PHP 7.4 support

[sylvaindeloux]

When adding "php": "^7.4" to composer.json, the build fails (using web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-nginx):

composer.json/composer.lock requires php ^7.4 -> no matching package found.

[dzuelke]

Yes. It's not rolled out on Heroku yet. It's the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend, so we're obviously not making any changes, in particular not such a major one that could incur app downtime for customers with untested apps and open version requirement ranges.

Second or third week of December is currently the plan. Like always, the changelog will list all updates as they happen.

[robinwo]

Any update on this guys? Have a release pending which depends on PHP 7.4 support. 😅

[dzuelke]

We've had to move it to January, sorry. There's just too little time with the holidays and everything, we have a bunch of production change freezes in place around this time.

[asgrim]

we have a bunch of production change freezes in place around this time.

Makes sense, it is winter after all.... 😅

[romainnorberg]

please 😄

[imayolas]

Hello, what is your current ETA for releasing the support for php 7.4? thanks.

[Monamoxie]

We need support for PHP 7.4. This delay is getting too far. Kindly treat as urgent

[morrislaptop]

/me looks at platform.sh

[dimskor]

Still not added?

[Segfaultd]

Dear Heroku devs @dzuelke , we definitely need it, please add it 🙏

EDIT: Finally found a solution, I migrated my backend to clever-cloud.com that support php 7.4 Took me 5mn to migrate from heroku to there!

[sylvaindeloux]

Any news about this update?
I have a deploy waiting since… end of november… 😅

[sylvaindeloux]

@dzuelke Is this more complex than expected?

[AdaptCharm]

@dzuelke Any update on this one? I just tried to upgrade from PHP 7.3 to PHP 7.4, received the same error message above.

I need PHP 7.4 so that I can implement preloading to my app.
EDIT: Might actually consider switching to Clever-Cloud as they support PHP 7.4.

[sylvaindeloux]

PHP 7.4.2 has been released, and we're still waiting 😂

https://www.php.net/archive/2020.php#2020-01-23-1

[pierre-le]

+1 on this one.
And guys at Heroku, we do understand you may have other priorities to handle, but a quick update would be greatly appreciated :)

[Raerten]

7.4 branch brought great language features and many composer packages require that version.
so long update is not user friendly.
can you give us a real time frame? @dzuelke

[ghost]

Yes. It's not rolled out on Heroku yet. It's the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend, so we're obviously not making any changes, in particular not such a major one that could incur app downtime for customers with untested apps and open version requirement ranges.

Second or third week of December is currently the plan. Like always, the changelog will list all updates as they happen.

For me it's an inadmissible answer. As a PaaS, Heroku should always provide the latest version of packages/utilities, as soon as possible (even beta/RC in my opinion). This is the responsability of developers to ensure the good range of the version they need in the project manifest. Open range in manifest is irresponsible and you're not reponsable of this. Your responsability is provide the latest tools despite unconscious developers.

[sylvaindeloux]

According to Heroku support:

Will will be offering support for PHP 7.4 sometime next month. Please check our changelog for any updates.

[dzuelke]

Soon, fans, soon. #385 is almost ready for roll-out.

Once that's done, I'll also take a few minutes and respond to a few of the comments on this ticket.

[AdaptCharm]

Soon, fans, soon. #385 is almost ready for roll-out.

Once that's done, I'll also take a few minutes and respond to a few of the comments on this ticket.

Can you explain the delay and why it has taken so long?

[boboldehampsink]

Is there anywhere we can track the progress of supporting regex in mbstring? Can't use PHP 7.4 without that

[dzuelke]

It'll be back with PHP 7.4.3, @boboldehampsink.

[dzuelke]

Just to close the loop here regarding mbstring, 7.4.3 is built against libonig, so regexes are now supported / cc @boboldehampsink @fobin @celorodovalho @obrassard: https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1743