Pull Request: https://github.com/php/web-php/pull/764
Author: cedric-anne
I work on a company that develops an open-source application that is using PHP
as its server language. Most of the time, our application is installed, by
people who are unfamiliar with the PHP ecosystem, on a server whose maintenance
is unfortunately often neglected.
In our application installation/update process, we would like to recommend
upgrading to a newer version of PHP when the server is using an unmaintained
version, or a version for which a security issue has been fixed. This features
requires to be able to access a list of releases that can be easilly parsed by
a script.
I propose to add a list of PHP releases, into JSON format, directly on
`www.php.net` website.
With current proposal, accessing `/releases/releases.list.json.php` would
return the complete list of PHP releases, in following format:
```json
[
{
"version": "8.2.4",
"date": "2023-03-16",
"active_branch": true,
"security": false
},
{
"version": "8.2.3",
"date": "2023-02-14",
"active_branch": true,
"security": true
},
...
{
"version": "7.4.33",
"date": "2022-11-03",
"active_branch": false,
"security": true
},
...
{
"version": "3.0.x (latest)",
"date": "2000-10-20",
"active_branch": false,
"security": false
}
]
```
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