PHP 4 End of Life, February 5th 2008.
Yes, as what you read. The PHP developers have decided to announce that PHP 4 will be officially dropped from the project cycle. They need to concentrate on PHP 5, and the forthcoming PHP 6. As they’ve planned, any new feature of PHP will be made available to version 5.2 and above only. PHP 4 however, will still receive critical update until late 2008.
Frequently maintained projects like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, phpMyAdmin, PEAR, and phpBB shouldn’t be affected by this decision. This will mostly affect countless of web hosts out there, who serve millions of custom-made php scripts. This will be a very big headache.
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