On 2013/08/09 12:43, Robert Nagy wrote: > Hi > > So as you might have noticed already php 5.2 got removed from the tree > because it has been end-of-life since Jan 2011. It has been kept in tree > for people to be able transfer over to 5.3 easily. > Since php 5.3 is also reaching end-of-life, php 5.4 and 5.5 has been > commited and a direct update path from php 5.2 to 5.4 has been configured > for people still having php 5.2 installed. > The reason for doing this is obvious, 5.3 will be dead, however we are > keeping that in tree as well because the transition from 5.2 to 5.3 is > better (e.g. there is still register_globals support in 5.3).
Another advantage of 5.3 is that Suhosin is available there, and it hasn't been ported to 5.4/5.5 yet..
