Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:97419 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 35041 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2016 22:51:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Dec 2016 22:51:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=alice@librelamp.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=alice@librelamp.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain librelamp.com designates 45.79.96.192 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: alice@librelamp.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 45.79.96.192 librelamp.com Received: from [45.79.96.192] ([45.79.96.192:33804] helo=librelamp.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id DF/F4-21185-AECC1585 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:51:22 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-50-184-37-123.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [50.184.37.123]) by librelamp.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EFEE911A6 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:51:18 +0000 (UTC) To: internals@lists.php.net References: Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:51:17 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 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: alice@librelamp.com (Alice Wonder) On 12/14/2016 02:29 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Niklas Keller wrote: > >> 2016-12-14 12:23 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker : >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, >>> 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with >>> "normal" bug fixes (but only security fixes)? >>> >>> [1] >>> >> >> It has support until the end of the year, so I guess there will be one >> more release with regular fixes in early January. >> >> Regards, Niklas >> > > yep, that's my plan, and the PHP-5.6 branch will be closed for regular > bugfixes after tagging 5.6.30RC1: > http://git.php.net/?p=karma.git;a=blob;f=hooks/pre-receive;h=fdff955c6b13c434aab40cb35cf002ab7c7eb146;hb=HEAD#l32 > from that point on only RMs can push changes to the PHP-5.6 branch. > going into extended support also means that there won't be RCs as we don't > have regular bugfixes and we won't have a release each month, only when > there are security fixes ready to be released for 5.6 > I want to say a huge thank you for doing this. When 5.6.0 was new I moved all sites I am responsible for to it, and I have started porting my other sites to 7.1 but haven't finished yet. This gives me a few months to make sure everything really does work as intended. 5.6.x IMHO was a fantastic branch throughout and I thank all the devs for it as I look forward to 7.1