Re: Status of PHP 5.4

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote: > Stas Malyshev in php.internals (Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:18:12 -0700): >>> PHP 5.3 has reached the real end of life. Will the effect be that from >>> now on PHP 5.4 will only get security fixes? >> >>There's no dependency between the two in the release RFC, but it would >>probably make sense to move 5.4 into "security only" phase once 5.6 is >>GA, and set EOL date for 1 year since that moment, as we did with 5.3. > > OK, given the fact that 'the stable 5.6.0 release should show up on the > 28th of August', this means that PHP 5.4.32 will be the last normal > release. > > PHP 5.4.33 up until PHP 5.4.44 will be 'security fixes only' releases. That being said I would like to understand the underlying reasons why 5.6 will get out two months late. I see nothing that should have justified it. I am not blaming anyone but it would be nice to see where we failed and try to improve that for the next releases. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org