PHP 4 Product Lifecycle Comes to an End
Posted on July 13, 2007, under Development, Web Hosting.
PHP.net has announced that the product life cycle for PHP 4 has come to an end.
Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
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. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
Even though this is great news for the PHP community, there are a still a lot of Web Hosts that have been slow to upgrade to PHP 5 on their servers. A lot of claims that PHP 4 was more secure and stable. It seems they might have created an upgrade nightmare for themselves. It will be that much more difficult to go out and make sure all of their clients scripts are compatible with PHP 5 and complete the upgrade on all of their servers.
Non-the-less a great milestone for PHP. Congratulations!
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