) before upgrading.

Last but not least, if you like Dotdeb, feel free to show your support.

Michel June 20, 2013
Excellent job. Thank you!
JCG June 20, 2013
Great job. Many thanks!
Maltris June 21, 2013
Seems working. Thanks :D
Creepguy June 21, 2013
Works fine! Great Job! Thank you!
By the way: can dotdeb host the packages for MariaDB? :-)
Johny June 21, 2013
Hello I add repo to my sourcelist and run aptitude update – but I am still on 5.4. My linux is: Linux version 3.2.0-4-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2
Where can be problem?
- Евгений June 21, 2013
  try apt-get dist-upgrade
Matthias June 22, 2013
Great Job!
Daniel15 June 23, 2013
Thanks for your hard work! The php5-geoip package appears to be missing for PHP 5.5, will this be updated?
- Guillaume Plessis June 23, 2013
  @Daniel : I checked, it’s here http://packages.dotdeb.org/dists/wheezy-php55/php5-pecl/
John June 23, 2013
Thanks, but I had error on a clean install of Apache2, & php : Apache is running a threaded MPM, but your PHP Module is not compiled to be threadsafe. You need to recompile PHP [..] What could I do ?
- Guillaume Plessis June 23, 2013
  @John : I have to think about it, but running mod_php with the worker is really not recommended, because of non-thread-safe third-party library. I advise you to use PHP-FPM instead.
  - Mateo August 4, 2014
    I cannot access the software. “Unable to locate package php55” or php5 or php4. Can you help? I’ve performed the update.
- Rob Stiles July 3, 2013
  I’m also really struggling with this. I tried php5-fpm instead but there’s no libapache2-mod-fastcgi
Daniel15 June 24, 2013
re php5-geoip, this is what aptitude gives me when I try to do a dist-upgrade:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-apc : Depends: phpapi-20100525+lfs which is a virtual package. Depends: php5-common (= 5.4.16-1~~dotdeb.1) but 5.5.0-1~~dotdeb.1 is to be installed. php5-geoip : Depends: phpapi-20100525+lfs which is a virtual package. The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
```
 Remove the following packages:
```
1. ```
php5-apc
```
2. ```
php5-geoip
```
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
- Guillaume Plessis June 24, 2013
  @Daniel : APC isn’t neither compatible nor available for PHP 5.5 yet. You’ll have to uninstall it before upgrading. But don’t worry, opcache is included in php5-common (and enabled by default) while php5-apcu can handle the user cache part.
Daniel15 June 24, 2013
Thanks, I’m aware that APC isn’t available, but that error is also saying that GeoIP is not available. I need the GeoIP package and don’t want to have to compile it manually, so I’m scared to upgrade…
Daniel15 June 24, 2013
Never mind, I fixed the GeoIP issue. Turns out I had the Debian GeoIP package installed (version 1.0.8) and the upgrade didn’t want to upgrade it for some reason. I used Aptitude to force an upgrade to that package.
Dmitry Bergstein June 24, 2013
Look like php5-fpm is broken.
Настраивается пакет php5-fpm (5.5.0-1~dotdeb.1) … invoke-rc.d: initscript php5-fpm, action “start” failed. dpkg: error processing php5-fpm (–configure):
- Dmitry Bergstein June 24, 2013
  Yep, broken, on Ubuntu 12.10. 5.4 works fine.,
  - Dmitry Bergstein June 24, 2013
    Oh, upstart is forbidden by piece of shitcode. Nice…
  - Daniel15 June 25, 2013
    I’m using FPM on Debian Testing and it’s working for me. Must be a Ubuntu thing.
Tomáš Vařil June 28, 2013
Cannot upgrade aptitude is saying that php5-common will not be upgraded to avid breaking following dependencies, but nothing is listed.
- Guillaume Plessis June 28, 2013
  @Thomas : Thomas, could you please provide some more information, please /2012/08/24/how-to-post-useful-bug-reports/
needphp55 July 1, 2013
when will it support x86 linux??
- Guillaume Plessis July 1, 2013
  @needphp55 : as soon as Debian stable supports x86. Use amd64 or i386 instead.
tgabi333 July 1, 2013
A big thank you.
- Guillaume Plessis July 1, 2013
  @tgabi333 : you’re welcome
poiuty July 3, 2013
Guillaume Plessis! Perfect! THX!
