Update (March 22, 2018): due to some scheduling issues, we’ve delayed the roll-out of the non-production release to March 28.
We’re preparing the deployment of PHP 7.2 across all VIP Go sites and we wanted to share some dates:
Monday, March 19:
PHP Linting checks (via wpcomvip-bot)
Thursday, March 22 (20:00 UTC): Wednesday, March 28, 2018:
All non-production sites (i.e. develop, preprod, etc.)
Thursday, April 5 (20:00 UTC):
All production sites.
As noted in an earlier post, we’re also taking proactive steps to identify potential compatibility issues and submitting PRs or tickets to figure out the best resolution for each one. Once non-production sites have been switched over, we’ll do another round of compatibility checks and follow-up where needed (note that errors will also be surfaced in New Relic; if your team is not already set up with New Relic access, please reach out and we’d be happy to set it up).
We also strongly recommend switching your local environments to PHP 7.2 to help catch any critical issues (both VVV and Chassis make this very easy to do).
Finally, if you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch.
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