diff --git a/general/prog/php.xml b/general/prog/php.xml
index 34d8eb56b8..e748826974 100644
--- a/general/prog/php.xml
+++ b/general/prog/php.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY php-download-http "https://www.php.net/distributions/php-&php-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY php-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY php-md5sum        "802ddeb65a32362a739326eddd1c172f">
+  <!ENTITY php-md5sum        "700aaa5ae7bfb4ac0186be6b4712e748">
   <!ENTITY php-size          "11 MB">
-  <!ENTITY php-buildsize     "499 MB (with documentation)">
+  <!ENTITY php-buildsize     "505 MB (with documentation)">
   <!ENTITY php-time          "1.6 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 1.6 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
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 3daaf4859d..70036f9f26 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
    <listitem>
      <para>May 17th, 2023</para>
      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>[bdubbs] - Update to php-8.2.6. Fixes
+         <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18039">#18039</ulink>.</para>
+       </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[timtas] - Update to curl-8.1.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18058">#18058</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 74e333faf4..7412d7b533 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY mercurial-version            "6.4.3">
 <!ENTITY nasm-version                 "2.16.01">
 <!ENTITY patchelf-version             "0.17.2">
-<!ENTITY php-version                  "8.2.5">
+<!ENTITY php-version                  "8.2.6">
 
 <!ENTITY python2-majorver             "2.7">
 <!ENTITY python2-patch                "18">
diff --git a/server/databases/sqlite.xml b/server/databases/sqlite.xml
index 3e8565dd20..044e0746ae 100644
--- a/server/databases/sqlite.xml
+++ b/server/databases/sqlite.xml
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ cp -v -R sqlite-doc-&sqlite-doc-version;/* /usr/share/doc/sqlite-&sqlite-version
       href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
 
     <para>
-      <parameter>--enable-fts{4,5}</parameter>: These switches enables
+      <parameter>--enable-fts{4,5}</parameter>: These switches enable
       support for version 3, 4 and 5 of the full text search (FTS)
       extension.  Note that the <option>--enable-fts4</option> switch
       enables support for both FTS version 4 and FTS version 3.