Hi
Am 2025-07-09 12:34, schrieb Christoph M. Becker:
The RFC at hand states:
| The RFC proposes to deprecate the listed functionality in PHP 8.5 and
| remove it in PHP 9 (except where otherwise noted).
That *might* give users only a year to fix the deprecated features,
what
might not match everybody's pace, though.
Each PHP version is supported for 4 years by the PHP project [1], thus
giving folks at least 4 years to handle each deprecation until they are
forced to upgrade to a supported PHP version.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus
[1] And possibly even longer by the various Linux distributions out
there. As an example PHP 7.4 is still supported by Debian in the
oldstable Bullseye branch and got its last update on 2025-03-19:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1630059/accepted-php74-7433-1deb11u8-source-into-oldstable-security/
