Just for my own curiosity, why 8.1? The 8.1 series is 3-1/2 years old. > On Mar 17, 2025, at 9:16 AM, effie mouzeli <ef...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Dear all, > > The SRE team is pleased to share that since January we have been gradually > migrating the WMF MediaWiki production environment to PHP 8.1! This upgrade > from PHP 7.4 brings performance improvements, security enhancements, and > access to newer language features that will help to ensure long-term > stability and maintainability. You can find more information in the PHP > release announcements[0]. > > Key points > API and Web traffic will be running entirely on PHP 8.1 by the end of March[1] > If you maintain extensions or tools, please ensure they are compatible with > PHP 8.1. > If you encounter issues that you believe are triggered by the migration to > PHP 8.1, we encourage you to open a subtask[2]. > If the issue is urgent and/or widespread, you can escalate directly to SRE > via the #wikimedia-sre channel on IRC. > > Thanks to everyone who contributed to this long-running effort to prepare > both MediaWiki and our production environment for this transition. Special > appreciation goes to the developers who reported and resolved any bugs and > production issues along the way—your efforts have been invaluable in moving > forward this migration according to plan. > > If you have any questions or concerns, please add your comments on > Phabricator under the relevant tasks[1][3] > > Best Regards, > > Scott French & Effie Mouzeli > On Behalf of the SRE team > > > [0] (Release Announcement) https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php > <https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php> and > https://www.php.net/releases/8.1/en.php > <https://www.php.net/releases/8.1/en.php> > [1] (MediaWiki on PHP 8.1 production traffic ramp-up) > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383845 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383845> > [2] (PHP 8.1 issues found during WMF rollout/ramp up) > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379874 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379874> > [3] (Migrate WMF production from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.1) > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319432 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319432> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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