End of Support for PHP 5 Releases - Lately in PHP podcast episode 67
By Manuel Lemos
Now that PHP 7 was released, core developers have been discussing extending the support of PHP 5 releases until the end of 2016 and one or two years more for security fixes. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 67 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
The transcripts have returned in the form of summaries for those that want a quick overview of the whole podcast topics.
The hosts also commented about the proposal of code of conduct for PHP contributors, the proposal to allow NULL or multiple types for type hinting of function parameters and return values, having LibSodium cryptorgraphy library in the core of PHP 7.1, having exceptions with multiple catch statements, as well an alternative syntax for list value assignments.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the podcast summary transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.