ETA on CI3 PHP8.2 support?

It is not a silly question. Of course it is possible.
But all Pull Requests are (were) made against develop branch.

The 3.1-stable branch is already 1090 commits behind develop.
https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/tree/3.1-stable
There are already many differences between 3.1-stable and develop.

So, applying PRs created for develop to 3.1-stable may cause many conflicts.
These conflicts need to be resolved.

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