PHP 8.0 Roadmap

[alexander-schranz]

Problem description

Wanted to have a look what would be needed to support PHP 8. At current state I must sadly tell it will not be possible without big effort to support sulu 1.6 and php 8.0 the first packages I checked with conflichts is the DoctrineCacheBundle and Puls00FFmpegBundle both are abandoned and so will not merge any pull requests.

So I would think when not specially requested by a sponsor or partner we will focus PHP 8 support for the 2.x (current 2.1) Version.

Proposed solution

Conflicting packages

From the composer why php list:

• doctrine/orm (coming soon: https://twitter.com/beberlei/status/1329338553407578112)
• handcraftedinthealps/rest-routing-bundle Support PHP 8 handcraftedinthealps/RestRoutingBundle#8
• handcraftedinthealps/zendsearch Add support for php 8 handcraftedinthealps/ZendSearch#3
• friendsofsymfony/http-cache
• friendsofsymfony/http-cache-bundle
• friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle
• symfony-cmf/slugifier-api Add PHP 8 support and change to github actions symfony-cmf/slugifier-api#6
• symfony-cmf/routing-bundle (only github actions: Use github actions as test CI symfony-cmf/routing-bundle#459)
  • symfony/testing Add PHP 8 compatibility and Use github actions as test CI symfony-cmf/Testing#208
• doctrine/phpcr-bundle Add PHP 8 compatibility and Use github actions as test CI doctrine/DoctrinePHPCRBundle#355
• jackalope/jackalope-doctrine-dbal (only github actions Move tests to github actions jackalope/jackalope-doctrine-dbal#378)
• jackalope/jackrabbit (only github actions Migrate travis to github actions jackalope/jackalope-jackrabbit#165)
• phpcr/phpcr-migrations (Allow PHP 8 phpcr/phpcr-migrations#12)
  • jackalope/jackalope-fs Add PHP 8 support and use github actions for tests jackalope/jackalope-fs#28
• league/flysystem-azure-blob-storage (doesnt conflict but need to be checked if works as has >=5.6 in it) Allow newer version of flysystem azure adapter #5751
• toflar/psr6-symfony-http-cache-store (needs update to 3.0 Allow toflar/psr6-symfony-http-cache-store version ^3.0 #5750)
• phpcr/phpcr-shell Add PHP 8 compatibility and move to github actions phpcr/phpcr-shell#209
• php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg (needs update to Update PHP FFmpeg library #5755)
• oro/doctrine-extensions (doesn't conflict but need to be checked if it works as has >= 5.4 and no release since 2019) Allow newer version of oro doctrine extensions #5752
• matamo/device-detector Update to matomo device detector #5643
  • [-] mustangostang/spyc (will be updated with Update to matomo device detector #5643)
• layershifter/tld-database (will be removed in Remove requirement to layershifter/tld-extract #5754)
• layershifter/tld-extract (will be removed in Remove requirement to layershifter/tld-extract #5754)
• layershifter/tld-support (doesn't conflict but need to be checked as has >= 5.5 in it) (will be removed in Remove requirement to layershifter/tld-extract #5754)
• jms/serializer-bundle
• jms/serializer
• jms/metadata
• goodby/csv (need to be checked as >= 5.3) (hope it works because no release and no accepted PR since 2017)
• gedmo/doctrine-extensions (needs to be checked as >= 5.3) Allow newer version of gedmo doctrine extensions #5753
  • [-] behat/transliterator
• JMS Serializer PHP8 support schmittjoh/JMSSerializerBundle#830
• doctrine/* packages Upgrade Upgrade doctrine packages #5774
• php-http/guzzle6-adapter Allow installation with PHP 8 php-http/guzzle6-adapter#86 Requirement removed in: Fix psr18 client min requirements for using symfony http client #5811
• stof/doctrine-extensions-bundle replaced with antishov/doctrine-extensions-bundle Use the antishov/doctrine-extensions-bundle for PHP 8 compatibility #5814
• rokka-io/imagine-vips Allow installation with PHP 8 rokka-io/imagine-vips#17 (requires release)
• Prepare PHP 8 compatibility Prepare PHP 8 compatibility #5813
• Add PHP 8 compatibility Add php 8 support #5757

The following should work but are not tested yet with PHP 8:

• imagine/imagine (need to be checked as >= 5.3) Add test agains php 8 php-imagine/Imagine#758
• superbalist/flysystem-google-storage (doesnt conflict but need to be checked if works as has >=5.5 and no release since 2019) Add CI tests again php 7.4 and 8.0 Superbalist/flysystem-google-cloud-storage#119
  • [-] google/cloud-core (same)
• league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (need to be checked) Add tests agains php 8 for 1.x thephpleague/flysystem-aws-s3-v3#238
  • [-] aws/aws-sdk-php

Check compatibility of the bundles:

• Add PHP 8 compatibility web-twig#32
• Add PHP 8 compatibility SuluAutomationBundle#48
• Upgrade doctrine packages for prepare PHP 8 compatibility SuluFormBundle#280
• Add PHP 8 compatibility SuluCommunityBundle#141
• Add PHP 8 compatibility SuluRedirectBundle#62
• Add PHP 8 compatibility SuluHeadlessBundle#72
• Add PHP 8 compatibility SuluContentBundle#187
• Add PHP 8 compatibility SuluArticleBundle#546
  • handcraftedinthealps/elasticsearch-dsl
  • handcraftedinthealps/elasticsearch-bundle

Known Issues

The following issues are not blocking but need to be keep in mind before upgrading a project to PHP 8:

• DDL migrations produce errors on PHP 8.0 + MySQL in transactional mode doctrine/migrations#1104 (Problems with transactions) (Workaround: using isTransactional false)
  • Expose support for transactional DDL or lack thereof doctrine/dbal#4481
• New release with PHP 8 support? Imagick/imagick#358 (No PHP 8 release yet) (Workaround: Compiling Imagick yourself or use GD or Vips adapter)
• deployphp/deployer@042d100 (No stable PHP 8 release yet)

[goetas]

JMS Serializer with php 8 support has been released :)

[chirimoya]

JMS Serializer with php 8 support has been released :)

Thanks!

[alexander-schranz]

I updated the Issue Description with a section called Known Issues, this issues do not effect sulu itself but should be keep in mind before using PHP 8 for a Project.

[alexander-schranz]

We finally merged the PHP 8 support of sulu core, the most used bundles and did upgrade some other php packages to support PHP 8. 🎉

The support will be released with the release of the bundles and the next patch release of 2.1 and 2.2 Version of sulu.