Hi
With last release, we've overcome claimed support for 4.4. till October 1, 2016. If this was really last release in 4.4 series, it should be probably announced as well. Or is there reason to extend support?
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Michal Čihař michal@cihar.com wrote:
Hi
With last release, we've overcome claimed support for 4.4. till October 1, 2016. If this was really last release in 4.4 series, it should be probably announced as well. Or is there reason to extend support?
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No, I do not see any reason to extend support.
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Michal Čihař píše v Pá 25. 11. 2016 v 15:53 +0100:
Hi
With last release, we've overcome claimed support for 4.4. till October 1, 2016. If this was really last release in 4.4 series, it should be probably announced as well. Or is there reason to extend support?
Not sure if it deserves separate announcement or not, but anyway here is PR to stop showing 4.4 on the downloads page:
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/website/pull/46
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Michal Čihař píše v Pá 25. 11. 2016 v 15:53 +0100:
With last release, we've overcome claimed support for 4.4. till October 1, 2016. If this was really last release in 4.4 series, it should be probably announced as well. Or is there reason to extend support?
There is some negative feedback on this decision:
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/12790
Hello,
On 12/8/16 4:00 AM, Michal Čihař wrote:
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Michal Čihař píše v Pá 25. 11. 2016 v 15:53 +0100:
With last release, we've overcome claimed support for 4.4. till October 1, 2016. If this was really last release in 4.4 series, it should be probably announced as well. Or is there reason to extend support?
There is some negative feedback on this decision:
Every piece of user feedback is relevant and noteworthy, but so far this appears to just be one user. 4.4 is an old codebase that diverges from 4.0 and 4.6 in many ways, and maintaining it is non-trivial work. I assume that most people running such old versions of MySQL and PHP are doing so because they're on an LTS Linux version, and in those cases it's more the responsibility of the distribution to provide security support rather than us. We can't keep supporting every version forever; those PHP and MySQL versions are already quite outdated.
I feel this is on the distributions to support; we can work with them (if they reach out to us about it) but I don't feel we need to keep supporting 4.4.x.
Just my opinion, obviously.
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Isaac Bennetch píše v Pá 16. 12. 2016 v 22:02 -0500:
Every piece of user feedback is relevant and noteworthy, but so far this appears to just be one user. 4.4 is an old codebase that diverges from 4.0 and 4.6 in many ways, and maintaining it is non-trivial work. I assume that most people running such old versions of MySQL and PHP are doing so because they're on an LTS Linux version, and in those cases it's more the responsibility of the distribution to provide security support rather than us. We can't keep supporting every version forever; those PHP and MySQL versions are already quite outdated.
I feel this is on the distributions to support; we can work with them (if they reach out to us about it) but I don't feel we need to keep supporting 4.4.x.
This is my feeling as well. On the other side, some distributions do not support leaf packages such as phpMyAdmin, while PHP or MySQL might be still supported by them. AFAIK this is case with Ubuntu.
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