PHP 6.0 - Roadmap?

Question

With the recent announcement that PHP 6 development has been halted, I'm confused as to what the PHP 5.x and 6.x road map includes.

The current version of PHP is 5.3.2.

There were quite a few significant features to come in PHP 6.0, such as:

• APC include for automatic bytecode caching
• Unicode support
• etc..

Question: What is the new road map of PHP given 6.0 has been canceled? What major features will be available next and in what release?

Answer 1

Features:

• Unicode support;
• APC opcode cache as standard;
• Removal of several deprecated features (eg magic quotes, register globals, the ereg library and safe mode).

No firm date has been set. Anything you read is purely conjecture.

You may want to read Future of PHP 6. PHP6 has somewhat stalled, particularly on the Unicode issues. Just to set the level of your expectations, people have been discussing PHP6 since at least 2006.