A PHP internals mailing list discussion about the risks of syncing PHP's bundled libgd to the unreleased upstream 2.4 version for PHP 8.6. Giovanni Giacobbi raises four concerns: the new libgd 2.4 code is less than a month old, it has never been officially released or tagged, PHP 8.6 is already in alpha with limited testing time, and new ext/gd features tied to libgd 2.4 would force use of the bundled library. Respondents are split — Jakub Zelenka sees value in syncing releases simultaneously, while Kamil Tekiela argues it's too late for 8.6 and recommends waiting for an official libgd 2.4 release before merging into the next PHP version.
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