Re: Re: #53437

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 14:07 +0200, Etienne Kneuss wrote: > > >> I propose we fix the serialization/unserialization crash in a way that >> does not affect var_dump. > > That was the summary of my message a while back, too. Aside from that I > trust the assessment of extension maintainers. > > I want to take this opportunity to remind everybody how close to EOL 5.3 > is, though: PHP 5.3 is 26 point releases old and according to > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php53eol 5.3 will go to security only > once 5.5 > comes out, which might be by next month or so. Changing behavior so late > in the game is bad, even if it is a small change only. Not sure to follow, we are talking about fixing a crash, a crash is always bad and as we are still in maintenance mode there is no issue here. That being said, we need to choose a solution now, for two reasons: . fix is already in 5.5, we don't want different fixes in 5.3/4 and 5.5 . it takes way too long to approve the patches, Anatol has put many efforts to full fill Derick's requirements, it is not a small bug. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org