We haven't committed to anything yet. The schedule is tight. Whatever we ship we will need to support for 5 years, so it cannot be half done.
We are pretty certain that we don't want to ship both 5.6 and 7.0, so we expect to remove one or the other before release. Based on my current understanding I would like us to ship 7.0 in 16.04, but the transition needs to be completed first. For 7.0 to make 16.04 it needs to have replaced all the functions that 5.6 currently performs for us (reverse dependencies etc) and replace 5.6 in main. If this doesn't happen by feature freeze (18 Feb), we expect to remove 7.0 from universe, and 16.04 will ship with 5.6 only. We can continue to use this bug to keep everyone updated. If there are any blocking issues then we'll mention them here. I will try to make sure that anyone interested in making this happen has the opportunity to volunteer to fix any blocking issues in time. ** Summary changed: - PHP5 branch and PHP7 branch + Update to php 7.0 ** Tags added: upgrade-software-version ** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.02 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522422 Title: Update to php 7.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/1522422/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs