Fatal error: Declaration of Codeception\PHPUnit\Listener::addError

[nikhilvijayanv (Nick V)]

I am getting this error when trying to run codcept right after a fresh yii2 install(basic template). My php version is 7.1.16

$ codecept run

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Fatal error: Declaration of Codeception\PHPUnit\Listener::addError(PHPUnit\Framework\Test $test, Throwable $e, float $time): void must be compatible with PHPUnit\Framework\TestListener::addError(PHPUnit\Framework\Test $test, Exception $e, $time) in /Users/nikhil/Projects/yaty/vendor/codeception/phpunit-wrapper/src/Listener.php on line 13

[alirz23 (Ali Raza)]

Codeceptions is build on top of phpunit looks like you have the latest version of phpunit and codeceptions does not support it.