commit: fb27e94bd393e3f670ec9018528920539829fa56 Author: Brian Evans <grknight <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Fri Aug 30 20:02:27 2019 +0000 Commit: Brian Evans <grknight <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Fri Aug 30 20:02:27 2019 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=fb27e94b
Deprecation announcement of PHP 5.6 branch This is a potential major change for older software so a news item will promptly alert our users. Other major distros have dropped it in their LTS and this is the next step for us as well. Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight <AT> gentoo.org> .../2019-08-30-php-5_6-deprecation.en.txt | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) diff --git a/2019-08-30-php-5_6-deprecation/2019-08-30-php-5_6-deprecation.en.txt b/2019-08-30-php-5_6-deprecation/2019-08-30-php-5_6-deprecation.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84562be --- /dev/null +++ b/2019-08-30-php-5_6-deprecation/2019-08-30-php-5_6-deprecation.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Title: Deprecation and removal of PHP 5.6 +Author: Brian Evans <grkni...@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2019-08-30 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-lang/php:5.6 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/haru +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/magickwand +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-bbcode +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-cairo +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-dbx +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-htscanner +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-libevent +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-memcache +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-mongo +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-mysqlnd_ms +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-mysqlnd_qc +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-sphinx +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-spl_types +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-svn +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-xrange +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/suhosin +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/xcache +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/xhprof +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-apcu:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-dbase:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-http:2 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-mailparse:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-memcached:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-oauth:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-propro:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-ps:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-raphf:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-rrd:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-ssh2:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-stomp:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-xdiff:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/pecl-yaml:0 +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/twig[extension] +Display-If-Installed: dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_mysql +Display-If-Installed: media-gfx/exact-image[php] +Display-If-Installed: sci-geosciences/mapserver[php,php_targets_php5-6] +Display-If-Installed: www-apps/rutorrent:3.4-r1 +Display-If-Installed: www-server/nginx-unit[php56] + +The Gentoo PHP Team is announcing the deprecation and future removal of +PHP 5.6. As of October 1, 2019, PHP 5.6 will be masked for removal. +Since some may consider this a critical package, we have decided on a +longer than normal 90 day removal period. + +Other distributions have already or will have moved to PHP 7.2 by the end of +the year. Currently, we are using a backport repository to keep +security updates in line with the main releases. However, we feel this +is the right time to remove this branch as maintenance burden will +likely only increase. + +To that end, the long list of PHP 5 only extensions must accompany its +removal. Many of which are long ignored by their upstream maintainers +and have no replacements. Some packages listed here have PHP 5 only +slots which are included as reminders to upgrade. + +Some packages do have replacements: +dev-php/pecl-memcache can be replaced by dev-php/pecl-memcached with + some small code modifications +dev-php/pecl-mongo has been superceded by dev-php/mongodb +dev-php/pecl-libevent should be replaced by dev-php/pecl-event + with code changes +dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_mysql should be easily replaced by + dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_mysqli with minor configuration changes
