Red Hat will provide PHP 7.0 for RHEL
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Par Remi le lundi 7 novembre 2016, 08:41 - HowTo - Lien permanent
Announcement: Red Hat Software Collections 2.3 now beta
Stability addicts can keep quiet, PHP 5.3.3 is still the standard version provided with RHEL-6, and PHP 5.4.16 the one in RHEL-7
As stated in RHSCL product life cycle, the php54 and php55 collections have reached their end if life. The rh-php56 collection is still maintained, and have been updated to 5.6.25.
We'll soon have an official and supported way to install PHP version 5.6 or 7.0, beside the system version, without any effect on installed components. Announcement tells the life cycle will be 3 years. Provided version is 7.0.10.
It's a beta version, published for evaluation purpose.
For more information about installation and use, you can read my previous blog articles about SCL.
RHEL clones (CentOS, Oracle, Scientific Linux, ...) users can use the centos-sclo-rh-testing repository (maintained by the SIG SCLo).
For users who need more extensions, you can use the centos-sclo-sclo-testing repository.
Apart from PHP, RHSCL 2.3 is enhanced by some nice collections, I especially appreciate Redis 3.2 and MongoDB 3.2.
I think this is a very important new feature which should help for the adoption of recent PHP version in enterprise environment.
If you have questions, I have even open a new dedicated Forum: About PHP SCL.
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As SCLs development is now done by the SCLo SIG in the CentOS project infrastructure, I don't plan to maintain any additional packages for softwarecollection.org (so no php70more repository).