Stable release with PHP 8.4 support

[mbolli]

A stable release incorporating #868 would be nice, as PHP 8.4 will get released in the coming weeks.

[ruudk]

@erusev Could you please tag a new release? Thanks 🙏 💙

[TomasVotruba]

That tag would be really helpful 🙏 I'm stuck with only dev dependency in our project for past 2 years

[dregad]

@erusev Since the 1.8/2.0 release does not seem to be moving forward #897, in the meanwhile it would be truly great if you could apply #868 to the 1.7 branch and tag 1.7.5 release. Thanks in advance !

Edit: actually the patch is already merged in 1.7 (7b307a9), so all we need is a release...

[MyIgel]

@dregad it was included but then reverted in 61a6072 so it must be re-added which therefore breaks PHP < 7.1 compatibility

& to have a "workaround" mentioned: "erusev/parsedown": "dev-master#f7285e7", can be used to force the fix to be used which is just that one merge different than the latest release 1.7.4...f7285e7

[dregad]

Wow, you're right ! I did not even notice that @xabbuh had reverted his own change in PR #873... Thanks for the heads up !

@erusev Could you please take care of it ?

[dregad]

Note: If PHP 7.1 compatibility must be guaranteed even though it's been EOL since 2019, I will gladly provide a PR with an alternate solution.

[MyIgel]

I added a potential solution in #899 by explicitly dropping support for PHP < 7.1

[dregad]

Alternative, backwards-compatible (PHP 5.1+) approach in #900

[MyIgel]

Would be fine for me too as it leads to a fixed release at some point which should be the main focus here