To be honest, the upgrade isn't that exciting. The only real worthwhile new feature is traits. Everything else is just random fixes in syntax. As for the timetable for this, PHP 5.3 isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so there's no way we can stop supporting it.
What I'm really excited about is PHP 5.5, which has generators, finally clauses, dereferencing of container literals, and a new password hashing API. Unfortunately it'll be literally a decade before we switch to that. :( *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>wrote: > For those of you wishfully waiting for the day we can require PHP 5.4 to > use MediaWiki feel free to add your wishes to: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/PHP_5.4<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PHP_5.4> > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
