2014-02-18 19:14 GMT+01:00 Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if possible.
Agreed, but right now both Debian oldstable and Ubuntu LTS are running on PHP 5.3. I'm pretty sure (last time I checked) that both reach their EOL sometime this summer, like in July or something. Once that happens we can safely stop supporting 5.3 with the next MediaWiki release.
Ubuntu Server LTS versions have 5 years of support, so 12.04 will not be EOL until April of 2017. PHP 5.3 will be EOL in July of 2014. I'm sure that 3 year difference will be a major pain point for the Ubuntu security team.
Also Ubuntu Server LTS 10.04 (aka Lucid Lynx) will EOF in April 2015. They have PHP 5.3.2 now (see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Version_timeline)
Cristian (who had recently an issue with this since the latest CiviCRM versions require PHP >= 5.3.3) -__-''