Upgrade to Nextcloud 24

Note

Critical changes were collected on GitHub. See the original ticket for links to the pull requests and tickets.

General

info.xml

Make sure your appinfo/info.xml allows for Nextcloud 24.

<dependencies>
  <nextcloud min-version="21" max-version="24" />
</dependencies>

Back-end changes

PHP8.1

Nextcloud 24 is the first major Nextcloud release to work with PHP8.1. In this release support for PHP7.3 was dropped. Follow the steps below to make your app compatible.

If appinfo/info.xml has a dependency specification for PHP, increase the max-version to 8.1.

<dependencies>
  <php min-version="7.4" max-version="8.1" />
  <nextcloud min-version="21" max-version="24" />
</dependencies>

If your app has a composer.json and the file contains the PHP restrictions from info.xml, adjust it as well.

{
  "require": {
    "php": ">=7.4 <=8.1"
  }
}

If you have continuous integration set up, extend your test matrix with PHP8.1 tests and linters and drop any jobs for PHP7.3.

Information about code changes can be found on php.net and stitcher.io.

Entity slug deprecation

The usage of entity slugs has been deprecated. There is no provided replacement. If your app needs slugs, add your own logic to create them.