Re: PHP 5.6 end of active support

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Niklas Keller <me@kelunik.com> wrote: > 2016-12-14 12:23 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>: > >> Hi! >> >> The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, >> 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with >> "normal" bug fixes (but only security fixes)? >> >> [1] <http://php.net/supported-versions.php> >> > > It has support until the end of the year, so I guess there will be one > more release with regular fixes in early January. > > Regards, Niklas > yep, that's my plan, and the PHP-5.6 branch will be closed for regular bugfixes after tagging 5.6.30RC1: http://git.php.net/?p=karma.git;a=blob;f=hooks/pre-receive;h=fdff955c6b13c434aab40cb35cf002ab7c7eb146;hb=HEAD#l32 from that point on only RMs can push changes to the PHP-5.6 branch. going into extended support also means that there won't be RCs as we don't have regular bugfixes and we won't have a release each month, only when there are security fixes ready to be released for 5.6