Hi Anselm,
Thank you for your honest feedback. We have discussed this topic in the team and have come to the following conclusion:
- Our original guarantee for v2 security support was the 31st of December, 2019. However we want to extend that support period to make sure that users who currently still depend on Kirby 2 for their sites can safely use it. That support period can however not be infinitely long – at some point we will need to drop support to be able to focus on the development of Kirby 3 and future versions. We will announce the final EOL date soon.
- PHP 7.4 is currently not supported by Kirby 2 as we haven’t tested Kirby 2.5.12 with that PHP version. Because of your request, we will now do those tests and (if necessary) publish a new Kirby 2 release with support for PHP 7.4. Expect that sometime this month.
- Until that Kirby 2 release is out, we recommend to stay on PHP 7.2 or 7.3. Both PHP releases have full security support by the PHP team and work very well with Kirby 2.