Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Problem/Motivation
Drupal::RECOMMENDED_PHP is still set at PHP 7.3, but it's going to be out of security support in December when Drupal 9.3 comes out.
Steps to reproduce
Proposed resolution
Set Drupal::RECOMMMENDED_PHP to PHP 7.4 in Drupal 9.2, so that sites get six months notice that they need to update.
This will also mean we only (or nearly only) have to worry about PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.0 updates when we're in 9.3/9.4/10.0 territory.
Remaining tasks
User interface changes
API changes
Data model changes
Release notes snippet
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 3214920.patch | 480 bytes | catch |
Comments
Comment #2
catchComment #3
longwaveTotally makes sense, anyone still on 7.3 needs nudging to update.
Comment #4
Gábor HojtsyAgree this looks good :) https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/php-requirements will also need an update alongside this commit as it still says 7.3 is recommended.
Comment #7
Gábor HojtsyAll right, committed to 9.3.x and cherry-picked to 9.2.x.
I went to update https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/php-requirements but noticed that it would need an update for Drupal 8.x as well. Went to check if this Drupal.php file is handling recommended PHP versions on Drupal 8 too but it does not seem to be doing that. Is there code in Drupal 8 to update for recommended PHP versions or should we just update the docs page?
Comment #8
catchFor Drupal 8 it's the
DRUPAL_RECOMMENDED_PHPconstant in bootstrap.inc, which is otherwise identical.I think we can definitely update the docs page without updating Drupal 8.9. Mostly we are only backporting major bugs (or worse) to Drupal 8.9, but maybe as essentially a security hardening issue this might be eligible.
Comment #9
Gábor HojtsyUpdated https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/php-requirements too.