Features/Php54

PHP 5.4

Summary

To provide the latest PHP stack.

Owner

• Name: Remi Collet

• Email: Fedora AT SPAMFREE FamilleCollet DOT com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 17
• Last updated: 2011-12-27
• Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

Fedora provides PHP 5.3.x since version 12. ZTS module for apache is provided without any extension/module, this lack make it nearly unusable.

PHP 5.4.0RC4 was published for christmas, see announce. Finale version should be available before fedora 17.

• Update to PHP 5.4.0
• Build ZTS extensions/modules
• Provide ZTS devel stuff (in php-devel)
• Update other extensions (mostly pecl) for latest ABI
• Update PHP Guidelines

Benefit to Fedora

Provides the latest PHP version.

Scope

• Mass rebuild of all packages which requires php ABI, some will requires update or patch
• Test of web applications

How To Test

• test PHP web applications available in the repository
• test PHP with apache in worker mode (ZTS modules)

User Experience

• Web developper will get the latest upstream PHP version

Dependencies

From repoquery --whatrequires 'php(zend-abi)'

• cups-php : version 1.5.0 + patch
• graphviz-php : version 2.28.0 (need -fpermissive or patched swig: bug #770696)
• ice-php : version 3.4.2 + patch
• php-digidoc : version 0.3.0
• php-eaccelerator
• php-facedetect : version 1.0.1 + patch
• php-idn : version 1.2c with patch (upstream seems dead)
• php-libpuzzle : version 0.11
• php-libvirt : version 0.4.5 + patch
• php-magickwand : version 1.0.9
• php-mapi : version 7.0.3 + patch
• php-pecl-apc : version 3.1.9 + svn snapshot
• php-pecl-gearman : version 1.0.1
• php-pecl-geoip : version 1.0.8
• php-pecl-gmagick : version 1.0.10b1
• php-pecl-igbinary : version 1.0.2 from git
• php-pecl-imagick : version 3.1.0RC1
• php-pecl-lzf : version 1.5.2
• php-pecl-mailparse : version 2.1.5 + patch
• php-pecl-memcache : version 3.0.6 + patch
• php-pecl-memcached : version 2.0.0 from git
• php-pecl-mongo : version 1.2.6
• php-pecl-ncurses : version 1.0.1
• php-pecl-oauth : version 1.2.2
• php-pecl-radius : version 1.2.5
• php-pecl-rrd : version 1.0.5
• php-pecl-selinux : version 0.3.1
• php-pecl-solr : version 1.0.2
• php-pecl-sphinx : version 1.1.0
• php-pecl-ssh2 : version 0.11.3
• php-pecl-xdebug : version 2.2.0 from git
• php-pecl-yaml : version 1.0.1
• php-shout : version 0.9.2
• rrdtool-php
• syck-php
• uuid-php : version 1.6.2 + patch
• zorba-php

N.B. when version is given, this means package have been build/test against php 5.4. All patches are, of course, reported to each upstream.

Contingency Plan

Work in a dedicated build target. Merge only when all is ok.

There is a low risk that finale version not released at f17 time, but in case, we'll ship RC5 (or greater).

Documentation

• upstream NEWS
• upstream UPGRADING (for web applications developer)
• upstream UPGRADING.INTERNALS (for extension developer)

Release Notes

Fedora 17 includes version 5.4.0 of php. This includes a number of significant new features, including support for Traits, and a minimal Built-in web server as well as a number of performance enhancements. For complete details see Migrating from PHP 5.3.x to PHP 5.4.x.

Fedora 17 now provides php extension to used with apache in worker mode (aka as ZTS extensions)

Comments and Discussion

The feature could be split if needed:

• PHP 5.4.0
• ZTS extensions

See Talk:Features/Php54