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Topic: PHP 5.3 end of life, PHP 5.4 soon security only fixes

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Jan-E

Joined: 09 Mar 2012
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Location: Amsterdam, NL, EU

Posted: Fri 15 Aug '14 0:58 Post subject: PHP 5.3 end of life, PHP 5.4 soon security only fixes

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PHP 5.3 has really reached end of life now.

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The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.29. This release marks the end of life of the PHP 5.3 series. Future releases of this series are not planned. All PHP 5.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to the current stable version of PHP 5.5 or previous stable version of PHP 5.4, which are supported till at least 2016 and 2015 respectively.

PHP 5.3.29 contains about 25 potentially security related fixes backported from PHP 5.4 and 5.5.

For source downloads of PHP 5.3.29, please visit our downloads page on http://www.php.net/downloads.php
Windows binaries can be found on http://windows.php.net/download/

The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog at http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.29

For helping your migration to newer versions please refer to our migration guides for updates from PHP 5.3 to 5.4 and from PHP 5.4 to 5.5. On http://php.net/migration54 and http://php.net/migration55 accordingly.

Johannes Schlüter
PHP 5.3 Release Master

Probably on the release date of PHP 5.6.0 in a few weeks from now, the status of PHP 5.4 will change into 'security fixes only'.

I have also made final builds for PHP 5.3 with OpenSSL 0.9.8zb:

https://phpdev.toolsforresearch.com/php-5.3.29-nts-Win32-VC9-x86-098.zip
https://phpdev.toolsforresearch.com/php-5.3.29-Win32-VC9-x86-098.zip

There should be no problem mixing the extensions in my '0.9.8' builds with the official php.net binaries. I wil not regularly update the 098 builds. There is a chance I will do that when a new OpenSSL 0.9.8 is released, but I will not promise anything.

I am still an active user of PHP 5.3 with OpenSSL 1.0.1 ('i' at the moment), so I will regularly make new '101' builds, in fact at every new PHP 5.4 version. Current PHP 5.3 builds with OpenSSL 1.0.1:

https://phpdev.toolsforresearch.com/php-5.3.29-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
https://phpdev.toolsforresearch.com/php-5.3.29-Win32-VC9-x86.zip

Do not mix the extensions that support OpenSSL with the php.net binaries...

Jan-E

Joined: 09 Mar 2012
Posts: 1248
Location: Amsterdam, NL, EU

Posted: Fri 17 Oct '14 10:48 Post subject:

I upgraded PHP 5.3 with OpenSSL 0.9.8zc: https://phpdev.toolsforresearch.com/php-5.3.29-nts-Win32-VC9-x86-098.zip https://phpdev.toolsforresearch.com/php-5.3.29-Win32-VC9-x86-098.zip

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