Offer a base image with PHP 7.

[ericbarrette]

I think the move to PHP 8 was a bit premature for the 9.1.x images. Contributed modules and vendor packages are not all ready for PHP 8.

Also, see the official requirements for D9, updated on January 6th 2021.

https://www.drupal.org/docs/understanding-drupal/how-drupal-9-was-made-and-what-is-included/environment-requirements-of

Drupal 9 requires at least PHP 7.3. PHP 7.4 is also supported but not required. PHP 8 is not yet supported, but work will be done to support PHP 8 as soon as possible.

Would it still make sense to still support a PHP 7 image?

[mstenta]

I would find this useful too. We are using Drupal 9.1, but explicitly kept the drupal Docker image back to drupal:9.0 because we can't make the move to PHP 8 yet.

[piopi]

I second that, we are also using Drupal 9.1 and some of our packages are not compatible with PHP 8, it would be useful to have it.

[mstenta]

Thank you @yosifkit and @tianon! You rock!

[mstenta]

I see that there are now 9.1/php7.4 and 9.1/php8.0 subdirectories in the repo. However the corresponding images are not listed on https://hub.docker.com/_/drupal yet. Is there more to do before these become available?

[ericbarrette]

@mstenta this is the PR you have to follow docker-library/official-images#9533

However the corresponding images are not listed on https://hub.docker.com/_/drupal yet.

This is explained in the README.md, but essentially it's managed by another repository.
https://github.com/docker-library/drupal/blob/master/README.md#see-a-change-merged-here-that-doesnt-show-up-on-docker-hub-yet

I'm not sure about the timeline though.