php 5.6 is at EOL (end of life) so what is SMF 2.1.15 best superceeding version

[aegersz]

hello forumware gurus ...

is it cool to move to my CentOS 6.5 php 5.6 to 7.? and if so, what will break, if anything ? got lots of mods too.

7.0 ~ 7.2 or what is OK or should i sit on 5.6 for a lot longer, please ?

[d3vcho]

From https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Requirements_and_recommendations

- Versions of SMF from 2.0.14 onwards require a version of PHP between 5.4 and 7.1. If you use PHP 5.3 or lower, it is necessary to use SMF 2.0.13 or lower. PHP 7.2 is not supported by SMF at this time.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

2.0.15 supports up to php 7.1, some mods may not.  My host gives me php 5.3 - 7.2, I'm running 5.6.  Support tells me 'Cloudlinux provides security updates to older versions of php'.  I'm good with that.

[SpacePhoenix]

With 2.0.15 supporting upto 7.1 you're probably best going for 7.1 as 7.0 is also EOL

[aegersz]

since i'm very serious about my mods (despite no member actually giving a damn, (hey, ya get that ....)) i'm hangin' back at 5.6.

thanks for all your input as i was considering 7.2 and now i have been warned against that.

I wonder what happened to release 6 and all it's "pointy" versions? - I assume it's a bit like Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and other leaps of faith !

something not fully logical goin' on somewhere ...

[Arantor]

PHP 6 was tried out, and went down a long road regarding Unicode support and was eventually abandoned.

[aegersz]

Thanks Arantor.

Now that makes a lot more sense and a bit of a pity too.

[Arantor]

Not really, given what it changed, it would have broken a lot of softwar.e