PHP 8.2 and MariaDB 10.4 upgrades!

[Admin]

It’s taken some time, but we’re ready to start upgrading again! All PHP extensions are present this time, and we’re going straight to PHP 8.2.

@Admin

Update 16 September

It’s taken some time, but we’re ready again to begin an upgrade! Many changes have been made to make it possible to roll out PHP 8 on free hosting and to help make sure we can stay up to date in the future.

As part of this, we’ve decided to skip PHP 8.1 and go straight to PHP 8.2, to make sure that we’re switching to a PHP version that will keep us safe for the future.

We’re starting the upgrade by migrating the hosting volumes vol1_7 and vol1_8. Because this is a major system upgrade, the entire server is being rebuilt with new software. This may result in downtime for your site as data is being migrated. We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused, but we hope the updates are worth it.