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A powerful and flexible Emacs major mode for editing PHP scripts
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Drop Emacs 26 Support #771

Open zonuexe opened 7 months ago

zonuexe commented 7 months ago

[!IMPORTANT] We have plans to drop support for Emacs 26 with the first release in July 2024.

Our support policy:

Support Emacs Version · Issue #464 · emacs-php/php-mode

[!NOTE] We can release support for older Emacs from the stable branch if needed, but be aware that it is not provided by MELPA.

Before (current)

Version Support
29.x Recommended
28.2 Recommended
28.1 Supported
27.x Not Recommended. highlighting flickers
26.3 Supported
26.2 Compatible, but it is not tested.
26.1 Supported
≦ 25.3 No longer supported

After

Version Support
29.x Recommended
28.x Supported
27.x Not Recommended. highlighting flickers
≦ 26.3 No longer supported

According to Debian LTS, Debian 10 “Buster” (it provides Emacs 26.1) is planned to be supported until July 2024 and Debian 11 “Bullseye” (it provides Emacs 27.1) until July 2026.

Discussion about dropping support for older Emacs versions