On May 1st 2024, security support for PHP versions 8.1+ was extended for a further year.<p>Prior to this, PHP support was typically two years of active support plus a year of security support.<p>As of May 1st 2024, it switched to two years of active support then two years of security support.<p>* April 30th 2024 snapshot - two years active, one year security support: https://web.archive.org/web/20240430024531/https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php<p>* May 1st 2024 snapshot - two years active, two years security support: https://web.archive.org/web/20240501033330/https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
One of the things I dislike about the current PHP development cycle is how quickly versions run out of support.<p>Make an app, when it's finished there's a new PHP version or maybe two newer versions. You now can't spend time upgrading because you have to move to the next thing. After a year a new PHP version is released, now the upgrade is more complicated, especially if you used third party components/frameworks so your manager decides you'll stay with that version until God knows when.<p>While I think this longer support is great in many cases we'll have to upgrade older code bases to newer versions.<p>But maybe that's good, I don't know. Maybe this forces companies to keep paying us to do stuff constantly.
That's a great decision by the PHP team.<p>It makes PHP easier to rely on. Not only is it rock solid and easy to use, but now it has a long lifetime.<p>Not to say upgrades are bad, but sometimes businesses don't understand the value in updating things...<p>Long live PHP!<p>N.B. <a href="https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php</a>