php 8.5: deprecated *_close() and *_free() functions

[jamieburchell]

As per upcoming PHP 8.5 deprecations a number of *_close() and *_free() functions are deprecated.

For interested parties, there's a preliminary fix in this branch.

Most (all?) of these already had no effect since PHP 8.0.

[NielBuys]

Applied to my fork. Thanks.

[tenzap]

Isn't it possible to have fixes that still permit to support php 5.6 (or the lowest version supported by ci3)

[jamieburchell]

Isn't it possible to have fixes that still permit to support php 5.6 (or the lowest version supported by ci3)

Yes of course, but personally I'm not interested in supporting such old versions in my fork. These fixes are specifically for newer PHP versions, so if you're on an old version of PHP there's little point in using these forks.

That said, @NielBuys appears to be supporting older PHP versions.

[NielBuys]

My fork requires a minimum of PHP 7.4. In any case, I need the lowest PHP version that supports the Null coalescing operator (??), which was introduced in PHP 7.0. The deprecation fixes are much simpler to implement using these operators.