<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Can anyone tell me if this is important?</div><div>Tim the Doc</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; "><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; "><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">"SIIA Software SmartBrief" <<a href="mailto:siia@smartbrief.com" class="">siia@smartbrief.com</a>></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; "><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; "><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">October 15, 2018 at 10:36:35 AM CDT</span></div><br class=""><div class=""><a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/kvqVCjybgfDfwUBdCieGzpCicNzpMw?format=multipart" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 121, 193); font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px; display: block; ">Report: Majority of sites running PHP won't receive security updates in 2019</a><div class="name-100" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">Nearly 79% of all internet sites still run on PHP, which will no longer receive security support by 2019, according to W3Techs. The study estimates that roughly 62% of sites running outdated PHP will no longer receive updates, which could expose millions of websites to potential security risks.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/around-62-of-all-internet-sites-will-run-an-unsupported-php-version-in-10-weeks/" class="">https://www.zdnet.com/article/around-62-of-all-internet-sites-will-run-an-unsupported-php-version-in-10-weeks/</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(8, 14, 20); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">According to statistics from </span><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(17, 116, 199); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">W3Techs</a><span class="" style="color: rgb(8, 14, 20); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">, roughly 78.9 percent of all Internet sites today run on PHP. </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(8, 14, 20); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But on December 31, 2018, security support for PHP 5.6.x will officially cease, marking the end of all support for any version of the ancient PHP 5.x branch. . . .</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(8, 14, 20); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">PHP 7.2 will get a patch from the PHP team, for free, in a timely manner; PHP 5.6 will only get one if you're paying for ongoing support from your OS vendor.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(8, 14, 20); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br class=""></span></div></body></html>