Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Minimum supported versions for PHP 8.6

Hi

On 7/18/26 01:34, Eric Norris wrote:
> I don't know if the cost is "just a few conditionals." We'd have two
> paths with a PDO option:
> 
> […]
> 
> I don't like either of these options, and as the RFC author I feel
> that the best outcome is to choose the "correct" choice, especially
> considering that we are talking about software that is a decade old.
> While I can appreciate your argument, I don't think that the pool of
> affected users is large enough to warrant anything less than this.

I agree with the entire quoted email, and particularly the last 
paragraph. The “shared nothing” request model of PHP is a huge selling 
point to make the code easy to reason about and prevent a whole class of 
bugs. I would consider it a bug that persistent connection can introduce 
mutable state that outlives a given request and thus supporting and 
using COM_RESET_CONNECTION is a bugfix in spirit to me.

I also find it a reasonable expectation from PHP users, and particularly 
companies, that when they want to benefit from the latest and greatest 
PHP that they also keep the rest of their stack current. For the 
COM_RESET_CONNECTION case the only expectation is that they use a MySQL 
or MariaDB version that is not EOL. In fact according to EU law such as 
the GDPR, using software that is no longer supported by updates is 
extremely risky, since it very likely contains known and unfixed 
security vulnerabilities. My understanding is that there are other 
compliance frameworks - such as PCI - that effectively mandate using 
“maintained software” as well.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus