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Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0

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On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:46:49 +1000, noel wrote:
> as for eol 3 years ago, yes, it was eol when Pat released 15.0

Not exactly, version 7.4.33 of PHP was released slightly more than 3 
years ago, at the third of November 2022, the same day support for PHP 7 
was discontinued.

When Slackware 15.0 was released at second of February 2022, it included 
the then considered stable package n/php-7.4.27 package as well as 
sligthly less well tested extra/php80-8.0.15 and extra/php81-8.1.2 
packages.

Since then, all these 3 versions of php has received a number of security 
updates, but PHP 7.4 obviously no longer receives any updates. On the 
other hand, PHP 8.2 has also been added in /extra. As those version 8 of 
PHP are part of /extra those updates does not come in the /patches 
directory but in the /extra directory. That is so no one by mistake would 
install a version of PHP which breaks their existing applications.

Basically, stable versions of Slackware don't receive any feature 
updates, only security updates and most importantly, those updates are 
not supposed to break anything. This means that when upstream providers 
stop supporting a release series, stable versions of Slackware will stop 
providing updates for that application. Some applications will have newer 
versions in /extra, but those newer versions might break your stuff.

Would things be better if Slackware released stable versions every year? 
No, not really, the main problem with upgrading to newer versions from 
upstream providers which break your existing configuration would still be 
there. To avoid that problem, you need to avoid getting dependent on 
tools and languages breaking backwards compatibility.

regard Henrik

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    Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0 Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2025-12-30 06:31 +0000
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