diff --git a/lam/HISTORY b/lam/HISTORY
index f7b14b47..bdf00fe5 100644
--- a/lam/HISTORY
+++ b/lam/HISTORY
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 December 2019 7.0
+  - PHP 7 required
   - Lamdaemon can be configured with directory prefix for homedirs
   - Account list filters match on substrings instead of whole value
   - YubiKey: support to configure multiple verification servers
diff --git a/lam/docs/manual-sources/chapter-installation.xml b/lam/docs/manual-sources/chapter-installation.xml
index 5528d3ce..e801ba62 100644
--- a/lam/docs/manual-sources/chapter-installation.xml
+++ b/lam/docs/manual-sources/chapter-installation.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>Apache/Nginx webserver (SSL recommended) with PHP module (PHP
-          (&gt;= 5.6.0) with ldap, gettext, xml, openssl and optional
+          (&gt;= 7.0.0) with ldap, gettext, xml, openssl and optional
           OpenSSL)</para>
         </listitem>
 
diff --git a/lam/docs/manual-sources/overview.xml b/lam/docs/manual-sources/overview.xml
index fb88a123..68980042 100644
--- a/lam/docs/manual-sources/overview.xml
+++ b/lam/docs/manual-sources/overview.xml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 
   <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
-      <para>PHP (&gt;= 5.6.0)</para>
+      <para>PHP (&gt;= 7.0.0)</para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>