Re: PHP 5.x Documentend End Of Life Dates
| From: | Kris Craig | Date: | Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:02:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 5.x Documentend End Of Life Dates | ||
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:13 AM, hakre <hanskrentel@yahoo.de> wrote:
> I have some simple questions about PHP 5.x End Of Life (EOL) dates:
>
> PHP 5.0 - Is there some official news-item or changelog entry on php.netthat says at which date
> PHP 5.0 went End Of Life?
>
> PHP 5.2 - Does the "End Of Support" that was announced twice for PHP 5.2
> has the same meaning as "End Of Life"?
>
> Is there a reason why the naming has been changed btw? PHP 4 for example
> was declared End Of Life but it looks like it wasn't much of a mode to use
> that terminology until the 2011 RFC about the release process came to life.
>
> And what about EOL of PHP 5.3, is there a date? According to the new
> release process it is already EOL because it's over three years now,
> however the RFC vote was in that lifetime so I assume that probably there
> is some transistion phase. If so, is there a planned date? Any
> thoughts/plans about PHP 5.3 EOL?
>
> Cheers
>
> -- hakre
>
As far as I know (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong!), we provide
legacy support to the previous tenths version increment only. In a
practical sense, I think that essentially means EOL. Again, somebody
please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I haven't seen any 5.2.x commits/etc
since 5.4 was introduced. It's no longer on the main downloads page.
Whether it's "officially" EOL or not I'm not sure, but in a practical
sense I think it basically is.
--Kris