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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:11:49 +0800
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To: Ferenc Kovacs <tyrael@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposed timetable for PHP 5.6.0
From: aharvey@php.net (Adam Harvey)

On 17 January 2014 17:05, Ferenc Kovacs <tyrael@php.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyrael@php.net> wrote:
>> I plan to tag the the first alpha today, and release it tomorrow, so the
>> time for new RFCs are almost up.
>
> I had to recreate my dev environment as my home desktop got some hardware
> issues, and I didn't wanted to tag the release without a bit more testing=
.
> Hopefully I can tag the release today, and I will talk with Julien and th=
e
> windows build guys about the next possible release date.
>
> Sorry for the delay!

I'm quite happy about the delay, as it's allowed me to use a Friday
evening productively hacking together a skeletal draft of the PHP 5.6
migration guide =E2=80=94 it's not on the mirrors yet, but it is on
docs.php.net: http://docs.php.net/manual/en/migration56.php.

At this stage, 5.6 features aren't being documented outside of the
migration guide, since we're not at the feature freeze yet, so some of
the new features are only minimally documented. (For instance, there
are many variations of splat and variadic syntax that aren't covered
at present.) Once we hit feature freeze, they'll start getting proper
pages/sections in the language reference and will have more
comprehensive documentation (particularly if you help write it).

For developers who've committed significant code to 5.6, please make
sure your feature/deprecation/change is mentioned somewhere in there =E2=80=
=94
if it hasn't been, it's almost certainly because it wasn't in
UPGRADING, so please fix that. :) Please also feel free to jump in and
edit anything you're unhappy with! Some of the smaller changes were a
bit opaque.

Thanks,

Adam, who really doesn't want to spend the eventual 5.6.0 release day
the way he spent the 5.5.0 release day.