History of Bitweaver upgrade process

<p>The particular target of my development work in the past couple of weeks has been to get bitweaver working with the current version of PHP - 8.4.5 - and the third party libraries that also support that. I am getting there, but need to review just where I am heading which is part of my bitweaver upgrade process. Push that back to the main codebase may not be appropriate at the moment, but actually a major part of the initial work was to move my own codebase back in line with the way the master thread had been taken. The live sites are still running a rather old configuration which is working fine, so the real questions is &quot;Why Change It?&quot;. The answer to which is that others have been doing the heavy lifting to PHP8.4 and while I would be quite happy running 7.3, there are niggles that have been ironed out which I could simply port back to the old code, but contributing back is then somewhat restricted.</p>

<p>Now I just need to work out why Smarty 5 gots into an infinite loop when it calls the display function!</p>