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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date
From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones)



On 9/11/2015 6:15 am, Anatol Belski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After doing the last evaluations in the RMs circle before going for 7.0.0
> RTM preparations, we came to the conclusion that the current state does not
> look reasonable to be packaged as the final release.
>
> The RCs before RC6 was looking acceptable, which gave the reason to announce
> the planned RTM date on Nov 12th as final. From the todays perspective, the
> most of the issues discovered and fixed since RC6 are still minor by
> themselves - 7 crashes (bug #70805 rather critical), and 3 functionality
> regressions. However, given the amount and the combination of them
> altogether, the state is in our opinion unsuitable for starting the life
> cycle of the next major.
>
> Thus, resuming the pre-release cycle seems in our opinion the right thing to
> do ATM. Hence this writing to inform the community about the intention and
> to gather the opinions. PHP 7 is still going down the home stretch and is
> very close to the finish, the next RC can be well the last. Though we'd
> better ensuring the quality as many times as needed before, instead of
> casually disservicing the consumers.
>
> Regards
>
> Anatol


OCI8 still has a mem leak or two that our developer is looking at, so a delay would
be good.

Chris

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