Brion Vibber wrote:
I _think_ we've got all the 4.4.0 reference-handling kinks worked out in 1.5/HEAD now, so I would not object to that. Might be worth a quick home benchmark first though.
If I understand the release notes correctly, PHP 4.4.0 gives notices whereas PHP 4.3.11 just silently corrupted the heap. So it's not necessary to fix all the new notices before we upgrade. Rather, we should upgrade PHP ASAP and encourage MediaWiki users (especially users of old MW versions) to do the same.
-- Tim Starling