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[Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/14/2014 09:35 AM, Ben Harper wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The PHP Group will soon be EOLing PHP 5.3.  While they have not 
> directly released an EOL date, they did decide that PHP 5.3 will have 
> one year with security fixes only after the announcement of 5.5 final 
> release[0]. PHP 5.5 got released on June 20, 2013 [1]. This means the 
> EOL date should be around June 20, 2014.
>
> Once PHP 5.3 becomes EOL, the IUS php53u packages (including modules) 
> will be moved out of the stable repositories.  They will still be 
> available in the archive repositories. While not recommended, you can 
> install packages from the archive repositories with something like the 
> following:
>
> # yum install PACKAGE_NAME --enablerepo=ius-archive
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team
>
> [0]https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php53eol
> [1]http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-06-20-1
Greetings,

We have learned that the PHP Group plans on doing one last release of 
PHP 5.3 before making it EOL[2].  PHP's git repos do show some work is 
being done on the 5.3.29 release[3].  As soon as it gets released we 
will make RPMs.  We will only keep these RPMs in the stable repos for 
month before moving all php53u packages into the archive repos.

Thanks,
Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team

[2] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=140274998404052&w=2
[3] 
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=1ffb7fddc233f1f64290c54fde478a5c2be5db99;hp=c74efe1b2efd7222b27d36f383623cd19ed0e102