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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.x Documentend End Of Life Dates
From: keisial@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1ngel_Gonz=E1lez?=)

On 01/08/12 20:02, Kris Craig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:13 AM, hakre <hanskrentel@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
>> I have some simple questions about PHP 5.x End Of Life (EOL) dates:
>>
>> PHP 5.0 - Is there some official news-item or changelog entry on php.netthat says at which date PHP 5.0 went End Of Life?
>>
>> PHP 5.2 - Does the "End Of Support" that was announced twice for PHP 5.2
>> has the same meaning as "End Of Life"?
>>
>> Is there a reason why the naming has been changed btw? PHP 4 for example
>> was declared End Of Life but it looks like it wasn't much of a mode to use
>> that terminology until the 2011 RFC about the release process came to life.
>>
>> And what about EOL of PHP 5.3, is there a date? According to the new
>> release process it is already EOL because it's over three years now,
>> however the RFC vote was in that lifetime so I assume that probably there
>> is some transistion phase. If so, is there a planned date? Any
>> thoughts/plans about PHP 5.3 EOL?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> -- hakre
>>
> As far as I know (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong!), we provide
> legacy support to the previous tenths version increment only.  In a
> practical sense, I think that essentially means EOL.  Again, somebody
> please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I haven't seen any 5.2.x commits/etc
> since 5.4 was introduced.  It's no longer on the main downloads page.
>  Whether it's "officially" EOL or not I'm not sure, but in a practical
> sense I think it basically is.
>
> --Kris
There should be a page like http://www.php.net/ancient-versions listing the
versions with the date they went EOL and how much time has passed since
them.
Some scary warnings about "Known remote code execution vulnerabe" may be
good too.
The goal? To serve as single page where you point people when to
convince them
to upgrade.