Updating from Nextcloud 15.x to 16.x issues due to PHP 7.0 — it requires PHP 7.1 or newer.

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There's a message when you execute the updater on nextcloud to bring you to version 16 of nextcloud.  It dumps out some dorky message about php7.0 but doesn't actually tell you unless  you click the link it dumps.  If you do it takes you to some page where they claim php7.0 is insecure and they give you a timeframe where you need to complete an upgrade from something like 7.0 to 7.2 or 7.3 and if you don't then it's your fault for running an insecure version of PHP 7.0 The problem is that updating from 7.0 to some other version is more than just updating to 7.2 or 7.3.  You have all sorts of dependencies that also need to be updated. Even though 7.2 or 7.3 gets installed properly…
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Nextcloud 14.0.3 update

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Nextcloud though a good concept has issues that always seem to crop up during the update process.  Now there are quite a few things that are problems here. Stuck on an old version and it won't let you update via the interface running the occ command to update says you are up to date if you run the ../updater/pharupdater it fails saying that it can't delete old resources -- like that matters one freaking bit as far as completing the update goes.  Tell me where they are and I'll delete them afterwards. insufficient feedback during the update and error messages are unclear and seemingly meant only for the developers. expecting that their lack of documentation on updater errors is ok and that you should pay them.  That's just bad business.…
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