Re: PHP 5.6 end of active support

On 12/14/2016 02:29 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:

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

I want to say a huge thank you for doing this. When 5.6.0 was new I moved all sites I am responsible for to it, and I have started porting my other sites to 7.1 but haven't finished yet. This gives me a few months to make sure everything really does work as intended. 5.6.x IMHO was a fantastic branch throughout and I thank all the devs for it as I look forward to 7.1