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In case you didn't hear yet - PHP 7 is coming soon (release planned for October), and it will provide a major performance improvements, in many cases up to 100%
You can read more in this
"Info World" article As mentioned in
another article, the performance improvements are very impressive:
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For example, the PHP team ran the WordPress CMS on phpng, and it resulted in a drop from 27 seconds to 18 seconds for 100 requests. The number of machine instructions went from 9.4 billion down to 4.99 billion. "This is a real-world app running real-world PHP and starting to see very dramatic improvements," Gutmans said
Of course, XOOPS users will be asking: "What about us? Will XOOPS run on PHP 7?"
Absolutely!
As you might remember, XOOPS was one of the first major CMS solutions that was certified for PHP 5.5, and the current version runs without any problems on PHP 5.6. And as the creator of PHP said recently, as it was quoted in the first article:
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"Lerdorf also warned that the upgrade also deprecates some PHP 4 functions: "Chances are pretty good if your code is from 12 years ago, it will probably break under PHP 7. If it works under PHP 5, you should be fine."
Since XOOPS runs cleanly under PHP 5.6.8 on my PC, our users will have no problems. But Richard, our Core Team leader, is already looking at PHP 7, to fully certify the upcoming XOOPS 2.6.0 for PHP 7. The XOOPS Team, as always, is fully committed to maintain XOOPS up to date with latest PHP developments, so you as our users, can be assured that with XOOPS there is always a solid migration path for you into the future!
FYI: the future XOOPS versions will have PHP 5.4 as the minimum requirement.
