Basically, we only need to change:
- PHP 8.0
- MySQL 8.0
- PostgreSQL 13
Also, remove any php-xmlrpc installation because they aren't
needed since Moodle 4.1.
Finally, ensure that we aren't using mysql bin logs ever, because
they are huge and can make the 1Gb tmpfs to become full. This is
specifically needed for MySQL 8.0, because it comes with bin logs
enabled by default.
We have forked the mysql-action to achieve that:
https://github.com/moodlehq/mysql-action
Worth blaming travis because, after PG 11 and 12 using port 5433,
now they are back (in PG 13) to port 5432. Surely there is some
logic behind the undocumented ping-pong but...
Note that, despite the commit message, this is not possible. Moodle
3.11.0 (and 3.10.0) were developed in parallel with Moodle 4.0, and
when they were released, the master branch had already diverged, so
the master branch does not contain the comment lines:
"// Automatically generated Moodle v3.11.0 release upgrade line"
And they are needed to know which parts of the upgrade are safe to delete.
So we only proceed to delete all those steps from lib/db/upgrade.php
which version is known to be < 2021051708 (v3.11.8), master ones will
be, always bigger than that. We don't touch plugin upgrade scripts
because they may have different versions, not 100% matching the
2021051708 rule, so there will be an excess of steps there.
Note this is not a big problem, just a few more steps will be skipped and
that's all. Whenever we bump the Moodle requirements again (to Moodle
4.0 or up), the lines will be back and we'll be able to safely remove
all the steps before them. See previous Moodle requirements issues as
example.
The upgrade steps deleted by this commit weren't using any stuff from
upgradelib, tasks..., so there isn't anything else to be removed but
the core steps themselves.
Also includes an upgrade step to prevent upgrading from any
version < 2021051708 (v3.11.8) as anti-cheating measure.
Now that the required PHP version has been raised to php80, set
it in the composer.json file and regenerate everything, following
the instructions @ https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Composer .
The only changes, as agreed in the issue are:
- Raise min PHP version to 8.0 (from 7.4).
- Make the php-sodium extension required (was optional).
- Small behat/behat bump to 3.12.0 (from 3.11.0)
Some calls to the external_multiple_structure's constructor incorrectly
pass parameters where the value for the $description parameter is not
being passed. This results to invalid values being passed for the
$required parameter.
Replace steps that manually add Book instances via the UI and use
Behat generators. This improves the speed of the Behat test runs.
Additionally, performed Behat cleanup and optimisation to affected
files.
Ensure column and filters provided by each source have sufficient
coverage. Re-factor individual entity/helper class tests to test
their own specific implementation only.
Remove now-defunct test fixtures.
Calls to `str_ends_with` are polyfilled currently, as the method is
not present in PHP7.4 or earlier. We should avoid uses of it so as
to not trip up compatibility standard checkers.
