Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

Well, it’s done. For the first time on Gentoo, PHP 5.0 is offically out of package mask and into ~arch. Assuming the next month goes well, we’ll be marking PHP 5.0.4 stable on 8th October 2005. At the same time, we’ll be marking the “consolidated”-style dev-lang/php-4.4.0 stable too.

Why PHP 5.0.4 and not the recently-released PHP 5.0.5? I haven’t had time to test PHP 5.0.5 at all, and I don’t have a feel yet for how well existing packages work with it. I’m planning to leave PHP 5.0.5 in package mask for the time being; probably until PHP 5.0.4 has been marked stable.

I have to give a huge “thank you” to everyone in the PHP Herd, and all the regulars in #gentoo-apache (devs and users alike) who have worked together to put together and test our new packages.

I recently mentioned that the PHP Overlay would be moving to a new server. Unfortunately, due to other demands on my time, and a hardware problem in the new server, it won’t be possible to do that after all just yet. Soon tho!