i.justrealized

Probably about time:

PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement

First up, the announcement that developers really care about. WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4.

For WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, we will be raising the minimum required PHP version to 5.2. Why 5.2? Because that’s what the vast majority of WordPress users are using, and it offers substantial improvements over earlier PHP 5 releases. It is also the minimum PHP version that the Drupal and Joomla projects will be supporting in their next versions, both due out this year.

Finally!

Possibly related:

1. WordPress 2.6 released, get it now!
2. WordPress 2.51 is out
3. WordPress launches WordPress.tv
4. Round up on WordPress and opensource vulnerability

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 12:49 pm and has been tagged php, release, support, wordpress. Comments RSS feed.