php & Perl change in server

[Buzby]

Host-it are making the following changes to the server.

• Removal of older PHP version 5.6 and below*
• PHP 7.4 will be the new default PHP version*
• Perl upgrade to v5.26.3**

I am running V14 & V18 on the server, does anyone know if this upgrade will be ok with Sellerdeck?

[Goz]

Sellderdeck does not use PHP on the server - only locally on your PC - so this isn't a worry.

I'm not sure about Perl. All our hosted sites use 5.016003. Maybe Norman Rouxel may be along in a while - he knows this area very well.

[Mike Hughes]

I'm running V18 on Perl 5.28.1 so your V18 should be fine.

V18 and V16.04 had some changes to support compatibility with perl 5.24 so without knowing more details I'd be worried about using V14 with a newer release of Perl.

Perl scripts are now compatible with Perl 5.24, SD-6837

What version of perl are you using at the moment? If your V14 is working fine at the moment then you could be OK.

[Buzby]

Many thanks for the replies.

After a bit of digging it does look like v14 will stop working so I suppose a forced upgrade is needed.

[NormanRouxel]

I have several V14 demo sites running OK here on a test server using Perl v5.28.1. Only issue I've seen (so far) is that the Web / Network Setup / Test fails. This is easily fixed by editing TestSettings.pl and replacing the 2 instances of:

defined @Filelist

with:

@Filelist

leaving the rest of the lines intact.

Perl also gives a warning about a line in ACTINIC.PM Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.32)
but this isn't an issue unless you go to Perl 5.32. Again the fix is trivial but SellerDeck hasn't done it yet in V18.0.5.
Fix would be to look for the only instance of:

if ($sJSON !~ /^(.*?)({.*})(.*)/s)

and replace with:

if ($sJSON !~ /^(.*?)(\{.*\})(.*)/s)

[Buzby]

Many thanks Norman.

I decided it was the kick I needed to upgrade the site.