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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 status
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 08/09/2012 11:10 AM, Levi Morrison wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Rob Richards <rrichards@cdatazone.org> wrote:
>> Whats the status of 5.3? I have some changes that need to get into a couple
>> of the xml based extensions in order for them to work with the next libxml2
>> release next month. Should I be putting these into 5.3 as well?
>>
>> Rob
> 
> By no means am I an official representative, but I'd like to see them
> NOT put into the 5.3 series.  Security fixes I can understand, but we
> WANT people to upgrade.  If we keep developing 5.3 then what's the
> point of 5.4 and 5.5?

Until we EOL 5.3 we should make sure it builds against current versions
of common things like libxml2. We also don't have APC ready for all the
new features in 5.4, so it isn't viable to upgrade to it yet for many sites.

-Rasmus