diff --git a/programming/php/php/actions.py b/programming/php/php/actions.py
index 7de347e9ad..71334816b7 100644
--- a/programming/php/php/actions.py
+++ b/programming/php/php/actions.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def extensions():
     return ' '.join(conf)
 
 def setup():
-    shelltools.unlinkDir("ext/openssl")
+    #shelltools.unlinkDir("ext/openssl")
 
     # create directories for apache, fcgi and fpm's Makefiles
     shelltools.makedirs("fcgi")
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ def setup():
                       --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo \
                       --with-mcrypt=/usr/bin/mcrypt \
                       --with-imap=shared \
-                      --with-openssl=shared \
                       --with-imap-ssl \
                       --with-mysql-sock=/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
                       --without-pear \
diff --git a/programming/php/php/pspec.xml b/programming/php/php/pspec.xml
index 30ab77400a..73ae258d4f 100644
--- a/programming/php/php/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/php/php/pspec.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         <IsA>library</IsA>
         <Summary>PHP7 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly</Summary>
         <Description>PHP7 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="9264a6d51f40e5e45459e28bd9ad96540bbde402" type="tarbz2">https://www.php.net/distributions/php-7.3.8.tar.bz2</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="234d9e828362d4ab24efff82c1c666e8543701ac" type="tarbz2">https://www.php.net/distributions/php-7.3.10.tar.bz2</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>gd-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>re2c</Dependency>
@@ -217,6 +217,13 @@
 
 
     <History>
+		<Update release="10">
+            <Date>2019-10-11</Date>
+            <Version>7.3.10</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump and OpenSSL fix</Comment>
+            <Name>İdris Kalp</Name>
+            <Email>idriskalp@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
 		<Update release="8">
             <Date>2019-08-01</Date>
             <Version>7.3.8</Version>