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Since there are two stable versions 5.3 and 5.2 .What is the difference
between these two streams and What is the need for maintaining two streams?
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5.3.1 is what we call 'current release'. for those who do not like to
sit on the edge, the latest is 5.2.12.
both get bug fixes (checkout the home page release announcements), so
they are 'still supported'. that means those versions earlier to
5.2.11 do not get bug fixes hence 'not supported but stable'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
~viraj
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Varuna Seneviratna
> Since there are two stable versions 5.3 and 5.2 .What is the difference
> between these two streams and What is the need for maintaining two streams?
>
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Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
> Since there are two stable versions 5.3 and 5.2 .What is the difference
> between these two streams and What is the need for maintaining two streams?
PHP5.3 introduced a number of 'improvements' that require many third party
packages to be re-worked. Something which has still to be completed in many
cases. In addition a number of key parts are not now available in Windows builds
of PHP5.3, so many of us do not have the option as yet to switch TO the 5.3
branch in production. Until PHP5.3 is fully supported and complete, 5.2 still
needs to be maintained!
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:34, Daniel Egeberg
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 02:22, Varuna Seneviratna
>> Since there are two stable versions 5.3 and 5.2 .What is the difference
>> between these two streams and What is the need for maintaining two streams?
>
> The PHP 5.3.x branch is still pretty new. That is why 5.2.x is still
> maintained to provide bug fixes and security patches seeing as there
> are still a lot of people using that branch.
>
> If you are going to do a new install, PHP 5.3.1 should be just fine for you.
And that was supposed to have gone to the list as well. Sorry. Hit the
wrong button.
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