Yes as soon as it is patched and considered stable it will be upgraded. but you can add a ppa that uses PHP 5.6 now but consider it as untested and unstable. Ubuntu 14.04 end of life on servers is 04/2019 but i have had very few issues upgrading from server LTS 12.04-14.04 the migration usually gets better and better. Several desktops have had issues doing 12.04 to 14.04 upgrade but both had many modifications. Todd https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS http://phpave.com/upgrade-to-php-56-on-ubuntu-1404-lts/ On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > > I'm looking at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS And it is running PHP 5.5 which will no > longer be supported after June of 2016. That would be about a year and a > half from now. > > Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is supported through Jan or Feb of 2019 or about 4 years. > > How does this work? Does someone patch the unsupported PHP, MySql, and > Apache or does Ubuntu add the newer version that is supported by their > maintainers? In other words is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS going to always contain > PHP 5.5 (and maintain it themselves) or will Ubuntu 14.04 LTS pull in a > more recent version of PHP that is still supported by PHP? > > Thanks!! > Keith > > > On 2014-12-09 07:34, James Dugger wrote: > >> Keith. At work we are currently running Drupal 7.34 on RHEL 6.5. Our >> local development vms are running on CentOS of the same version. I >> feel your pain however. >> >> I am looking at Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server to run the LAMP stack needed >> for Drupal 8. I have run Ubuntu for many uses over the past 5 years >> and it is a solid server distribution. Ubuntu 's LTS server versions >> are outpacing CentOS and even Debian itself as the web server of >> choice. It is the number one choice for servers in an Openstack >> deployment. It is the most provisioned server thanks to Vagrant and >> Packer. >> >> Others may disagree but I am seriously considering the move to an >> Openstack cloud with our Web servers running 12.04 LTS for Drupal. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > -- > Keith Smith > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Todd Cole Ubuntu Arizona Team 4605 S PRIEST DR LOT 3 TEMPE AZ 85282-6507 toddc@azloco.com 602-677-9402