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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:56:58 +0100
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bump required libcurl version to 7.17.1
From: oludonsexy@gmail.com (Olumide Samson)

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Why not the most recent and stable version?

I'm thinking modern version has many bugs fixed and many vulnerabilities
fixed, even with improvements that make things more faster and lighter...

Just My thoughts.

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 1:55 AM Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:

> Good morning Christoph,
>
> I would even bump it to a much more recent version for 8.x or we will
> have the same issue during 8.x lifetime (we may anyway but starting
> with a 10+ years old version makes it much more likely).
>
> Best,
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:50 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > quite a while ago I've submitted
> > <https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4917>, but received no feedback on
> > that so far, so I'm writing this mail.
> >
> > The pull request is about bumping the required libcurl version for
> > ext/curl to 7.17.1, which has been released twelve years ago.  The main
> > reason for the bump is to remove most of the obsolete constants which
> > have been scheduled for removal from libcurl for more than ten years.
> > The fact that we still use them, has almost bitten us not long ago[1],
> > so I think that PHP 8 is a good opportunity to finally remove them.
> >
> > If there are no objections, I'll merge PR #4917 in a week.
> >
> > [1] <https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4601>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Christoph
> >
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