{"id":13689,"date":"2025-09-17T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13689"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:42:07","slug":"major-bleeping-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13689","title":{"rendered":"Major bleeping upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another thing I just had to do: upgrading my server to PHP 8, because increasingly, PHP 7 (though still legacy supported by Oracle OS 8) was no longer compatible with upcoming versions of content management code that I use.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13690\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/php8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/php8.png 1280w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/php8-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/php8-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/php8-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/php8-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far so good&#8230; expect glitches, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Much as I appreciate the effort and value we all receive from open source projects, I think I shall just keep it to myself what I think of forced upgrades and broken backwards compatibility for reasons of code purity.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13689' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another thing I just had to do: upgrading my server to PHP 8, because increasingly, PHP 7 (though still legacy supported by Oracle OS 8) was no longer compatible with upcoming versions of content management code that I use. So far so good&#8230; expect glitches, of course. Much as I appreciate the effort and <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13689' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-personal","category-programming","category-6-id","category-35-id","category-36-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13691,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions\/13691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}