PHP 5.6.23 for Wheezy

June 24, 2016 · Guillaume Plessis

On June 23rd 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.6.23.

Several bugs were fixed in this release, including security-related ones. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

PHP 5.6.23 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.

Alexander July 8, 2016
Is it possible to package xdebug 2.4.0 instead of 2.3.3 for PHP 5.6? 2.3.3 has a nasty bug (https://bugs.xdebug.org/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=00001070) that makes a setup with xdebug that’s configured to start debugging automatically barely usable. Despite comment in the bug system that mentions 2.3.4, there won’t be such a release as Derick Rethans confirmed on Twitter so it makes sense to switch to 2.4.0.
- Guillaume Plessis July 8, 2016
  @Alexander : thanks for your feedback. Xdebug 2.4.0 is now available for PHP 5.6
JCG July 13, 2016
Regarding the Nginx issues (commentaries are closed there!):
It now works fine for me.
Many, many thanks for all your great work, Guillaume. I appreciate it a lot.
laurent July 19, 2016
Bonjour,
J’ai fais la mise à jour vers php 5.6 sur wheezy et tout à l’air ok sauf le paquet php-pear qu’il faut réinstaller.
J’ai beau re-tenter une install du paquet php-pear j’ai systématiquement ce message :
E: Le paquet php-pear doit être réinstallé, mais il est impossible de trouver son archive.
Merci Laurent
- Guillaume Plessis July 20, 2016
  @Laurent : assure toi de bien avoir fait un apt-get update auparavant, ce genre d’erreur apparait quand un paquet a été déplacé.