[phpMyAdmin Developers] End of support for 4.4.15

[Michal Čihař]

Hi

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 those PHP and MySQL versions are already quite outdated.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.

-- 
	Michal Čihař | https://cihar.com/ | https://weblate.org/
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