RE: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:24:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4? | ||
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I wouldn't say "consider" in releasing security fixes. I would say that
we won't make any more releases except in cases of security bugs.
Andi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:34 AM
> To: Pierre
> Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pierre wrote:
>
> > On 7/9/07, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd suggest something close to what Rasmus suggested:
> > > > a) We make a clear statement on PHP.net that at the end of the
> > > > year we plan to discontinue bug fixes for PHP 4 except
> for security fixes.
> > > > b) We will discontinue supporting PHP 4 on 8/8/8 (because it
> > > > sounds good and gives people about a year).
> > >
> > > The attached patch mentions the above. As you can see,
> the idea is
> > > to release this on the 13th, 3 years after php 5 was
> released for
> > > this first time.
> >
> > First thanks for the patch!
>
> I changed the first two paragraphs to:
>
> <p>
> Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been
> released. In
> those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is
> fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the
> way, PHP 4
> will be discontinued.
> </p>
> <p>
> Hereby the PHP development team announces that support for
> PHP 4 will
> continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31
> there will
> be no more releases of PHP 4.4. In case security issues
> might arise after
> this date, we will consider making security-only releases
> up to 2008-08-08.
> Please use the rest of this year to make your application
> suitable to
> run on PHP 5.
> </p>
>
> I think that reads better.
>
> Derick
>
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