Should we drop RHEL/CentOS 6 support for NEW iRedMail installation?

[Zhang Huangbin]

Dear all,

I’d like to hear from you: should we drop RHEL/CentOS 6 support for NEW iRedMail installation?
Please leave your comment in our forum post:
https://forum.iredmail.org/topic13706.html

Reasons we want to drop CentOS 6 in upcoming iRedMail release (0.9.8):

*) RHEL/CentOS 6 is too old.

- RHEL 6 is 7 years old (released on Nov 10, 2010), even RHEL 7 is 3 years old (released on June 10, 2014).
- RHEL/CentOS 6 is still widely used, but it’s not a good choice for NEW mail server.

*) RHEL/CentOS 6 ships php-5.3 - it's end of life.

PHP-5.3 is end of life on Jan 1, 2014, no more security fixes from PHP team.
FYI: http://php.net/supported-versions.php

Note: CentOS 7 ships PHP-5.4, it’s end of life too.

*) More iRedMail admins chose CentOS 7.

For iRedMail-0.9.7, we have 5152 CentOS-7 installations, but 2264 CentOS-6 installations. The number is clear.

Please leave your comment in our forum post:
https://forum.iredmail.org/topic13706.html

Thanks for your time. :)

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