Need help with Xapian

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 07:53:32AM +0000, Nandu Mayani wrote:
> We have been using Xapian 1.2.24 in our project for 10 years.
> Our project is in PHP 5.6 and we are upgrading to PHP 7.0

Are you aware PHP 7.0 security support ended 2019-01-10 (that's nearly 6
years ago)?

Even PHP 7.4 is more than 2 years out of security support:

https://www.php.net/eol.php

> The Xapian is not supporting. We tried to upgrade to Xapian 1.2.25 but
> still no luck.
> 
> Any help would be appricated.

Xapian 1.2.x is really old and we no longer support it, sorry.

Xapian 1.4.x supported PHP7 up to 1.4.21 (1.4.22 dropped PHP7 support
and added PHP8 support).

So use Xapian 1.4.21 if you really need PHP7 support, but at this point
my advice would be to move to PHP8 instead.  As well as having security
support still (at least if you go for 8.1 or later), the bindings are
lower overhead due to being entirely implemented using PHP's C API now.

Cheers,
    Olly