This table summarizes End of Life (EOL) dates of PHP versions, including commercial vendors and Linux distributions.
| Version | PHP | Zend | RHEL | Ubuntu LTS | Ubuntu ESM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.4 | 2022-11-28 | ||||
| 7.3 | 2021-12-06 | LTS¹ | 2025-04⁵ | ||
| 7.2 | 2020-11-30 | 2023-04⁶ | 2028-04⁶ | ||
| 7.1 | 2019-12-01 | LTS¹ | |||
| 7.0 | 2019-01-10 | 2021-04⁷ | 2024-04⁷ | ||
| 5.6 | 2018-12-31 | LTS¹ | |||
| 5.5 | 2016-07-21 | 2019-04⁸ | 2022-04⁸ | ||
| 5.4 | 2015-09-03 | 2024-06-30² | |||
| 5.3 | 2014-08-14 | 2020-11-30³ | |||
| 5.2 | 2011-01-06 | ||||
| 5.1 | 2006-08-24 | 2017-03-31⁴ | |||
| 5.0 | 2005-09-05 |
- Zend offers LTS support for PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.1, as well as active support for PHP 7.3.
- RHEL 7 ships PHP 5.4.
- RHEL 6 ships PHP 5.3.
- RHEL 5 ships PHP 5.1.
- Ubuntu 20.04 ships PHP 7.3.
- Ubuntu 18.04 ships PHP 7.2.
- Ubuntu 16.04 ships PHP 7.0.
- Ubuntu 14.04 ships PHP 5.5.
- PHP: Supported Versions
- PHP: Unsupported Branches
- Zend LTS Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life-cycle Dates
- Ubuntu Releases
- [] Ubuntu Focal Fossa ESM EOL
- [] Ubuntu Trusty
- [] RHEL 8
- [] SLES