Yesterday I shot my #Nextcloud instance by switching my server's #PHP version from 7.3 to 7.4, I learned I should have waited for version 18, don't be like me.
Thanks for reminding to update, finally I got rid of 7.3. Hopefully nothing else broke 😀
By the way I also did the same a while ago but Nextcloud 18 wasn't available. Then very first v.18 release happened but it also didn't work with PHP 7.4 (some bug maybe) so I forgot about it for a while.
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I got lucky and tripped across the information about it not supporting PHP 7.4 until Nextcloud 18. I was hunting for the info, but I felt lucky that I saw definitive info on it.
Now to run the update to NC 18.1 or whichever is sitting there in the stable updates waiting for me to break the whole show.
18.0.3 is what I have listed, too. I haven't done it yet, I just went through having the auth taken out with the most recent app updates. Don't want to blow a botched full upgrade during this weekend.
I currently have to stick with a much older version because my #systemd free #Devuan is not providing never versions of PHP than 7.0 ... I'm still patient about.
And it is a shame that many programming languages are not so well backwards-compatible like #Java was. Yes, was. Until #Oracle stepped in and messed it up. I cannot launch #Payara application server under latest Java 13 version while the specification says it should. Java saves the binary version number inside the compiled .class file so the JVM will automatically switch to the older standard. It is a shame, what Oracle did here. So I still with Payara 4.1 and #OpenJDK 8 for a little longer.
Yes, off-topic. But still relevant due to incompatible upgrades.
I have some unresolved dependencies in php-imagick, php-recode and php-mbstring when it tries to upgrade to 7.4. 7.3 seem to be unavailable in those meta packages.
Na, maybe if I would run my development server in a virtual environment I would try beta releases, but not on my "productive" server because I like to keep thinks smooth and not risky.
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By the way I also did the same a while ago but Nextcloud 18 wasn't available. Then very first v.18 release happened but it also didn't work with PHP 7.4 (some bug maybe) so I forgot about it for a while.
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Now to run the update to NC 18.1 or whichever is sitting there in the stable updates waiting for me to break the whole show.
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18.0.3 is what I have listed, too. I haven't done it yet, I just went through having the auth taken out with the most recent app updates. Don't want to blow a botched full upgrade during this weekend.
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And it is a shame that many programming languages are not so well backwards-compatible like #Java was. Yes, was. Until #Oracle stepped in and messed it up. I cannot launch #Payara application server under latest Java 13 version while the specification says it should. Java saves the binary version number inside the compiled
.classfile so the JVM will automatically switch to the older standard. It is a shame, what Oracle did here. So I still with Payara 4.1 and #OpenJDK 8 for a little longer.Yes, off-topic. But still relevant due to incompatible upgrades.
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wget -O - https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | apt-key addwas required here to make the famousNO_PUBKEYmessage go away. 😀Hypolite Petovan likes this.
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