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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 14 2020, @10:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the like-a-hot-potato dept.

Microsoft is dropping PHP support from Windows:

PHP 8.0 is due for release in November, but when this major new version appears Windows will not support it.

The company says that bug fixes and security patches will continue to be released for the lifecycles of PHP versions 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4. But when the latest version is released later this year, Microsoft will "not [...] be supporting PHP for Windows in any capacity for version 8.0 and beyond".

[...] No reason has been given for the decision, but it is likely to be down to number of users.

Also At:
Microsoft will not support PHP 8.0 for Windows in 'any capacity'
Microsoft: We're pulling the plug on Windows builds of programming language PHP


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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:24AM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:24AM (#1021574)

    Nope, PHP will continue to be intrinsically insecure on every OS (secure or not) that it is on now.

    MS will just no longer provide official support for PHP's insecurities - I wasn't even aware that they did, would've figured they had more than enough insecurity of their own making to support.

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