According to her statistics W3Techs, about 78,9% of all Internet sites are running today with PHP.
But from December 31, 2018, the updates security for PHP 5.6.x will be discontinued, marking the end of all support for any version of PHP 5.x.
This means that from 2019, approximately 62% of all webpages running PHP on 5.x will stop receiving security updates, exposing hundreds of millions of sites, and data.
"This is going to be a huge problem for the PHP ecosystem," Scott Arciszewski, Chief Development Officer, told ZDNet. Officer of Paragon Initiative Enterprise. "Many feel they can have PHP 5 in 2019. The simplest way to describe this choice is: Negligence."
"It is possible that any significant, massively exploitable flaw in PHP 5.6 will affect all newer versions of PHP," Arciszewski added.
"But PHP 7.2 will receive some updates from the PHP team, free of charge, and in a timely manner."
It should be mentioned that although the PΗP community has informed all interested parties for some time, many of them are indifferent. Of the big three CMS WordPress, Joomla and Drupal – only Drupal has adjusted its minimum requirements to PHP 7, and this will happen from March 2019. The minimum requirements for Joomla continue to use PHP 5.3, while the WordPress minimum requirement remains at PHP 5.2.
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