Re: PHP 5.6 life cycle
| From: | Jan Ehrhardt | Date: | Sun, 06 Dec 2015 12:44:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 5.6 life cycle | ||
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Jan Ehrhardt in php.internals (Sun, 06 Dec 2015 13:14:57 +0100):
>See http://php.net/supported-versions.php
>
>Will PHP 5.6 go into 'security fixes only' on 28 Aug 2015 with a end of
>life on 28 Aug 2016? Or will we be postponing this a couple of months?
Oops. Corrected:
Will PHP 5.6 go into 'security fixes only' on 28 Aug 2016 with a end of
life on 28 Aug 2017? Or will we be postponing this a couple of months?
>BTW: An end-of-life in Dec 2016 will be in line wih the EOL of OpenSSL
>1.0.1: "Version 1.0.1 will be supported until 2016-12-31."
>http://openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html
Windows users will have a problem then after 2016-12-31. A way out would
be to compile PHP 5.6 in 2017 with OpenSSL 1.0.2.
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Jan