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zebooka July 8, 2013
Will armhf version be provided?
- Guillaume Plessis July 8, 2013
  @zebooka : no plan for this, sorry
John July 9, 2013
Hi, why is not in this package GD like in php 5.4 from you?
- Guillaume Plessis July 9, 2013
  @John : why is what? not in the php5-gd package?
  http://packages.dotdeb.org/dists/wheezy-php55/php5/binary-amd64/
Chris July 12, 2013
How to get around this GPG NO_PUBKEY - error ?
- Guillaume Plessis July 12, 2013
  @Chris : Did you install the GPG key? /instructions/
mrmad July 14, 2013
updated to php5.5 and the init.d startscript for php5-fpm is broken:
/etc/init.d/php5-fpm: 37: /etc/init.d/php5-fpm: init_is_upstart: not found
Any idea what went wrong?
Lamr July 14, 2013
What about yac cache instead of apcu cache? :)
Alex July 20, 2013
If you have problems with upstart check out dmesg: sudo dmesg | grep php
If it says something regarding php5-fpm pre-start process terminated with status 1 Check out the fie /etc/init/php5-fpm.conf to see what is the prestart process. Perhaps run it manually from the console and check for errors.
I had an error saying failed to open error_log (/var/log/php5-fpm.log): Permission denied (13)
You might have another case. Check it out.
Lavano July 25, 2013
Works great with Magento CE 1.7.0.2. Great job, thank you very much!
zebooka July 30, 2013
Will you update php to 5.5.1 ? :)
- Guillaume Plessis July 30, 2013
  @zebooka : yes, just give me some time, I was moving my apartment from Paris to SF :)
mstrasser August 13, 2013
Hi (i’m french),
I’ve this error next update :
root# php -v bash: /usr/bin/php: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
How can I fix this ?
All my dependances of php has been removed. I did this : root# apt-get dist-upgrade Lecture des listes de paquets… Fait Construction de l’arbre des dÃ©pendances Lecture des informations d’Ã©tat… Fait Calcul de la mise Ã jour… Fait Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÃSÂ : libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-cli php5-fpm php5-mcrypt php5-mysql Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installÃ©sÂ : libltdl7 libonig2 libqdbm14 Les paquets suivants seront mis Ã jourÂ : php5-common 1 mis Ã jour, 3 nouvellement installÃ©s, 6 Ã enlever et 0 non mis Ã jour. Il est nÃ©cessaire de prendre 1 011 ko dans les archives. AprÃ¨s cette opÃ©ration, 24,2 Mo d’espace disque seront libÃ©rÃ©s. Souhaitez-vous continuer [O/n]Â ? RÃ©ception deÂ : 1 http://packages.dotdeb.org/ wheezy-php55/all php5-common amd64 5.5.1-1dotdeb.1 [682 kB] RÃ©ception deÂ : 2 http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libltdl7 amd64 2.4.2-1ubuntu1 [37,6 kB] RÃ©ception deÂ : 3 http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libonig2 amd64 5.9.1-1 [147 kB] RÃ©ception deÂ : 4 http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libqdbm14 amd64 1.8.78-1build2 [144 kB] 1 011 ko rÃ©ceptionnÃ©s en 0s (6 397 ko/s) (Lecture de la base de donnÃ©es… 55450 fichiers et rÃ©pertoires dÃ©jÃ installÃ©s.) Suppression de php5 … Suppression de libapache2-mod-php5 … Module php5 disabled. To activate the new configuration, you need to run: service apache2 restart Suppression de php5-cli … Suppression de php5-mysql … Suppression de php5-mcrypt … Suppression de php5-fpm … Traitement des actions diffÃ©rÃ©es (Â«Â triggersÂ Â») pour Â«Â man-dbÂ Â»… Traitement des actions diffÃ©rÃ©es (Â«Â triggersÂ Â») pour Â«Â ureadaheadÂ Â»… SÃ©lection du paquet libltdl7 prÃ©cÃ©demment dÃ©sÃ©lectionnÃ©. (Lecture de la base de donnÃ©es… 55427 fichiers et rÃ©pertoires dÃ©jÃ installÃ©s.) DÃ©paquetage de libltdl7 (Ã partir de …/libltdl7_2.4.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) … PrÃ©paration du remplacement de php5-common 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.7 (en utilisant …/php5-common_5.5.1-1dotdeb.1_amd64.deb) … DÃ©paquetage de la mise Ã jour de php5-common … SÃ©lection du paquet libonig2 prÃ©cÃ©demment dÃ©sÃ©lectionnÃ©. DÃ©paquetage de libonig2 (Ã partir de …/libonig2_5.9.1-1_amd64.deb) … SÃ©lection du paquet libqdbm14 prÃ©cÃ©demment dÃ©sÃ©lectionnÃ©. DÃ©paquetage de libqdbm14 (Ã partir de …/libqdbm14_1.8.78-1build2_amd64.deb) … ParamÃ©trage de libltdl7 (2.4.2-1ubuntu1) … ParamÃ©trage de php5-common (5.5.1-1~dotdeb.1) … Installation de la nouvelle version du fichier de configuration /etc/cron.d/php5 …
