This a normal release (not a security release) that aims to add support for PHP 7.0 through 7.2 (while still supporting PHP 5.2 through 5.6)!
This has only gotten tested on a few sites, so there's likely still some bugs remaining - please report any that you find as issues on this GitHub project.
And there's two important notes:
- You need a patched Drush 8 in order to work with PHP 7: See drush-ops/drush#3706 and you can grab the patch here.
- You need to update the .htaccess file in the public (ie.
sites/default/files/) and temporary directories to maintain the security protection that provides in PHP 7: One way to do this, is to delete the .htaccess files and then visit the "Status report" on your site, which will re-create the file with the changes necessary for PHP 7. We've considered adding an update hook to do this, but we're worried about wiping out any added changes - see #19
Thanks!