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Since PHP 7.4 has a release candidate, it can be considered stable. Now we can start thinking about the compatibility. The following is the problems from phpunit unit test: * `ReflectionType::__toString()` is deprecated -- T192167 ([[ https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0RC1/UPGRADING#L395-L398 | php-7.4.0RC1 note ]]) ``` Function ReflectionType::__toString() is deprecated tests/phpunit/unit/includes/watcheditem/NoWriteWatchedItemStoreUnitTest.php:225 tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php:110 maintenance/doMaintenance.php:99 ``` * Cannot use "parent" when current class scope has no parent ([[ https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0RC1/UPGRADING#L369-L371 | php-7.4.0RC1 note ]]) ``` Cannot use "parent" when current class scope has no parent vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/TreeBuilder/ForeignAttributes.php:142 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/TreeBuilder/InBody.php:414 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/TreeBuilder/Dispatcher.php:385 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/Tokenizer/Tokenizer.php:580 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/Tokenizer/Tokenizer.php:359 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/Tokenizer/Tokenizer.php:168 includes/tidy/RemexDriver.php:66 tests/phpunit/unit/includes/tidy/RemexDriverTest.php:323 tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php:110 ```

Since PHP 7.4 has a release candidate, it can be considered stable. Now we can start thinking about the compatibility. The following is the problems from phpunit unit test: [] `ReflectionType::__toString()` is deprecated -- T192167 ([[ https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0RC1/UPGRADING#L395-L398 | php-7.4.0RC1 note ]]) ``` Function ReflectionType::__toString() is deprecated tests/phpunit/unit/includes/watcheditem/NoWriteWatchedItemStoreUnitTest.php:225 tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php:110 maintenance/doMaintenance.php:99 ``` [x] Cannot use "parent" when current class scope has no parent ([[ https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0RC1/UPGRADING#L369-L371 | php-7.4.0RC1 note ]]) [] Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in `avro-php` lib. ([[ https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0RC1/UPGRADING#L360-L362 | php-7.4.0RC1 note ]])

Since PHP 7.4 has a release candidate, it can be considered stable. Now we can start thinking about the compatibility. The following is the problems from phpunit unit test: *[] `ReflectionType::__toString()` is deprecated -- T192167 ([[ https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0RC1/UPGRADING#L395-L398 | php-7.4.0RC1 note ]]) ``` Function ReflectionType::__toString() is deprecated tests/phpunit/unit/includes/watcheditem/NoWriteWatchedItemStoreUnitTest.php:225 tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php:110 maintenance/doMaintenance.php:99 ``` *[x] Cannot use "parent" when current class scope has no parent ([[ https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0RC1/UPGRADING#L369-L371 | php-7.4.0RC1 note ]]) ``` Cannot use "parent" when current class scope has no parent vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/TreeBuilder/ForeignAttributes.php:142 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/TreeBuilder/InBody.php:414 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/TreeBuilder/Dispatcher.php:385 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/Tokenizer/Tokenizer.php:580 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/Tokenizer/Tokenizer.php:359 vendor/wikimedia/remex-html/RemexHtml/Tokenizer/Tokenizer.php:168 includes/tidy/RemexDriver.php:66 tests/phpunit/unit/includes/tidy/RemexDriverTest.php:323 tests/phpunit/MediaWikiUnitTestCase.php:110 ``` [] Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in `avro-php` lib. ([[ https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0RC1/UPGRADING#L360-L362 | php-7.4.0RC1 note ]])