Re: PHP 2^3

On 25.06.2018 at 14:30, Zeev Suraski wrote: > What this list is - a collection of directions around which we've performed varying > amounts of research (some of them quite a lot, like JIT), that I think is strong grounds for us to > start discussing a PHP 8 timeline, and making PHP 7.3 the last feature release in the PHP 7.x > family. If we had to come up with an educated guess as to when PHP 8 could be ready to be released > based on the abovementioned featureset, we're probably talking about 2-2.5yrs away (i.e. > mid/late 2020). We can also consider having a very slim PHP 7.4 release sometime in 2019 that > wouldn't add any functionality, but that would give us an opportunity to deprecate anything > that we missed in 7.3 that truly requires deprecation - while still allowing folks to prepare for > 8.0 ahead of time. Why not stick with our yearly release cycle, and ship 7.4.0 in Dec 2019 and 8.0.0 in Dec 2020? -- Christoph M. Becker