Release 19.0.1 requires PHP 7.4 but info.xml still has 7.3 as required

[ZidaneTribal]

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Explain the Problem

Composer error after upgrading News app to latest release 19.0.1
Seems one of the updated dependencies in 19.0.1 requires PHP 7.4.
Please update the info.xml if you meant to upgrade the required PHP version.
(Nextcloud 23 is supposed to still work on PHP 7.3 so I am unsure if this was an expected dependency change or not)

Steps to Reproduce

Explain what you did to encounter the issue

1. Updated News from 19.0.0 to 19.0.1
2. Right afterwards Nextcloud was unavailable due to "Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 7.4.0". You are running 7.3.15"
3. Only disabling the App and manually redownloading 19.0.0 reviewed the Nextcloud instance

System Information

• News app version: 19.0.1
• Nextcloud version: 23.0.11
• Cron type: system cron
• PHP version: 7.3.15
• Database and version: x
• Browser and version: x
• OS and version :x

Error not logged in nextcloud.log
Error not in browser console

[Grotax]

Hey,

thanks for the report.
I actually missed that change, I pulled the release from the appstore and removed the file from the github release.
So at least not more people should run into this.

We usually move on when we have to though and I think we will do the same here and drop support for php 7.3

[dvzrv]

I actually missed that change, I pulled the release from the appstore and removed the file from the github release.

Please don't do that, as it breaks downstream reproducibility (see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/76717).
Would releasing a new patch-level version after merging #2008 be enough?

[Grotax]

No I don't think that is an option, we would need to rollback the changes of the release.
And we do not want to release such changes as patch level, so it will be major version, since we drop support for php 7.3

I had to pull the archive as Nextcloud caches the AppStore data and would even try to pull it after I remove it from the AppStore

[Grotax]

Next release won't support PHP 7.3 anymore.

[Grotax]

news.tar.gz

This is the file of that release if someone needs it.

[Grotax]

We released Nextcloud 20.0.0 it doesn't support PHP 7.3 anymore.

I would recommend to update to PHP 8.1+ soon.