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This is misleading. PHP 5 may have its support by PHP developers end, but it will still be supported by distributions like RHEL, CentOS, Debian 8, and Ubuntu 14
by GlitchMr 8y ago
This is misleading. PHP 5 may have its support by PHP developers end, but it will still be supported by distributions like RHEL, CentOS, Debian 8, and Ubuntu 14.04 where the support doesn't depend on PHP developers.
- jkaplowitz 8y agoDebian no longer supports Debian 8, although the commercially funded Debian LTS project run by the consultancy Freexian provides a lower level of best-effort support into 2020. And Ubuntu 14.04 won't be supported past next April, which while more than double the 10 weeks discussed in this article isn't all that far into the future. Beyond those two details, you're right. The broader point remains that support for older PHP will degrade rapidly from this point forward, even if a bit of it lingers on for a handful of years.