PHP 7 is a significant update from PHP 5 for the PHP programming language that delivered significant performance improvements and other benefits.

PHP 7 Articles & Reviews

PHP 7.4 Performance Benchmarks Show A Nice Improvement - But PHP 8.0-dev Is Running Even Faster   Software   2019-11-21
PHP 7.0 vs. HHVM 3.10 Performance Tests   Software   2015-11-14
PHP 7.0 Is Showing Very Promising Performance Over PHP 5, Closing Gap With HHVM   Software   2015-09-05

PHP 7 Linux & Open-Source News

PHP 8.2 Performance Continues Moving In The Right Direction   Programming   2022-05-23
PHP 8.1 Performance Is Continuing To Improve With Early Benchmarks   Programming   2021-07-15
Ubuntu 21.10 Begins Transition To PHP 8.0 By Default   Ubuntu   2021-05-14
Alpine Linux 3.13 Brings Official Cloud Images, Much Faster Node.js, Cloud-Init Support   Operating Systems   2021-01-14
PHP 8.0 Is Too Fresh For Fedora 34 That It Will Be Punted To F35 In The Autumn   Programming   2021-01-10
PHP 8.0 Ready To Ship With Many New Features, Even Better Performance   Programming   2020-11-25
OpenIndiana 2020.10 Released For Continuing Where OpenSolaris Left Off   Operating Systems   2020-11-01
RHEL 8.3 Released With TSX Disabled By Default To Avoid Mitigation Overhead   Red Hat   2020-10-29
PHP 8.0 RC1 Released   Programming   2020-10-01
GraalPHP Is A PHP JIT Implementation Built On GraalVM   Programming   2020-09-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Hits Beta With New/Updated Application Streams   Red Hat   2020-07-28
Oracle Updates Many Packages With Solaris 11.4 SRU21   Oracle   2020-05-23
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Now Available For Download   Ubuntu   2020-04-23
Ubuntu 20.04's Server Installer Sees Last Minute Work To Better Handle Linux RAID Installs   Ubuntu   2020-04-22
PHP 7.4 Lands For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2020-03-27
It's 2020 - Oracle Adds Meson Build System To Solaris   Oracle   2020-03-17
Looking At The PHP 8.0 Performance So Far In Early 2020   Programming   2020-02-26
PHP 7.4 Slated To Land In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2020-02-14
KDevelop 5.5 Released With Better C++, PHP, Python Language Support   KDE   2020-02-02
Oracle Pushes Out Another Solaris 11.4 Update To End Out 2019   Oracle   2019-12-18
PHP 7.4 Released With FFI, Typed Properties, Arrow Functions, Better Performance   Programming   2019-11-28
PHP 5.3 To PHP 7.4 Performance Benchmarks On AMD EPYC   Programming   2019-11-22
PHP 7.4 Aims For Release In Two Weeks With FFI, Performance Improvements   Programming   2019-11-14
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" Formally Opens For Development   Ubuntu   2019-10-28
PHP 7.4's FFI Support Is In Good Shape For Tapping C Functions / Structures From PHP   Programming   2019-10-25
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Codenamed The Focal Fossa, Arriving On 23 April   Ubuntu   2019-10-16
PHP 7.3 Is In Ubuntu 19.10, PHP 7.4 Hopefully Will Make It Into Ubuntu 20.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2019-10-02
MariaDB 10.4 + PHP 7.4 Slated For Fedora 32   Fedora   2019-09-13
PHP 7.4-RC1 Released With The Performance Looking Real Good - PHP 7.4 Benchmarks   Programming   2019-09-08
PHP 7.4 Reaches Feature Freeze, Beta 1 Released   Programming   2019-07-25
OPNsense 19.7 Released With Remote Logging, Firewall Rule Improvements, Route-Based IPsec   BSD   2019-07-17
PHP 7.4 Alpha 2 Adds Support For Reading TGA Files, SQLite3 Online Backup API Support   Free Software   2019-06-27
PHP 7.4 Alpha Released With FFI Extension, Preloading Opcache For Better Performance   Programming   2019-06-13
An Early Look At Some PHP 7.4 Performance Benchmarks   Programming   2019-05-22
