com web/bugs: Add note regarding active vs. security support: www/how-to-report.php
| From: | Christoph Michael Becker | Date: | Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:00:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | com web/bugs: Add note regarding active vs. security support: www/how-to-report.php | ||
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Commit: 13ecc0245ad34f8af7e955064bc7d6c2f6240c17
Author: Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:00:03 +0100
Parents: 6f59aec8dc64e2129083805144bdd70b56998085
Branches: master
Link: http://git.php.net/?p=web/bugs.git;a=commitdiff;h=13ecc0245ad34f8af7e955064bc7d6c2f6240c17
Log:
Add note regarding active vs. security support
Cf. <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77126>.
Changed paths:
M www/how-to-report.php
Diff:
diff --git a/www/how-to-report.php b/www/how-to-report.php
index 7d1769b..a0a6b03 100644
--- a/www/how-to-report.php
+++ b/www/how-to-report.php
@@ -106,11 +106,17 @@ mailing lists</a>.</p>
<h2>Don't report bugs about old versions.</h2>
-<p>Every time a new version of PHP is released, hundreds of bugs are fixed. If
+<p>Every time a new version of PHP is released, dozens of bugs are fixed. If
you're using a version of PHP that is more than two revisions older than the
latest version, you should upgrade to the latest version to make sure the bug
you are experiencing still exists.</p>
+<p>Note that PHP branches which are no longer <a
+href="https://php.net/supported-versions.php">actively
supported</a> will
+receive fixes for critical security issues only. So please do not report
+non-security related bugs which do not affect any actively supported PHP
+branch.</p>
+
<h2>Only report one problem in each bug report.</h2>
<p>If you have encountered two bugs that don't appear to be related, create a