Re: Concerns about syncing bundled libgd to upstream 2.4 (GH-22532)

Ciao Giovanni, Il 08/07/2026 12:01, Giovanni Giacobbi ha scritto:

 1) This code was introduced in the upstream repository less than a month ago, so it is relatively "young"

Likewise, some of the code that will end up in 8.6 is "young" too.

 2) libgd-2.4.0 was never released nor tagged, thus no major distros are shipping it

Perhaps there are also plans to release libgd 2.4 soon enough?

 3) PHP-8.6 already tagged alpha1, giving overall a short timespan to test the new bundled library

We're currently ~5 weeks away from feature freeze, so there's still time for 8.6.

 4) Introducing features in ext/gd that exist only in libgd-2.4 would in fact force the bundled library as the only build option The PR doesn't remove support for older non-bundled libgd versions: the new functionality won't be available, as it happens with all extensions supporting multiple versions of external libraries.

Cheers -- Matteo Beccati