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On March 31st 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.5. This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.5 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : PHP 7 and PHP 5 from Jessie are now co-installable on the same machine Packages of the following PECL extensions are now available : APCu, APCu_bc, geoip, igbinary, imagick, memcached, mongodb, msgpack, redis and xdebug. Careful, PHP 7 support from some of them is still very young. The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon. As usual : ...

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.33. This is a security release in which two security bugs were fixed. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.5.33 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures. The following modules have been packaged too : apcu 4.0.7 gearman 0.8.3 geoip 1.0.8 imagick 3.1.2 memcache 3.0.8 memcached 2.2.0 mongo 1.6.11 pecl_http 1.7.6 pinba (master) redis 2.2.7 spplus 1.1 ssh2 0.12 xcache 3.2.0 xdebug 2.3.2 xhprof 0.9.4 Please read the Changelog before upgrading.

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.19. This is a security release in which several security bugs were fixed. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. PHP 5.6.19 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.

On March 3rd 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.4. This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.4 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : PHP 7 and PHP 5 from Jessie are now co-installable on the same machine Packages of the following PECL extensions are now available : APCu, APCu_bc, igbinary, imagick, memcached, mongodb, msgpack, redis and xdebug. Careful, PHP 7 support from some of them is still very young. the memcached.serializer is now igbinary by default. You should change it back to php if you’re upgrading from a previous version. The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon. As usual : ...

On February 4th 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.18. 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 5.6.18 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.

On February 4th 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.3. This is a security release. Several security bugs were fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.3 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : PHP 7 and PHP 5 from Jessie are now co-installable on the same machine Packages of the following PECL extensions are now available : APCu, APCu_bc, igbinary, imagick, memcached, mongodb, msgpack, redis and xdebug. Careful, PHP 7 support from some of them is still very young. the memcached.serializer is now igbinary by default. You should change it back to php if you’re upgrading from a previous version. The thread-safe version of all these packages will be published soon. As usual : ...

On January 7th 2016, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.2. 31 reported bugs has been fixed, including 6 security related issues. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.2 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : You should remove any PHP5 packages before upgrading Packages of the PECL extensions (Memcache, Memcached, Mongo, Redis, Xdebug…) are still missing. 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. ...

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.

On December 17th 2015, the PHP group published PHP 7.0.1. Several bugs have been fixed. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Packages of PHP 7.0.1 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Please note that : You should remove any PHP5 packages before upgrading The bz2 and xmlrpc modules are now packaged separately, respectively name php7.0-bz2 and php7.0-xmlrpc. 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. ...

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. ...