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Originally posted by KRL
Yeh, I was just chatting with my server tech and he advised against it. Apparently there are some compatibility issues with older PHP scripts or something.
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Well there can be with any language.
It's a good idea to set up a test box and mirror your current sites .. then upgrade on the test box to see how it runs.
If your sites are PHP driven don't go switching versions of PHP without testing first. Nothing's broken now, no need to be fixing it.
It's also probably a good idea to wait a few versions to get any bugs weeded out. Early release versions of any software are going to get a lot more testing than a beta version. Which is why so many open source developers release early. The early adopters (aka risk takers) will find a lot of the bugs the beta testers didn't and in a few releases you'll have a much more stable product to trust on your production servers.