Control: retitle -1 roundcube: 1.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u8 break PHP<7.1 compatibility Control: tag -1 = pending Control: severity -1 normal
On Mon, 06 Apr 2026 at 20:23:29 +1200, Mark Foster wrote: > after running a routine apt-get upgrade command the following packages were > updated: > > Upgrade: libpng16-16:amd64 (1.6.37-3+deb11u2, 1.6.37-3+deb11u3), > roundcube-core:amd64 (1.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u7, 1.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u8), > roundcube:amd64 (1.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u7, 1.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u8), > roundcube-mysql:amd64 (1.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u7, 1.4.15+dfsg.1-1+deb11u8) > > On completion of the update attempts to access /roundcube/ logged the > following in my errors file: > > PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in > /usr/share/roundcube/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_utils.php on line 433, This file is loaded at upgrade time, so the fact that the upgrade was successful suggests that your /usr/bin/php is PHP≥7.1 (otherwise the upgrade path would have aborted with the above syntax error too) while the runtime uses an older version. This is not a supported system. Breaking compatibility with ancient PHP versions (buster has PHP7.3, stretch 7.0) is arguably a valid bug, but not definitely not RC and nothing that warrants a regression update. Bullseye LTS uses PHP7.4; that's also what is used for unit tests and everything else is unsupported and untested. -- Guilhem.
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