On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Trevor Parscal
<tparscal(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
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.
Bryan
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