PHP 7.2 EOL, will CMK 1.6 provide updated php?

Troubleshooting
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Hi

The php included in cmk 1.6 is EOL and has many cve, is it possible to upgrade PHP manually?

It is a bit soon to look at moving to cmk 2.0 (though I am excited to do this down the road)

Edit: Sorry this was badly worded, I meant php installed as a depedency and this was on OEL 8.3

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There is no PHP included inside CMK. Your CMK installation uses the PHP from your system.
You can test with an actual distribution if it runs without any problem with a newer PHP.
It is possible if you use the RAW edition that there are some problems with PNP4Nagios but you need to try.

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Ok that makes more sense, it is a dependency for the package. But for whatever reason with OEL 8.3 its chosen to install php 7.2 by default. I just need to figure out why its choosing to install 7.2 instead of 7.4

Edit: an update from my colleague, the issue appears to be the default stream

dnf module list | grep php

php 7.2 [d][e] common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php 7.3 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language
php 7.4 common [d], devel, minimal PHP scripting language

He says it we cant easily change streams post install because we need to uninstall the old stuff first.

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Well it appears to be as simple as

dnf module reset php
dnf module install php:7.4

I will do some testing to see if cmk is happy…

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The parts you should test with newer PHP versions are NagVis + if you use Raw edition PNP4Nagios and if used the Dokuwiki.

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