PHP has been around for almost as long as the Web. 25 years! Join me for a fun look at the highlights (and lowlights) of this crazy trip. But I will also be trying to convince you to upgrade your PHP version. The performance alone should be enough, if not, I have a few other tricks up my sleeve to try to win you over. Performance optimization, static analysis, zero-cost profiling, dead code elimination and escape analysis are just some of the concepts that will be covered.
Current PHP usage is showing that PHP 5.x now accounts for fewer than 25% of installs.
At this moment in time, the plan is to move to a minimum of PHP 7.0 from XF 2.2 onwards.
So if you're still running PHP 5.6, then when you upgrade to XF 2.1.3, you will see a new message. Start planning to upgrade now!
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I think this would be a vast majority of those users on older PHP versions. And in most cases it's likely going to be a simple hosting panel switch to a new version. A couple of guides for latest version of Plesk/WHM and/or an "ask your host" for those users who rely on them for the "technical stuff". Another factor is that they don't necessarily have to update. If a PHP min version change to say 7.2 comes with 2.2 then they could stay on 2.1.x.or if it's just them being uninformed and needing an authoritative nudge to make the effort to seriously investigate making the jump.
Extremely reasonable!At this moment in time, the plan is to move to a minimum of PHP 7.0 from XF 2.2 onwards.
PHP 7.0 will bring us various code features we've wanted to use for a while plus give the largest performance increase for those upgrading from PHP 5.x. We'll take it one step at a time.
They won't be able to upgrade to XF 2.2 then
Current PHP usage is showing that PHP 5.x now accounts for fewer than 25% of installs.
At this moment in time, the plan is to move to a minimum of PHP 7.0 from XF 2.2 onwards.
So if you're still running PHP 5.6, then when you upgrade to XF 2.1.3, you will see a new message. Start planning to upgrade now!
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Even PHP 5.4... Scary.
I know why this is and any professional operator doesn't use this, but I'm amazed it's still this way.The version of PHP available in the default repository on the latest version of CentOS is 5.4.16
There's hope?RHEL 8 said:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is distributed with PHP 7.2.
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