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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 18:28:28 +0000
To: Peter Kokot <petk@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bumping minimum Apache version to 2.4
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From: internals@gpb.moe ("Gina P. Banyard")

On Saturday, 29 June 2024 at 23:58, Peter Kokot <petk@php.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>=20
> Perhaps you're not aware that the PHP build system currently still
> supports building apache2handler SAPI for Apache 2.0 and 2.2 branches.
> Apache 2.2 has been marked as EOL in December 2017 and doesn't receive
> security patches. Also, most Linux distributions and packages mostly
> support 2.4 as minimum by now.
>=20
> See: https://forum.apachehaus.com/news-general-discussion/apache-2-2-user=
s-your-time-is-running-out/
>=20
> In this pull request, support for Apache 2.0 and 2.2 is being removed:
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/14664
>=20
> In Autotools build system, there isn't much changed except the version
> is checked, on Windows there will be configure option
> --enable-apache2-2handler removed and --enable-apache2-4handler
> becomes an alias of --enable-apache2handler configure option.
>=20
> Let me know if you find any server that can't or hasn't been upgraded
> to Apache 2.4 yet and if this should be postponed after PHP 8.4,
> otherwise merge is on its way for PHP 8.4.

I am also in favour of removing support for this in PHP 8.4.

Best regards,

Gina P. Banyard