Title: Deprecation and removal of PHP 5.6 Author: Brian Evans <grkni...@gentoo.org> Posted: 2019-08-27 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/postfixadmin 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 will or already 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
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