On 14-09-23 12:30 PM, Oli Warner wrote: > We had a question on Ask Ubuntu that really got me thinking today: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/527533/ > > - PHP 5.3 from 12.04 has already ended its community security support period > - PHP 5.5 from 14.04 will be dead by mid-2016 > > Basically, PHP version die a lot quicker than our LTS releases... > But PHP upgrades also have backwards incompatibilities so SRUing them through > is > haphazard. > > So what's the plan? Is somebody manually backporting fixes? >
Yes, like most packages in Ubuntu, the security team backports security fixes, including for versions that are no longer supported by upstream. Marc. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
