Re: Bumping minimum Apache version to 2.4
On Saturday, 29 June 2024 at 23:58, Peter Kokot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Perhaps you're not aware that the PHP build system currently still
> supports building apache2handler SAPI for Apache 2.0 and 2.2 branches.
> Apache 2.2 has been marked as EOL in December 2017 and doesn't receive
> security patches. Also, most Linux distributions and packages mostly
> support 2.4 as minimum by now.
>
> See: https://forum.apachehaus.com/news-general-discussion/apache-2-2-users-your-time-is-running-out/
>
> In this pull request, support for Apache 2.0 and 2.2 is being removed:
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/14664
>
> In Autotools build system, there isn't much changed except the version
> is checked, on Windows there will be configure option
> --enable-apache2-2handler removed and --enable-apache2-4handler
> becomes an alias of --enable-apache2handler configure option.
>
> Let me know if you find any server that can't or hasn't been upgraded
> to Apache 2.4 yet and if this should be postponed after PHP 8.4,
> otherwise merge is on its way for PHP 8.4.
I am also in favour of removing support for this in PHP 8.4.
Best regards,
Gina P. Banyard
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