ChangeLog-4.8.md

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 All notable changes of the PHPUnit 4.8 release series are documented in this file using the [Keep a CHANGELOG](http://keepachangelog.com/) principles.
 
+## [4.8.3] - 2015-08-10
+
+### Changed
+
+* PHPUnit now exits early during bootstrap when an unsupported version of PHP is used
+
 ## [4.8.2] - 2015-08-07
 
 ### Fixed
@@ -29,6 +35,8 @@ All notable changes of the PHPUnit 4.8 release series are documented in this fil
 * Made the argument check of `assertContains()` and `assertNotContains()` more strict to prevent undefined behavior such as [#1808](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1808)
 * Changed the name of the default group from `__nogroup__` to `default`
 
+[4.8.3]: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/compare/4.8.2...4.8.3
+[4.8.2]: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/compare/4.8.1...4.8.2
 [4.8.1]: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/compare/4.8.0...4.8.1
 [4.8.0]: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/compare/4.7...4.8.0
 

build/phar-autoload.php.in

@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ Phar::mapPhar('___PHAR___');
 ___FILELIST___
 
 if ($execute) {
+    if (version_compare('5.3.3', PHP_VERSION, '>')) {
+        fwrite(
+            STDERR,
+            'This version of PHPUnit requires PHP 5.3.3; using the latest version of PHP is highly recommended.' . PHP_EOL
+        );
+
+        die(1);
+    }
+
     if (isset($_SERVER['argv'][1]) && $_SERVER['argv'][1] == '--manifest') {
         print file_get_contents(__PHPUNIT_PHAR_ROOT__ . '/manifest.txt');
         exit;

phpunit

@@ -9,13 +9,23 @@
  * file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
 
+if (version_compare('5.3.3', PHP_VERSION, '>')) {
+    fwrite(
+        STDERR,
+        'This version of PHPUnit requires PHP 5.3.3; using the latest version of PHP is highly recommended.' . PHP_EOL
+    );
+
+    die(1);
+}
+
 if (!ini_get('date.timezone')) {
     ini_set('date.timezone', 'UTC');
 }
 
 foreach (array(__DIR__ . '/../../autoload.php', __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php', __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php') as $file) {
     if (file_exists($file)) {
         define('PHPUNIT_COMPOSER_INSTALL', $file);
+
         break;
     }
 }
@@ -28,6 +38,7 @@ if (!defined('PHPUNIT_COMPOSER_INSTALL')) {
         'wget http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar' . PHP_EOL .
         'php composer.phar install' . PHP_EOL
     );
+
     die(1);
 }
 

src/Runner/Version.php

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public static function id()
         }
 
         if (self::$version === null) {
-            $version       = new SebastianBergmann\Version('4.8.2', dirname(dirname(__DIR__)));
+            $version       = new SebastianBergmann\Version('4.8.3', dirname(dirname(__DIR__)));
             self::$version = $version->getVersion();
         }