XF 2.2 PHP 7.x Required for XF 2.2?

[RobNH]

I recently installed the latest Beta version of XF 2.2 for a production board running PHP 5.6.40 and I get the following error:

PHP 7.0.0 or newer is required. 5.6.40 does not meet this requirement. Please ask your host to upgrade PHP.

Is the upcoming production version of XF 2.2 going to require PHP 7.x?

 

[briansol]

yes, it's in the release notes that 7 is required.

 

[Paul B]

Requirements​

The following are minimum requirements:

• PHP 7.0 or newer
• MySQL 5.5 and newer
• All of the add-ons listed here require XenForo 2.2.
• Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 2.0

Note: Only the PHP version requirements have changed here. However, even if you're running PHP 7.0 we strongly recommend upgrading to PHP 7.4 at the earliest opportunity for improvements in speed, security and stability. We also recommend MySQL 5.7/8.0 (or equivalent).

 

[RobNH]

Thanks, I didn't see that.

 

[RobNH]

I'm running MySQL 10.0.38-MariaDB

Is that sufficient?

 

[Paul B]

Yes