On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 05:33:21PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi devs, > > For focal the server team will be transitioning PHP to 7.4 over the > coming weeks. > > Since version 7.0, upstream PHP has adopted a regular release cadence, > with one release per year. Each release is supported for 2 years, plus a > third year of security critical fixes.[1] Changes from 7.3 to 7.4 are > modest, but the extra year of upstream support is a tangible benefit for > the Ubuntu LTS. > > The language binary, php7.4, is already sync'd to universe in focal. > Remaining parts of the stack are in process by Debian, but are expected > to enter experimental/universe soon. Initial build testing shows the > changes that have been queued in Debian's git package repos have > addressed most build issues, and will simply need synced/merged.
It's stuck in proposed due to failing autopkgtests of reverse dependencies, and it also depends on the icu transition. Hopefully icu is done soon, I guess I'd wait for this first before entangling another transition into it. I have added a transition tracker for php7.4. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
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