&gt; Also, you can still be pretty confident that as a language support by an IDE (PhpStorm in your case) evolves, new versions will be supported by this very IDE, and we don&#x27;t have any plans to release a separate Php7Storm :)<p>But you can also be confident that 5 years in the future, if you stop paying you will have only 1 choice:<p>To use the version that supported PHP 7, a deprecated, unsecure and phased out version (or at least, that&#x27;s what I expect from PHP 7 by the year 2020).<p>In the past you had the peace of mind that you could continue using the version that supported PHP &lt;current - 1&gt; if you stopped paying.<p>That peace of mind was one of the most important features of PhpStorm, a feature not implemented in the software, but in the licensing terms.