PHP 7.0.2 for Jessie

January 8, 2016 · Guillaume Plessis

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.

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 7.0.2 , just follow the regular instructions for Jessie.

And as usual, feel free to show your support, it is always greatly appreciated… :)

Adeel January 8, 2016
Great work ! any plans on implementing memcache/memcached and redis extension ?
- David Goodwin January 8, 2016
  Memcache (unpackaged; perhaps useful)
  apt-get install php7.0-dev etc. git clone https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached.git git checkout php7 phpize make make install etc. add to/create appropriate php .ini file.
Andrew January 8, 2016
You can use this sollutions
PHP7+Memcached https://serversforhackers.com/video/installing-php-7-with-memcached
PHP7+Redis (Git branch “php7”) https://github.com/nicolasff/phpredis
PHP7+Imagick https://github.com/mkoppanen/imagick.git
Markus January 8, 2016
Hi, can you please give at least a rough indication as to when phpredis ext might be ready?
- Guillaume Plessis January 11, 2016
  @Markus : hopefully this month.
David Goodwin January 8, 2016
Hi, I see this when trying to apt-get upgrade :
Setting up php7.0-cli (7.0.2-1~dotdeb+8.1) … ucfr: Attempt from package php7.0-cli to take /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini away from package libapache2-mod-php7.0 ucfr: Aborting.
- David Goodwin January 8, 2016
  Hm, dpkg –purge’ing and re-installing the php7.0-cli, php7.0 and libapache2-mod-php7.0 packages seems to fix it. Nm.
Dave January 8, 2016
Any chance to make it co-installable with php5? Looks like this is already done in unstable debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807165
Katja January 11, 2016
Will there be a version for Wheezy?
- Guillaume Plessis January 11, 2016
  @Katja : sorry but no.
Dancho January 16, 2016
phpmyadmin : Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 but it is not going to be installed or libapache2-mod-php5filter but it is not going to be installed or php5-cgi but it is not going to be installed or php5-fpm but it is not going to be installed or php5 but it is not going to be installed Depends: php5-mysql but it is not going to be installed or php5-mysqli but it is not installable or php5-mysqlnd but it is not going to be installed Depends: php5-mcrypt but it is not going to be installed Depends: php5-json but it is not going to be installed Depends: php-gettext but it is not going to be installed Recommends: php5-gd but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Herbert January 16, 2016
Hi, how can I activate extension mysqli ?
Darren January 18, 2016
Hi,
Any Ideas?
Setting up libapache2-mod-php7.0 (7.0.2-1dotdeb+8.1) … dpkg: error processing package libapache2-mod-php7.0 (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php7.0: php7.0 depends on libapache2-mod-php7.0 (>= 7.0.2-1dotdeb+8.1~) | php7.0-cgi (>= 7.0.2-1~~dotdeb+8.1~~) | php7.0-fpm (>= 7.0.2-1~~dotdeb+8.1~~); however: Package libapache2-mod-php7.0 is not configured yet. Package php7.0-cgi is not installed. Package php7.0-fpm is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package php7.0 (–configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
- Guillaume Plessis January 18, 2016
  @Darren : please try to debug /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php7.0.postinst
John January 22, 2016
When is the time for pecl-existions? Please, we waiting since 2 months!
Egner January 23, 2016
When will DotDEB include ngx_brotli in nginx sources?
Lenar January 27, 2016
Hi, biggest thanks for the packages! Can you please include/package xsl extension which seems to be missing but otherwise works OK under php7.
- Lenar January 27, 2016
  Sry, the package actually already exists.
John January 27, 2016
memcached is still missing! Please add!
Paul January 29, 2016
I don’t know if it’s my single case scenario but all symlinks names in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d begin with “20-” on Debian Jessie. PHP info shows: /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/10-apcu.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-apcu_bc.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-curl.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-gd.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-imagick.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-json.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-ldap.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-opcache.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-readline.ini apcu_bc should be loaded after apc and opcache should be loaded with priority 10 (as comment in opcach.ini says). Can anybody also confim this?
- Paul January 29, 2016
  Info from PHP that I’ve posted shows 10=apcu.ini - it has been fixed from 20- by myself, originally it was 20- as I wrote earlier.
Andreas January 29, 2016
Memcached such as Redis are still missing. On January 11th you said that you would try to add both this month. Is this information out of date or can we still expect both to be released this month?
Thanks! :)
- Guillaume Plessis January 30, 2016
  @Andreas : thanks for the reminder… php7.0-redis is now available, relying on the latest commit of the php7 branch. Please note that it’s not the latest stable version.
  I’ll work on memcached this week-end.
  - luis February 3, 2016
    Awesome, thank you!
Tonino January 29, 2016
News on php7-redis?
Thanks!
- Guillaume Plessis January 30, 2016
  @Tonino : it is now available as php7.0-redis with igbinary support. But don’t forget that it is based on an unpublished upstream version.
canique January 30, 2016
Even if this was packaged with php7 redis, redis for php7 seems broken in some aspects. It is not stable. See e.g. https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/issues/744
Pipelining does not work flawlessly.
- Guillaume Plessis January 30, 2016
  @canique : you’re right. php7.0-redis is now available, relying on the latest commit of the php7 branch. It’s not the latest stable version.
Mike February 1, 2016
Hi Guillaume,
Is there any way to use libmysqlclient with PHP 7?
Previously php5-mysql would provide libmysqlclient php5-mysqlnd would provide mysqlnd
However it seems php7.0-mysql provides mysqlnd and I can’t see a package that provides libmysqlclient.
Regards, Mike
- Guillaume Plessis February 1, 2016
  @Mike : any issue with mysqlnd?
Tero February 3, 2016
“You should remove any PHP5 packages before upgrading”
Package php-pear depends on php5-common, php5-cli, any chance of getting a PHP 7 version?
- Guillaume Plessis February 3, 2016
  @Tero : PHP5 and PHP7 are now co-installable. You can install the PHP5-depending php-pear package and use it with PHP7. I’ll explain it when PHP 7.0.3 has been packaged.
Ramin February 3, 2016
Any news about xdebug?
- Guillaume Plessis February 3, 2016
  @Ramin : it is available as php7.0-xdebug