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Hi ppl,

Is there a way to upgrade php? The current version 5.6.30 is rather bugged/broken.

cheers

What are you referring to as bugged/broken in particular, and did you open any bugreport for that?

As php version 5.6.30 is no longer being maintained I won't go into bugs or bug reports. I just wanted to know if I could upgrade (to the latest/supported) php version (5.7.??) without going to much trouble.

5.6.30 is no longer being maintained - that's why it's flagged as current stable?
If you won't create a bugreport, there can be no fix. Apart from that, 5.6.30 is the latest of the php5 series. You seem to be referring to php 7.1.x

The latest supported version for php is the one we have in the repositories for mga6. If you want the latest and greatest you have to install it yourself, you could try with a rebuild of the Fedora packages. Good luck with that.

What's the point of submitting a bug report when it's already fixed in the latest version of php?

So the basic answer is no to upgrading php without going to a lot of trouble.

lol.

cheers

So you didn't mention a bug, but you already know it's fixed in the latest version? Sure.

??

Pointless.

Please close topic.

mageiaXuser wrote:Please close topic.

Only you can do that.
Just edit the title of your initial post adding Closed.

The topic was about how to upgrade php and obviously that isn't easy to do with mageia (which is a shame).

The topic was never about how to fix bugs.

Cheers.
Thanks Ken.

This is 2018, and MageiaXUser has a very valid point. There are a lot of applications that have deprecated support for php5 as it isn't being actively supported. This isn't a bug report, but I've installed Ubuntu as Mageia isn't practical for me as a development platform with only access to php5.

PHP 5.6.36 continues to receive security updates, but will be end of life January 1 2019.

FWIW, another user ported php7 for himself, see viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11980

If you use cauldron, you can also have php7 from the normal repositories, the above links has some further links regarding that.