PHP 4 end of life announcement

[Jordan]

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.

[html_101]

Wow, usually when a new version is made the old version is replaced by it. All I have to say is it is about time.

[v0id]

Wow, usually when a new version is made the old version is replaced by it. All I have to say is it is about time.

That's not completely true.
So you mean, now after Windows Vista is come, you can't use Windows XP?

[Jordan]

That's not completely true.
So you mean, now after Windows Vista is come, you can't use Windows XP?

That is not the same software though. They don't continue working on Windows XP version 1.23 build 20034 once they have released Windows XP version SP2.

[v0id]

You're right about that it isn't the same kind of software. To some point you can say that they're replacing the version, but I wouldn't say that. It's just two different versions of the software, though the newest usually contains up-to-date- and new features.

I meant Windows XP as a version, and Windows Vista as a version, not the version of the... yeah, versions (sounds strange, eh?) So I was not talking about the services packs (SPx)