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#4589 - PHPExcel deprecation and PHP versions

Closed General Question created by pgr 2 years ago

Hi, I had a chance of evaluating your plugin installed in the system of one of my clients. I noticed that PHPExcel package is used, and it seems to be deprecated for a long time:

PHPExcel last version, 1.8.1, was released in 2015. The project was officially deprecated in 2017 and permanently archived in 2019.

The project has not be maintained for years and must not be used anymore. All users must migrate to its direct successor PhpSpreadsheet, or another alternative.

Do you have any plans of moving on to PHPSpreadsheet?

I fear that as people move their PHP versions forward, to PHP 8.0 or 8.1, the plugin might stop working, or have security vulnerabilities that are not getting patched...

https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

Thanks for any information, I would like to be able to advise my client on their upgrade path and this is part of what I need to take into consideration.

  1. MokasIT member avatar

    MokasIT Provider Affiliate

    2 years ago

    Hi, Thank for this notice. Yes there is some issue based on PHP versions There are many of SuiteCRM installations working on lower than 7.4 PHP version, for them we will keep support of Suite2Excel based on current Excel Plugin, but we are going to make new version of this our module based on PHPSpredsheets in the nearest future

  2. MokasIT member avatar

    MokasIT Provider Affiliate

    a year ago

    We jus issued new version ov Suite2Excel. PHPSpredsheets component is used if PHP version is 7.4 or more.

  3. pgr member avatar

    pgr

    a year ago

    Great work, thanks!

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