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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Announcing PHP 5.5 security-only
From: aharvey@php.net (Adam Harvey)

On 22 June 2015 at 14:10, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> ***
>> The PHP 5.5 branch is going to enter in security only, and in the same
>> time, PHP 5.4 will finally die
>> ***
>
> I think http://php.net/supported-versions.php says we end 5.4 support on
> 14 Sep 2015 so we have 2 more releases? Unless we have reason to change
> it or that page is wrong?

By default, the EOL dates are automatically calculated based on when
the first release on a branch occurred, but these can be overridden as
needed =E2=80=94 see https://github.com/php/web-php/blob/master/include/bra=
nches.inc#L5-L21
for the gory details. I believe I set the 5.4 dates based on e-mails
last year, but don't have the references to hand.

If we have specific dates in mind for 5.4 and 5.5, I'm happy to update
the Web site to match (and do whatever Twitter publicity is required
via @official_php).

> In general, it would be nice to have a pre-announced final release
> instead of announcing it post-factum.

Agreed.

Adam