From 28d4539b100b0d099fa04e1c8eb23ab9ccdc665f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: YaroslavStryhun <stryhun.yaroslav@airslate.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:22:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Drop support for PHP 7.1-7.4 and add support for PHP 8.5

---
 .github/workflows/pr.yml | 2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md             | 7 ++++++-
 README.md                | 4 ++--
 composer.json            | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr.yml b/.github/workflows/pr.yml
index 9f94958..987a2cb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        php-versions: ['7.1', '7.2', '7.3', '7.4', '8.0', '8.1', '8.2', '8.3', '8.4']
+        php-versions: ['8.0', '8.1', '8.2', '8.3', '8.4', '8.5']
         redis-versions: ['5', '6', '7']
 
     steps:
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 68e096d..039a216 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Changes
+- Add PHP 8.5 support
+- Drop PHP 7.1-7.4 support and declare PHP 8.0+ as the minimum supported version
 
 ## [3.23.0] - 2025-06-10
 ### Changes
@@ -332,7 +335,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Added
  - Initial stable release
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/compare/v3.21.0...HEAD
+[4.0.0]: https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/compare/v3.24.0...v4.0.0
+[3.24.0]: https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/compare/v3.23.0...v3.24.0
+[3.23.0]: https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/compare/v3.22.0...v3.23.0
 [3.21.0]: https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/compare/v3.20.0...v3.21.0
 [3.20.0]: https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/compare/v3.19.0...v3.20.0
 [3.19.0]: https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/compare/v3.18.2...v3.19.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index aefd811..9f911b5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # qless-php
 
-[![PHP Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/supported->%3D7.1%20<=8.4-blue?logo=php)](https://php.net/)
+[![PHP Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/supported->%3D8.0%20<=8.5-blue?logo=php)](https://php.net/)
 [![Workflow Status](https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/actions/workflows/pr.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/pdffiller/qless-php/actions/workflows/pr.yml)
 
 PHP Bindings for qless.
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Prerequisite PHP extensions are:
 - [`pcre`](http://php.net/manual/en/book.pcre.php)
 - [`sockets`](http://php.net/manual/en/book.sockets.php)
 
-Supported PHP versions are: **7.1**, **7.2**, **7.3**, **8.0** and **8.1**.
+Supported PHP versions are: **8.0**, **8.1**, **8.2**, **8.3**, **8.4** and **8.5**.
 
 Qless PHP can be installed via Composer:
 
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 77b6764..2fbb2cb 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "php": "^7.1 || ^8.0",
+        "php": "^8.0",
         "ext-json": "*",
         "ext-pcntl": "*",
         "ext-pcre": "*",