What's the plan for PHP support in LTS releases?

[Marc Deslauriers]

On 14-09-23 12:30 PM, Oli Warner wrote:
> We had a question on Ask Ubuntu that really got me thinking today:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/527533/
> 
>  - PHP 5.3 from 12.04 has already ended its community security support period
>  - PHP 5.5 from 14.04 will be dead by mid-2016
> 
> Basically, PHP version die a lot quicker than our LTS releases...
> But PHP upgrades also have backwards incompatibilities so SRUing them through is
> haphazard.
> 
> So what's the plan? Is somebody manually backporting fixes?
> 

Yes, like most packages in Ubuntu, the security team backports security fixes,
including for versions that are no longer supported by upstream.

Marc.