fix!: drop PHP 7.4–8.1 support to address insecure dependencies (#224)

Co-authored-by: Treicy Sanchez Gutierrez (from Dev Box) <treicys@microsoft.com>

Author: Treicysg

.github/workflows/pr-validation.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        php-versions: ['7.4', '8.1', '8.2', '8.3', '8.4']
+        php-versions: ['8.2', '8.3', '8.4']
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
     - name: Setup PHP
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Setup PHP and Xdebug for Code Coverage report
       uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
       with:
-        php-version: '8.0'
+        php-version: '8.2'
         coverage: xdebug
     - name: Validate composer file
       run: |

composer.json

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 		}
 	],
 	"require": {
-		"php": "^8.0 || ^7.4",
+		"php": "^8.2",
 		"microsoft/kiota-authentication-phpleague": "^1.5.0",
 		"microsoft/kiota-http-guzzle": "^1.5.0",
 		"microsoft/kiota-serialization-json": "^1.5.0",