RPM of PHP version 5.5.17 are available in remi repository for Fedora and in remi-php55 repository for Enterprise Linux.
RPM of PHP version 5.4.33 are available in remi repository Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS...).
These versions are now also available as Software Collections.
Version announcements:
5.4.33 release is the last planned release that contains regular bugfixes. All the consequent releases will contain only security-relevant fixes, for the term of one year.
Installation : read the Repository configuration and choose your version and installation mode.
Replacement of default PHP by version 5.5 installation (simplest):
yum --enablerepo=remi-php55,remi update php\*
Parallel installation of version 5.5 as Software Collection (x86_64 only):
yum --enablerepo=remi install php55
Replacement of default PHP by version 5.4 installation (enterprise only):
yum --enablerepo=remi update php\*
Parallel installation of version 5.4 as Software Collection (x86_64 only):
yum --enablerepo=remi install php54
And soon in the official updates:
Reminder: Fedora 21 will provides PHP 5.6.
To be noticed :
- EL7 rpm are build using RHEL-7.0
- EL6 rpm are build using RHEL-6.5
- for php 5.5, the zip extension is now provided by the php-pecl-zip package.
- a lot of new extensions are also available, see the PECL extension RPM status page
Information, read:
- End of support of PHP 5.3 in remi repository
- PHP 5.5 packaging changes
- Good bye PHP 5.3 - Welcome to PHP 5.5
Base packages (php)
Software Collections (php54 - php55)