What PHP version is required?

  • Hello,

    The changelog for recent version 2.1.1 says: “Now require PHP v7.0 at least.” However, the plugin meta information still have “Requires PHP: 5.6” listed.

    I skimmed through the code quickly and there seems to be no feature that requires PHP 7. I had also no problems upgrading the plugin on my PHP 5.6 installation. Could you clarify?

    Cheers
    ?eslav

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by ?eslav Przywara. Reason: Fix typo
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  • Plugin Author Anand Kumar

    (@anand_kumar)

    There is no PHP v7 code but we are going to push users to switch to a supported PHP version. It will ultimately help them to make their site secure and bring performance improvement.

    But, I have to temporarily roll back it because some users are still on v5.6. However, In the next update it will be v7.x for sure.

    HTH.

    Thread Starter ?eslav Przywara

    (@chesio)

    Thanks for clarification! I’m generally in favor of pushing users towards more recent PHP versions.

    Please, just don’t forget to update “Requires PHP” header when the version bump happens. I guess a lot of people (like I do) still has to maintain some PHP 5.x installations.

    Plugin Author Anand Kumar

    (@anand_kumar)

    Hi,

    It was a bug fix update with change in “Requires PHP”. But after some feedback I decided to roll back the “Requires PHP” thing.

    Thanks for the feedback.

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