Re: PHP 5.3 - end of live schedule
| From: | Tom Boutell | Date: | Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:52:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 5.3 - end of live schedule | ||
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Has APC's PHP 5.4.x support matured yet to the point where folks are
comfortable there's no environment in which you really shouldn't run
5.3?
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Florian Anderiasch
<florian@anderiasch.de> wrote:
> On 10.12.2012 15:24, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 21:08 +0800, Adam Harvey wrote:
>>> To be honest, Debian isn't really the distribution I'm worried about.
>>> Ondřej does good work, and Debian Wheezy has PHP 5.4 and isn't miles
>>> off, it seems.
>>>
>>> RHEL and Ubuntu are mostly the ones I'm thinking of here — RHEL 7 is
>>> supposed to be out in the second half of next year, but history (and
>>> my own experience both in supporting users and dealing with vendors)
>>> suggests that RHEL users are slow to upgrade. Ubuntu won't have
>>> another LTS release until 2014.
>>
>> All those are interested in are "critical"/"security" fixes. Besides
>> that the version is frozen. So for those I don't see a benefit to
>> continue providing unrelated fixes.
>
> Yes, with RHEL 6.3 using 5.3.3 I don't see how doing anything besides
> going into "bugfix mode" is going to benefit those users, or is there a
> 6.4 planned?
>
> Greetings,
> Florian
>
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