PHP 7.0.0 is available for Jessie

December 4, 2015 · Guillaume Plessis

On December 3rd 2015, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.0.

PHP 7.0.0 comes with a new version of the Zend Engine, numerous improvements and new features such as :
Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6
Significantly reduced memory usage
Abstract Syntax Tree
Consistent 64-bit support
Improved Exception hierarchy
Many fatal errors converted to Exceptions
Secure random number generator
Removed old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions
The null coalescing operator (??)
Return and Scalar Type Declarations
Anonymous Classes
Zero cost asserts
The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.
The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.

I am now proud to announce that packages of PHP 7.0.0 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures!

On the Dotdeb side, I wanted to make things right and compatible with what will happen for Stretch. So the packaging method has been synchronized to Sid’s one in terms of naming and versioning (once again, thanks to the Debian maintainers for their awesome work!). That means that :

The packages of SAPI (Apache2, FPM, CLI, CGI, Embed…) and of core modules (GD, MySQL, mastering, OpCache…) are built as usual from the upstream source, and are named php7.0-* instead of just php7-*.
This new naming convention and packaging method will help to produce future php7.x-* packages more easily. And you could even install several PHP 7+ versions on the same server without any conflict!
You should remove any PHP5 packages before upgrading
The json and OpCache modules are now packaged separately, respectively name php7.0-json and php7.0-opcache.
All these packages are built using git-buildpackage and Jenkins.
Packages of the PECL extensions (Memcache, Memcached, Mongo, Redis, Xdebug…) are still missing and require some work from me.
The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon.

Please make sure that you understand the above 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 because they have new names because they shouldn’t conflict with any PHP5 installation. So to get PHP 7.0.0 , just follow the regular instructions for Jessie.

And as usual, feel free to show your support, it is always greatly appreciated, especially if we consider the high level of expectations that you all have for this new major release… :)

