Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:97416 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 27184 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2016 21:08:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Dec 2016 21:08:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=dclarke@blastwave.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=dclarke@blastwave.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain blastwave.org from 209.17.115.110 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: dclarke@blastwave.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.17.115.110 atl4mhob17.myregisteredsite.com Received: from [209.17.115.110] ([209.17.115.110:53668] helo=atl4mhob17.myregisteredsite.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 93/B3-21185-0D4B1585 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:08:34 -0500 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.77.36]) by atl4mhob17.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uBEL8S6F018926 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:08:28 -0500 Received: (qmail 26809 invoked by uid 0); 14 Dec 2016 21:08:28 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 99.253.103.29 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.41?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@99.253.103.29) by 0 with ESMTPA; 14 Dec 2016 21:08:27 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <59f05c89-68d3-2ccb-f3c6-b3b5018de24e@blastwave.org> <7942aee7-2631-b904-d0d5-c92a8921e4f7@blastwave.org> Message-ID: <4cf298ab-4a2d-43a0-dc62-e5909e992edd@blastwave.org> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:08:27 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support From: dclarke@blastwave.org (Dennis Clarke) On 12/14/2016 03:48 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Dennis Clarke > wrote: > >> On 12/14/2016 03:31 PM, Marco Pivetta wrote: >> >>> See https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php >>> >> >> I see. >> >> I guess the question has to be "why is the 5.6.x codebase only to receive >> security fixes for a very brief while into 2017" ? Just >> curious what the thinking is here. >> > > PHP 5.6 receives security fixes for the entirety of 2017 and 2018, not "a > very brief while into 2017". > Sorry ... I was looking at the 5.5 line there. The 5.6.x line seems to be very reasonable and safe. Dennis