Hey,
So, I've made a whole bunch of changes -- to be fair, it's a mix of manual changes and AI-aided changes (because it's hard to track down deprecated PHP functions across hundred of files by hand). I've reworked the installer as probably the most significant change by volume. I've also refactored (yet again) the login prepared statements to utilize a new mysql2i shim function I added for prepared statements. Those shim updates will be the most impactful as all the future security hardening of SQL statements will utilize that instead.
If you guys are so inclined, would you mind trying to install it and run it from your test environment? I have it running on PHP 8.4, but maybe someone can check if it's good on PHP 7-ish? Hoping to preserve some degree of legacy backwards compatibility to support PHP 7 - 8.5.
I'll try and knock out the rest of the to do list next weekend to shore up version 3 and then work on the base rewrite from there for version 4. Of course, that'll probably be a much, much longer process.
Let me know what you think and how it runs for you. Hoping it meets your approval so far.