diff --git a/profiles/base/use.stable.mask b/profiles/base/use.stable.mask
index b34a8da2a0514..b52758a58d8dc 100644
--- a/profiles/base/use.stable.mask
+++ b/profiles/base/use.stable.mask
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
 # This file requires eapi 5 or later. New entries go on top.
 # Please use the same syntax as in use.mask
 
+# Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> (06 Dec 2016)
+# Needs dev-lang/php:7.1 stable
+php_targets_php7-1
+
 # Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> (01 Sep 2016)
 # Needs virtual/pypy* stable
 python_targets_pypy