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Subject: Re: libmbfl API changes in PHP 7.3
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 10.07.2018 at 10:55, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:

> Jan Ehrhardt in php.internals (Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:30:33 +0200):
>> The change was introduced in this commit by nikic:
>> https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/b3c1d9d1118438a3dae3544447db2b39ca5cfa25
> 
> What strikes me: this change was made to the master branch almost a year
> ago, at the time PHP 7.2.0 Beta 1 was released. Weird moment for a BC
> break.

It seems to me that is actually the best time regarding our release
cycle: pushing breaking changes to *master* as early as possible after a
release branch has been forked, so there would still be time to revert
or to cater to related issues.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker