Shopware is only PHP 8.1 compatible starting from v6.4.6.0

[alessandroaussems]

PHP Version

8.1

Shopware Version

6.4.4.1

Expected behaviour

According to the composer.json file Shopware 6.4.4.1 should be PHP 8.1 compatible. But it's not...
Because the necessary changes (d8214c7) are only available in v6.4.6.0

Actual behaviour

6.4.4.1 should be PHP 8.1 compatible according to composer.json

How to reproduce

Try to run Shopware 6.4.4.1 on PHP 8.1. You 'll seen encounter errors:
Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\EntityDefinition::decode(): Argument #2 ($value) must be of type ?string, int given

This is because the necessary change:
'driverOptions' => [ \PDO::ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES => true, ],

is not available in 6.4.4.1

[shyim]

We don't release patch updates for older versions. Update to a newer version

[alessandroaussems]

@shyim That's not the point. I know you won't patch older versions. But I think SW should be more careful with these kind of things. If composer.json states that a certain release is compatible with a certain php version, it should also be compatible. You can't just mess around with this stuff... How can we otherwise trust the composer.json dependencies and requirements in the future...

[keulinho]

Thanks for the input, we have now limited the upper bound for the supported php versions, starting with v6.5.0.0.

See 12dcffb for reference.