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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hi all: Merry New Year! There was a question in one of the PHP7 related tickets about when that functionality might be available - hence this note. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Here's what I'm thinking for the next six months:</p>
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<li>a 7.2.2 maintenance release by mid to late January</li><li>a 7.4 feature release featuring the PHP7 work - both the new SWIG-based support and the updated PHP/MapScript support in late March or early April</li><li>target the Minneapolis code sprint in May for 8.0 release planning</li></ul>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I'd like to target having maintenance releases every three months and ideally feature-oriented release annually - 7.4 would be that release for 2019.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">A review of active tickets and pull requests would be part of the 7.4 release process so we can things assigned to the appropriate milestone. I'm not aware of any existing RFC's that would target 7.4</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thoughts?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">--Steve</p>
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