From 8b04b4fd35e542ac3151f89664f8df9fc2429625 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Rees-Carter <stephen@rees-carter.net>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 16:00:58 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Fix tests

---
 .github/workflows/php.yml |  2 +-
 README.md                 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/php.yml b/.github/workflows/php.yml
index 8edb0ee..70d4eb7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/php.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/php.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
         run: composer validate --strict
 
       - name: Install Dependencies
-        run: composer install --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
+        run: composer ${{ (matrix.php-versions == '7.1' || matrix.php-versions == '7.2') && 'update --prefer-lowest --prefer-stable' || 'install' }} --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
 
       - name: Tests
         run: ./vendor/bin/phpunit ./tests
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 44ffeba..a204f04 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -191,6 +191,24 @@ Laravel and PHP developers!
 
 Contributions are very welcome! There isn't a formal guide, but throw in an Issue or PR, and we'll go from there.
 
+### Running the tests
+
+On PHP 7.3 and later, a normal install works:
+
+```bash
+composer install
+./vendor/bin/phpunit ./tests
+```
+
+On PHP 7.1 and 7.2, recent patches of PHPUnit's transitive dependencies have dropped support for those versions, so install the lowest compatible set of dev dependencies instead:
+
+```bash
+composer update --prefer-lowest --prefer-stable
+./vendor/bin/phpunit ./tests
+```
+
+This only affects dev dependencies — runtime dependencies are unchanged.
+
 ## Security Vulnerabilities
 
 Please report any security vulnerabilities via the [GitHub project](https://github.com/valorin/random)

From 99e25dc044007299841fba2fbe36878971bda035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Rees-Carter <stephen@rees-carter.net>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 16:15:30 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Another attempt at fixing...

---
 composer.json | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index bfaa9fd..177e168 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "illuminate/support": "^5.0 || ^10.0 || ^11.0 || ^12.0",
-        "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.0 || ^9.6 || ^10.5"
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.5 || ^9.6 || ^10.5"
     },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-4": {

From 167de45f834d96d77c85ad9f80c4770fa6704b1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Rees-Carter <stephen@rees-carter.net>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 16:26:00 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Remove unit tests for 7.1 and 7.2 due to incompatibility

---
 .github/workflows/php.yml |  8 +++++++-
 README.md                 | 11 +----------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/php.yml b/.github/workflows/php.yml
index 70d4eb7..81179d8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/php.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/php.yml
@@ -28,8 +28,14 @@ jobs:
       - name: Validate composer.json and composer.lock
         run: composer validate --strict
 
+      - name: Lint (syntax check only)
+        if: matrix.php-versions == '7.1' || matrix.php-versions == '7.2'
+        run: find src tests -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 php -l
+
       - name: Install Dependencies
-        run: composer ${{ (matrix.php-versions == '7.1' || matrix.php-versions == '7.2') && 'update --prefer-lowest --prefer-stable' || 'install' }} --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
+        if: matrix.php-versions != '7.1' && matrix.php-versions != '7.2'
+        run: composer install --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader
 
       - name: Tests
+        if: matrix.php-versions != '7.1' && matrix.php-versions != '7.2'
         run: ./vendor/bin/phpunit ./tests
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a204f04..ec1acec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -193,21 +193,12 @@ Contributions are very welcome! There isn't a formal guide, but throw in an Issu
 
 ### Running the tests
 
-On PHP 7.3 and later, a normal install works:
-
 ```bash
 composer install
 ./vendor/bin/phpunit ./tests
 ```
 
-On PHP 7.1 and 7.2, recent patches of PHPUnit's transitive dependencies have dropped support for those versions, so install the lowest compatible set of dev dependencies instead:
-
-```bash
-composer update --prefer-lowest --prefer-stable
-./vendor/bin/phpunit ./tests
-```
-
-This only affects dev dependencies — runtime dependencies are unchanged.
+PHP 7.1 and 7.2 are still supported at runtime, but PHPUnit's current dev-dependency chain no longer installs on them. CI syntax-checks the source on those versions via `php -l` instead of running the test suite — enough to catch any code that wouldn't parse on PHP 7.1/7.2. The full test suite runs on PHP 7.3 and later.
 
 ## Security Vulnerabilities