[Tiki-devel] What should be minimum requirements for Tiki 31?

Hi!

Tiki 24.x LTS requires PHP 7.4
Tiki 27.x LTS requires PHP 8.1+
Tiki 30.x LTS requires PHP 8.1+

More info:
https://doc.tiki.org/Requirements

Tiki LTS versions are supported for 5 years:
https://tiki.org/Lifecycle

PHP versions are supported for 4 years:
https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

Tiki master (future Tiki 31) is working fine with PHP 8.1 but I expect that sooner or later, one or many of the 100+ dependencies will force us to bump this up:
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/blob/master/vendor_bundled/composer.json

We can just wait for this to happen, or we decide to bump proactively. Tiki 31 will not live long, and we can make a different decision for Tiki 32 and 33 LTS.

Work on PHP 8.6 is underway.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6
I don't know if the next one is PHP 8.7 or 9.0

Best regards,

Marc