{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-php/issues/173","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-php/issues/173/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-php/issues/173/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-php/issues/173/events","html_url":"https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-php/issues/173","id":53256025,"number":173,"title":"Drop support for PHP 5.3?","user":{"login":"polyfractal","id":1224228,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1224228?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal","html_url":"https://github.com/polyfractal","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/polyfractal/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-php/labels/2.0","name":"2.0","color":"d4c5f9"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-php/labels/breaking","name":"breaking","color":"eb6420"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-php/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-01-02T14:47:49Z","updated_at":"2015-01-02T14:47:49Z","closed_at":null,"body":"PHP 5.3 was released six years ago, in [June of 2009](http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.0).  It was [EOL'd four months ago](http://php.net/eol.php), in August 2014.\r\n\r\nMany popular PHP libraries, such as [Guzzle](https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/), [Drupal 8](https://www.drupal.org/requirements), [Laravel](http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/installation#server-requirements), and [Magento](http://magento.com/resources/system-requirements), have already migrated to PHP 5.4\r\n\r\nThe change would introduce the usual bevy of bug fixes, performance enhancements, security fixes and new features (array shorthand and traits are most likely to be used by this project).  But the biggest benefit would be fitting into the 5.4. ecosystem and being able to leverage projects like Guzzle4.\r\n\r\nThoughts?  How many people are still stuck on PHP 5.3 and unable to upgrade?"}}