Freescout: Upgrade Laravel since v5.5 is approaching "End of Life"

[alekseyp]

August 30th, 2020 - is the last day of 5.5 LTS support.

Are there any plans on upgrading to the next LTS?

[freescout-helpdesk]

It has nothing to do with Laravel. There are two parts here:

• TLS 1.2 in SMTP - swiftmailer in the FreeScout need to be updated to the version supporting TLS 1.2
• TLS 1.2 in IMAP - https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76928

[alekseyp]

@freescout-helpdesk hey, I meant Laravel versioning LTS / Long Term Support (not TLS as SSL).

Aka, upgrading from 5.5 to 6

[freescout-helpdesk]

We don't have plans upgrading Laravel version. Are you experiencing any problems?

[alekseyp]

Not necessary and you can always do workarounds.

It's more of a question about extra coding, while using libraries that have min requirements newer than 5.5 (or using older releases or just coding them from scratch).

and again, security - IF there are any vulnerabilities found, Laravel won't announce or fix them for 5.5 branch anymore.

[TimoStramann]

Any further plans to upgrade to maybe > Laravel 8.1? You mentioned several times in #432 #329 #254 that no update is planned, however, the version is now fully out of support and keeping security in mind, it'd be a good idea to update sometime soon imo. Additionally, PHP8 will be released in about a month and I suppose many users are keen to update to it, thus Freescout should be compatible sometime.

[freescout-helpdesk]

We will try to make FreeScout compatible with PHP8. No plans to upgrade Laravel version.

[TimoStramann]

An particular reason why you resist upgrading Laravel? Laravel 5.5 is fully EOL.

[TimoStramann]

As expected Freescout is not working with PHP8. Appears to be not only a Laravel issue but also of other depencies, however it seems like a Laravel upgrade is now mandatory to make this work with PHP8.
Laravel 6 is the oldest version of Laravel that will be supporting PHP8 according to the blog post: https://blog.laravel.com/laravel-php-8-support Would favor if already upgrading, going right to the latest version to save the hassle for PHP8.1 which might be released after Laravel 6 support ends.

[GrahamCampbell]

Laravel 5.5 only officially works up to PHP 7.2. There are known issues with PHP 7.3 and even more with 7.4.

[GrahamCampbell]

Laravel 5.5 certainly doesn't work on PHP 8.

[GrahamCampbell]

You really have no option but to upgrade to Laravel 6 LTS. I can help you with this process for free - hit me up.

[GrahamCampbell]

// cc @freescout-helpdesk

[andronocean]

I'd like to see an update too. I'm interested in experimenting with FreeScout to reduce my company's SaaS dependencies, but using an EOL Laravel is a non-starter for me. Why no interest?

[freescout-helpdesk]

I'd like to see an update too. I'm interested in experimenting with FreeScout to reduce my company's SaaS dependencies, but using an EOL Laravel is a non-starter for me. Why no interest?

https://github.com/freescout-helpdesk/freescout/wiki/Development-Guide#laravel-no-upgrade-policy