Duplicate PHP 8.1 Return type declaration for internal methods

[Lukas W.]

Affected version

2.2.7

Putting this on your radar for the php8.1 release (November 25th). XF will currently bugsplat when running it on the 8.1 RC 3

Full RFC includes instructions, as well as a workaround for backwards compatibility:

PHP: rfc:internal_method_return_types

wiki.php.net

 

[Chris D]

Already reported and already very much on our radar.

Strictly speaking not exactly a bug but we're tracking it here:

Fixed - PHP 8.1 Compatibility

Probably already known: It seems like XenForo ist currently not compatible with PHP 8.1 due to missing return type declarations on many methods, most notably on classes implementing core interfaes like \ArrayAccess This does generate error messages like An exception occurred: [ErrorException]...

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