Make php8.1 minimum requirement

[sreichel]

Long story short ...

• PHP8.0 is end-of-life since Nov 2022 (no security support since Nov 2023)
• more and more tools rely on php8.1+
• Magento2 requires php8.1 since 2.4.6 (Feb 2023)
• yeah, skip php 8.0

Just as we have abandoned support for PHP7.3, I would like to ....

• Make php7.2 minimum requirement #2402
• What do we miss for PHP8.1? #2253
• PHP 7.4 #3089

[sreichel]

Mhh ... not what i have expected. ❔

What are the resons to still want php7-support?

[Please] Letz moderize OM and dont rely on age old limitations.

[kiatng]

Is this for v20? I'm for supporting PHP7. No issue for v21 for min PHP8+.

[sreichel]

Why to support php7?

We dropped support for <7.4, why not do drop <8.1 - at the right time?

IMHO ... the right time is now.

I am a fan of backward-compatibilty, but changing the requirents to move forward isanother thing. Maybe I'd not have suggested this last year, but php7.4 and als php8.0 is EEOL for a long time now.

We are limitating ourself!

If you want to write an extension, you cant use php8 features as long you want to support latest OM-version, You also cant rely on other modern tools, that mostly require php8.1. THIS HURTS a lot.

I'd not suggest it, but you can still ignorephp-requirements during composer install.

[kiatng]

Would dropping support of PHP7 in v20 compliance with RFC Release Schedule?