Support of php 8.4 for 2.x series

[HLeithner]

Hi,

I'm not sure what's the support status of version 2.26 series is, so I wanted to ask if you going to release 2.x version which is marked to support php 8.4?

thanks

[gsteel]

It's pretty unlikely. 3.0 has been out over 1 and a half years now and upgrading shouldn't be a big deal: https://docs.laminas.dev/laminas-diactoros/v3/migration/

[HLeithner]

Thats a kind of issue for us at joomla. Because it would mean we need to update a core dependency within our minor version update, which breaks our b/c policy...

So the question is, how much work is it to validate 2.x against php 8.4?

[weierophinney]

I just forked off of the 2.26.x branch to test this out, updating the supported versions to be 8.1-8.4. Unit tests and CS checks run fine; psalm is the bigger issue, with 59 new issues found. 4 are unused baselines; the majority are RedundantCondition or RiskyTruthyFalsyComparison issues.

From a functionality point of view, this is not a hard one to do, since the tests pass and CS passes; it's the QA part (with regards to Psalm errors) that may take more effort, and it's harder to estimate. I know I don't have time to work on it, but I'd certainly entertain a PR from somebody off the 2.26.x branch (for a 2.27.0 release).

[HLeithner]

thanks, sounds great, I will see if I can convince someone to create a pr.