Question New release of webtrees 2.1.21

webtrees 2.1.21 is now available for download.  It adds official support for PHP 8.4.  See webtrees.net/blog/ for a list of changes.

There is also a 2.2.0 release.  This has a few more fixes (e.g. autorotate images), but requires PHP 8.3 or higher.  It's not yet available using the auto-upgrade, although you can install it manually.

The auto-upgrade to 2.2.0 currently gives a harmless (but scary) error message. It's caused by a date-time library.  Half of it is loaded before the upgrade (from 2.1), and half gets loaded after the upgrade (from 2.2).  The two halves are not compatible.

I will need to create a 2.1.22 release, and then you will be able to auto-ugprade 2.1.21 -> 2.1.22 -> 2.2.0

Hello Greg,

thank you so much for your tireless efforts and all the time you put into developing webtrees.

May I ask what's next on the roadmap? GEDCOM 7? Flexible reports? Others?

Can you give us a small but non-binding glimpse?

Peter_S wrote:

Hello Greg,

thank you so much for your tireless efforts and all the time you put into developing webtrees.

May I ask what's next on the roadmap? GEDCOM 7? Flexible reports? Others?

Can you give us a small but non-binding glimpse?
 

Totally agree with these statements and the request for some glimpse!!

Hi Greg

I did a 'Manual Upgrade' to 2.2.0 and I now suffer the 'white screen of mysterious death' <Smile>..

Error Log Shows

2024-11-24 03:48:35.600917 [NOTICE] [71015] [T0] [116.90.75.234:16965:HTTP2-5#APVH_alineofmalkins.com.mosleyfamilies.net:443] [STDERR] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Typed static property Fisharebest\Webtrees\I18N::$locale must not be accessed before initialization in /xxx/alineofmalkins.com/wt_malkins/app/I18N.php:361\nStack trace:\n#0 /xxx/alineofmalkins.com/wt_malkins/app/Factories/TimestampFactory.php(50): Fisharebest\Webtrees\I18N::locale()\n#1 /xxx/alineofmalkins.com/wt_malkins/app/Factories/TimestampFactory.php(81): Fisharebest\Webtrees\Factories\TimestampFactory->make()\n#2 /xxx/alineofmalkins.com/wt_malkins/app/SessionDatabaseHandler.php(88): Fisharebest\Webtrees\Factories\TimestampFactory->now()\n#3 [internal function]:

Could be related to your initial notice of 'harmless (but Scary) error'.

I cannot restore from a backup.. Silly me thought full backup were being done daily on my server.. They are only incremental.. Gotta change this..

Ok, so I walked away for a bit and came up with lets look at modules..

Watermark Module was causing the white screen issue!!

There are a number of other Modules I'm using that create errors, including
JC Fancy Research Links
JC Simple Media
Extended Import Export
HUH WT WTLIN
HUH WT TAM
The new reports modules


 

Thanks Greg
i have a question about webtrees 2.2
this version work only with PHP 8.3 and 8.4 so i should upgrade my PHP 8.2 to 8.3?
Thanks

fa10175 wrote:

Thanks Greg
i have a question about webtrees 2.2
this version work only with PHP 8.3 and 8.4 so i should upgrade my PHP 8.2 to 8.3?
Thanks

yes

> this version work only with PHP 8.3 and 8.4 so i should upgrade my PHP 8.2 to 8.3?

Yes.

> I did a 'Manual Upgrade' to 2.2.0 and I now suffer the 'white screen of mysterious death' <Smile>..

1) Manually install 2.1.21

2) Wait for the authors of your modules to confirm compatibility with webtrees 2.2, or produce new versions

3) Then install 2.2.0

> May I ask what's next on the roadmap? GEDCOM 7? Flexible reports? Others?

All these things need changes to the database structure.

However, what makes this difficult is upgrading existing sites. Apart from the logic of the change, we have to work with PHP time/memory limits. If you have a large site, then even changing an index on a table can take many minutes (i.e. longer than your server timeouts). So, we will also need some sort of job queue system.

Many Thanks Greg.. I'll stick on 2.2.0 and wait for Module updates to pop up..

On the page  Download webtrees , the supported versions of PHP for webtrees-2.1.21 should be corrected to 7.4-8.4.

Peter_S wrote:

On the page  Download webtrees , the supported versions of PHP for webtrees-2.1.21 should be corrected to 7.4-8.4.
 

That is the "recommended" version to install for each version of PHP.

The list of supported versions is webtrees.net/install/requirements/

 

The auto-upgrade to 2.2.0 currently gives a harmless (but scary) error message. It's caused by a date-time library.  Half of it is loaded before the upgrade (from 2.1), and half gets loaded after the upgrade (from 2.2).  The two halves are not compatible.

Is it safe to manually upgrade from 2.1.20 to 2.2.0?

> Is it safe to manually upgrade from 2.1.20 to 2.2.0?

Do you have PHP 8.3 or 8.4?

Are all your third-party modules tested against webtrees 2.2.0?

If yes, then you can upgrade.

Hi,

I upgraded to 2.1.21 by auto update, however my modules v4 folder is empty now.
Is this a bug, earlier upgrades no troubles occured.

Installed my modules again and everything seems to work fine now

And to reply to this generically, PHP 8.2 will stop being actively supported in little more than a month. At this point, the best is to switch to PHP 8.3 now, and think about switching to PHP 8.4 in about 10 months.

See www.php.net/supported-versions