PHP 5.6.7 for Wheezy

March 22, 2015 · Guillaume Plessis

On March 20th 2015, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.7.

Several bugs have been fixed as well as CVE-2015-0231, CVE-2015-2305 and CVE-2015-2331. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.6.7 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures, in ZTS and non-ZTS (default) flavors.

Notes :

Regression : php5-memcached still lacks JSON support
Missing packages : Xcache, Xdebug and Xhprof are still missing, I’m still working on it, sorry for the delay
End of support : Spplus won’t be supported anymore. Pinba’s fate hasn’t been decided yet.

skp March 22, 2015
The update went good but in a subsequent ‘apt-get update’ I get:
W: GPG error: http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56 Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG E9C74FEEA2098A6E Guillaume Plessis
- Guillaume Plessis March 22, 2015
  @skp : could you please make sure that you have www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg in your APT trusted keys, and then relaunch “apt-get update”. This error happens when I’m just publishing packages while you run your “apt-get update”.
skp March 22, 2015
I just re-runned apt-get update and the problem disappeared by itself. Race condition :)
Brian Tafoya March 28, 2015
OK, tring to install 5.6 and when I do and run php -v from the command line I get…
php -v PHP 5.5.17-1~dotdeb.1 (cli) (built: Sep 19 2014 01:56:56) Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
Am I missing something?
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy all #deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php55 all #deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php55 all
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56 all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56 all
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free
- Guillaume Plessis March 29, 2015
  @Brian : could you please send me (gui@localhost) more details? /2012/08/24/how-to-post-useful-bug-reports/
SibProgrammer April 10, 2015
Any news about Xdebug? Absence of this extension prevents the migration to PHP 5.6.
Alex April 13, 2015
Guillaume, possible to add xcache for 5.6 please? What caching do you suggest if not xcache?
- Guillaume Plessis April 13, 2015
  @Alex : yes, I should work on it in the next few days. Sorry for the delay.
Alexander April 15, 2015
Hey.
Don’t you think you can make php 7 repo soon? I find myself it is rather stable even to use for production. It works seamlessly with 99.8% of code.
But currently there are no adequate way to install it. Zend builds are crazy, without some basic things like MySQL extention (mysql removed in php7, but should be installed as PECL extention) and seems like don’t have php-fpm binary. Virtual machines are broken or just not applicable to read use case. Repository from you would be cool.
- Guillaume Plessis April 15, 2015
  @Alexander : I can’t guarantee anything before PHP 7 is declared stable. I may provide betas or RCs for Jessie, nothing sure.