On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ángel González <keis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/08/12 20:02, Kris Craig wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:13 AM, hakre <hanskren...@yahoo.de> wrote: > > > >> I have some simple questions about PHP 5.x End Of Life (EOL) dates: > >> > >> PHP 5.0 - Is there some official news-item or changelog entry on > php.netthat says at which date PHP 5.0 went End Of Life? > >> > >> PHP 5.2 - Does the "End Of Support" that was announced twice for PHP 5.2 > >> has the same meaning as "End Of Life"? > >> > >> Is there a reason why the naming has been changed btw? PHP 4 for example > >> was declared End Of Life but it looks like it wasn't much of a mode to > use > >> that terminology until the 2011 RFC about the release process came to > life. > >> > >> And what about EOL of PHP 5.3, is there a date? According to the new > >> release process it is already EOL because it's over three years now, > >> however the RFC vote was in that lifetime so I assume that probably > there > >> is some transistion phase. If so, is there a planned date? Any > >> thoughts/plans about PHP 5.3 EOL? > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> -- hakre > >> > > As far as I know (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong!), we provide > > legacy support to the previous tenths version increment only. In a > > practical sense, I think that essentially means EOL. Again, somebody > > please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I haven't seen any 5.2.x > commits/etc > > since 5.4 was introduced. It's no longer on the main downloads page. > > Whether it's "officially" EOL or not I'm not sure, but in a practical > > sense I think it basically is. > > > > --Kris > There should be a page like http://www.php.net/ancient-versions listing > the > versions with the date they went EOL and how much time has passed since > them. > Some scary warnings about "Known remote code execution vulnerabe" may be > good too. > The goal? To serve as single page where you point people when to > convince them > to upgrade. > > what should be the EOL date/version for the 5.2 branch? we released multiple versions after the first EOL announcement. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
