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We like to announce that as of tomorrow July 17, 2013 we be in the process of upgrading all servers to go from PHP 5.3.x to 5.4.17.
PHP developers announced that all users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4. Plus that PHP 5.3.27 will be the last regular release of the PHP 5.3 series.
A few benefits of PHP 5.4.17 are
Better security
Faster and better performance
Lower CPU and Memory resources
Please note that older websites maybe will stop working due the upgrade. We need to do this upgrade to help keep these servers secure.
Here is a recap from the past announcement for very important information below.
In PHP 5.3.x we have in place Suhosin http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin which is an advanced protection system for PHP installations. It was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core.
So in the new PHP 5.4.x Suhosin http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin will not be compatible and is not being developed for over year now. https://github.com/stefanesser/suhosin
Under PHP 5.4.x older web sites that are running older PHP functions will break websites.
What has changed in PHP 5.4.x
Backward Incompatible Changes
Although most existing PHP 5 code should work without changes, developers please take note of some backward incompatible changes: http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php
Migrating from PHP 5.3.x to PHP 5.4.x
Developers should read through these Changes to PHP Internals http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.php
Developers need to notice of the changes and start making changes to the code they write so that whenever we do upgrade to PHP 5.4.x the websites they develop will continue to work with no issues.
Users that host on our servers need to make sure the software, PHP scripts and PHP programs support PHP 5.4.x.
Thank you,
Point Action Services, Inc.
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