When will Bitnami WordPress NGINX SSL version with PHP 8.0 be released?

giulianopires 2020-12-29 05:40:05 UTC #1

Type: Suggestion
Description:
I am updating my stacks and would like to do that when the updated version with PHP 8 for GCP is released. Does anyone have information on when it will be launched on the GCP Marketplace?

gongomgra 2020-12-29 09:57:42 UTC #2

Hi @giulianopires,

Thanks for your question. Although WordPress supports PHP 8.0, plugins and themes may not support it, so upgrading our WordPress assets could affect many of our users. Our engineering team is aware of this and will update the PHP version available with WordPress as soon as it is safer to use it, but I'm afraid we can't provide you with an estimation on this.

You can periodically check our changelog to check if PHP 8.0 is available at https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress/changelog.txt

Note we are currently using PHP 7.4.13, belonging to the 7.4 PHP branch, which will be under active development until November 2021 (plus receiving security updates until 2022), so using latest PHP 7.4 is safe. You can get more information about this in the link below

https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

You can also check the official WordPress statement regarding PHP 8.0 at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/11/23/wordpress-and-php-8-0/

giulianopires 2020-12-29 14:10:51 UTC #3

Thank you very much for your clear and objective answer, it helped me to program myself to keep my batteries updated. Completely understandable the waiting time judging by the stability.

gongomgra 2020-12-30 09:13:02 UTC #4

Hi @giulianopires,

Thanks for your kind words. You are welcome! We will close this thread as solved. Please do not hesitate to open a new one with any other questions you may have.

gongomgra 2020-12-30 09:13:07 UTC #5

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