Good Bye PHP 5
A few days ago I merged a patch into Xdebug that removes support for PHP 5 in Xdebug's master branch on GitHub. Maintaining PHP 5 and PHP 7 support in one code base is not particularly easy, and even more complicated for something like Xdebug, with its deep interactions with PHP's internals.
As PHP 5.6's active support has ended on December 31st, I also felt it no longer needed to support PHP 5 with Xdebug any more. It saves more than 5000 lines of code:
Many people people were quite positive about that:
Others were less keen:
Removing PHP 5 support from Xdebug's master branch does not mean that Xdebug suddenly stops working for PHP 5 installations. Xdebug 2.5, which was recently released supports PHP 5.5 and 5.6, and is not going to go away.
Right now, Xdebug will no longer receive new features in the branch that also supports PHP 5. New features will only go into master (to become Xdebug 2.6). However, Xdebug 2.5 continues to receive bug fixes until Xdebug 2.6 comes out.
Once Xdebug 2.6 comes out, the Xdebug 2.5 branch will no longer get bug fixes, and hence support for PHP 5 goes away. That still does not mean that you can no longer use Xdebug with PHP 5. The releases of the 2.5 branch will still be available.
On the positive side, not having to implement lots of code twice, also means that new features can be added faster, as less work is required. Xdebug 2.6 has already have some new features lined up.
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Little Owl owlet
This lovely owlet was quite easy to find in a London Park, with some help as they camouflage so well!
I saw its sibling too.
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I went to a park (Bushy Park) to look for some owls.
I found Owls (Little and Tawny), but also a Green Woodpecker and two Kingfishers.
Snaps from my camera screen, and real photos will follow, but not of the Kingfishers as they were too far away and the photos are blurry.
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I hiked 13.8km in 4h44m12s
Created a chocolate shop and a restaurant; Updated 6 restaurants and an address; Confirmed 5 restaurants, a community_centre, and 3 other objects
Created a restaurant, a fast_food, and 2 other objects; Deleted a restaurant
I walked 8.5km in 1h31m45s
Created 2 buildings and a hairdresser shop; Updated a restaurant and an estate_agent office; Confirmed a cafe
I walked 2.2km in 38m09s
Merged pull request #1096
Bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7
Merged pull request #1095
Improve Tiverton Green mapping
Created 2 gates
I walked 7.1km in 1h23m15s
I walked 1.0km in 9m24s
Realign streets. They now have much less wide corners into each other.
Updated a fast_food
I walked 9.1km in 1h35m41s
I hiked 4.7km in 3h24m10s
I walked 6.7km in 1h12m03s
I walked 7.7km in 1h47m24s
Updated a pub
Updated a pub
Created a bar; Updated a bar; Confirmed a restaurant and a bar
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