Release Candidate versions are available in remi-test repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for a parallel installation, perfect solution for such tests. For x86_64 only.
RPM of PHP version 5.6.17RC1 as SCL are available in remi-test repository for Fedora 20-23 and Enterprise Linux 6-7.
RPM of PHP version 7.0.1RC1 are available as SCL in remi-test repository and as base packages in the new remi-php70-test repository for Fedora 20-23 and Enterprise Linux 6-7.
As PHP 5.5 is now in security mode only, there is no more RC.
Installation : read the Repository configuration and choose your version.
Parallel installation of version 5.6 as Software Collection:
yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php56
Parallel installation of version 7.0 as Software Collection:
yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php70
Update of system version 7.0:
yum --enablerepo=remi-php70,remi-php70-test update php\*
Notice: version 5.6.17RC1 is also available in Fedora rawhide.
RC version is generally the same as the final version (no change accepted after RC, exception for security fix).
Software Collections (php56, php70)
Base packages (php)