Advance notice: PHP 5.3 and Magic Quotes

January 21, 2010 14:53 UTC (closed)
Servers: SH1, SH2, SH3

This is advance notice that soon we will be updating PHP to the latest release of PHP 5.3 (we currently run the latest release of PHP 5.2). PHP 5.3 is not fully compatible with code which was written for PHP 5.2, so it is important that you make sure any PHP scripts you're using will work with PHP 5.3 before this update is performed -- in most cases people will find that their scripts are already compatible, but we strongly advise all customers to make sure that this is the case for them. A full list of the incompatible changes in PHP 5.3 can be found at: http://valca.to/php53

We will also be disabling PHP's Magic Quotes feature at the same time, as this feature has been deprecated by the PHP developers and is due to be removed completely in a future release. For now, customers who still need this feature can re-enable it by following the instructions for creating a custom php.ini file at http://valca.to/phpini -- however, we recommend against relying on the Magic Quotes feature where possible.

A precise date and time for these changes will be announced closer to the time, but this is provisionally scheduled for the afternoon of March 13, 2010.

Updates

March 3, 2010 23:54 UTC

Due to a software incompatibility which will prevent us from installing the latest version of cPanel in time for this update, we are postponing these changes to PHP. We will post an advance notice when we are able to reschedule this work.