djbaxter
in memoriam 1947-2022
Agreed. 7.4.16 is not even close to EOL and right now Xenforo and WordPress are both purring along nicely for me with Apache 2.4, PHP-FPM, and Maria DB 10.3.28. I'm in no rush to leap into PHP 8.0 at this point. I haven't even really explored the benefits and I won't until all the addons and WordPress plugins I use are certified PHP8-compatible. Why fix what isn't broke?
But I sympathize fully with Xenforo's desire to stop supporting EOL versions. I imagine there's a lot of unnecessary code required to make everything backward compatible by now. Total PITA.
I think at some point Xenforo will need to do what WordPress did and simply announce or proclaim that they will no longer support PHP 5.6. That's probably what it will take to get some people off their butts to upgrade. And once the 5.6 guys have upgraded, move on to the next levels: 7.0, 7.2, 7.2, and 7.3 in increments as new versions are released.
But I sympathize fully with Xenforo's desire to stop supporting EOL versions. I imagine there's a lot of unnecessary code required to make everything backward compatible by now. Total PITA.
I think at some point Xenforo will need to do what WordPress did and simply announce or proclaim that they will no longer support PHP 5.6. That's probably what it will take to get some people off their butts to upgrade. And once the 5.6 guys have upgraded, move on to the next levels: 7.0, 7.2, 7.2, and 7.3 in increments as new versions are released.
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