diff --git a/packages/php/build.sh b/packages/php/build.sh
index 73ae76079..d8204f5dd 100644
--- a/packages/php/build.sh
+++ b/packages/php/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://php.net/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language"
-_PHP_RC=5
+_PHP_RC=6
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=7.1~rc${_PHP_RC}
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://downloads.php.net/~krakjoe/php-7.1.0RC${_PHP_RC}.tar.xz
 # Build native php for phar to build (see pear-Makefile.frag.patch):