Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and PHP 5.4

UPDATED in Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and PHP 5.4 (again) (May 22nd 2012).

I was looking forward to trying out some of the new features in PHP 5.4 when I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 this morning. Unfortunately, Ubuntu decided to stick with 5.3 for this release.

There is upgrade path available though via a PPA (Personal Package Archive) from Ondřej Surý at https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/php5.

I’ve just installed it and it’s working fine with Apache:

$ php -v
PHP 5.4.0-3~precise+4 (cli) (built: Mar 27 2012 08:50:50)
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