Microsoft to pull support for PHP


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Microsoft to pull support for PHP: Version 8? Exterminate, more like...
Born-again open-source fan Microsoft is celebrating 25 years of PHP by, er, pulling its support for the scripting language that is beloved (or dreaded) by server operators the world over.
Microsoft engineer Dale Hirt confirmed the change on the PHP mailing list, warning that the Windows behemoth was not "going to be supporting PHP for Windows in any capacity for version 8.0 and beyond."
Current versions, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4, will continue to receive support as per the community's cadence, which sees around two years of bug squashing followed by a year of security fixes. PHP 7.4 emerged last November, so Microsoft's benevolence should last until 2022 at which point the plug will be pulled.
Register reader Alain Williams, who tipped us off to Hirt's posting, remarked: "I suspect that it means that Microsoft will not provide any resources to make PHP 8 work but expect others to do so instead."
After thanking the Microsoft gang for its work over the years, PHP 8.0 Release Manager Sara Golemon said: "I won't say I'm not bummed," before expressing the hope that some sort of alternative might be worked out by the end of the year, when version 8 is due to drop.
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[PHP-DEV] Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows
Hello PHP Internals,
My name is Dale Hirt and I am the project manager for PHP inside Microsoft.
We currently support PHP with development and build efforts for PHP 7.3, and PHP 7.4. In addition,
we help with building PHP 7.2 on Windows when security fixes are required..However, as PHP 8.0 is now ramping up, we wanted to let the community know what our current plans
are going forward.We know that the current cadence is 2 years from release for bug fixes, and 1 year after that for
security fixes. This means that PHP 7.2 will be going out of support in November. PHP 7.3 will be
going into security fix mode only in November. PHP 7.4 will continue to have another year of bug
fix and then one year of security fixes. We are committed to maintaining development and building
of PHP on Windows for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 as long as they are officially supported. We are not,
however, going to be supporting PHP for Windows in any capacity for version 8.0 and beyond.
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Microsoft drops support for PHP
Microsoft drops support for PHP