Hi, I'm wondering what happened to the planned release of PHP 4.4.3. The original release date (May 30th) has long passed and I haven't seen any response to Pierre's recent questions about the status of the release. From what I can see[1], no new release candidates were released either. Are there any issues preventing this release from happening? If so, I haven't seen them mentioned here.
Frankly, I find that kind of worrying. PHP 4.4.3 is supposed to fix a number of security issues that were fixed in PHP 5 eight weeks ago. Many of our users are still running on PHP 4 which means that they are all vulnerable and can't do anything about it (usually because their hosting services don't want to upgrade to PHP 5 for one reason or another). PHP has been criticised a lot for its security issues in the past, but it has gotten a lot better over the recent months, thanks to all of your hard work. Please don't put that at risk by delaying what can only be described as a critical security update. If I may add: Sometimes, discussions on this list give the impression that at least some of you would rather stop developing PHP 5 and move on to PHP 6 ASAP. While I can understand how attractive this must be, please don't forget that a lot of us out there in the "real world" are still dealing with PHP 4, legacy code, and hosting services that don't even want to upgrade to PHP 5 just yet for fear of breaking their customer's applications. So unless the proverbial killer application comes along that makes everybody switch to PHP 5 by the end of the week, please take into account that it's not looking like PHP 4 will go away anytime soon, as much as you may want to leave it behind. Please note that this is not meant as a "PHP sucks" or "PHP's security sucks" comment. This is just a friendly reminder that there are people out there that are still deploying applications that will have to run on PHP 4 and a plea for not neglecting that part of your user base. Thanks for your attention. regards, Dirk Haun (Maintainer, Geeklog 1.x) [1] We're one of the projects on the PhP4zy list; in fact, PHP 4.4.3RC1 is installed on the machine I'm posting this from. -- http://www.geeklog.net/ http://geeklog.info/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
