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From: internals@gpb.moe ("Gina P. Banyard")

On Wednesday, 4 February 2026 at 14:42, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.=
com> wrote:
>=20
> Where as I would, because we catch flack every version for how many "smal=
l" BC breaks we have. It hinders people's ability to upgrade and generates =
bad PR for PHP routinely.
>=20
> Majors exist for a reason.

PHP does not follow SemVer.
Minor BC breaks are accepted via our policy.
And as Tim said, waiting multiple years for a consistency fix (which frankl=
y in my opinion this is more a bug fix) is completely ludicrous.

But as usual none of this would be a problem if we didn't bundle 14 000 ext=
ensions and the standard library being so massive and shoved into a single =
extension.
As then, the core language and extension APIs could evolve at different pac=
es, and thus following SemVer would at least be a potential consideration.


Best regards,

Gina P. Banyard