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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
