PHP says goodbye to official support for version 5
This is very important news for all users of the popular
version 5.x of the equally popular server-side programming language PHP : the
gill 5 of the well-known language will not receive further official support
starting from 2019 .
This means, very directly, that the developers who are using
PHP 5 and the applications / websites made with PHP 5 will be open to all kinds
of IT vulnerabilities, and have just over 10 weeks to upgrade to more versions.
modern and stable.
Unfortunately, as emerges from a recent estimate, more or
less 62% of the websites
placed on the Internet are written and run with PHP version 5 , while 78.9%
of the total websites are made with any version of PHP, as stated by an equally
recent analysis of W3Techs. From 31 December 2018, the aforementioned sites
will no longer be able to enjoy official security updates from their servers, opening
the world of the Internet to a serious security issue.
“this is a huge
problem for the whole PHP ecosystem and for the internet in general. There is
only one way to define the behavior of those who declare that it is not
possible to detach from PHP 5: negligence. If hackers find a vulnerability in
the outdated PHP engine after the new year, the security of millions of users
will be at high risk. "
The PHP community had already been preparing for this event
for some time. After version 5.6 became the most used PHP version in the world
in April 2017,
developers of the same PHP know that it would have been a catastrophe if
they had stopped the security updates. Precisely for this reason, they extended
the EOL to the end of 2018 (End Of Life date).
There have been many developers, official and otherwise, who
have since advised PHP users to update their version to a more recent release,
such as 7.x, but the planetary response has not been what was hoped for.
Many Content Management Systems (CMS) have also long since
started to alert users of new minimum system requirements, focusing on updating
their hosting systems. But in the circle made up of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal,
only the latter has carried out an official step that set the minimum
requirements to PHP 7. However, this maneuver will start from March 2019.
The
minimum Joomla requirements are stuck to the version 5.3 while those of
WordPress in 5.2
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