Isn't php 7.2.26 superior to 7.2.9? It looks pretty logical to me but maybe I haven't understood correctly what you mean.
Pascal
Peter Presland a écrit, le vendredi 24 janvier 2020 à 16:52:02 :
Per other replies about php version requirements and the putative difficulties involved for Redhat OS users, I am left wondering about how important the stated Mediawiki php version requirements really are.
My wondering is prompted by the fact that both Wikipedia and the few other MW foundation sites I have checked, are all running MW1.35.0 while still on php 7.2.26. Whereas the stated php minimum version requirement for the current latest stable MW1.34 is php 7.2.9.
Probably a simple explanation but as a Centos 7 OS user, I am confused.
Peter Presland
On 23/01/2020 22:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 2:48 PM Sam Reed reedy@wikimedia.org wrote:
As per the MediaWiki version life cycle [1], I would like to announce the formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.32 as of tomorrow, Friday January 24, 2019.
This means that MediaWiki 1.32 will no longer receive maintenance or security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue to use it.
It is recommended to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.34 (due to become EOL in November 2020), or less preferably to MediaWiki 1.33 (due to become EOL in June 2020). The current Long Term Support (LTS) version of MediaWiki, MediaWiki 1.31, is older (and downgrading is not supported), though the next LTS (MediaWiki 1.35) is due to be released in June 2020, and will be supported until June 2023.
MediaWiki 1.33 has the same supported PHP version of 7.0 (which is itself unsupported upstream), in case you need longer to upgrade your systems. MediaWiki 1.34 requires PHP 7.2.9 or later.
This puts some folks in a bad position.
The latest CentOS 7 does not support the versions of Python and PHP required, even with Software Collections (SCL) enabled.
(In hindsight a Red Hat-based VM was a bad decision. It ships with antique software, and SCL only provides old software. We need modern software, and should have selected a Fedora or Ubuntu VM).
Jeff
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