[RFC] 2.0 Proposal

[mbabker]

I've been sitting on a branch for a while that has a bunch of proposed changes for a 2.0 branch. You can see the diff here and the relevant upgrade guide.

To sum it up though:

• Minimum supported Symfony version is now 5.4
• Minimum supported PHP version is now 8.1 (the Packagist stats for the 1.x releases show this covers ~70% of users)
• Deprecated functionality dropped
• Typehints everywhere

So, it's not a huge release as far as major versions go. But, given Symfony 4.4 is about to stop receiving regular maintenance and go into LTS security-only support, this is a good time to look at what dropping support for it looks like. As for the PHP minimum, 7.4 reaches its end of support in a couple of months and Symfony 6 uses 8.1 as a minimum, so these versions would match up nicely. And for those still on older Symfony or PHP versions, the 1.x branch is still there and totally usable.

[geoffroyp]

Everything makes sense in my opinion

Go for it! :)

[deluxetom]

@mbabker great work, would love to see this new 2.0 version started, let me know if you want a beta tester

[ger86]

Great @mbabker . Can I help you in accomplishing this update?

[mbabker]

I'll throw the branch up as a PR in the next week or two (things have been quite busy for me the last few weeks, so I haven't been able to do much OSS wise).

[mbabker]

PR @ #347