Microsoft says it will no longer contribute to Windows versions of the popular PHP scripting language starting with PHP version 8.0 and later.

Microsoft engineer Dale Hirt announced last week that starting with PHP version 8.0, the company will no longer provide the support it currently provides for PHP 7.2, PHP 7.3, and PHP 7.4. However, we will not support PHP for Windows in any way for version 8.0 and higher,” wrote Hirt. PHP 7.2 will no longer be officially supported from November, while PHP 7.3 will not receive security fixes until November. PHP 7.4 will continue to have one more year of bug fixes, followed by one year of security fixes. PHP 8.0 development is currently speeding up.

Senior PHP developer Sara Golemon clarified that Microsoft’s discontinuation of PHP 8 support does not mean that Windows does not support PHP 8.

“This message means that Microsoft will not be producing official versions for PHP 8 and higher,” Golemon said in a Reddit post. “This message does NOT mean that no one will.

Dropping compilation support for PHP may also make sense to Microsoft due to changes in Azure. As a Hacker News reader pointed out, Microsoft’s original managed PHP offering in the Azure Application Service only worked on Windows, but the Azure Application Service now also supports Linux, reducing the need for PHP. PHP remains a popular programming language choice among developers, ranking fourth since 2015 in GitHub’s annual Octoverse survey behind JavaScript, Python, and Java.

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