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Subject: PHP 5.3.9 and is_a changes
From: clint@ubuntu.com (Clint Byrum)

Hi everyone. I'm trying to plan things for Ubuntu's upcoming 12.04 LTS
release. LTS stands for Long Term Support, and it will be supported by
Canonical for 5 years. Because of this, I really want to ship a version
of PHP that has an is_a() behavior that will be consistent with any
future 5.3.x releases.

We just recently updated to 5.3.8 in the release that will become 12.04
(precise pangolin) somewhat accidentally by following Debian's lead. We
may need to cherry pick the is_a() reversion into this release, but what
I'd rather do is just ship 5.3.9.

The release date is April 26 2012, can anyone tell me if 5.3.9 is expected
by then? Ideally it would be much much earlier than that so users have
time to test. And also can somebody please confirm for me that 5.3.9
will have the is_a() behavior that one would expect all future versions
of PHP 5.3 to have?

Thanks!