# 5.3 status

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/62101
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- Started by Rob Richards on 2012-08-09T14:51:52+00:00
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## #62101 — Rob Richards — 2012-08-09T14:51:52+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/62101#62101

Whats the status of 5.3? I have some changes that need to get into a 
couple of the xml based extensions in order for them to work with the 
next libxml2 release next month. Should I be putting these into 5.3 as well?

Rob

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## #62102 — Levi Morrison — 2012-08-09T15:10:24+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/62101#62102 · In reply to: #62101

> Whats the status of 5.3? I have some changes that need to get into a couple
> of the xml based extensions in order for them to work with the next libxml2
> release next month. Should I be putting these into 5.3 as well?
>
> Rob

By no means am I an official representative, but I'd like to see them
NOT put into the 5.3 series.  Security fixes I can understand, but we
WANT people to upgrade.  If we keep developing 5.3 then what's the
point of 5.4 and 5.5?

Levi

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## #62103 — Rasmus Lerdorf — 2012-08-09T15:18:25+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/62101#62103 · In reply to: #62102

> 
> > […]
> 
> By no means am I an official representative, but I'd like to see them
> NOT put into the 5.3 series.  Security fixes I can understand, but we
> WANT people to upgrade.  If we keep developing 5.3 then what's the
> point of 5.4 and 5.5?

Until we EOL 5.3 we should make sure it builds against current versions
of common things like libxml2. We also don't have APC ready for all the
new features in 5.4, so it isn't viable to upgrade to it yet for many sites.

-Rasmus

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## #62104 — Lester Caine — 2012-08-09T15:31:33+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/62101#62104 · In reply to: #62103

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
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> > […]
> Until we EOL 5.3 we should make sure it builds against current versions
> of common things like libxml2. We also don't have APC ready for all the
> new features in 5.4, so it isn't viable to upgrade to it yet for many sites.

Not just APC ... It would be useful to document all the extensions that are 
still only available in PHP5.3 ( or earlier )...

There seems to be a number of reasons ISP's are giving for not offering PHP5.4 
yet but getting a definitive answer seems impossible.

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## #62107 — Rasmus Lerdorf — 2012-08-09T16:01:54+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/62101#62107 · In reply to: #62104

> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > […]
> 
> Not just APC ... It would be useful to document all the extensions that
> are still only available in PHP5.3 ( or earlier )...
> 
> There seems to be a number of reasons ISP's are giving for not offering
> PHP5.4 yet but getting a definitive answer seems impossible.

There is no such answer. When we find an extension that hasn't been
fixed for 5.4 yet, we fix it. Outside of APC which is on a completely
different level, modifying extensions to work with 5.4 is trivial.

-Rasmus

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## #62109 — Rob Richards — 2012-08-09T18:46:08+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/62101#62109 · In reply to: #62107

> 
> > […]
> There is no such answer. When we find an extension that hasn't been
> fixed for 5.4 yet, we fix it. Outside of APC which is on a completely
> different level, modifying extensions to work with 5.4 is trivial.
>
> -Rasmus
>

Thanks. Committed then. Can someone do me a favor and make sure that the 
commit went properly. Just got my env setup for first time for the repo 
and to top it off git client hung on me during the push but I think it 
made it ok

Rob