Roy December 4, 2015
Thanks!
Nuno December 4, 2015
Thanks for your work. Is APCu included in the core?
- Guillaume Plessis December 4, 2015
  @Nuno : no, it isn’t.
Jesper December 4, 2015
Nice, but it would be nice, if this could be installed along side php5.6 or other version and then with a tag in the virtualsite, tell it to run php7
- Guillaume Plessis December 4, 2015
  @Jesper, this could be possible for PHP 7 and future releases, but PHP5 packaging scripts didn’t have this in mind.
  - Jesper December 4, 2015
    @Guillaume thanx for the reply… i’m just gonna use this way https://github.com/kasparsd/php-7-debian and use php7-fpm on the sites i want to run it on for now at least
Romeo December 4, 2015
Thanks, you are doing a great Job THUMBSUP
Jeff December 4, 2015
Hi Guillaume.
First of all many thanks for the packages, this allowed me to do some easy early testing of PHP7 with our application (with amazing results in terms of performance). I’m in no hurry since I compiled them myself, but do you have any ETA for the PECL extensions? Do you plan on providing the extension for the old mysql_* functions (http://git.php.net/?p=pecl/database/mysql.git;a=summary)? Again, no hurry as we are months away from having php7 in production here :)
CloneVince December 4, 2015
Merci Guillaume :) Merci aussi pour l’ajout de Opcache :)
Danni Dowel December 4, 2015
Thanks so much, if you can, add php7.0-apcu
Grzenio December 4, 2015
ok work fine but i dont have memache (memcached i compile) and pear :/
Dalenys December 4, 2015
Any chance to have it on wheezy ? <3
Thanks a lot for all your great work.
- Guillaume Plessis December 8, 2015
  @Dalenys : I currently have no plan to release PHP 7 for Wheezy. The packaging scripts have a strong dependency on Apache 2.4 (Wheezy has 2.2). I’m focusing on fixing the remaining issues before anything else.
Aleksey December 4, 2015
Thanks a lot!
Angristan December 4, 2015
On peut toujours utiliser php5-geoip ?
- Guillaume Plessis December 4, 2015
  @Angristan : non, les API internes de PHP ont changé entre PHP5 et PHP7, le paquet php5-geoip ne fonctionnera pas. Je le fournirai bientôt pour PHP7
  - Angristan December 17, 2015
    Ah super :) J’en ai juste besoin pour Piwik
- Anonymous December 20, 2015
  https://github.com/Zakay/geoip
muiesisk December 5, 2015
Is there a easy way to use both PHP5.6 & PHP7.0 on the same machine?
- Guillaume Plessis December 5, 2015
  @muiesisk : no, not in the same Debian file structure. But you could use chroot, containers, VMs…
Jérémy December 5, 2015
Hello !
After installing it got some errors (after each package installation like json or mysql for instance) :
apt-get install php7.0-json Lecture des listes de paquets… Fait Construction de l’arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d’état… Fait Les paquets suivants ont été installés automatiquement et ne sont plus nécessaires : apache2-data apache2-utils Veuillez utiliser « apt-get autoremove » pour les supprimer. Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés : php7.0-json 0 mis à jour, 1 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 20 non mis à jour. 1 partiellement installés ou enlevés. Il est nécessaire de prendre 16,9 ko dans les archives. Après cette opération, 109 ko d’espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés. Réception de : 1 http://packages.dotdeb.org/ jessie/all php7.0-json amd64 7.0.0-1dotdeb+8.1 [16,9 kB] 16,9 ko réceptionnés en 0s (24,0 ko/s) Sélection du paquet php7.0-json précédemment désélectionné. (Lecture de la base de données… 189641 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.) Préparation du dépaquetage de …/php7.0-json_7.0.0-1dotdeb+8.1_amd64.deb … Dépaquetage de php7.0-json (7.0.0-1~~dotdeb+8.1) … Paramétrage de php7.0-fpm (7.0.0-1~~dotdeb+8.1) … insserv: script php7.0-fpm: service php-fpm already provided! insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet php7.0-fpm (–configure) : le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d’état 1 Paramétrage de php7.0-json (7.0.0-1~dotdeb+8.1) …
Creating config file /etc/php/mods-available/json.ini with new version Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l’exécution : php7.0-fpm E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The strange thing is that php7.0-fpm works … I just don’t get why there is this message after the installation !
When i try to reconfigure it : dpkg-reconfigure php7.0-fpm /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: php7.0-fpm est cassé ou partiellement installé
:( Any idea ?
NB : sorry for the mix english/french here !
- thomas December 13, 2015
