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(a)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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