PHP 5.6.17 for Wheezy

January 8, 2016 · Guillaume Plessis

On January 7th 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.17.

This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.6.17 packages are now available for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures, in ZTS and non-ZTS (default) flavors, along with the usual PECL extensions.

Sébastien January 8, 2016
Merci pour la rapidité !!
Standa January 9, 2016
Hi, thank you for your perfect services. I would like to ask you, if you will support even jessie with php 5.6. Latest debian version is 5.6.14.
- Guillaume Plessis January 9, 2016
  @Standa, I don’t want to duplicate Debian’s effort. They will upgrade 5.6.14 when necessary from a security perspective. Is there any blocking bug in 5.6.14?
  - Igor January 17, 2016
    It’s built against mysql 5.5 so if you have mysql 5.6, you will get this sad thing “Headers and client library minor version mismatch. Headers:50544 Library:50628”. I wasn’t getting it with your build of php 5.6 when I was on wheezy.
  - Igor January 17, 2016
    So I take it I’ll have to compile php myself if I want to have php 5.6 compiled against mysql 5.6 instead of mysql 5.5 to prevent “Headers and client library minor version mismatch” on jessie? If so, can you please provide your configure line for me to use it as base?
    - Guillaume Plessis January 17, 2016
      @Igor : using php5-mysqlnd instead of php5-mysql will be much easier.
      - Igor January 18, 2016
        I tried but the version it showed freaked me out. It was “mysqlnd 5.0.11-dev - 20120503”
        Guillaume Plessis January 18, 2016
        @Igor : don’t worry, it’s almost a fake version number. The MySQL native driver is actively maintained directly by the PHP Group and has several improvements over the regular libmysqlclient binding : https://secure.php.net/manual/en/mysqlnd.overview.php
      - Igor January 18, 2016
        Handing version number is rather confusing but I’ll give it a try. Thanks.
        P.S. Something is wrong with your captcha. It always gives timed out error whenever you try to post comment.
huglester January 12, 2016
Hello,
this does not include the php5-gearman?
Because I get this message, when try to install php5-gearman: The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-gearman : Depends: phpapi-20100525 Depends: php5-common (= 5.4.45-1~~dotdeb+7.1) but 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 is to be installed
Thank you
- Guillaume Plessis January 13, 2016
  @huglester : could you please gist/pastebin some more details on your environment? /2012/08/24/how-to-post-useful-bug-reports/
  Thanks.
huglester January 16, 2016
Hello, sorry for a delay! I thought I have sent a reply and seems I did not press the send button:)
OS: Debian wheezy 7.9, x64
php -v ( I use php fpm)
PHP 5.6.17-1~dotdeb+7.1 (cli) (built: Jan 7 2016 20:36:21) Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies
dpkg -l ‘php*’ | grep ‘^.i’
ii php-pear 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 all PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository ii php5-apcu 1:4.0.7-2~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 APCu - APC User Cache ii php5-cli 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language ii php5-common 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 Common files for packages built from the php5 source ii php5-curl 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 CURL module for php5 ii php5-dev 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 Files for PHP5 module development ii php5-fpm 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (FPM-CGI binary) ii php5-gd 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 GD module for php5 ii php5-intl 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 internationalisation module for php5 ii php5-mcrypt 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 MCrypt module for php5 ii php5-memcached 1:2.2.0-2~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 PHP extension for interfacing with memcached via libmemcached library ii php5-mysql 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 amd64 MySQL module for php5
now when I try to install: # apt-get install php5-gearman
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-gearman : Depends: phpapi-20100525 Depends: php5-common (= 5.4.45-1~~dotdeb+7.1) but 5.6.17-1~~dotdeb+7.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
maybe you have ideas what could have been wrong? I had php5.5 and wanted 5.6
Thanks for any help!
- Guillaume Plessis January 16, 2016
  @huglester : what about apt-cache policy php5-gearman ?
huglester January 16, 2016
Hello,
one more thing:
apt-cache policy php5-gearman
php5-gearman: Installed: (none) Candidate: 5.4.45-1~~dotdeb+7.1 Version table: 1:0.8.3-2~~dotdeb+7.1 0 500 http://packages.dotdeb.org/ wheezy-php56/all amd64 Packages 5.4.45-1~~dotdeb+7.1 0 990 http://packages.dotdeb.org/ wheezy/all amd64 Packages 5.4.44-1~~dotdeb+7.1 0 990 http://packages.dotdeb.org/ wheezy/all amd64 Packages
as you can see it probably tries to install wrong version of gearman here? or am I wrong?
huglester January 16, 2016
apt-get install php5-gearman=1:0.8.3-2~dotdeb+7.1
- this one installed gearman somehow. I did not see any warnings or so.. I will do further testings to see how the gearman works itself
Mikhail January 21, 2016
Hi guys! Tell me when will php 5.6.17 for jessie? I can’t find repositories:( 5.6.14 version which is available in the debian packages many bugs that I can’t work. Help please. Thank you.
- Guillaume Plessis January 21, 2016
  @Mikhail : I don’t want to duplicate Debian’s effort. They will upgrade 5.6.14 when necessary from a security perspective. Is there any blocking bug in 5.6.14?
  - Mikhail January 21, 2016
    I’m sorry, I still decided to put Wheezy until satisfied with his work, but still the performance is not comparable to Wheezy with Jessie

php -v ( I use php fpm)

dpkg -l ‘php*’ | grep ‘^.i’

apt-cache policy php5-gearman