diff --git a/general/prog/php.xml b/general/prog/php.xml
index 602cb620eb..2f38f09534 100644
--- a/general/prog/php.xml
+++ b/general/prog/php.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY php-download-http "https://www.php.net/distributions/php-&php-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY php-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY php-md5sum        "943eae7f07c2056ce87478e7d6c0cbbb">
+  <!ENTITY php-md5sum        "f8be7dfca5c241e780f75f3f3ce83b76">
   <!ENTITY php-size          "11 MB">
-  <!ENTITY php-buildsize     "638 MB (with documentation)">
-  <!ENTITY php-time          "1.8 SBU (add 2.0 SBU for tests; both with parallelism=4)">
+  <!ENTITY php-buildsize     "480 MB (with documentation)">
+  <!ENTITY php-time          "1.7 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 1.7 SBU for tests)">
   <!-- Tests were run for 8.0.1 at -j4, had two timeouts as well.
        Results were otherwise normal though, so I'm unsure of what caused the
        increase in time. -renodr
@@ -39,6 +39,23 @@ Stats for tests changed slightly for 8.1.2, but not significantly.
   Tests failed    :    1
 For 8.1.4, ran tests at -j4. One test still fails.
 For 8.1.5, ran tests at -j4. One test still fails.
+
+Running tests at -j4 does nothing.  The jobs cound is not passed to the 
+actual routine running the tests.
+
+For 8.1.7:
+Number of tests : 17250             12714
+Tests skipped   : 4536 ( 26.3%) 
+Tests warned    :    2 (  0.0%) (  0.0%)
+Tests failed    :    1 (  0.0%) (  0.0%)
+Expected fail   :   27 (  0.2%) (  0.2%)
+Tests passed    : 12684 ( 73.5%) ( 99.8%)
+
+Time taken      :  162 seconds
+
+The warnings are really XFAIL.  The FAIL is ext/phar/tests/bug69958.phpt.
+It appears to be mission a test file.
+
 -->
 ]>
 
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 3ef1972f3b..ef4b17abca 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,17 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
     -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>June 11th, 2022</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to php-8.1.7. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;16649">#16649</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>June 10th, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 881add04a6..28180c4da1 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY nasm-version                 "2.15.05">
 <!ENTITY ninja-version                "1.9.0">
 <!ENTITY npapi-sdk-version            "0.27.2">
-<!ENTITY php-version                  "8.1.6">
+<!ENTITY php-version                  "8.1.7">
 
 <!ENTITY python2-majorver             "2.7">
 <!ENTITY python2-patch                "18">