
Following development has happened so far:
1) Geekwright has initiated the conversion to Smarty 3 for XOOPS 2.5.11
2) Mage made some improvements to the Smarty 3 code
Direct download as a Zip file is here
3) I've updated Mage's Smarty 3 version to Smarty 4
Direct download as a Zip file is here
Our current thinking is to:
a) release XOOPS 2.5.11 with Smarty 3 (it would be compatible with PHP 2.5.3 up to PHP 7.4)
b) soon after, release XOOPS 2.5.12 with Smarty 4 (minimum PHP version would be then PHP 7.4, and it would be fully compatible with PHP 8.2.x - I'm testing this above version with PHP 8.2.3
So who is going to help us with testing and development ???