PHP Version Support

[reedy]

Hello!

I'd like to request an update/clarification to https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-php#php-version-requirement about the PHP versions supported.

The table doesn't use semver (and it shouldn't necessarily), but >= 7.0.0 and >= 7.1.0 would suggest to me that ES-PHP 6.0 and 7.0 technically support PHP 8.0, (which is obviously out now as a stable release!) but it doesn't, and can be confirmed by looking at https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-php/blob/6.x/composer.json#L16 which as ^7.0 and https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-php/blob/7.x/composer.json#L16 which has ^7.1. And ^7.0 basically means >=7.0.0 <8.0.0 etc.

Anything we can do for clarification? As I'm sure there are going to be people coming along and thinking PHP 8 should work...

Thanks!

[Radiergummi]

Most probably, it will be enough to update the version requirement to >=7.1|^8.0 and release a patch for it.

[ezimuel]

@reedy when you read PHP >= 7.1.0 this means the minimum PHP requirement, until the next major. I'll improve the table in the README.md to be more clear. If you have any suggestion you can send a PR, thanks!

[reedy]

Like I say, if it was semver syntax, I'd agree. But 8.0.0 >= 7.1.0... And many projects are using basically that syntax in their composer.json to include support for PHP 8.0

[ezimuel]

PHP Version Requirement

Version 7.x can be used starting from PHP version 7.1. In addition, it requires the native JSON
extension to be version 1.3.7 or higher.

PHP 8 is supported starting from elasticsearch-php 7.11.

Elasticsearch-PHP Branch	PHP Version
>= 7.11.0, < 8.0.0	>= 7.1.0, < 9.0.0
>= 7.0.0, < 7.11.0	>= 7.1.0, < 8.0.0
6.x	>= 7.0.0, < 8.0.0
5.x	>= 5.6.6, < 8.0.0
2.x	>= 5.4.0, < 7.0.0
0.4, 1.x	>= 5.3.9, < 7.0.0

@reedy, @Radiergummi is this matrix version more clear?

[Radiergummi]

@ezimuel that looks clear as day, thank you! I originally implied that PHP 8 support should simply be granted for the 7.x branch (given that it technically only requires a patch and wouldn't have to be explicitly listed), but then again I'm not involved with the project yet. So 7.11 it is :)

[ezimuel]

@Radiergummi Since each elasticsearch-php 7.y client works with all the 7.x Elasticsearch versions where x <= y, I don't need to backport the change for PHP 8 in the previous client versions.

[dakorpar]

any ETA on 7.11 release?

[ezimuel]

We are going to release 7.11 soon, it should happen this month.

[volkv]

We are going to release 7.11 soon, it should happen this month.

We still really hope so :)
Thanks!

[adithyasrinivasan]

Sorry to be that person, but any luck?

I'm waiting on support for PHP8 so other libraries that arbeitnow uses can update to it :)

Thanks!

[ezimuel]

@adithyasrinivasan, @volkv we are going to release 7.11 it very soon! Unfortunately, we had some delay.

[ezimuel]

I just released elaticsearch-php 7.11.0 that supports PHP 8.

[adithyasrinivasan]

Thanks @ezimuel - appreciate it, can't wait to upgrade!

[ezimuel]

Thanks to all the contributors!

[fghamsary]

We are still using v6.7.2 because of compatibility issue in our application, but this version is not compatible with PHP 8.
I'm doing some tests and I'll create a PullRequest as soon as I've corrected the couple problems which are in the code.
I've already forked and started the work, if anybody else is interested:
https://github.com/fghamsary/elasticsearch-php

Here is the pull request, I just created:
#1144

[xvilo]

I am in the same boat as @fghamsary, but then with 5.x. I works fine here and I created #1159

[ezimuel]

@fghamsary and @xvilo you can update to v6.8 that is compatible with PHP 8.