Various PHP extensions missing on PHP 8.1
As we’ve announced on Monday, we are currently busy rolling out PHP 8.1 on free hosting.
However, we just encountered that various PHP extensions appear to not have been set up correctly on PHP 8.1. The missing extensions appear to be the following:
- GD
- GMP
- INTL
- IonCube
- OpenSSL
- XMLRPC
- ZIP
Which components are affected by this issue
All websites on servers that have already been upgraded to PHP 8.1 may be affected by this issue. Functions provided by these modules are not available on these sites, which may result in some functionality not working on some sites.
What issues may you see
If you try to use a function of a module that does not exist, you will see an error like Call to undefined function .... If you do not have display errors enabled, you will see an HTTP ERROR 500 page.
The extension_loaded() function will also return false for the missing extensions, which some libraries may use to check for missing dependencies, and show their own error messages.
When will this issue be resolved
We are doing our best to get these issues resolved as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough details to tell how soon that will be.
What can you do to fix this
At this time, there are no known workarounds.
We are aware of the issue and are doing our best to get this resolved as soon as possible.
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