Community support for PHP 8.0 for Azure App Service is retiring on November 26th, 2023

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Community support for PHP 8.0 for Azure App Service is retiring on November 26th, 2023

Deprecation ID: 62a0325d-3b2a-43d6-86e8-6115fa0ac25f Deadline: Nov 26, 2023 Impacted Services:

• Azure App Service
• Azure Web App

More information:

• Announcement
• Upgrade Guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Because PHP 8.0 extended support will end on 26 November 2023, any applications hosted on Azure App Service that are still using it will not be supported after 26 November 2023.

Your applications will continue to run unchanged but won't receive any patches after 26 November 2023, since PHP will no longer be providing them for this version.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Oct 21, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Nov 26, 2023	Applications will still run but not receive patches.

Impact

Community support for PHP 8.0 for Azure App Service is retiring on November 26th, 2023 and upgrade is required.

Required Action

An upgrade guide is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To minimize risk and potential security vulnerabilities, follow the steps to update your applications before 26 November 2023.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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