Choosing highest PHP version for vB Blog 2.0.6

[aciurczak]

Hi all -

I have a 3.8.7 PL5 board that I'm looking to update (as much as feasible), without moving to 4.X. I'm currently on PHP 5.4.X. (which has been working fine for years). But I'm also using the standard vb blog module, 2.0.6. According to this, vb blog fails when PHP is updated to 5.6.

from vBulletin download site:

vBulletin 3.8.11 requires PHP 5.6.0+ and MySQL 5.5.8+.
vBulletin 3.8.10 requires PHP 5.5.0+ and MySQL 5.0.0+.
vBulletin 3.8.9 requires PHP 5.3.0+ and MySQL 4.1.0+.
vBulletin 3.8.7 and 3.8.8 require PHP 5.2.0+ and MySQL 4.0.16+.

I'm trying to find out the latest version of vBulletin and PHP that I can upgrade to without killing the blog feature. The options are looking like:

1 - don't change anything (vB 3.8.7 PL5 / PHP 5.4.X)
2 - update vB to 3.8.9, keep PHP at 5.4.X
3 - update vB to 3.8.10, update PHP to 5.5.X

Does anyone know whether PHP 5.5 will break the VB Blog product? Or have suggestions between the first two options?