Re: php.net Site running on older php version

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:53, kuldeep kamboj <kuldeepk1979@gmail.com> wrote: > Sir, > > I checked the php.net site HTTP response headers and shocked to see that it > still running on php 5.2.17 and apache 1.3.41. Is their are any specific > reason to uses older version. While it is recommended by php.net site itself > to users to use 5.3 instead of 5.2.  Also apache version is look like > ancient. > 5.2.17 was the last release in the 5.2 series, released earlier this year. A good chunk of our mirrors run 5.3, but it has extremely hard for us to force the 100+ volunteers to keep up, especially since many of them run stock PHP from various 3rd party repositories. If you search hard enough, you will even see some running 5.1.6 as that apparently is the only "supported version" by some stupid linux distributions. The website itself doesn't actually care, and it works flawlessly with PHP4.3.0, and probably even earlier. It also works just fine with the current 5.4.0alpha (there is one mirror running it..). We are pretty well aware of the changes in PHP and possible issues old versions can cause. As noted in our mirroring guidelines (http://php.net/mirroring) we prefer if mirror maintainers run 5.3, but we have very little control over it :( -Hannes