WL: PHP 5.4

[Eduardo Bragatto]

DESCRIPTION: PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

REASON: Some of the key new features include: traits, a shortened array syntax, a built-in webserver for testing purposes and more. PHP 5.4.0 significantly improves performance, memory footprint and fixes over 100 bugs. It also removes the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from PHP-FPM, making it "STABLE" now.

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

Thank you for your request, I will be working on PHP 5.4 packages for IUS this week.

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

We have a PHP 5.4 package available in IUS Testing channels:

    http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/testing/Redhat/6/x86_64/

Would you be so kind to help us test it out by
have a look at these packages and verify everything is working as expected.

   yum install php54 --enablerepo=ius-testing

Thank you for helping with the IUS Community project.

Jeffrey-

[Eduardo Bragatto (b-eduardo-u)]

Hi,

Thanks for making the packages available -- I'm short on time this week,
but I should test them before the end of the next week.

Kind regards,
Eduardo Bragatto.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Jeffrey Ness <email address hidden>wrote:

> We have a PHP 5.4 package available in IUS Testing channels:
>
> http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/testing/Redhat/6/x86_64/
>
> Would you be so kind to help us test it out by
> have a look at these packages and verify everything is working as
> expected.
>
> yum install php54 --enablerepo=ius-testing
>
> Thank you for helping with the IUS Community project.
>
> Jeffrey-
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/953118
>
> Title:
> WL: PHP 5.4
>
> Status in IUS Community Project:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> DESCRIPTION: PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language
> that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into
> HTML.
>
> REASON: Some of the key new features include: traits, a shortened
> array syntax, a built-in webserver for testing purposes and more. PHP
> 5.4.0 significantly improves performance, memory footprint and fixes
> over 100 bugs. It also removes the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from PHP-FPM,
> making it "STABLE" now.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/953118/+subscriptions
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[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

Hello Eduardo,

That sounds great, we really appreciate your assistance.

Jeffrey-

[James Kennedy (serveradmin)]

So far I've caught 1 major issue:
php54-fpm adds the file /etc/init.d/php-fpm, but it is not an init script and I'm not sure what it is supposed to do. php53u-fpm adds an init script at this path as expected.

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

Hello James,

Thank you very much for this response. The init.d script is being placed by the following lines:

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ius-coredev/ius/php54/view/head:/SPECS/php54.spec#L56
  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ius-coredev/ius/php54/view/head:/SPECS/php54.spec#L1149

The service file in question is:

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ius-coredev/ius/php54/view/head:/SOURCES/php-fpm.service

Being I grabbed this SPEC/SOURCE from Fedora Rawhide this makes sense, Fedora rawhide is using
Systemd (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd).

I'll go ahead and get this corrected by using the php53u-fpm init script and get back to you.

Jeffrey-

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

I've removed the systemd init script and added a EL style init from the php53u package,
the new build is available from IUS Testing and is named php54-5.4.0-4.ius

I've tested this under EL6 x86_64 by running 'service php-fpm start',
would you mind also checking this service out?

Thanks
Jeffrey-

[James Kennedy (serveradmin)]

It looks to be working good with my stack on EL6 i686.
I am using nginx + PHP-FPM and my application is connecting to MySQL via a socket using pdo-mysqlnd. I haven't tested it with Apache at all.

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

This is great to hear James, we really appreciate your testing!

[Christiaan Kortekaas (mrangryfish)]

Any chance of getting this on Centos 5 as well?

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

We will not be porting php54 for EL5, see bug report for reason:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/968561

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

It seems remi has ran in to the same issues we had with sqlite, but rather than avoiding el5 he is removing the sqlite shared library from build: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/968561

I'll see about taking the same approach, and keep all el5 php54 discussion in bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/968561

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

php54 has been released