CMSms what happens next? Development? PHP Problems? What does the future look like?

[DPC]

Hello to all,
I have been using cmsms for many years, but meanwhile the PHP versions are updated annually by the relevant hosters, which is good, but currently the development of the CMSms core and the plugins/modules seems to be at a standstill. Is there anyone here who can predict when CMSms and the relevant modules will be PHP8.3 capable and what the future holds for CMSms?

Best regards and many thanks for all your work.
You are great!

[Jo Morg]

CMSMS has been going through some rough times but has been resisting. The next release will be PHP 8.3+ compatible and is imminent. We have been taking some steps to open the code to the community, namely moving the versioning from self-hosted SVN to Github and are starting a campaign to recruit more:

• developers;
• code contributors;
• module developers;

At the moment the current team is a bit overloaded with work both on their livelihood and on all aspects of the CMS Made Simple project, so all the contributions are welcome and we are actively on the lookout for people interested in contributing.
The more popular modules either have been forked or have the CMSMS Foundation as a project manager so that these can be maintained by developers that are partnering with the Foundation.
The thing we have been fighting is time. The life cycle of PHP is a bit faster than we have been able to keep up with, but we are more or less there and we plan to speed up the process in the near future.
I'm not a futurologist, so I'm not going to try to predict what is in store for the future but, speaking for myself, CMSMS is what is in the base of my livelihood too, and I think that most, if not all, of the current Dev Team members are somehow on a similar situation. There is no way I'm going to let the project die if it depends on me.
But that is all I can say.

Hope you stick with us and contribute to the community in any way you can.

Thanks

[jce76350]

Is there a possible release date planned?