Over a year has passes since the original ‘PHP 4 end of life announcement‘ on 13-Jul-2007 from PHP.net. PHP 5 had been out for 3 years and PHP 6 was on its way. PHP.net was announcing they were threw with PHP 4 support by the end of the year, and crucial security fixes till 08-Aug-2008. Today I went to PHP.nets home page to find that the news post from 07-Aug-2008 was still the top artical, announcing ‘PHP 4.4.9 released!‘ encouraging all whom still use PHP 4 to upgrade to this version, as it is the last and most secure release, fixing such things as memnstr() and mbstring.func_overload. As I recall they said the same thing about ‘PHP 4.4.8 Release‘ on 03-Jan-2008. With all that is going on with PHP 5 I sure hope they leave PHP 4 in the dust and move on like they so enthusiastically encourage there users to do.

Posted in Version Release
Tags: PHP 4, PHP 5, Security, Upgrade