id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
8701	WordPress throws E_DEPRECATED notices all over the place with newer PHP 5 installs	Otto42	anonymous	"On PHP 5.3 and up installs, there's lots of deprecated messages popping up everywhere.

As reported here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/227914

PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 512 
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 527
...
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-includes\cache.php on line 103
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-includes\query.php on line 61 
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-includes\theme.php on line 1109

And so on.

There's no real good fix for this, since WP is still trying to maintain backward compatibility all the way to PHP 4, however since wp-settings is already setting the error_reporting() level, it might be a good idea to stick some extra code in there to make it ignore E_DEPRECATED for the cases where E_DEPRECATED is defined. That might prevent these spurious errors in at least some cases."	defect (bug)	closed	high	2.8	Warnings/Notices	2.7	blocker	fixed	has-patch dev-feedback