  same her and it fails to start, but it’s installed it seems
  [13-Dec-2015 14:29:57] ERROR: unable to bind listening socket for address ‘/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock’: No such file or directory (2) [13-Dec-2015 14:29:57] ERROR: FPM initialization failed
  had to manually make the folder
Ricardo December 5, 2015
I need PHP Redis and Imagick. When will you support it?
Sebastian December 5, 2015
Thank you very much for all the great work you are doing! Looking forward for redis and xdebug :)
Fedy December 6, 2015
Hi.
When will php7.0-mcrypt, geoip, xmlrpc, imagick memcached available? Later this month, or you cannot predict?
Pierre-Louis December 6, 2015
Merci pour ce travail. J’ai mis à jour mon serveur avec Jessie, MariaDB et PHP7. Quand je regarde les modules, je vois bien PDO et mysqlnd mais je constate que s’il y a bien les fonctions PDO, par contre les fontions MySQLi sont absentes. (vérifié avec un test avec function_exists). ESt-ce que ça vient du package qui a été compilé sans? Et comment faire?
- Guillaume Plessis December 7, 2015
  @Pierre-Louis : MySQLi est bien compilé est présent dans le paquet php7.0-mysql (dpkg -l php7.0-mysql pour t’en convaincre). Assure toi d’avoir un fichier mysqli.ini adéquat dans /etc/php, à la façon de pdo_mysql.
Dani December 6, 2015
I followed the instructions for Jessie, but when I execute apt-get update the sources from Dotdeb are ignored by atp. How can I fix this issue?
Robin December 7, 2015
Really GREAT! With the help of php7.0 and opcache, the loading time of my wordpress homepage reduces by over 70%. Hope to see memcache extension soon.
Guiseppe December 7, 2015
since php7 fpm + nginx i have : WARNING: [pool www] child 28584 exited on signal 11 (SIGSEGV) after
How to debug ?
John December 7, 2015
I appreciate your hard work,
php-pear still depends on php5-common. Until this is fixed, we cannot install anything from PECL without manually downloading/building.
Pfx2 December 7, 2015
When I want to start a session I have this error session_start(): open(/var/lib/php/sessions/****, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in ****
The permissions on /var/lib/php/sessions are: drwxr-xr-x debian:staff But on a classic PHP5.6 Jessie install, permissions on /var/lib/php5/sessions are: drwx-wx-wt root root
Do I have to change the permissions/owner? Is is a dotdeb-related issue? Is it a PHP7 issue?
- Guillaume Plessis December 7, 2015
  @Pfx2 : it is a Dotdeb issue. Please change te permissions/owner, we’ll fix this asap.
  - Pfx2 December 7, 2015
    Thank you very much for the quick answer
Jacek December 7, 2015
Do you plan to support armhf also?
- Guillaume Plessis December 7, 2015
  @Jacek : no clear plan about it. I have to fix some issues on i386/amd64 first.
Tim Wikler December 8, 2015
Any news about wheezy support? Is this so complex - see some howtos for “compile” version for debian 7.
- Guillaume Plessis December 8, 2015
  @Tim Wikler : I currently have no plan to release PHP 7 for Wheezy. The packaging scripts have a strong dependency on Apache 2.4 (Wheezy has 2.2). I’m focusing on fixing the remaining issues before anything else.
Anonymous December 8, 2015
Thank you so much for making this possible! Really a great service! Please do ignore all the people that are either impatient or rude….
Ivo van Beek December 8, 2015
Thanks!! Really appreciate it!
Jeff December 8, 2015
Hi Guillaume.
I just started doing some more serious testing with PHP 7.0 and it looks like you forgot (or maybe it’s on purpose?) to enable bz2 support. I just added the –with-bz2 line in the debian/rules file and recompiled everything and now I’ve got bz2 enabled and working. It’s amusing that when bz2 was disabled, it just was telling me to get it on pecl :) The build-dep of the php7 packages have dependencies on libzip-dev, so I assume it’s just that someone somewhere forgot to add the flag to the configure parameters?
Anyway, as always thanks for the packages! I just thought I would let you know about this :)
- Guillaume Plessis December 8, 2015
  @Jeff : thank you very much for this useful report! This issue will be fixed soon.
Meir Goldstein December 8, 2015
Thank you very much!!! Can’t wait to update my servers when the PECL packages are ready.
Doyd December 9, 2015
If you change your mind and do release it for wheezy, it would be highly appreciated! :)
Sergey December 9, 2015
Why ‘apt-get install php7’ also installs ’ apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils aspell aspell-en enchant hunspell-en-us libapache2-mod-php7.0 libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libaspell15 libenchant1c2a libhunspell-1.3-0 liblua5.1-0’ ?
