The End of Life for PHP 5.x Is Coming: Opinions
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A study reports that 62% of web projects still run PHP 5.x, which is approaching end‑of‑life; common causes are hosting constraints, old CMS deployments, and long‑running legacy apps without upgrade budgets. PHP has moved to an annual release cadence with two years of security fixes, making migrations predictable; typical upgrades require dependency and compatibility fixes and often take about nine months rather than just a few months.
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