#Php 5.2 end of life upgrade
If your PHP installation is based on PHP 5.5, it may be a good time to start making the plans for the upgrade to PHP 5.6 or PHP 7.0. There may be additional release if we discover important security issues that warrant it, otherwise this release will be the final one in the PHP 5.5 branch.
Note that according to our release schedule, PHP 5.5.38 is the last release of the PHP 5.5 branch. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. This is a security release that fixes some security related bugs. If your web developers haven't contacted you about these changes (or indeed if you're a web developer who hasn't contacted your clients) we'd advise getting in touch ASAP.On July 21st 2016, the PHP group released PHP 5.5.38. In the meantime, if any serious exploits are discovered, we may remove 5.2 without any prior notice. We intend to completely remove 5.2 at the end of January 2014, which will be over 2 years since we migrated the servers to run 5.3 as the primary version, and almost 3 years since PHP 5.2 was last updated.
#Php 5.2 end of life how to
We have put together a step-by-step guide on how to create a phpinfo file to read your PHP version, this can be found in our knowledgebase here: If you are unsure which PHP version you are running, this information can be obtained from the top of a phpinfo file and we advise that you consult a developer if your site is currently running on the PHP 5.2 platform. We understand that some customers may be faced with the question of "am I running PHP 5.2?" and no longer have a developer at hand. Sites would be broken until they were fixed for 5.3. If a serious expoit for 5.2 was discovered tomorrow, there would be no notice - we would switch immediately to prevent damage to our servers. This means anyone still using 5.2 will at least have some notice of the change. Therefore we have decided to remove PHP 5.2 from our servers entirely, by the end of January 2014. fortunately our servers are not susceptible to this particular attack, but it has brought into sharp focus just how much of a problem an exploit on PHP 5.2 would be. There is more (very technical!) information at:
Recently some more exploits have been released which could compromise PHP 5.2 and allow attackers to execute code on our servers. In this situation we would either be faced with extremely vulnerable servers, or have to upgrade immediately all servers to 5.3 or better. This means that if any serious vulnerability was discovered in PHP 5.2, it would not be fixed by the makers of PHP. In the meantime, PHP 5.2 has not been updated since January 2011.
5.3 at least has been installed for over 2 years, and both these versions receive regular security updates from the PHP team. Our servers have been running PHP 5.3 or 5.4 as the 'main version' for some time now. * If you're unsure how this affects you, please talk to your web developer(s) * We will no longer be supporting 5.2 on our servers
#Php 5.2 end of life software
* If your site is not compatible with 5.3 it may break (it may be wise to check with any software developers if this is the case)
* You need to ensure your sites are fully compatible with PHP 5.4 or 5.3 at minimum which will be the latest version * PHP 5.2 is being removed from our servers - it is now becoming a security risk and as a result we can no longer support this The information below details our plans on moving forward with removing 5.2. As of January 31st 2014, PHP 5.2 will no longer be supported on our Shared and Reseller servers and will cease to function. We are sending this email to highlight the End of Life Support for PHP 5.2.
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