Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

Posted 6 months ago by Dale Hirt via internals — view source

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Hello PHP Internals,

My name is Dale Hirt and I am the project manager for PHP inside Microsoft.

We currently support PHP with development and build efforts for PHP 7.3, and PHP 7.4. In addition, we help with building PHP 7.2 on Windows when security fixes are required..

However, as PHP 8.0 is now ramping up, we wanted to let the community know what our current plans are going forward.

We know that the current cadence is 2 years from release for bug fixes, and 1 year after that for security fixes. This means that PHP 7.2 will be going out of support in November. PHP 7.3 will be going into security fix mode only in November. PHP 7.4 will continue to have another year of bug fix and then one year of security fixes. We are committed to maintaining development and building of PHP on Windows for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 as long as they are officially supported. We are not, however, going to be supporting PHP for Windows in any capacity for version 8.0 and beyond.

Please feel free to direct any questions to me at [email protected]mailto:[email protected].

Dale Hirt
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Posted 6 months ago by Sara Golemon — view source

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 1:48 PM Dale Hirt via internals <
[email protected]> wrote:

My name is Dale Hirt and I am the project manager for PHP inside
Microsoft.

We are not, however, going to be supporting PHP for Windows in any
capacity for version 8.0 and beyond.

Hi Dale!

First, let me convey all our appreciation for the work Microsoft has put
into supporting PHP on Windows over the years. Thank you also for letting
us know in advance to not expect 8.0 builds. I guess this decision must
have only been made very recently since 8.0.0alpha1 and alpha2 builds were
produced already.

I won't say I'm not bummed, of course. Nevertheless, y'all gotta do what
you gotta do. I'm sure we can work out an alternative by the end of the
year.

All the best,
-Sara Golemon (PHP 8.0 Release Manager)

Posted 6 months ago by Dale Hirt via internals — view source

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Hi Sara,

Thank you for responding back.

We have tooling in place to allow for building and testing. We did build the latest bits on 8.0 to test some things, but we are not moving forward with any more builds.

Please let me know how we can help with the transition as it moves forward.

Thank you for your time,

Dale

From: Sara Golemon [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 1:01 PM
To: Dale Hirt [email protected]
Cc: PHP Internals [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Greg Arnits [email protected]; Antoni Hathaway [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PHP-DEV] Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

My name is Dale Hirt and I am the project manager for PHP inside Microsoft.
We are not, however, going to be supporting PHP for Windows in any capacity for version 8.0 and beyond.

Hi Dale!
First, let me convey all our appreciation for the work Microsoft has put into supporting PHP on Windows over the years. Thank you also for letting us know in advance to not expect 8.0 builds. I guess this decision must have only been made very recently since 8.0.0alpha1 and alpha2 builds were produced already.

I won't say I'm not bummed, of course. Nevertheless, y'all gotta do what you gotta do. I'm sure we can work out an alternative by the end of the year.

All the best,
-Sara Golemon (PHP 8.0 Release Manager)