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PHP version stats: January, 2023
It's that time again: my biyearly summary of which PHP versions are used across the community. That means that these charts are not a 100% accurate representation of the PHP community as a whole, but they are an accurate representation of one of the most prominent parts of PHP: the https://packagist.org/php-statistics. Visualizing this data looks like this: https://stitcher.io/resources/img/blog/version-stats/2023-jan-01.svg https://stitcher.io/resources/img/blog/version-stats/2023-jan-01.svg We can see a decent growth for PHP 8.* versions, I think that's great news!
PHP 7.4 reached end of life last year, so at the same time it's worrying that more than 25% of projects are still using it!
In closing, if you take one thing away from this post, I hope it's that it's time to upgrade to at least PHP 8.1, preferably PHP 8.2.
PHP 7.4 reached end of life last year, so at the same time it's worrying that more than 25% of projects are still using it!
In closing, if you take one thing away from this post, I hope it's that it's time to upgrade to at least PHP 8.1, preferably PHP 8.2.
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