PHP 4 - R.I.P.

[Gaddis, Jeremy L.]

Davis, Jared Scott wrote:
> Is Red Hat going to finally support PHP 5 now?  I had to compile 5
> from source and updates via up2date are non-existent until RH
> supports it.  

[snip]

> The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will
> continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will
> be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical
> security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08.

My guess is that RH will support PHP4 at least until then, and possibly
even afterwards (doing their own updates), but it's just that -- a
guess.


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