Hey Amanda,

There's no policy that I'm aware of which prevents you from installing PHP
8 on a WMCS VM, providing you're careful with the source/licence [0] and
potential effects on package upgrades — packages.sury.org/php [1] is my
go-to DPA for PHP 8.

[0] —
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use#What_uses_of_Cloud_Services_do_we_not_like?
[1] — https://packages.sury.org/php/README.txt




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On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 23:32, AmandaNP Wikipedia <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I apologize if this discussion is already occurring in a task, I am
> terrible at finding relevant phab tasks people haven't linked.
>
> But I assume that PHP 8 can not be loaded onto WM Cloud Servers by a
> matter of policy, correct?
> My concern here is, I have some code that just lost security patches due
> to EOL. The next upgrade only supports PHP 8.
> It has the ability to leave a huge gap in the security of my code.
> Is there any plan to support PHP 8 any time soon?
>
> AmandaNP (she/her)
> English Wikipedia CheckUser & Oversighter || Wikimedia Steward
> UTRS & ACC Developer
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