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Compatibility with earlier Elixir versions?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
elixir
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with mix.exs to compare the advertised Elixir 1.15+ requirement with the intended support through 1.12. Then trace the configuration-loading path related to database-backed configuration and the deprecated logger backend, using the reported Pleroma breakage as the compatibility case. Done means the supported-version decision and configuration behavior are documented or implemented consistently.

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Description

Hi,

It looks like Elixir 1.15 broke backend configuration for Pleroma (seems related to us supporting loading configuration from database).
And as it's deprecated we should probably just move to :logger_backend anyway, but it's mix.exs advertises support only for Elixir 1.15+ while we'd want to keep support for previous Elixir versions (currently up to 1.12), is this intended?

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