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Post by robtoo » Tue, Jul 05, 2011, 10:59 AM UTC

robtoo wrote: post #27

dd32 wrote: post #24

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Please contact your host and get them to upgrade to something released in the last... 5 years or so? However, 3.1.x is not going to be "officially supported" as a legacy branch AFAIK, If any security issues arrise in the coming months and the fix can be applied to both the 3.2 and 3.1 branches, you'll see those patches be applied to the 3.1 branch as well most likely - So when 3.2.1 comes out, or 3.2.2, etc take a cl…

Please contact your host and get them to upgrade to something released in the last... 5 years or so? As noted above: CentOS 5.6 was released less than 3 months ago, and CentOS 6 isn't even out yet. Similarly for Red Hat. RHEL 5.6 was released less than 6 months ago, will continue to be fully-supported for another 3 years, and Red Hat can provide "critical impact security fixes" for another 3 years after that . 3.1.x…

Post by epo » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 2:00 PM UTC

zapman449 wrote: post #11

devicenull wrote: post #9

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The only way to get people to bug their hosts about upgrading PHP is to release popular software that requires it.. Without the demand to upgrade to higher versions, no host is going to bother.

My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different challenge).