Creating config file /etc/php5/mods-available/pdo.ini with new version
Creating config file /etc/php5/mods-available/opcache.ini with new version ParamÃ©trage de libonig2 (5.9.1-1) … ParamÃ©trage de libqdbm14 (1.8.78-1build2) … Traitement des actions diffÃ©rÃ©es (Â«Â triggersÂ Â») pour Â«Â libc-binÂ Â»… ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
- Guillaume Plessis August 13, 2013
  @mstrasser : bonjour Mathias. Les paquets Dotdeb sont construits pour Debian. Ils doivent marcher sur Ubuntu, mais aucun support n’est garanti. Ton problème, c’est que le paquet php5-cli a été supprimé, certainement à cause d’une dépendance non satisfaite. Essaie d’utiliser un logiciel tel que aptitude, dselect, voire synaptic, afin de savoir quelle est la dépendance qui empêche l’installation de php5-cli.
huglester August 21, 2013
I have similar problem with php5-fpm.
It is on debian7. status/start/stop does not give anything… I think it is something to do with upstart, but can’t figure out.
any ideas anyone?:)
- Guillaume Plessis August 21, 2013
  @huglester : This will be fixed in 5.5.2
  - zebooka August 28, 2013
    Any chances of soon update to 5.5.3 ? :)
    - Guillaume Plessis August 28, 2013
      @zebooka : of course, I’m working on it. Please be patient
Etienne September 29, 2013
I have a clean debian wheezy installation, with PHP 5.5.4-1~dotdeb.1 installed by apt-get just like apache2. I had to manually enable the php5 module, and since then, when I try to reload apache2 I get this error: [Sat Sep 28 21:44:25 2013] [crit] Apache is running a threaded MPM, but your PHP Module is not compiled to be threadsafe. You need to recompile PHP. Pre-configuration failed Action ‘configtest’ failed. The Apache error log may have more information. failed! Any idea?
Helias October 3, 2013
Same problem than @Etienne. Same error message. Just a simple Lamp installation but impossible to run php5 code. =/ What’s wrong with us ?
- Guillaume Plessis October 3, 2013
  @Etienne & @Helias : ciyld you please tell me more? /2012/08/24/how-to-post-useful-bug-reports/
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Damien November 2, 2013
Is anyone using Ansible with Dotdeb? I can’t seem to have both the standard and php55 repos working with apt_repository action.
- Dominik July 10, 2014
  Same problem here. It looks as if ansible thinks they are both the same because the URLs are identical and seems to ignore the rest.
  - Dominik July 10, 2014
    Okay, that was quite easy to fix: I upgraded Ansible from Version 1.2 to Version 1.7 and now it works ;) - Just have to fix all my playbooks now to be compatible :(
Andy Huang December 7, 2013
@Etienne @Helias @Guillaume Plessis
Looks like some installations of Debian 7 Wheezy installs Apache 2 with apache2-mpm-worker package by default. With this package, the build of php provided by dotdeb doesn’t work out of the box, and gives that must recompile error. If instead, you install apache2-mpm-prefork, it will work.
Hope this helps, Andy
Yappli December 21, 2013
To remove the error :
[crit] Apache is running a threaded MPM, but your PHP Module is not compiled to be threadsafe
on debian 7 :
apt-get remove apache2-mpm-worker apt-get apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork (normally already install)
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Mateo August 5, 2014
E: Unable to locate package php5
Can anyone help???

re php5-geoip, this is what aptitude gives me when I try to do a dist-upgrade:

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