On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 01:20:02PM -0300, Juan Bernhard wrote: > If you want to change to a log term support, you should use php 5.6, this is > under active development now. > centos packagers mantainers should listen the PHP developers in this topic, > they are the ones who really knows PHP But you don't seem to understand CentOS. The packages in the main repo aren't maintained by 'centos package maintainers'. They are rebuilt from RHEL source packages. If you've got a complaint with the version, complain to Red Hat. As other have explained in this thread, you should expect considerably longer support from Red Hat (and thus CentOS) for any release of PHP than you'll get from upstream PHP. Sure, if you don't care about having a product continue working after a couple years, go ahead and build the upstream version of PHP and manually apply security updates yourself. Maybe you can pay the PHP developers to support it for you, since they really seem to know PHP. If you want to have a stable platform to deploy your web service, use an enterprise operating system like CentOS. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>