Hi internals, it's been a great eight months now for PHP 5.4. We released 5.4.0 final in february and since then we were able to deliver a new PHP version every month (thanks to the hard work from stas).
As most people know we do not include patches in 5.4 that will break backwards compatibility. Those patches are in the 5.5 branch and we are also stockpiling some new features. We have implementations for foreachlist, generators, hash_pbkdf2 and others are likely to get included in the next weeks like the simplified password hashing API. Following the release process RFC, I would like to start discussing the beginning of the 5.5. series, that can include new features, do bc breaks if necessary and overall provide a smooth move to a new series without having the branches diverge for years and years again (like 5.4 and 5.3). Last but not least, 5.3 is out since 2009 and it would be good to put the series into a security fix only mode and give it an eol. So I proposed to start off with 5.5 and focus on it, so we can get a release going till Feb/March 2013. As with every new release minor release (read minor as the Y in 5.Y.Z), we choose a new RM. We had quite some confusion and debates around this topic the last time, so I'll just go ahead and propose somebody right away for the job. I would like to go ahead and propose Julien Pauli as the RM for 5.5. He is an active member of the PHP.net community, has deep knowledge of the internals and the necessary backing from his company to be able to dedicate the time needed to do the job. Knowing that things are kindof rough at the start, I am willing to help out with intial releases, reviews and settings things up until they can be handled by one person (which is pretty much the state of 5.4 atm). If you can think of a better candidate or want to step up, feel free to do so. Let's keep things simple here, stay on topic and debate if we want to start with 5.5 and who can RM it. - David -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
