PHP 7.0-RC4 for Jessie

October 1, 2015 · Guillaume Plessis

On October 1st 2015, the PHP group published the fourth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 :

PHP 7.0.0 RC 4 contains fixes for 22 reported bugs and over 100 commits with various improvements.

Packages of PHP 7.0-RC4 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures.

Disclaimer : THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW (from a PHP upstream and from a Dotdeb/Debian packaging perspectives) - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

Don’t upgrade any staging/production/critical environments yet, and use these RC packages at your own risk!
Make sure that you understand the PHP/Debian/ Dotdeb changes and that you don’t need any of the missing features/packages
Your feedbacks are always welcome. Just make sure they are useful.

These packages have been published on the main repository for Jessie. So to test PHP 7.0-RC4 , just follow the instructions.

And as usual, feel free to show your support…

Leo October 2, 2015
thanks for your hard work.
Scott Arciszewski October 3, 2015
Yeah, you rock!
A few things I’d like to ask:
Will PEAR/PECL be ready to go by the time PHP 7.0.0 is released? Is there any way I can help get it ready?
(One of the free software projects I want to release in late November is going to be built on PHP 7 and one or more PECL extensions, and I usually test on Debian.)
wiesson October 3, 2015
Hm, there is no database such as mysql module included? I have to switch to other php7 test packages - currently this is useless to me :/
- Guillaume Plessis October 3, 2015
  @wiesson : you should install php-mysql
  - wiesson October 4, 2015
    Oh, my fault :( - works perfectly!
Davide Melle October 6, 2015
I am having issues installing php7.0-cgi, install fails at update-alternatives
- Guillaume Plessis October 6, 2015
  @Davide Melle : could you please paste the error message?
  - Davide Melle October 6, 2015
    Configurazione di php7.0-cgi (7.0.0~~rc4-1~~dotdeb+8.1)… update-alternatives: errore: il percorso alternativo /usr/bin/php7.0-cgi non esiste dpkg: errore nell’elaborare il pacchetto php7.0-cgi (–configure)
- Davide Melle October 6, 2015
  apart from that, I can’t have both php5 and 7 since some packages overlap files, can’t remember which ones right now.
  - Davide Melle October 11, 2015
    dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/php7.0-cli_7.0.0~~rc4-1~~dotdeb+8.1_amd64.deb (–unpack): trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/man/man1/phar.1.gz’, which is also in package php5-cli 5.6.13+dfsg-0+deb8u1
Romeo October 11, 2015
Hey and thanks for your great work. How about php-memcached and php-geoip Modules ? Possible with PHP 7.0 ?
Greets
Adrian October 13, 2015
I don’t know, but ¿could it be easy to compile this version also for wheezy?
I mean, it will be supported until May 2018.
hacfi October 14, 2015
Has anyone tried getting xdebug running with PHP 7.0?
@Guillaume: Will you be able to provide this any time soon?
- Guillaume Plessis October 14, 2015
  @hacfi : not sure about it. I need some spare time to work on a PHP7-compatible dh-php.
  - hacfi October 14, 2015
    Thanks..I’ll investigate it as well. If I find a solution I’ll create PR!
    Thanks a lot for providing this..so helpful!
  - hacfi October 15, 2015
    Got xdebug running but it’s still not working smoothly with PHP 7.0. Let’s wait a little longer until we create a new package.
    If someone is interested: I didn’t log what it did but something it was more or less: curl -L https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xzv cd xdebug-master phpize7.0 ./configure –enable-xdebug –with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config7.0 make cp modules/xdebug.so /usr/lib/php
    and finally added zend_extension="/usr/lib/php/xdebug.so" to php.ini.
Mirko October 16, 2015
What is the right sources.list entry for PHP 7 RC4? I can´t find it. Thanks.
- Guillaume Plessis October 16, 2015
  @Mirko : it’s the usual entry for Jessie :
```
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all
```