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Special Edition: macOS 14.0 Sonoma Development Environment

With the deprecation of Ho...

Part 1: macOS 14.0 Sonoma Web Development Environment

Developing web applications on macOS is a real joy. There are plenty of options for setting up your development environments, including the ever-popular MAMP Pro that provides a nice UI on top of Apache, PHP and MySQL. However, there are times when MAMP Pro has slow downs, or out of date versions, or is simply behaving badly due to its restrictive system of configuration templates and non-standard builds.

In August of 2021, the Symfony team announced the deprecation of Swiftmailer with introduction of the Symfony/Mailer package that provides a modern and extensible approach to sending mail in PHP. We had originally planned to tackle this in Grav 2.0, but we have been slow to get Grav 1.8 ready f...

The last time we announced PHP version changes was back in March of 2018. Back then, we made a massive jump for minimal PHP requirements from PHP 5.6.4 to PHP 7.1.3. We've enjoyed being on a more modern version of PHP for the Grav 1.6 release,...

When Grav 1.0 was officially released Dec 11th, 2015, the minimum requirements were PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 was by far the most popular PHP version in use at the time, and so it was an appropriate baseline during initia...

As is typical with these kinds of things, We launched Grav 1.0 right around the same time that PHP 7.0 was released, and everything seemed great. Even though Grav runs amazingly on PHP 7.0 there are some PHP 7.0 compatibility issues within some of the vendor libraries that Grav relies upon.

These external libraries are continually updated and have started dropping support for older EOL (End of Life) versions of PHP. In order to continue using the latest versions of these libraries and support the new PHP 7.0, we need to keep our requirements in line with our key libraries. Grav currently supports PHP 5.4 which was an actively supported version when we started developing Grav, but is no longer supported according to the PHP Supported Versions document.