Which version of php are you using?
Support for PHP7+
I've just released 2.2.0 which should support this - sending a longer release email
Creating Branch 2.2.0
I have moved it to the sourceforge version of git which is a lot better than CVS! If you think that's not good enough then please open a new ticket. Back to the original ticket - it's nearly ready for a new release for php 7 - I'll try and do it next week.
More upgrade work
Add in files for docker-compose for local dev
Support for MySQL 5.7 - primarily replaces 0000-00-00 dates with NULL - also fixes transcript associated to person