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Long term support (LTS)

jwatzman edited this page Dec 17, 2014 · 6 revisions

Overview

HHVM releases and maintains stable releases every 8 weeks. The current stable release receives security fixes and other minor bugfixes in occasional point releases. Once a new stable release is out, the previous stable release will stop receiving updates, unless it was a long-term support (LTS) release. Every 3 stable releases (every 24 weeks) is an LTS release. There will be two LTS releases at a time, with a newer LTS release superseding the oldest one, i.e., LTS releases will be supported for 48 weeks.

Read our announcement post for more background and details.

LTS Releases

See also our full release schedule.

LTS Version Release Date End of Support
3.3 19 Sep 2014 13 Aug 2015
3.6 26 Feb 2015 (estimated) 28 Jan 2016

Obtaining LTS releases

The normal installation instructions will get you all stable releases of HHVM. To stick with a particular LTS release, append -lts- and then the LTS version to the distribution in the deb line. For example, the following deb line in /etc/apt/sources.list will get all stable updates on Ubuntu 14.04 "trusty":

deb http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu trusty main

In order to get only LTS updates in the 3.3 series, change that to:

deb http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu trusty-lts-3.3 main

Keep in mind that these extra "distributions" will only exist for LTS releases; other stable releases are immediately superseded by the next stable release.

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