Why You Need to Choose the Right Moment to Upgrade to a New PHP Version - 4 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 92 Part 1

By Manuel Lemos

Every developer depends on several types of software applications to run their applications to do their work. Examples of those software applications are PHP, a database server, a Web server, and an operating system.

Newer versions of these software applications are released to improve their features and fix their bugs to benefit the community of developers that use them in their projects.

Upgrading too soon or too late to a newer version of a software tool that you need may cause problems of instability or security in their applications.

Please read this article, watch a 4-minute podcast video or listen to the audio of part 1 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast on why it is essential to carefully choose the right time to upgrade to a newer version of PHP or those software tools.