PHP 5.4.45 has been released on PHP.net on 4th September 2015, and
is also available for CentOS/RHEL 5.11, 6.7, 7.1 at Webtatic via Yum.
Update 2013-07-21 – A new package “php54w-mysqlnd”
has been added as an alternative to “php54w-mysql”. This will instead
provide mysql, mysqli, and pdo_mysql built against the PHP MySql native
driver rather than the system default libmysqlclient. It will replace
“php54w-mysql55”, as it will work with MySQL 5.0/5.1/5.5 server)
Update 2013-06-20 – Webtatic now has released
PHP 5.5.0 for CentOS/RHEL 5 and 6
Update 2013-05-26 – CentOS/RHEL 5.x now supported.
Update 2013-05-18 – A new package “php54w-pecl-zendopcache” has been added, Zend Optimizer Plus opcode cache.
Update 2012-08-26 – APC is stable enough now and so the extension has been added
Update 2012-07-22 – memcache and xdebug extensions have been added
Update 2012-04-29 – mcrypt, tidy, mssql, interbase have been added back in to the repository.
PHP 5.4.0 adds new features such as:
- Traits
- Built-in web server
- Array short notation
- Array return value de-referencing
- Finally killing off magic-quotes and safe-mode
To see what else has been added, check out the
changelog.
To install, first you must add the Webtatic EL yum repository information corresponding to your CentOS/RHEL version to yum:
CentOS/RHEL 7.x:
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
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CentOS/RHEL 6.x:
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm
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CentOS/RHEL 5.x:
rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el5/latest.rpm
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Now you can install php by doing:
If you would like to upgrade php to this version it is recommended
that you check that your system will support the upgrade, e.g. making
sure any CPanel-like software can run after the upgrade.
Unless you know what you are doing, it is risky upgrading an existing
system. It’s much safer to do this by provisioning a separate server to
perform the upgrade as a fresh install instead.
If you know what you are doing, you can upgrade PHP by:
yum install yum-plugin-replace
yum replace php-common --replace-with=php54w-common
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It will likely give you a message “WARNING: Unable to resolve all providers …”. This is normal, and you can continue by tying “y“. You will be given a chance to see what packages will be installed and removed before again being given a chance to confirm.
Packages
| Package |
Provides |
| php54w |
mod_php, php54w-zts |
| php54w-bcmath |
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| php54w-cli |
php-cgi, php-pcntl, php-readline |
| php54w-common |
php-api, php-bz2, php-calendar, php-ctype, php-curl, php-date,
php-exif, php-fileinfo, php-ftp, php-gettext, php-gmp, php-hash,
php-iconv, php-json, php-libxml, php-openssl, php-pcre,
php-pecl-Fileinfo, php-pecl-phar, php-pecl-zip, php-reflection,
php-session, php-shmop, php-simplexml, php-sockets, php-spl,
php-tokenizer, php-zend-abi, php-zip, php-zlib |
| php54w-dba |
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| php54w-devel |
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| php54w-embedded |
php-embedded-devel |
| php54w-enchant |
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| php54w-fpm |
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| php54w-gd |
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| php54w-imap |
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| php54w-interbase |
php_database, php-firebird |
| php54w-intl |
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| php54w-ldap |
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| php54w-mbstring |
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| php54w-mcrypt |
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| php54w-mssql |
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| php54w-mysql |
php-mysqli, php_database |
| php54w-mysqlnd |
php-mysqli, php_database |
| php54w-odbc |
php-pdo_odbc, php_database |
| php54w-pdo |
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| php54w-pecl-apc |
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| php54w-pecl-gearman |
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| php54w-pecl-geoip |
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| php54w-pecl-memcache |
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| php54w-pecl-zendopcache |
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| php54w-pecl-xdebug |
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| php54w-pgsql |
php-pdo_pgsql, php_database |
| php54w-process |
php-posix, php-sysvmsg, php-sysvsem, php-sysvshm |
| php54w-pspell |
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| php54w-recode |
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| php54w-snmp |
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| php54w-soap |
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| php54w-tidy |
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| php54w-xml |
php-dom, php-domxml, php-wddx, php-xsl |
| php54w-xmlrpc |
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Opcode Caches
A precompiled PHP APC package is available as an opcode cache, which
is recommended for performance reasons. It can be installed via:
yum install php54w-pecl-apc
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Zend have now released Zend Optimizer Plus opcode cache as open
source, and is now known as Zend OPcache. As it’s more actively
maintained than APC, it has been added as a package to the Webtatic EL6
repository. It can be installed via:
yum install php54w-pecl-zendopcache
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error_reporting E_ALL now includes E_STRICT
You may get a lot more errors coming out of your error logs if by
default your error_reporting is set to E_ALL now without explicitly
turning off E_STRICT. The default php.ini that comes with the PHP
package turns this off by default, but if you are upgrading from an
existing installation, your php.ini may not be updated, meaning this
will likely be turned on.
Source : webtatic.com
