On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 06:24, Taavi Väänänen <h...@taavi.wtf> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Now that Wikimedia production is fully on PHP 7.4[0], I propose dropping > support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 from the master branch (which currently > means it'd apply to MW 1.40). PHP 7.2 is already not supported on the > release branches since MW 1.35. > > PHP 7.3 went end-of-life in late 2021, and both the latest Debian stable > release (bullseye) and the latest Ubuntu LTS release (jammy) ship with > newer versions (7.4 and 8.1, respectively). > > Please consider this the policy-required[1] notice. These changes can be > implemented in two weeks if there aren't any major objections here or in > the relevant Phabricator task[2]. > > [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271736 > [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Support_policy_for_PHP#Process > [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261872 For clarity, the decision task was https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278139 (not T261872 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261872>). Following discussion there back in March 2022, we went with dropping it for 1.39 rather than 1.38. Apologies for the lack of notice back then! J. -- *James D. Forrester* (he/him <http://pronoun.is/he> or they/themself <http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself>) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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