Timing for v1.5.0 and v2.0.0

A heads up on some upcoming scheduled changes:

  • WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ v1.5.0 is slated to be released on Tuesday, January 30th. This will be the last release in the v1.x series, unless some critical issue necessitates a v1.5.1.
  • WP-CLI v2.x will require PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. 5.4 and higher. Given current release cadence, v2.0.0 could be released in the May timeframe.

Why? Travis CI is ending support of PHP 5.3 testing (targeting early April). I’m not very keen to invest time into some alternate CI system solely for those still running PHP 5.3.

If you manage WordPress installs for others and don’t already have systems for helping them safely update PHP, you should take the time in 2018 to develop said systems.