Test against php 8.1

[sergiy-petrov]

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[aidan-casey]

Hey @sergiy-petrov, thanks for the PR! Support for PHP 8.1 will be in version 4 which is currently in progress on the V4 branch, and includes CI testing for PHP 8.1. 🙂

[sergiy-petrov]

@aidan-casey hey, thanks for the answer. What about merging it into V3 branch?

[brendt]

I'm not sure yet whether we'll support PHP 8.1 on the v3 branch… It might make early adoption easier so I'm leaning towards "yes". @aidan-casey what do you think?

[aidan-casey]

My initial thinking was that it would be best to not support 8.1 in V3 because:

1. I don't think it's something we want to be supporting in the long run, and there may be some maintenance overhead. Especially with the significant differences between V3 and V4.
2. With some of the features 8.1 provides, there are certain ideals we want to enforce in the package (e.g., readonly properties) that I would think we would want any version "supporting" 8.1 providing.

That said, it's just adding a version to the CI testing, so I could give a little too. 😅

[brendt]

I think our PHP 8.1 feature development should be focused only in v4, but if making v3 compatible doesn't take too much work, then why not? Since we're requiring "php": "^8.0", we're already saying we'll support 8.1.

So I'll merge this for now, we'll see how 8.1 development evolves in the coming weeks.

[suyar]

I think our PHP 8.1 feature development should be focused only in v4, but if making v3 compatible doesn't take too much work, then why not? Since we're requiring "php": "^8.0", we're already saying we'll support 8.1.

So I'll merge this for now, we'll see how 8.1 development evolves in the coming weeks.

Is there a release plan for V4 version?

[brendt]

Nothing concrete right now.