Re: PHP 5.6 life cycle

On Dec 6, 2015 11:32 PM, "Ferenc Kovacs" <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015. dec. 6. 13:15 ezt írta ("Jan Ehrhardt" <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl>): > > > > 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? > > > > 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 > > -- > > Jan > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > Since the rfc for 5.7 failed the voting I've personally assumed that we > don't want to support the 5.x series after the normal lifecycle for 5.6: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php57 > > Most of my arguments for 5.7 was the same as Zeev and orhers listed here in > this thread but the majority shared the opinion that the support left for > 5.6 is sufficient and we shouldn't prolong the support for 5.x as it will > just delay the adoption for 7.0 Exactly. I am surprised to see ideas about postponing our fixed release cycles.