Why are you running an EOL version of PHP?

[Kier]

You may have noticed that with the release of XenForo 2.2.5 today, we have started to recommend PHP 8 as the ideal version for XenForo. PHP 8 is a huge step forward from PHP 7 and we'd love to be able to take advantage of it some day.

But our statistics show that there are still large numbers of XenForo licensees running the latest versions of XenForo on ancient versions of PHP like 7.0 - there is even a fairly large contingent still on PHP 5.6.

It's a bit galling to have to make the required version of PHP for XenForo something that was declared End of Life several years ago, so we'd like to know why you're still running an old version, if you are.

 

[Seeker-Smith]

In my case I wait for my distribution to push it in an update / upgrade.

 

[Andy.N]

Running centminmod and waiting for @eva2000 to give an all clear before upgrading to 8.x

 

[Mr. Jinx]

Give a license renewal discount for people running PHP8 and look at the version numbers again

 

[RobinHood]

I'll probably run 8 any fully up to date XF site on it's own. If there's also a wordpress install in tandem though I'll probably be stuck on 7.3 or 7.4 as many plugins aren't fully compatible with 8 yet.

 

[NealC]

Add-ons, will they be compatible? PHP Extensions? Things I have to verify before I can switch from 7.x to 8.

 

[Rhodium]

I'm on php 8.0.6

 

[briansol]

I've yet to be able to upgrade to php8 successfully on my server.

I keep having errors with selecting the proper mpm options that allows things to function correctly in cpanel. They didn't make it easy.

 

[Kirby]

I'll probably run 8 any fully up to date XF site on it's own. If there's also a wordpress install in tandem though I'll probably be stuck on 7.3 or 7.4 as many plugins aren't fully compatible with 8 yet.

Same here. We currently run all XF2 with PHP 7.4 as quite a few use XPress/XLink with WordPress - WP doesn't seem fully ready for PHP 8 and we are still on XF 2.1 anyway.
Could run new installs on PHP 8.

 

[Kruzya]

But theoretically we can jump to PHP 8.0 without major issues.

 

[djbaxter]

Most of you are missing the point entirely.

You may have noticed that with the release of XenForo 2.2.5 today, we have started to recommend PHP 8 as the ideal version for XenForo. PHP 8 is a huge step forward from PHP 7 and we'd love to be able to take advantage of it some day.

But our statistics show that there are still large numbers of XenForo licensees running the latest versions of XenForo on ancient versions of PHP like 7.0 - there is even a fairly large contingent still on PHP 5.6.

It's a bit galling to have to make the required version of PHP for XenForo something that was declared EOL several years ago, so we'd like to know why you're still running an old version, if you are.

PHP 7.4 is not EOL. But earlier versions of 7.x and 5.6 have been for some time now.

So the question as posed is not why aren't you running PHP 8. It's why are you still running EOL versions of 7.x and 5.x.

 

[imno007]

So the question should really be "Why are you running EOL versions of PHP"? I'm currently on PHP 7.4. All ready to go with PHP 8, just waiting on a certain XF 3rd party developer to get around to supporting it - they've been saying they were waiting on Xenforo to "officially" add support for it, so maybe now they'll consider this all very official.

 

[eva2000]

Running centminmod and waiting for @eva2000 to give an all clear before upgrading to 8.x

really depends on your addon compatibility

 

[Andy.N]

really depends on your addon compatibility

So as far as stock CMM, it's all good up to the latest PHP 8.x?

 

[Rhody]

7.4.16 is stable. 8 seems quirky for many add-ons. When the add-on developers say they're ready for 8, we will switch it over our forums

 

[duderuud]

We switched our big board to 8.0.5 recently without any issues.

 

[Mendalla]

I am on shared hosting and my host's default was, last I checked, 7.2. I manually switched to 7.4 a while ago using PHP Selector in cPanel but 8 wasn't even an option at that time.

 

[Faust]

I'm running my forum on 7.4, and on shared hosting as well. I do have option to upgrade to latest php version which is 8.0, but I'm not sure if all addons are compatible with 8.0

 

[Lawrence]

5.6 was perfection for it's time. To this day, I just can't let it go.

Anyways, 7.4.x on my live sites. 7.4/8.0.x for development.

 

[Abraham54]

Upgrading to PHP 8 gives me a blank page.
I think it is not an XF problem, but most add-ons I think.