# Is it recommended to update the PHP version to v.8?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-it-recommended-to-update-the-php-version-to-v-8/26290>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 2, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-it-recommended-to-update-the-php-version-to-v-8/26290 "2022-12-02T09:50:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![lalurran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lalurran/32/570_2.png) [@lalurran](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lalurran)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-it-recommended-to-update-the-php-version-to-v-8/26290/1 "2022-12-02T09:50:56Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: v4.4.0  
My PHP version is: 7.4.32

**My question**  
Hi everyone, I read in the release notes that Mautic supports PHP v.8 with the release of Mautic v4. When checking the PHP version used on our installation it’s 7.4.32. Could this cause any issues, or make Mautic run slower than if we use v.8?

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**Author:** ![sdoering](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/sdoering/32/8909_2.png) [@sdoering](https://forum.mautic.org/u/sdoering)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-it-recommended-to-update-the-php-version-to-v-8/26290/2 "2022-12-02T13:01:42Z")

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I switched to php 8.0 some weeks ago and don’t see any negative impacts. I would - from a purely security standpoint - switch from 7.4 to 8.0 as 7.4 will not receive security patches anymore (being already past it’s sunset date since end of November).

I would recommend to test it on a staging instance first, though.

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**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-it-recommended-to-update-the-php-version-to-v-8/26290/3 "2022-12-07T06:09:20Z")

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We are using php 8 in production for over 20 clients. So far so good.  
I would make sure to check instances with older plugins before I upgrade to production.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/1X/43c63600fe51440378769136903f1fa2a9a34102.png) [@system](https://forum.mautic.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-it-recommended-to-update-the-php-version-to-v-8/26290/4 "2022-12-08T18:09:23Z")

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