diff --git a/general/prog/php.xml b/general/prog/php.xml
index 92e54b16b2..21f91c3602 100644
--- a/general/prog/php.xml
+++ b/general/prog/php.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
   <!ENTITY php-download-http "http://www.php.net/distributions/php-&php-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY php-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY php-md5sum        "6be4a00ca29dd9a63a26f79a2e8752c8">
-  <!ENTITY php-size          "12 MB">
-  <!ENTITY php-buildsize     "567 MB (add 2 MB for tests, add 111 MB for documentation)">
-  <!ENTITY php-time          "1.2 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 2.7 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY php-md5sum        "6b58a59106b0da4fdcba3bcf12cc3ca5">
+  <!ENTITY php-size          "11 MB">
+  <!ENTITY php-buildsize     "577 MB (add 2 MB for tests, add 112 MB for documentation)">
+  <!ENTITY php-time          "1.2 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 2.8 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="php" xreflabel="PHP-&php-version;">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index aead5447ab..9e6edbdfe5 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>December 6th, 2018</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to php-7.3.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11413">#11413</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to wireshark-2.6.5. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;11391">#11391</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 87d429cfc9..ea7b1a7e70 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY nasm-version                 "2.14">
 <!ENTITY ninja-version                "1.8.2">
 <!ENTITY npapi-sdk-version            "0.27.2">
-<!ENTITY php-version                  "7.2.12">
+<!ENTITY php-version                  "7.3.0">
 <!ENTITY python2-version              "2.7.15">
 <!ENTITY python3-version              "3.7.1">
 <!ENTITY ruby-minor-version           "2.5">