Re: PHP 5.x Documentend End Of Life Dates
| From: | Kris Craig | Date: | Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:24:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 5.x Documentend End Of Life Dates | ||
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Ángel González <keisial@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/08/12 20:02, Kris Craig wrote:
> > 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
> There should be a page like http://www.php.net/ancient-versions
> listing
> the
> versions with the date they went EOL and how much time has passed since
> them.
> Some scary warnings about "Known remote code execution vulnerabe" may be
> good too.
> The goal? To serve as single page where you point people when to
> convince them
> to upgrade.
>
>
+9999 =)
--Kris