Requires PHP 8?

Seems weird. We’re using PHP 7.4 and can’t update. This is the message I get: “Det er en ny versjon av Bring Fraktguiden for WooCommerce tilgjengelig, men den virker ikke med din versjon av PHP. Se detaljer for versjon 1.8.6 eller l?r mer om ? oppdatere PHP”.

Same here, could turn some WP-sites up/down if you all ready demand PHP 8.0 ??

We’re hosting a site at Servebolt, and just went through the process of moving a site to another server a few weeks ago to be able to upgrade to 1.8.5. Servebolt don’t support PHP 8 yet. Do you really have to require PHP 8?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by prikkprikkprikk.

We chose to use PHP8 as the supported version because that is the version we use on all our current projects. PHP7.4 itself is scheduled to have active support only until november this year and beyond that it will only get security fixes.
If you’re not ready to update to PHP 8.0 yet then you can choose either to remain on version 1.8.4 of our plugin or you can test and verify that the plugin works with your php version and install it manually. For the development and testing we do of the plugin we will only support PHP8.0 and newer going forward.

Please note that the biggest difference between version 1.8.4 and 1.8.5 is that version 1.8.5 has support for PHP8.x

Quite a few sites will break/whitespace with PHP8.x simply due to that PHP8 deprecates functionality that a LOT of other plugins and themes use.
With regards to your comment ‘will only get security-fixes’, that is the entire intent of how the devcycle for PHP works:
No new or additional functionality or changes are done to the 7.4 codebase, only security-related updates – it doesn’t mean 7.4 is deprecated.

As per current the list of supported versions are:
– PHP 7.4 mainline support ends 28 Nov 2021 (2 months)
– PHP 7.4 security updates ends 28 Nov 2022 (14 months)
(reference URL: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php)

I’m not biased here (using PHP8 is good), but enforcing PHP8 like this is a REALLY bad move and will affect a lot of users – you could actually support both untill 7.4 is deprecated with #ifdef-tests and logic.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by click. Reason: text styling

@forsvunnet, I believe you’re using the wrong approach here. Instead of making the newest version dependent on PHP8, I think the better option is to make it compatible? Many Woocommerce sites have more than 20-30 and more plugins active, how can you expect all of them to adhere to your plugins dependency needs? ??

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by michaelw90.