{"id":46633,"date":"2017-10-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/?p=46633"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:00:00","slug":"its-been-a-long-road-but-it-will-be-time-to-say-goodbye-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devel.www.cpanel.net\/blog\/products\/its-been-a-long-road-but-it-will-be-time-to-say-goodbye-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"EasyApache 3: It&#8217;s been a long road, but it will be time to say goodbye soon."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"magicdomid2853\" class=\"ace-line primary-author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\"><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\">It&#8217;s that time. No, not breakfast, or lunch. It&#8217;s time that we are <\/span><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">finally d<\/span><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\">efining the End of Life for EasyApache 3.\u00a0 EasyApache 3 will be fully deprecated, receiving no further updates <\/span><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">as of<\/span><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\"> December 31st, 2018<\/span><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">. This date allows us to e<\/span><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\">nd<\/span><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\"> support in line <\/span><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\">with<\/span><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\"> PHP 5.6;<\/span><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\"> the last PHP version in EasyApache 3. <\/span><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">There&#8217;s a lot to do before we get there, though, so let&#8217;s go through some details.<\/span><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"magicdomid2890\" class=\"ace-line primary-author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\"><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv b\">The Holdouts<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"magicdomid1532\" class=\"ace-line primary-none\"><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">Over the past 2 years we have worked to make EasyApache 4 the new standard for webstack usage in cPanel &amp; WHM. While we\u2019ve been working so much on EA4, there are two big things we want to address. Our current FastCGI implementation needs to be iterated on, and we need to add Tomcat support. These two are preventing the last few cPanel &amp; WHM servers from migrating to EasyApache 4 and we want to give these server administrators an easier migration path.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ace-line primary-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/EA4\/Apache+Module%3A+FCGId\"><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">FastCGI<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ace-line primary-none\">Our FastCGI implementation is currently defined as an <a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/EA4\/The+Experimental+Repository\">experimental<\/a> implementation. We are planning to iterate on this numerous times to ensure compatibility with MultiPHP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ace-line primary-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/features.cpanel.net\/topic\/tomcat-support-in-easyapache-4\">Tomcat<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ace-line primary-none\">We will be adding Tomcat support to EasyApache 4. The first step will be to have an <a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/EA4\/The+Experimental+Repository\">experimental<\/a> RPM for Tomcat out within the next couple of months, and we plan to add full support to cPanel &amp; WHM before EasyApache 3 reaches End of Life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv b\">The Deprecation and Blocker Plan<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">Our goal for 2018 is to release 4 new versions of cPanel &amp; WHM, and that allows us to use cPanel versions to track the steps toward deprecation. Our current plans are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">In cPanel &amp; WHM version 72 (which we anticipate releasing around March of 2018) we will add a warning in the EasyApache 3 interfaces (both the command line UI and in WHM) displaying EasyApache 3&#8217;s End of Life date, and include links to the EasyApache 4 Migration UI. That warning will remain unchanged until v76. In v76 we will add that you won&#8217;t be able to upgrade to version 78 without migrating to EasyApache 4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\">tl;dr version:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60 b\"><b>Advisements added to v72<\/b><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Warnings will be added to the EA3 Interfaces to advise the fact that it is going EOL soon.<\/li>\n<li>Links to the EA4 Migration UI will be added to the EasyApache 3 interfaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Deprecated in v76<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Warnings will be added to the EA3 Interfaces to advise the fact that it is the last version of cPanel &amp; WHM that will support EasyApache 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Removed in v78<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>We will be completely removing EA3 and all accompanied code in this version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Upgrade blockers added to v78.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>You will not be able to upgrade to v78 if you are running EasyApache 3. You must upgrade to EasyApache 4 to upgrade to v78.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv\">If you haven\u2019t migrated to EasyApache 4 yet, it\u2019s easier than ever. Check out our documentation to get started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author-a-ujz81z1z87zz73zez78zez80zz65zz82zcbz81zv url\"><a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/EA4\/How+to+Migrate+Between+EasyApache+3+and+EasyApache+4\">https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/EA4\/How+to+Migrate+Between+EasyApache+3+and+EasyApache+4<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Updates to EasyApache 3 from now til Dec 31 2018<\/h2>\n<p>Since we&#8217;ve been focusing on EasyApache 4, we haven&#8217;t done much to the EasyApache 3 codebase over the past year. We will continue this trend until we fully deprecate EasyApache 3. This means, the only changes we&#8217;ll make to EasyApache 3 would be the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Software Upgrades\n<ul>\n<li>We will update currently provided EasyApache 3 PHP versions as they are released.\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, the only PHP version provided by EasyApache 3 getting updates is PHP 5.6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We will update Apache 2.2 and 2.4 to current versions as new versions are released.<\/li>\n<li>Any other software will not be updated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Critical security changes\u00a0 \/ Defects\n<ul>\n<li>We will only address critical defects and critical security issues with EasyApache 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Help us help you!<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"author-a-z84zz68zajcz76zz73zhz81zsz66zz89zkz90z60\">Have some reason why you can\u2019t upgrade to EasyApache 4? We want to know! Comment below, or join the discussion on the cPanel forums in our thread here:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.cpanel.net\/threads\/easyapache-3-its-been-a-long-road-but-it-will-be-time-to-say-goodbye-soon.613783\/\">https:\/\/forums.cpanel.net\/threads\/easyapache-3-its-been-a-long-road-but-it-will-be-time-to-say-goodbye-soon.613783\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time. No, not breakfast, or lunch. It&#8217;s time that we are finally defining the End of Life for EasyApache 3.\u00a0 EasyApache 3 will be fully deprecated, receiving no further updates as of December 31st, 2018. 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