On December 16th the PHP development team announced the release of PHP 5.2.16 as the end of support for PHP 5.2; and encouraging developers to upgrade source code to PHP 5.3. With official support no longer available for 5.2, how long will it take before the mass of hosting providers transition to PHP 5.3? If left to the hosting providers own devices, as shown in the past, it could take some time before we see 5.3 as the de facto minimum version. As a community, if we push hard to provide our code for 5.3 and move away from 5.2, we can in effect push the hands of the hosting providers to offer PHP 5.3. With all the benefits of 5.3, we need to push our technology forward and not get lost with time. You can read the official news release, check out the ChangeLog for PHP 5.2.16, or beef up with the PHP 5.3 Migration Guide.

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