WordPress apps: upgrade PHP to 7.3?

[girish]

Definitely, sounds like something we should do across all our PHP apps.

[imc67]

@girish any updates on this?

[girish]

PHP 7.2 will receive security updates till end of this year (https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php). Can you clarify why you need 7.3? AFAIK, most plugins should be 7.3 compatible.

[imc67]

Hi @girish thanks for your response!

In Wordpress the build in "site diagnose" (don't know the exact English name for it) has only 1 issue and that's 7.2 instead of 7.3.

On their site it says:

Requirements
We recommend servers running version 7.3 or greater of PHP and MySQL version 5.6 OR MariaDB version 10.1 or greater.

[moonmeister]

I've run into compatibility issues with some plugins. Not major but it'd be nice if this were upgraded...or we had a way to choose our PHP version.

[girish]

@moonmeister Can push an update with latest plugin releases tomorrow.

[imc67]

@girish That would be great!

[girish]

@imc67 I have made switched PHP to 7.3 in the unmanaged wordpress. You have to click on the update button manually since it is a major version bump.

If things go well, I will fix up the managed wordpress package as well.

[imc67]

@girish I just updated all our 5 un-managed apps and everything went well and works perfectly! Thanks!

[girish]

@imc67 Thanks!