Work is progressing nicely on upgrading the Alpha Framework to support PHP7. The main change I needed to make was renaming the Alpha\Model\Type\String class to Alpha\Model\Type\SmallText, due to String being a reserved word in PHP7 now. I now have all of the unit tests passing again on the develop branch, and have progressed onto application-level testing which is also passing. The net result is that I now have a build of Alpha running on PHP7 if you want to take it early for testing:

develop branch on Github

It is not release-ready however as I will take this opportunity of making a major incremental release of Alpha to introduce some further backwards-incompatible improvements, the full list of planned changes are here:

Alpha Framework 3.0.0 milestone on Github

The aim is to have Alpha 3.0.0 release-ready by the end of February 2017.