June 2014 on internals@php

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Before really talking about internals@: some of you have come see me during the PHPTour (a 2-days event organized in France by the AFUP — it took place this year on June 23rd and 24th in Lyon) to speak about this series of posts I’ve been writing for about a year and a half (about 6 months in English), thank me and encourage me, telling me this allows you to keep track of what’s going on around PHP’s development. Thanks!

June 2014 came back down to a reasonable 493 messages on PHP’s internals@ mailing-list, after a month of May with more than 800 mails, including some long discussions about phpng.

As a graph representing the number of mails per month for the last three years, we’d get (the full history since 1998 is available here):

The release of PHP 5.6 keeps getting closer: on June 6th, Ferenc Kovacs announced beta 4, which should be the last version before the RC phase.

Indeed, two weeks later, PHP 5.6’s firt Release Candidate has been published !

According to RFC: Define PHP 5.3 end of life, the End Of Life of PHP 5.3 is fixed to one year after the release of PHP 5.5 — which took place on June 20th, 2013.

As the last bugfix release of PHP 5.3 has been published six months ago, Stas Malyshev said a last release would be published soon (probably in July), to fix a few remaining bugs.

Ferenc Kovacs noted it would be useful to insist on the fact there will not be any additional future release of PHP 5.3 — and it’s more than about time for people to switch to more recent versions!

Pierre Joye posted about a new tool which is currently being developed, to install PHP extensions: RFC: Pickle.

The mid/long term idea is to remove the pecl PEAR command, and for composer to be able to work with this new pickle tool to install extensions.

Right at the beginning of the month, Andrea Faulds wrote an RFC nammed “Bare Name Array”, which would bring two new syntaxes, a bit shorter than those we use today (like [] is shorter than array()),

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