PHP 5 End of Life for Active Support - 7 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 79

By Manuel Lemos

December was the month for which the last version of PHP 5.6 series had support for regular bug fixes. From now on only security bugs will be fixed.

This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 79 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

In this episode they also talk about an article that shows the whole evolution in terms of performance since PHP 5.0 through PHP 7.1 and PHP 8 or 7.2 version, as well the usual proposals for the next PHP version like magic casting, decorator classes, throwable error code types, C# property like accessors, etc..

This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 7 minute video.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.