A PHP internals mailing list post raising concerns about syncing PHP's bundled libgd to the unreleased upstream 2.4.0. The author highlights that libgd 2.4 has never been officially released or tagged, the code is less than a month old with massive changes (137 files, 142k+ insertions), no major Linux distributions ship it yet, and PHP 8.6 has already tagged alpha1 leaving little time for testing. The author suggests waiting for an official libgd 2.4.0 upstream release before committing to shipping it in PHP, to avoid rushed decisions and ensure broader testing.
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