Fedora 30 Now Available With GNOME 3.32, Flicker-Free Boot, Zchunk Metadata   Fedora   2019-04-30
Fedora 30 Beta Released With GNOME 3.32, Many New Features   Fedora   2019-04-02
JIT Is Approved For PHP 8 To Open Up Faster CPU Performance   Free Software   2019-03-30
Facebook Releases HHVM 4.0 With PHP No Longer Supported   Free Software   2019-02-11
Phoronix Test Suite 8.6 Milestone 2 Released For Open-Source Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2019-01-20
PHP 7.3.1 Lands A Bunch Of Fixes For This Fastest PHP Release Yet   Free Software   2019-01-10
Apache NetBeans 10.0 Released With JDK 11 & PHP7 Support   Free Software   2018-12-27
PHP 7.3.0 Released With Improved Performance, Foreign Function Interface   Free Software   2018-12-06
PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good Days Ahead Of Its Release   Free Software   2018-11-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta Released With Stratis, Yum 4, Application Streams   Red Hat   2018-11-15
PHP Lands Preload Feature, Boosting Performance In Some Cases 30~50%   Free Software   2018-11-15
PHP 7.3-RC1 Released, Benchmarks Looking Good For This Next PHP7 Update   Free Software   2018-09-16
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2 M2 Released With Offline Improvements, L1TF/Foreshadow Reporting   Phoronix Test Suite   2018-08-15
PHP 7.3 Beta Benchmarks Showing Good Performance   Free Software   2018-08-07
PHP 7.3 Enters Feature Freeze & Releases Beta   Free Software   2018-08-02
PHP 7.3 Alpha 3 Released   Free Software   2018-07-05
Alpine Linux 3.8 Released With ARM64 Raspberry Pi Support, Netboot On All Architectures   Operating Systems   2018-06-26
PHP 7.3 Alpha 2 Released With Many Bug Fixes   Free Software   2018-06-21
Early PHP 7.3 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Good   Free Software   2018-06-10
PHP 7.3 Alpha Released With New Features   Free Software   2018-06-07
HHVM 3.25 Released, Now Defaults To PHP7 Mode   Programming   2018-03-16
OPNsense 18.1 BSD Firewall/Network OS Released   BSD   2018-01-29
The Most Popular Articles On Phoronix In 2017   Phoronix   2017-12-31
PHP 7.2 Provides Modest Performance Boost Over PHP 7.1   Free Software   2017-12-05
Fedora 28 Gets New Features Approved, Extra Week For Bug Fixing/Testing   Fedora   2017-12-02
PHP 7.2 Officially Released   Free Software   2017-11-30
Facebook Releases HHVM 3.23 With OpenSSL 1.1 Support, Experimental Bytecode Emitter   Free Software   2017-11-18
PHP 7.2 Benchmarks, Performance Of PHP 5.3 To PHP 7.2 On AMD EPYC   Free Software   2017-11-13
PHP 7.2 Is One Step Away From Release   Programming   2017-11-12
Ryzen & RX Vega Totally Dominated This Summer For Linux Users   Hardware   2017-09-17
PHP 7.2 Release Candidate Arrives   Free Software   2017-08-31
A Number Of Fedora 27 Features Get Pushed Back To Fedora 28   Fedora   2017-08-11
PHP 7.2 Beta 2 Released   Free Software   2017-08-06
HHVM 3.21 Released With Better PHP7 Compatibility, Sodium Support   Programming   2017-08-03
Ryzen, Windows 10 & Laptop Survey Piqued Linux Users In July   Phoronix   2017-08-01
openSUSE Leap 42.3 Officially Released   SUSE   2017-07-26
Benchmarks Of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster   Free Software   2017-07-22
Features For OpenSUSE Leap 42.3   SUSE   2017-07-07
PHP 7.2 Alpha 3 Released   Free Software   2017-07-06
PHP 7.2 Alpha 2 Released   Free Software   2017-06-22
PHP 7.2 Slated For Fedora 27   Fedora   2017-06-20
HHVM 3.20 Released With Performance Improvements, Better PHP7 Compatibility   Programming   2017-06-07
Alpine Linux 3.6 Release Brings PPC64LE & s390x Support, Updated Packages   Operating Systems   2017-05-25
PHP 7.2 Planned For Release At The End of November   Free Software   2017-04-25
Ubuntu Server Team Begins Planning For 17.10   Ubuntu   2017-04-20
