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            header1="Lifecycle guide for PHP from Red Hat"
            header2="All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance" 
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is PHP?</item>
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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of PHP</item>

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            The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of PHP. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product PHP (Red Hat)</item>
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        <item type="removeableParagraph" heading="What is the PHP release strategy?">Each release branch of PHP is fully supported for two years from its initial stable release. During this period, bugs and security issues that have been reported are fixed and are released in regular point releases.

After this two year period of active support, each branch is then supported for an additional year for critical security issues only. Releases during this period are made on an as-needed basis: there may be multiple point releases, or none, depending on the number of reports. </item>
        

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