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Update to PHP 5.6 from 5.3 planned. Anyone with experience?
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 11:10 pm
by Czorneboh
Hi all!
I want to update to PHP 5.6.
There are already questions in the forum according to version 7, but for me would be fine to run PHP 5.6.
Since my last move to the current provider my blog runs with PHP 5.3.3.7. This version do not gets any more security patches, even 5.6.
Here is the overview about support:
https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php
Has anybody a blog running with PHP 5.6? all fine with it?
Re: Update to PHP 5.6 from 5.3 planned. Anyone with experien
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 11:42 am
by yellowled
Czorneboh wrote:Has anybody a blog running with PHP 5.6? all fine with it?
Yes. Has been running on PHP 5.6.x (fast-cgi) for months.
Seems to have worked well for most people considering there's only one issue on GitHub clearly related to 5.6, and that has been closed months ago.
Which, I guess, does not guarantee that your transition from 5.3 to 5.6 will be flawless, but if not that would most likely be related to the server setup at your web host.
You should
not switch to PHP7 yet, there are still things to test and iron out.
YL
Re: Update to PHP 5.6 from 5.3 planned. Anyone with experien
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:52 pm
by onli
Note that you want to run a current version of serendipity to have compatibility with php 5.6. I assume the serendipity version you run is quite old, otherwise I'd think there should have been problems caused by the old php version.
Re: Update to PHP 5.6 from 5.3 planned. Anyone with experien
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:10 pm
by Czorneboh
Which problems for users of latest s9y using old PHP-version do you know or where are those reported?
I have s9y 2.03 installed already for a while.
Re: Update to PHP 5.6 from 5.3 planned. Anyone with experien
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:31 pm
by onli
If you have 2.0.3 you will be fine. For 2.0 the official requirement is still php 5.3+. I formulated that too strong.
Czorneboh wrote:Which problems for users of latest s9y using old PHP-version do you know
We - specifically, I - simply do not test for compatibility problems with PHP versions that old. Everything could break, or nothing.
Czorneboh wrote:where are those reported?
You would find them in the changelog:
https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/blob ... /docs/NEWS. Stuff like this would also be in the announcement blog post.
However, just use a PHP version modern enough to get security fixes. Then you can be sure of compatibility, and if something would not work because of the PHP version we will fix it. Currently that is PHP 5.6 – 5.5 as well, because it was still supported when 2.0 was released (not guaranteed for 2.1, but most likely still working). PHP 7 will be supported by s9y 2.1.