PHP and CentOS 7
PHP and CentOS 7
Forgive me if this has been answered before, but I am wondering what is the reason CentOS 7 ships with php5.4? Seems weird to me.
Re: PHP and CentOS 7
Because CentOS is a clone of RHEL and that is a stable 'Enterprise' distribution that doesn't change versions of packages once the initial release of the distro has taken place. At the time RHEL 7 was released in 2014, php 5.4 was the stable version of php.
Please see https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/ for information on backporting of security fixes and features in CentOS and RHEL
Please see https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/ for information on backporting of security fixes and features in CentOS and RHEL
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Re: PHP and CentOS 7
To dumb it down for me ... is that saying that even though PHP 5.4 is past it's end of life, it is still safe to use when it is included in a CentOS 7 release?
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Re: PHP and CentOS 7
From Security point of view -> YES, all vulnerability fixes are backported.
From Development point of view , it's still the same PHP version as RHEL 7/ CentOS 7 were born and many of the functionalities are missing (compared to PHP 7 for example).
From Development point of view , it's still the same PHP version as RHEL 7/ CentOS 7 were born and many of the functionalities are missing (compared to PHP 7 for example).
Re: PHP and CentOS 7
The distro copy is maintained by Redhat and they backport any security fixes that need to be made from the code produced by php.net.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Re: PHP and CentOS 7
OK, thanks. I do have a couple scripts I have updated to run on 5.6 - only because I was worried about the security of 5.4. Wish I would have asked this question a while ago - would have saved a bunch of time.
Re: PHP and CentOS 7
FYI: php 5.4.40 and 5.5.21 are available in centos-sclo-rh