diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php/php-fpm.service b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php/php-fpm.service
index eec76fb563..918ffe6749 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php/php-fpm.service
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php/php-fpm.service
@@ -1,10 +1,57 @@
+# It's not recommended to modify this file in-place, because it
+# will be overwritten during upgrades.  If you want to customize,
+# the best way is to use the "systemctl edit" command.
+
 [Unit]
-Description=PHP-FPM
+Description=The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
 After=network.target
+
 [Service]
-Type=forking
-PIDFile=/run/php-fpm.pid
-ExecStart=@SYSCONFDIR@/init.d/php-fpm start
-ExecStop=@SYSCONFDIR@/init.d/php-fpm stop
+Type=simple
+PIDFile=@LOCALSTATEDIR@/run/php-fpm.pid
+ExecStart=@SBINDIR@/php-fpm --nodaemonize --fpm-config /etc/php-fpm.conf
+ExecReload=@BINDIR@/kill -USR2 $MAINPID
+
+# Set up a new file system namespace and mounts private /tmp and /var/tmp directories
+# so this service cannot access the global directories and other processes cannot
+# access this service's directories.
+PrivateTmp=true
+
+# Mounts the /usr, /boot, and /etc directories read-only for processes invoked by this unit.
+ProtectSystem=full
+
+# Sets up a new /dev namespace for the executed processes and only adds API pseudo devices
+# such as /dev/null, /dev/zero or /dev/random (as well as the pseudo TTY subsystem) to it,
+# but no physical devices such as /dev/sda.
+PrivateDevices=true
+
+# Explicit module loading will be denied. This allows to turn off module load and unload
+# operations on modular kernels. It is recommended to turn this on for most services that
+# do not need special file systems or extra kernel modules to work.
+ProtectKernelModules=true
+
+# Kernel variables accessible through /proc/sys, /sys, /proc/sysrq-trigger, /proc/latency_stats,
+# /proc/acpi, /proc/timer_stats, /proc/fs and /proc/irq will be made read-only to all processes
+# of the unit. Usually, tunable kernel variables should only be written at boot-time, with the
+# sysctl.d(5) mechanism. Almost no services need to write to these at runtime; it is hence
+# recommended to turn this on for most services.
+ProtectKernelTunables=true
+
+# The Linux Control Groups (cgroups(7)) hierarchies accessible through /sys/fs/cgroup will be
+# made read-only to all processes of the unit. Except for container managers no services should
+# require write access to the control groups hierarchies; it is hence recommended to turn this on
+# for most services
+ProtectControlGroups=true
+
+# Any attempts to enable realtime scheduling in a process of the unit are refused.
+RestrictRealtime=true
+
+# Restricts the set of socket address families accessible to the processes of this unit.
+# Protects against vulnerabilities such as CVE-2016-8655
+RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_NETLINK AF_UNIX
+
+# Takes away the ability to create or manage any kind of namespace
+RestrictNamespaces=true
+
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_8.1.29.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_8.1.29.bb
index 2b3cfd58c5..ec86ce0886 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_8.1.29.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_8.1.29.bb
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ CVE_CHECK_IGNORE += "\
     CVE-2007-4596 \
 "
 
-inherit autotools pkgconfig python3native gettext multilib_header multilib_script
+inherit autotools pkgconfig python3native gettext multilib_header multilib_script systemd
 
 # phpize is not scanned for absolute paths by default (but php-config is).
 #
@@ -182,11 +182,11 @@ do_install:append:class-target() {
     install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/php-fpm-apache.conf ${D}/${sysconfdir}/apache2/conf.d/php-fpm.conf
 
     if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','systemd','true','false',d)};then
-        install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
-        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/php-fpm.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/
-        sed -i -e 's,@SYSCONFDIR@,${sysconfdir},g' \
-            -e 's,@LOCALSTATEDIR@,${localstatedir},g' \
-            ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/php-fpm.service
+        install -d ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
+        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/php-fpm.service ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/php-fpm.service
+        sed -i -e 's,@LOCALSTATEDIR@,${localstatedir},g' ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/php-fpm.service
+        sed -i -e 's,@SBINDIR@,${sbindir},g' ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/php-fpm.service
+        sed -i -e 's,@BINDIR@,${bindir},g' ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/php-fpm.service
     fi
 
     if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'apache2', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ FILES:${PN}-cli = "${bindir}/php"
 FILES:${PN}-phpdbg = "${bindir}/phpdbg"
 FILES:${PN}-phar = "${bindir}/phar*"
 FILES:${PN}-cgi = "${bindir}/php-cgi"
-FILES:${PN}-fpm = "${sbindir}/php-fpm ${sysconfdir}/php-fpm.conf ${datadir}/fpm ${sysconfdir}/init.d/php-fpm ${systemd_unitdir}/system/php-fpm.service ${sysconfdir}/php-fpm.d/www.conf.default"
+FILES:${PN}-fpm = "${sbindir}/php-fpm ${sysconfdir}/php-fpm.conf ${datadir}/fpm ${sysconfdir}/init.d/php-fpm ${sysconfdir}/php-fpm.d/www.conf.default"
 FILES:${PN}-fpm-apache2 = "${sysconfdir}/apache2/conf.d/php-fpm.conf"
 CONFFILES:${PN}-fpm = "${sysconfdir}/php-fpm.conf"
 CONFFILES:${PN}-fpm-apache2 = "${sysconfdir}/apache2/conf.d/php-fpm.conf"
@@ -279,6 +279,9 @@ RPROVIDES:${PN}-modphp = "${MODPHP_OLDPACKAGE}"
 RREPLACES:${PN}-modphp = "${MODPHP_OLDPACKAGE}"
 RCONFLICTS:${PN}-modphp = "${MODPHP_OLDPACKAGE}"
 
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN}-fpm = "php-fpm.service"
+SYSTEMD_PACKAGES += "${PN}-fpm"
+
 do_install:append:class-native() {
     create_wrapper ${D}${bindir}/php \
         PHP_PEAR_SYSCONF_DIR=${sysconfdir}/