Back in May, we announced that we'd be working on getting Drupal 6 core, and the contrib modules used by our D6LTS customers, working on PHP 7.2 before the end of the year.
This is largely because PHP 5 will be reaching it's End of Life (EOL) on December 31st, and will no longer be supported by the PHP maintainers, which means no more security updates.
How can we help keep your Drupal 6 site secure, if PHP itself is insecure?
Well, that deadline is coming up fast, and in fact, may be coming sooner than December for folks hosted with certain hosting companies!
Acquia just announced that they'll automatically switch all sites hosted on Acquia Cloud to PHP 7.1 on October 1st, less than a month away from now.
Inspired by this (read: some of our customers are hosted on Acquia ;-)) we're going to make a push to get a handful of brave D6LTS customers switched to PHP 7.1 or 7.2 by the end of September.
After proving this out with a handful of sites in September, we'll continue to roll that out to the rest of our customers in October, November and December.
Interested in getting involved? Wondering how much of this will be shared with the community?
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