Unfortunately the same can be said about Ruby, RoR, Python etc etc etc. Personally I think it's perfectly reasonable to track Nextcloud upgrades combined with SCL major upgrades once every couple of years. Check life times here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Billings" <billings at negate.org> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 19 September, 2017 19:06:55 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS, PHP & OwnCloud/Nextcloud: the version dilemma > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 07:59:00PM +0200, rainer at ultra-secure.de wrote: >> With PHP, I try to stay as close to upstream as possible. >> If upstream EOLs a version, it's time to upgrade. >> >> If you want something stable, don't run PHP. > > Unfortunately, with that philosophy but not much systems management > experience, you end up with custom-compiled and local installs of PHP > that get no security updates, particularly as you get version lock-in > by the web application developers, or when you have a sysadmin move on > to a new position or company. > > I think the statement "If you want something stable, don't run PHP" is > a very wise statement though. > > -- > Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos