Hey Amanda,

There's no policy that I'm aware of which prevents you from installing PHP 8 on a WMCS VM, providing you're careful with the source/licence [0] and potential effects on package upgrades — packages.sury.org/php [1] is my go-to DPA for PHP 8.

[0] — https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use#What_uses_of_Cloud_Services_do_we_not_like?

[1] — https://packages.sury.org/php/README.txt

Kind regards,

Sammy

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On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 23:32, AmandaNP Wikipedia <deltaquadwiki@gmail.com> wrote:

I apologize if this discussion is already occurring in a task, I am terrible at finding relevant phab tasks people haven't linked.

But I assume that PHP 8 can not be loaded onto WM Cloud Servers by a matter of policy, correct?
My concern here is, I have some code that just lost security patches due to EOL. The next upgrade only supports PHP 8.
It has the ability to leave a huge gap in the security of my code.
Is there any plan to support PHP 8 any time soon?

AmandaNP (she/her)
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