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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 14.12.2016 at 23:29, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Niklas Keller <me@kelunik.com> wrote:
> 
>> 2016-12-14 12:23 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>:
>>
>>> 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] <http://php.net/supported-versions.php>
>>
>> It has support until the end of the year, so I guess there will be one
>> more release with regular fixes in early January.
> 
> 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

Thanks for the explanation, Ferenc! :-)

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Christoph M. Becker