- Guillaume Plessis December 9, 2015
  @Sergey : because that’s one way to satisfy the dependencies. If you want to install another SAPI, please name it explicitly, for example :
```
apt-get install php7.0-cli
```
  or
```
apt-get install php7.0-fpm
```
  - Jozef Repáň December 17, 2015
    I had same question, thanks for answer.
Matt December 10, 2015
Bonjour,
Merci pour tout ce travail Guillaume!
J’ai écrit un guide de migration PHP5 vers PHP7, si cela peut aider.
- Guillaume Plessis December 10, 2015
  Merci Matt!
Purwandi December 10, 2015
Hey @Guillaume Plessis, thanks for this update. But i have some trouble with the mcrypt library. Here is the error :
root@www:/etc/php/7.0/cli# php -v PHP Warning: Module ‘mcrypt’ already loaded in Unknown on line 0 PHP 7.0.0-5~dotdeb+8.1 (cli) NTS Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies
- Guillaume Plessis December 10, 2015
  @Purwandi : thanks for this feedback. I’ll fix this issue asap.
- Pierre-Louis December 11, 2015
  Hi Purwandi I remember this problem also happened in PHP5 and what solved changing the line in the php.ini about the loading of the mcrypt lib. Just comment the line (it was the answer in PHP5, maybe it still the same in PHP7) Hope it will help.
  - LGnap December 11, 2015
    In fact, I had the same issue and seems like php was compiled with mcrypt embded (configure with ‘–with-mcrypt’ option). For me the installation of php7.0-mcrypt is useless in this release. Just desinstall it and be careful about next versions.
Tom December 11, 2015
Merci pour tout le travail fourni, c’est juste génial!
php7.0-mysqlnd est-il dans vos plans?
- Guillaume Plessis December 11, 2015
  @Tom : mysqlnd n’est pas une extension à proprement parler, mais une interface entre MySQL et PHP, comme peut l’être la libmysqlclient de votre système.
  Les extensions PHP relatives à MySQL (mysqli, PDO_mysql) sont toutes dans le paquet php7.0-mysql et sont compilées avec mysqlnd en lieu et place de libmysqlclient.
  - Tom December 14, 2015
    Ah d’accord donc c’est parfait .
    Merci pour votre réponse, et evidemment aussi pour le travail fourni!
Franck December 11, 2015
Merci pour le travail mené jusque ici et bon courage pour la suite.
J’ai une machine virtuelle qui tourne sous debian 8.2, c’est possible d’installer php7 et certaines de ses extensions avec un apt-get ?
Mauricio Navarro Miranda December 12, 2015
¡Gracias, Guillaume Plessis!
Johan AR December 13, 2015
Hi @Guillaume, do you know something about Xdebug and PHP7?
Jérémy December 13, 2015
Ok je me réponds à moi même : il faut vraiment supprimer toute trace de PHP 5. Quitte à faire un backup avant sudo apt-get purge php5-*
Merci pour ce beau boulot !
AnthorNet December 14, 2015
May I ask why it is not possible to have PHP7 along side with PHP5 if all packages are separate?
luis December 14, 2015
Great work, thank you! Any plans on building php redis?
Martin PHILIPPONNEAU December 14, 2015
Nice work ! (The new naming convension is awesome)
Looking forward to the imagick and redis extensions !
Thanks a lot for this !
NetVicious December 16, 2015
Hi!
Good work, but your packages should have the provide header to emulate php5 packages.
On my monitoring maching APT says me it will remove cacti, nagios and ocsinventory-server If it installs your packages.
This it’s due because these other packages depends on php5 packages and your packages don’t say they replace php5.
Regards,
- Lashae December 16, 2015
  Same is true for PHPMyAdmin as well. I couldn’t install it via APT since it depends php5 and libapache2-mod-php5
JCG December 16, 2015
Great! Thank you very much!
Markus Blaschke December 17, 2015
We have a running PHP7 container in PHP Docker Boilerplate if anyone want’s to test it :)
The plain Docker container is also available at Docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/u/webdevops/
Alex December 17, 2015
Great work! Waiting for redis & imagick extensions.
Filipo December 20, 2015
Nice!! Are you working on php 7.0.1?
Ahmad Haggag December 21, 2015
Thanks. When 7.0.1 will be released?
CloneVince December 22, 2015
PHP 7.0.1 is available, Thx Guillaume :)
Romeo December 22, 2015
just do an apt update, the upgrade is available.
Seextra December 24, 2015
Curious PHP7 is released now and installed on my PC and ready to move faster to check the features and how easy to implement it with my new project. Thanks
inCube December 26, 2015
Is ZTS enabled in this package for pthreads ?
- Guillaume Plessis December 26, 2015
  @inCube : no, there will be a separate version for this soon.