Hello internals,
This is a message from your Release Managers reminding you that PHP 8's
first alpha is happening in 4 weeks.
You can follow PHP's 8 schedule on https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80.
I'd like to remind you as well that Feature Freeze is scheduled to happen
on Tuesday, July 28th, 2020, at 24:00 UTC.
After Feature Freeze, no more changes to APIs, ABIs, and internal
structures are allowed, unless agreed upon by internals, and the Release
Managers.
Anything after that needs to wait until the next version (8.1), or the next
major version (9.0) if you are breaking any backward compatibility.
Please make sure to start the voting for RFCs by July 13th, so they can
make it into PHP 8 (if approved, of course).
Hope you all are staying home and safe!
- Gabriel Caruso
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 6:02 PM Gabriel Caruso carusogabriel34@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello internals,
This is a message from your Release Managers reminding you that PHP 8's
first alpha is happening in 4 weeks.You can follow PHP's 8 schedule on https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80.
I'd like to remind you as well that Feature Freeze is scheduled to happen
on Tuesday, July 28th, 2020, at 24:00 UTC.After Feature Freeze, no more changes to APIs, ABIs, and internal
structures are allowed, unless agreed upon by internals, and the Release
Managers.Anything after that needs to wait until the next version (8.1), or the next
major version (9.0) if you are breaking any backward compatibility.Please make sure to start the voting for RFCs by July 13th, so they can
make it into PHP 8 (if approved, of course).
Thanks for the reminder Gabriel!
One small correction: As the name suggests, feature freeze is the time by
when all new features should land. It serves primarily as a cutoff for
RFCs. However, it is not the ABI freeze. Internal API/ABI changes are
still allowed after feature freeze, without need for approval beyond the
usual review. ABI freeze will occur at a later date (IIRC usually around
the start of the RC phase).
Regards,
Nikita