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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Branch off PHP-7.4 early
From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann)

Am 24.01.2019 um 15:52 schrieb Nikita Popov:
> * Create the PHP-7.4 branch now/soon, rather than in summer.
> * master will be PHP 8.0.
> * All changes are applied to the lowest applicable branch and then merged
> up as usual, including to PHP-7.4 and master.
> * NEWS mentions for bug fixes are only added up to PHP-7.3. They are not
> added on the PHP-7.4 branch, just like for master. (Excluding changes that
> are only in 7.4/8.0, of course.)
> * All feature additions can generally still go to the PHP-7.4 branch,
> there is no freeze.
> * Backwards incompatible changes and major internal API changes can go to
> master (assuming they are accepted through the usual processes).

Makes sense to me.