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Month: May 2022

  • Net_DNS2 PHP 8.x compat issue

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    TLDR: When using horde/mail_autoconfig or other features using pear/net_dns2 under PHP 8.x, use the “master” branch or wait for a release of version 1.5.3 or higher. While upgrading the Maintaina Horde codebase for PHP 8.1, I stumbled upon a problem: It turns out Net_DNS2 as of latest version 1.5.2 has a problem in its filesystem…

  • Maintaina Horde: Tumbleweed and PHP 8.1

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    PHP 8.1 is available off the shelf in openSUSE Tumbleweed. I will shortly prepare a PHP 8.1 / tumbleweed version of the maintaina Horde containers. These will initially be broken due to some outdated language constructs. As PHP 7.4 will EOL by the end of this year, I decided not to bother with PHP 8.0…

  • Simplifying Routing / PSR-15 bootstrap in Horde

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    As you might remember from a previous post, Horde Core’s design is more complex than necessary or desirable for two main reasons: Horde predates today’s standards like the Composer Autoloader and tries to solve problems on its own. Changing that will impair Horde’s ability to run without composer which we were hesitant to do, focusing…

  • Making horde/core more versatile

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    Hello, you may have seen my blog go quiet for a while. After two years of a global pandemic, I decided to take some more time with my family and also offload some knowledge and responsibilities around the Maintaina Horde codebase to my fellow team members at B1 Systems. I also took some time considering…