Thank you, that was one missing piece of the puzzle, 8.1 running now
php -v
PHP 8.1.31 (cli) (built: Nov 19 2024 16:44:13) (ZTS Visual C++ 2019 x64)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.1.31, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
BUT still seeing this in dev console when running API actions
<b>Fatal error</b>
: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require the following PHP extensions to be installed: curl, gd, mbstring, openssl. in <b>E:\webs\mysite\www\vendor\composer\platform_check.php</b>
on line <b>41</b>
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@patrick Not an issue as i am using 7 Beta now but the site i am working on is working correctly in Beta 13 but still gives the composer error if i use 6.8.0. Version 6.8.0 correctly reports php 8.1