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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 status
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 08/09/2012 11:31 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Not just APC ... It would be useful to document all the extensions that
> are still only available in PHP5.3 ( or earlier )...
> 
> There seems to be a number of reasons ISP's are giving for not offering
> PHP5.4 yet but getting a definitive answer seems impossible.

There is no such answer. When we find an extension that hasn't been
fixed for 5.4 yet, we fix it. Outside of APC which is on a completely
different level, modifying extensions to work with 5.4 is trivial.

-Rasmus