Hi devs, For impish the server team will be transitioning PHP to 8.0 over the coming weeks. (LP: #1927264) [0]
Since version 7.0, upstream PHP has adopted a regular release cadence[1], with one release per year. Each release is supported for 2 years, plus a third year of security critical fixes. PHP 8.0 was available last cycle but since changes from 7.4 to 8.0 were significant[2], we opted to postpone it to the 21.10 cycle and focused instead on resolving some phpunit 8.5->9.5 transition troubles. Landing PHP 8.0 this cycle will enable it to receive testing in a release prior to 22.04 LTS. php8.0 has now been sync'd into impish from Debian experimental and set as the default PHP. This breaks the PHP stack[3] and starts the actual transition. Most or all of the PHP stack will need rebuilt at this point. This is phased due to package dependencies - for the php7.4 transition we started with php-propro, php-apcu, and php-msgpack; followed by php-apcu-bc, php-imagick, and php-igbinary; and then the rest of the stack. I anticipate php8.0's transition will proceed similarly. Typically during PHP transitions, packages will fail to build or fail autopkgtests. Deprecated functionality[4] has been a common case and likely will be so for php8.0 as well[5]. There may also be phpunit-related issues in packages that didn't get re-built or re-tested since phpunit 9.5 transitioned. Thanks, Bryce 0: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Transition/Php8.0 1: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php 2: https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8 3: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html#php-defaults 4: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_4 5: https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel