Any news on progress? It appears that the last entry updating progress was in October. FreeBSD has now officially deprecated php56.
But you're replying to a posting that was posted two weeks ago which gives a progress report... No ETA is currently ready to be issued, as previously stated over other threads; "we're working on it".
We cannot be held responsible for your web host removing basic PHP5 capability, but that's their right on shared hosting servers; having a VPS or Dedicated option gives you control over versions available to your server. Updating the UBB.threads system for PHP7 capability is a gigantic undertaking, this is PHP4 code that's been ported up several times.