On 25.06.2018 at 14:30, Zeev Suraski wrote:

> What this list is - a collection of directions around which we've performed 
> varying amounts of research (some of them quite a lot, like JIT), that I 
> think is strong grounds for us to start discussing a PHP 8 timeline, and 
> making PHP 7.3 the last feature release in the PHP 7.x family.  If we had to 
> come up with an educated guess as to when PHP 8 could be ready to be released 
> based on the abovementioned featureset, we're probably talking about 2-2.5yrs 
> away (i.e. mid/late 2020).  We can also consider having a very slim PHP 7.4 
> release sometime in 2019 that wouldn't add any functionality, but that would 
> give us an opportunity to deprecate anything that we missed in 7.3 that truly 
> requires deprecation - while still allowing folks to prepare for 8.0 ahead of 
> time.

Why not stick with our yearly release cycle, and ship 7.4.0 in Dec 2019
and 8.0.0 in Dec 2020?

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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