On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote:

> One thing I forgot to mention: while you're considering Debian and Ubuntu
> support, make sure to also take into account MediaWiki support.
>
> Even if we upgrade our minimum PHP version now, older versions of
> MediaWiki with the 5.3 requirement will still be supported and receive
> security updates. So the only difference will be that people running Debian
> oldstable will be locked into our older version and not be able to upgrade
> to bleeding edge MediaWiki, which they probably won't do anyway considering
> they haven't even upgraded their Debian. :P


Specifically, 1.23, which is the current LTS (long-term support) release,
is supported until May 2017 (so that covers Debian/Ubuntu and almost covers
RedHat, but that one provides PHP 5.5 anyway).

The next LTS is due spring 2016 and will be supported until spring 2019 and
I don't think we want to get stuck on PHP 5.3 with that one.
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