[ixpmanager] Ubuntu 22.04/24.04?

[Barry O'Donovan (INEX)]

Hi guys,

in terms of Ubuntu / PHP shipping defaults:

20.04 -> php 7.4 as standard
22.04 -> php 8.1 as standard
24.04 -> php 8.3 as standard (not released yet)

We generally peg a major release of IXP Manager to a recommended version 
of Ubuntu LTS and a specific version of PHP and provide an install 
script like [1].

These are by no means prescriptive and people can use any version of any 
operating system they wish that will run a compatible version of PHP.

For v6 we recommended 20.04 (as it was the latest LTS at the time) and 
required 8.0 (also latest at the time). However, 20.04 shipped with 7.4 
so we used Ondřej Surý's PPA [2] to lift that to v8.0 in the install script.

I have 8.0 / 8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3 all installed on my dev platform and switch 
between them as appropriate for the project. When working on IXP Manager 
I often forget to 'switch down' to 8.0 and so there should be no issue 
running IXP Manager v6 on any version of PHP >= 8.0 and if there is just 
let me know and we can fix quickly.

The composer.json specifies the PHP version as "^8.0" which means >= 8.0 
and < 9.0.

Also the composer.json has a setting "platform": { "php": "8.0.0" }" 
which means assume the platform is 8.0 even if it is >= 8.1 - this is 
really a guardrail for developers to ensure that all thirdparty packages 
installed / updated via 'composer update' are compatible with 8.0 even 
if you are developing on 8.2 for example.

The other consideration is the Laravel framework we use and what version 
of PHP it requires. The php 8.0 compatible versions are now EOL for example.

We'll have one more significant v6.x release shortly and will then move 
v6 to security fix / bug fix only and release v7 for Ubuntu 24.04 on PHP 
8.3 and Laravel 11.

Let me know if there's any questions on that,

  - Barry



[1] https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/master/tools/installers
[2] https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php

> Richard Laager via ixpmanager <mailto:ixpmanager at inex.ie>
> 29 March 2024 at 01:31
>
>
> Is this related?
> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/issues/888
>
> Pete Ashdown via ixpmanager <mailto:ixpmanager at inex.ie>
> 28 March 2024 at 19:57
> I believe there was an issue with PHP version on 22.04. Yes, I tried.
>
>
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> Richard Laager via ixpmanager <mailto:ixpmanager at inex.ie>
> 28 March 2024 at 19:51
>
> I’m not running on either version yet, but I’m interested. So I’ll 
> ask: have you tried? What problems are you running into?
>
> Pete Ashdown via ixpmanager <mailto:ixpmanager at inex.ie>
> 28 March 2024 at 19:24
> Is there a method of running IXP Manager on Ubuntu 22.04 and 
> subsequently 24.04 yet?
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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
INEX Operations

https://www.inex.ie/support/
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