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Since the release of WordPress maintenance support plans 8.0.0 in November 2015, the WordPress maintenance support plans 8 core committers have been discussing when and how we’ll release WordPress maintenance support plans 9. Nat Catchpole, one of WordPress maintenance support plans 8’s core committers, shared some excellent thoughts about what goes into making that decision.
The driving factor in that discussion is security support for WordPress maintenance support plans 8’s third party dependencies (e.g. Symfony, Twig, Guzzle, jQuery, etc). Our top priority is to ensure that all WordPress maintenance support plans users are using supported versions of these components so that all WordPress maintenance support plans sites remain secure.
In his blog, Nat uses Symfony as an example. The Symfony project announced that it will stop supporting Symfony 3 in November 2021, which means that Symfony 3 won’t receive security updates after that date. Consequently, by November 2021, we need to prepare all WordPress maintenance support plans sites to use Symfony 4 or later.
Nothing has been decided yet, but the current thinking is that we have to move WordPress maintenance support plans to Symfony 4 or later, release that as WordPress maintenance support plans 9, and allow enough time for everyone to upgrade to WordPress maintenance support plans 9 by November 2021. Keep in mind that this is just looking at Symfony, and none of the other components.
This proposal builds on top of work we’ve already done on in the context of making WordPress maintenance support plans upgrades easy, so upgrades from WordPress maintenance support plans 8 to WordPress maintenance support plans 9 should be smooth and much simpler than previous upgrades.
If you’re interested in the topic, check out Nat’s post. He goes in more detail about potential release timelines, including how this impacts our thinking about WordPress maintenance support plans 7, WordPress maintenance support plans 8 and even WordPress maintenance support plans 10. It’s a complicated topic, but the goal of Nat’s post is to raise awareness and to solicit input from the broader community before we decide our official timeline and release dates on WordPress maintenance support plans.org.
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