Ciao Giovanni,
Il 08/07/2026 12:01, Giovanni Giacobbi ha scritto:
1) This code was introduced in the upstream repository less than a
month ago, so it is relatively "young"
Likewise, some of the code that will end up in 8.6 is "young" too.
2) libgd-2.4.0 was never released nor tagged, thus no major distros
are shipping it
Perhaps there are also plans to release libgd 2.4 soon enough?
3) PHP-8.6 already tagged alpha1, giving overall a short timespan to
test the new bundled library
We're currently ~5 weeks away from feature freeze, so there's still time
for 8.6.
4) Introducing features in ext/gd that exist only in libgd-2.4 would
in fact force the bundled library as the only build option
The PR doesn't remove support for older non-bundled libgd versions: the
new functionality won't be available, as it happens with all extensions
supporting multiple versions of external libraries.
Cheers
--
Matteo Beccati
