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To: Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Announcing PHP 5.5 security-only
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> wrote:
> Hi internals.
>
>
> As you may know/remember , PHP 5.5 has been released two years ago.
> We've released 26 versions so far (24 would be the "normal" computing, but
> we always got some bad releases, mainly from human failure factor).
>
> The actual stable 5.5 is PHP 5.5.26.
> This week, I'm going to tag the last 5.5 RC : 5.5.27RC.
> Then will follow the *last* "normal process" 5.5 release : 5.5.27.
>
> ***
> The PHP 5.5 branch is going to enter in security only, and in the same
> time, PHP 5.4 will finally die
> ***
>


You should mail such a headsup to announce@ couple of months before
the "final release date".
So if September 14th is the final release date, I'd say sending a
"REMINDER: 5.4 GOES SECURITY ONLY SEPT 14th" mail to announce@ July
14th (or August 14th?) would be nice.



-Hannes