Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Minimum supported versions for PHP 8.6

On Thu, Jul 2, 2026 at 10:53 AM Eric Norris <eric.t.norris@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I hope you've been enjoying what appears to be the RFC "busy season". > I've got another RFC following up on an earlier thread about adding > COM_RESET_CONNECTION support to PDO and mysqlnd: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/min_supported_versions_php_8_6 > > This proposes a minimum version requirement for autoconf when building > from source, and a minimum version requirement of MySQL 5.7.3 and > MariaDB 10.2.4 when using persistent connections. > > - Original thread: > https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130704 > - autoconf PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21159 > - COM_RESET_CONNECTION PR: > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21857 > and original issue: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/20225 > > (Tim, I've not added you as an author since I wasn't sure you'd be > cool with that, but if you'd like I would be more than happy to.) > > Thank you, > Eric Norris I know there are a lot of other RFCs going around, so I'm sending this intent to vote message at the earliest possible time as permitted by the RFC policy. I intend to open a vote in 7 days on July 16th, exactly 14 days after my initial message (and the last changes to the RFC). Please take a look if you haven't already. Thanks!