But on December 31, 2018, security support for PHP 5.6.x will officially cease, marking the end of all support for any version of the ancient PHP 5.x branch. This means that starting with next ...

The PHP group has released two new versions of the scripting language that fix cve-2012-1863 vulnerability that leads to source code disclosure.

The most recent version, 8.3, arrived late last year as the latest in a string of annual releases. Where developers have run up against limitations of PHP, they have successfully found workarounds.

Support for PHP 5.6 drops on December 31 - but a recent report found that almost 62 percent of websites are still using version 5.