# Requirements

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Advanced Categories has been deprecated and is no longer for sale or supported. ExpressionEngine 7.4 introduces many of Advanced Categories features as natively to ExpressionEngine.
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## Required

* ExpressionEngine 6.4.0 or greater
* PHP 7.4 or greater

### Recommended

[Good use of ExpressionEngine's Publish Layouts](https://docs.boldminded.com/advanced-categories/docs/setup-and-configuration)