In an earlier post, we described how we’re phasing out PHP 5.2.6 in favor of the newer PHP 5.3 series.
Our original intention was to remove the long-obsolete 5.2 series entirely. However, a small number of customers have told us they’re unable to update their scripts to work with PHP 5.3, usually because the script is more than five years old and no newer version is available.
To help these customers, we’re making an extra version of PHP available: version 5.2.17. That’s still an outdated version, but for technical reasons we’re able to support it for a while longer than PHP 5.2.6, giving customers at least six extra months — perhaps even longer — before PHP 5.3 is the oldest version available on our servers.
We still recommend that all customers use the PHP 5.3 series. However, if you’re unable to do that, you can now use our “My Account” control panel to choose PHP 5.2.17 instead:
- Login to the “My Account” control panel.
- Click PHP Settings.
- Choose the Use PHP 5.2.17 option.
- Click Save Settings.
Our previously announced schedule to remove PHP 5.2.6 still applies, except that PHP 5.2.6 customers will be switched to version 5.2.17 (instead of all the way to the 5.3 series) if they don’t upgrade to 5.3 themselves.
The PHP developers have announced the release of version 5.3.19 that fixes several bugs.
We’ve upgraded PHP 5.3.18 to PHP 5.3.19 on our servers as a result.
The PHP developers have announced the release of version 5.3.18 that fixes several bugs.
We’ve upgraded PHP 5.3.17 to PHP 5.3.18 on our servers as a result.
This won’t affect most customers, but we’ve changed one of the “php.ini” settings for PHP 5.3. The “register_long_arrays” setting (which defaults to “Off” in PHP 5.3) has been changed to “On”, as it was in PHP 5.2.
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As described in a previous blog post, we’re removing the obsolete PHP version 5.2 from our servers. Our customers should only be using the newer PHP 5.3 series.
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The PHP developers have announced the release of version 5.3.17 that fixes several bugs.
We’ve upgraded PHP 5.3.16 to PHP 5.3.17 on our servers as a result.
This post was updated November 30, 2012 to reflect the additional availability of PHP 5.2.17.
We currently offer PHP versions 5.2.6, 5.2.17, and the 5.3 series. You can choose which version your account uses in the “PHP Settings” section of our “My Account” control panel.
PHP 5.2 has been obsolete for many years. Because of that, we’re beginning the process of removing PHP 5.2.6 from our servers and encouraging customers to switch to PHP 5.3. (PHP 5.2.17 is still available for now, but discouraged.)
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Shortly after we made PHP 5.3.15 available to hosting customers, the PHP team announced the release of version 5.3.16 that fixes several bugs.
We’ve upgraded PHP 5.3.15 to PHP 5.3.16 on our servers as a result.
PHP 5.3.15 is now available on all hosting accounts. It’s the default for new customers, and existing customers can update their PHP version using the “PHP Settings” link in our “My Account” control panel.
If you’re an existing customer using an older version of PHP, we haven’t yet changed your PHP version. However, we will begin doing that in about 30 days (we’ll announce that separately), so we recommend that you upgrade now. That way, if you find you’re using an outdated PHP script that isn’t compatible, you can set PHP back to the previous version and work to update the script. The old PHP 5.2 series will be removed from our servers by the end of 2012.
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Within the next few weeks, we’ll be making PHP version 5.3.15 available to customers in our account management control panel (and making the 5.3 series the default for all customers several months after that).
We’ve been testing PHP 5.3 ourselves for some time (among other things, it’s been running our Webmail system for several weeks, handling millions of page views without any problems), but it makes sense to test it on a wider variety of sites before deploying it for everyone.
If you would like to help us test PHP 5.3, just contact us and let us know what site(s) you’d like to enable it for. We’ll do that for you (it needs to be done manually by our staff for now).
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