Question2Answer 1.9 development updates

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:04:47 +0000

I'm going to use this question to post various updates on Q2A development as it occurs. A few important things to note about v1.9:

The minimum PHP requirement will be version 5.4. Market share for <=5.3 has dropped below 20%, and those versions have not been officially supported by PHP for over 4 years. If you are still using PHP 5.3 I suggest looking to upgrade as soon as possible.
The old includes from qa-include/ (directly, not including subfolders) will be deleted. Since v1.7 they were moved to the subfolders (app/, db/ etc) and stubs added for backwards compatibility. Any plugins still using those should update to use the newer includes, for example change
require_once QA_INCLUDE_DIR . 'qa-app-posts.php';
to
require_once QA_INCLUDE_DIR . 'app/posts.php';
Namespaces are being used in the core code. I wrote a little about this in the docs here but the main gist is that it's much easier to use certain classes - you just use them, no need to include PHP files first.

I will add answers with updates every so often.

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