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Official Support For PHP 4 Ends

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-actually-knew-ye-pretty-well dept.

Da Massive writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld: "For a technology that has been in stable release since May 22, 2000, PHP 4 has finally reached the end of its official life. With the release of PHP 4.4.9, official support has ended and the final security patch for the platform issued. ...With eight years of legacy code out there, it is likely that there are going to be a fairly large number of systems that will not migrate to PHP 5 in the near future, and a reasonable proportion of those that will not make the migration at all. For those who are not able to migrate their systems to the new version of PHP, noted PHP security expert Stefan Esser will continue to provide third party security patching for the PHP 4 line through his Suhosin product."

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  1. Re:Obligatory post by Trogre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess I won't be applying for that title. What, pray tell, is wrong with that sentence?

    They even used "its" correctly, not "it's".

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    "Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
  2. Flash 9 by Almahtar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Going a little OT, I'd like to point out that Flash 9 made leaps and bounds in Actionscript performance. The latest version of Actionscript (Actionscript 3) is very similar to Java (no, not Javascript), and even uses the Java compiler and runs on the JVM.

    Compared to previous versions of Actionscript it finally feels like a real programming language, not a ripoff of Javascript intended for hobbyists and graphic designers.