RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.0.3 RC1 is available for testing - **** BC break ***

Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: yohgaki@gmail.com [mailto:yohgaki@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yasuo > Ohgaki > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:05 AM > To: Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net> > Cc: Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>; Remi Collet > <remi@fedoraproject.org>; internals@lists.php.net; Yasuo Ohgaki > <yohgaki@php.net> > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.0.3 RC1 is available for testing - **** BC break *** > > Hi Anatol, > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net> wrote: > > If you're willing to work on fixing BC breaches till next minor RC, it might be > the way to proceed. If on the next RC we see no signs of regression, so we could > take it into the next minor. Otherwise, if we see that there are still doubts on > stability, we could stop trying to bring those changes in a stable branch but go > for master. Yasuo, it's really up to your willingness to spend time on stabilizing, > maybe also checking the Horde tests where the issues was initially discovered, > and being aware of possible risk that it possibly wouldn't make it into stable. > Anyways for the upcoming final, releasing your patches seems risky. > > I'm sure unit test failures cannot be fixed. It's relying on old buggy behaviors. > Since I cannot fix users' unit tests, I fully agree to revert offending patches. In > return, we'll have buggy behaviors, but it shouldn't be fatal because users have > been living with them for a long time. > > Unlike other internal functions, session module functions expose many internal > data and logic to user space. Even if changes should not affect normal > operations, changes may break users' tests as they are testing abnormal cases > usually. For this reason, I'll not commit changes to released versions from now > on, if it changes exposed data/logic. e.g. Save handler execution order, session > data manipulation logic. > > Please let me know if I should revert them. If it is not burden for you, please > revert them by yourself. > Ext/session was reset to the state of 5.6.17 and 7.0.2 in the respective dev branches. The bug #69111 is refixed, it does crash in 5.6 only, so probably topic for the next final. Thanks Anatol