NixOS 17.03 Switches To X.Org Server 1.19, KDE Plasma 5   Operating Systems   2017-04-01
Clear Linux's Latest Performance-Optimizing Effort: Greater PHP Performance   Clear Linux   2017-02-03
December Has Been A Very Exciting Month So Far For Linux/OSS Enthusiasts   Hardware   2016-12-15
PTS: PHP 7.1 vs. PHP 7.0 vs. HHVM Benchmarks   Programming   2016-12-02
PHP 7.1 Makes Its Debut   Programming   2016-12-02
Tumblr Is The Latest Company Boasting About PHP7 Performance   Programming   2016-11-11
Fedora 25 Is Quite Possibly My Most Favorite Release Yet   Fedora   2016-11-10
OpenIndiana 2016.10 Released With MATE 1.14 Desktop, Drops Sun SSH   Oracle   2016-11-01
PHP 8.0 Likely To Have A New JIT Engine   Programming   2016-10-17
Early Fedora 26 Features To Talk About: PHP 7.1, OpenSSL 1.1 & More   Fedora   2016-10-11
NetBeans 8.2 Released With PHP 7 Support, ECMAScript 6/7   Oracle   2016-10-03
An Early Look At Possible Changes/Features For PHP 7.2, PHP 8.0   Free Software   2016-09-15
Fedora 25 Alpha Freeze Goes Into Effect, Still Eyeing November Release   Fedora   2016-08-09
PHP 7.1 Beta 2 Released   Programming   2016-08-06
PHP 7.1 Beta Released   Programming   2016-07-21
PHP 7.1 Alpha 2 Released   Programming   2016-06-27
PHP 7.0 Is Being Planned For Fedora 25   Fedora   2016-06-14
PHP 7.1 Alpha Released With Void Return Type, Multi Catch   Free Software   2016-06-10
PHP 5.3 Through PHP 7.1-dev Tests Along With HHVM On Ubuntu 16.04   Free Software   2016-06-01
Roundcube Webmail 1.2 Adds PGP Encryption   Free Software   2016-05-23
Changes Being Worked On For PHP 7.1   Free Software   2016-05-21
Debian Developers Preparing For PHP 7.0 In Stretch   Debian   2016-01-12
There Will Be Many Features Coming For PHP 7.1   Programming   2016-01-10
PHP 7.0 Enters Arch Linux Stable Repository   Arch Linux   2016-01-02
The Most Popular Programming & Compiler News Of 2015   Programming   2015-12-31
HHVM Nightly Releases Already Support PHP 7 Features   Programming   2015-12-04
PHP 7.0 Is Ready For Release   Programming   2015-12-02
PHP 7.0 Final Didn't Make It Out Today, PHP 7 RC8 Released   Programming   2015-11-26
PHP 7.0 RC7 Released, PHP 7 Final Gets Pushed Back   Programming   2015-11-12
PHP 7.0 RC6 Released Ahead Of PHP 7.0 Final On 12 November   Programming   2015-10-29
PHP 7.0 RC5 Released, PHP 7.0 In Under One Month   Programming   2015-10-15
PEAR 1.10 Released With PHP 7 Support   Programming   2015-10-07
Rogue Wave Software Acquires PHP's Zend   Programming   2015-10-06
Google, Linux 4.3, & Mesa 11 Won Over September   Free Software   2015-10-01
Open-Source AMD, PHP 7.0 & Linux Performance Have Been Raising Eyebrows   Phoronix   2015-09-15
HippyVM Sounds Interesting, But Only If It Would Work Right   Programming   2015-09-08
PHP 7.0 RC2 Has 28 Bug Fixes, 250+ Commits   Programming   2015-09-04
PHP 7.0 RC1 Is Running Much Faster Than PHP5, But Still Not Beating HHVM   Programming   2015-08-31
PHP 7.0 RC1 Released, PHP 7 Final Comes Closer   Programming   2015-08-21
PHP 7.0 Beta 2 Released   Programming   2015-07-24
PHP 7.0 Beta 1 Brings Better Performance, New Language Features   Standards   2015-07-15
HHVM 3.8 Brings More Performance Improvements For Hack & PHP   Programming   2015-07-13
HHVM Is Now Running Even Faster, Beating PHP7 By Wider Margins   Free Software   2015-06-09
It's Now Easier To Try PHP 7 On Fedora & RHEL   Programming   2015-03-26
HHVM Continues Beating PHP At Its Own Game   Standards   2015-03-13
HHVM Plans To Integrate LLVM This Year   LLVM   2015-02-17
Facebook Releases HHVM 3.5 As A PHP Alternative   Programming   2015-01-20
Next-Generation PHP 7.0 Is Running Well But Will It Catch Up To HHVM?   Programming   2015-01-03
PHP5's Successor Might Be PHP7   Free Software   2014-07-21