Will there be security updates for 3.1 once 3.2 is released?

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I am currently running WordPress 3.1.2 on PHP 5.1.6. The minimum requirement for WordPress 3.2 is going to be PHP 5.2.4 or greater. If I keep running WordPress 3.1.2 and there is a security issue will they provide security updates for 3.1 or will I be forced to upgrade my version of PHP so that I can upgrade to WordPress 3.2?

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  1. WordPress backports security updates usually 1-3 versions back but they don’t promise anything.

    The WordPress LTS philosophy is that LTS = “Long Term Suckage“

    The Long Term Suckage theory is:

    While I like the theory of LTS, what
    happens in practice is it covers up
    the incompetence of IT or developers
    because they put off small slightly
    painful upgrades until they get so out
    of date of trunk (3 years? 5 years?)
    and you have to go through a giant,
    painful, screws everybody over
    upgrade. —Matt Mullenweg

    Like how your sysadmin doesn’t want to update PHP now that it’s 6 years old and 2 major branches behind.

    I would point my sysadmin to this thread from the RedHat mailing list from 2009. There are 3rd party packages available so you don’t have to compile from source

    If the version of php you need is not
    available in rhn you could use some
    3rd party repos like rpmforge, ATrpms
    or the Remi Collet Repository that is
    specially made for mysql 5.1 and
    php5.2.9 under EL5.

    I would be more concerned about PHP 5.1 branch security issues than something that might come up with WordPress.

    Edit:

    Also found this official RedHat announcement from Jan 2011 RHEL 5 now shipping with PHP 5.3.