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The 7 series is 'done' with security updates as of now. https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

So there's some argument to be made to be in the 8.x series. It's probably not something you should be losing sleep over just yet, but at least have it on your roadmap to address in the coming months.

>>mgkims+(OP)
There are nice improvements that make it worth it to upgrade, but yeah, and you can also just use a Linux distribution that provides support for older versions of PHP (such as Debian stable or the Sury packages).

We upgrade our clients in waves, so sites in dev get the latest PHP, which lets up contribute to upstream PHP projects to fix issues, and by the time it's merged upstream, we can update our older clients without any worries.