Problem with easyhotspot & freeradius

Hi there, I was configuring easyhotspot with freeradius and freeradius is running fine but i'm getting the error while trying to run easyhotspot in the browser. The error are as below: A PHP Error was encountered Severity: 8192 Message: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated Filename: database/DB.php Line Number: 82 Can someone help on this as i have tried to fix without any luck. regards, Kambey