Drop PHP 7.3 support in MediaWiki when appropriate
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	Mar 22 2021, 3:46 PM

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T257879: Drop PHP 7.2 support in MediaWiki 1.35; require PHP 7.3.19 | T328921: Drop PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0 support from MediaWiki

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Address contravariance todos	mediawiki/core	master	+3 -6
	Drop PHP 7.3 documented support from MediaWiki 1.39	mediawiki/core	master	+3 -2

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		Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T278139 Drop PHP 7.3 support in MediaWiki when appropriate
		Resolved		Krinkle	T298914 Decide from which release branch we should drop PHP 7.3 support

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Jdforrester-WMF created this task.Mar 22 2021, 3:46 PM

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Jdforrester-WMF added projects: PHP 7.3 support, MediaWiki-General.Mar 22 2021, 3:46 PM

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Legoktm added a parent task: T277618: var_dump() on various objects writes gigabytes of data and takes minutes to run.

Reedy changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Mar 22 2021, 4:13 PM

Reedy added a subtask: T261872: Drop PHP 7.2 & 7.3 support from MediaWiki master branch, once Wikimedia production is on 7.4.

kostajh mentioned this in T166010: The Great Namespaceization Effort.Jun 1 2021, 8:38 PM

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Izno added a parent task: T251043: Cleanup css-sanitizer when it only requires PHP >= 7.4.Oct 22 2021, 4:35 PM

Potentially we might want to do this for MW 1.38? PHP 7.3 leaves official security support in five weeks' time: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

In T278139#7451670, @Jdforrester-WMF wrote:

Potentially we might want to do this for MW 1.38? PHP 7.3 leaves official security support in five weeks' time: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

It's also in Debian oldstable (buster) which has another year of support though.

Izno mentioned this in T298914: Decide from which release branch we should drop PHP 7.3 support.Jan 10 2022, 11:01 PM

Reedy added a subtask: T298914: Decide from which release branch we should drop PHP 7.3 support.Jan 10 2022, 11:12 PM

Jdforrester-WMF closed subtask T298914: Decide from which release branch we should drop PHP 7.3 support as Resolved.Mar 24 2022, 2:21 PM

Lens0021 subscribed.Apr 6 2022, 3:33 AM

Reedy moved this task from Backlog to Other on the PHP 7.3 support board.Jun 29 2022, 8:53 AM

As with dropping 7.2 support, dropping 7.3 is "just" a matter of documentation and CI job configuration; Wikimedia production runs semi-independently of this.

Jdforrester-WMF changed the task status from Stalled to In Progress.Jul 27 2022, 4:17 PM

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Change 817818 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[mediawiki/core@master] Drop PHP 7.3 documented support from MediaWiki 1.39

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/817818

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 27 2022, 4:22 PM

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Aug 1 2022, 11:47 PM

Jdforrester-WMF mentioned this in T261872: Drop PHP 7.2 & 7.3 support from MediaWiki master branch, once Wikimedia production is on 7.4.

Jdforrester-WMF removed a parent task: T251043: Cleanup css-sanitizer when it only requires PHP >= 7.4.

Jdforrester-WMF removed a parent task: T166010: The Great Namespaceization Effort.Aug 1 2022, 11:49 PM

Jdforrester-WMF removed a parent task: T277618: var_dump() on various objects writes gigabytes of data and takes minutes to run.

Change 817818 merged by jenkins-bot: