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Month: December 2021

  • PHP 8 Horde (Maintaina)

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    Ralf
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    Over the next few days, all Horde libraries and apps in the maintaina-com organization will be whitelisted for PHP 8x. in their FRAMEWORK_6_0 branch development versions. One next step will be a flavour of the OpenSUSE based containers and deployments which runs off PHP 8.0. While some few libraries have been enabled for PHP 8,…

  • Horde/Skeleton: Modernized

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    Ralf
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    Over the last months, a lot of new technologies have entered the Horde ecosystem. It was long overdue to modernize the Skeleton example app. No more un-namespaced code Skeleton has completely migrated to PSR-4 namespaced code in /src/ rather than traditional, unnamespaced code in /lib/. This includes framework integration classes like Application, Api, Ajax\Application but…