Acquia Writes About Upgrading to PHP 8.1

The 28th Of November marked the end-of-life for PHP version 7.4. With that, upgrading to PHP 8.1 has commenced.

Two years after its release in 2019 the 7.4 version reports 65% of PHP applications.

Users have been migrating to PHP 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. This new major version brings with it a number of new features and some incompatibilities that should be tested for before switching PHP versions in production environments.

If you are hoping to update to PHP 8.1, Acquia has set out a blog tutorial to use composer to update to PHP 8.1 in your Codebase.

Recently announced Acquia Code Studio now supports PHP 8.1. 

The tutorial put out by Mike Madison, Acquia's Manager of Technical Services talks about how to configure Code Studio to change your PHP version. It also talks about, updating code studio as it is only one component of the necessary changes you need to make for a project to change PHP version. In this article they mention about the other updates you’ll need to make to ensure you’re ready to change PHP versions. 

Acquia is an active contributor to the Drupal project and has offered sponsorship for improvement in the Drupal community, community modules, contribution sprints, and core initiatives.

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