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>>TimWol+(OP)
Many are praising the recent releases of PHP for their quality and performance improvements, and I wouldn't dare argue against that. However, the current release schedule of PHP makes things a little bit difficult for sysadmins. We're now using php-fpm docker containers so that we can (sort-of almost) keep up with PHP updates without doing OS upgrades every single year. A LTS version would be welcome!

>>trey-j+s7
What's the difficulty for sysadmins? Maybe it's particular to your OS? With FreeBSD for example, there are port flavours for the various PHP versions, and it easy to choose.

>>1over1+Qh
Debian historically does not maintain multiple versions of PHP in official channels. Your options are:

1. Compile PHP yourself (no)

2. Use an untrusted third party repo (probably not)

3. Upgrade OS to latest

4. (apparently) Use FreeBSD instead.

For all I know this could change. The current release schedule of PHP is greatly accelerated from what it was 5-10 years ago, and we're all still adjusting I think.