There's some seriously missing context to this post. It sounds like they are responding to some expectations posted elsewhere, but they don't link to what they're responding to. Or perhaps it's an update to something announced earlier, but they don't link to the past announcement. It's not clear what PHPng's relationship, if any, is to 5.5 or 5.6 in this post.

Anyone have any pointers to the conversation they are participating in with this post?

(mavci's link is an O'Reilly summary of the state of the PHP ecosystem and I didn't see any mention of PHPng.)

UPDATE: Perhaps this link is what started the confusion the php.net post appears to be trying to address: http://grokbase.com/p/php/php-internals/1455aesx7r/phpng-%04...