Juan,
You need to be aware how RHEL distributes software. Please read
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting
It's irrelevant in this case that PHP 5.3 is EOL. It will continue to be supported by Red Hat with security patches.
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juan Bernhard" <juan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, 22 October, 2015 17:20:02
> Subject: Re: PHP version not enough for developers
> El 22/10/2015 a las 12:48 p.m., Valeri Galtsev escribió:
>>
>> On Thu, October 22, 2015 10:40 am, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/22/2015 10:31 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> So, it seems that the current version of PHP in Centos 7 is PHP 5.4.16
>>>> however this version of PHP stopped getting security support from the
>>>> PHP
>>>> people one month ago [1].
>>>>
>>>> Now, our developers want to use the new and shiny PHP because they want
>>>> to
>>>> use the latest version of Zend. They are proposing using this package
>>>> [2]
>>>> but I never heard of this repo.
>>
>> For me it sound like an example of the difference between "bleeding edge"
>> and "enterprise" systems. The first is what developers most often like,
>> the second is what humble sysadmins prefer as they have to keep something
>> developed long ago running for as long as possible - and without crashed,
>> daemons dying etc (== "bleeding" which always accompanies "bleeding edge"
>> anything). Sorry for venting my own usual pain here...
>>
>> Valeri
>
> PHP 5.4 is in EOL, it get no more security updates from PHP
> developers... its may be a security risk to use this in in long term.
> centos should change the php version more ofthen. I dont uderstand
> centos 6, its still using php 5.3, who got EOL a year ago... I had to
> switch to another repo to get this (to not get the headache by compile
> by hand).
> If you want to change to a log term support, you should use php 5.6,
> this is under active development now.
> centos packagers mantainers should listen the PHP developers in this
> topic, they are the ones who really knows PHP
> http://php.net/supported-versions.php
>
>>
>>>>
>>>> Other than building the packages ourselves is there a more acceptable
>>>> way
>>>> to run a later version of PHP?
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts? Experiences? Ramblings?
>>>
>>> I'm personally not a fan of the webtatic repository. This is mostly due
>>> to the number of users on irc who seem to have problems with it. I would
>>> recommend either the upcoming software collections packages or the IUS
>>> repository packages. https://iuscommunity.org/pages/About.html
>>>
>>> IUS has been a very good/reliable way to get more recent versions of
>>> things, and the folks responsible for it are active both on irc and in
>>> the mailing lists.
>>>
>>>
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