{"id":3729,"date":"2025-04-21T05:16:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2025-04-24T05:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:44:39","slug":"php-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/php-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the control panel has received a large update so it works with the latest PHP version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re using WordPress, and your theme and plugins are still supported, then the developers will have typically done the upgrades for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recommend keeping your own applications up-to-date with regards to the PHP version. That makes them more secure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/supported-versions.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PHP 7 is really old now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because we use Debian Linux, our servers receive security updates for a while longer than other operating systems. This is why we&#8217;re still able to support PHP 7, even though PHP itself no longer supports it. But support for PHP 7 will end, so it&#8217;s important to realize that this upgrade needs to be done soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If you need assistance with your upgrades, please let us know.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most recent version is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/releases\/8.4\/en.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PHP 8.4<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t see this version in your control panel, contact us! Every year around the end of November, a new PHP version comes out. PHP 8.5 is scheduled for November 20!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the control panel has received a large update so it works with the latest PHP version. If you&#8217;re using WordPress, and your theme and plugins are still supported, then the developers will have typically done the upgrades for you. We recommend keeping your own applications up-to-date with regards to the PHP version. That&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/php-updates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PHP updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henselhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}