[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #46624: Change again minimum required PHP and SQL versions for the best security and consistency environments in WordPress 5.2+ trunk version.php file.

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#46624: Change again minimum required PHP and SQL versions for the best security
and consistency environments in WordPress 5.2+ trunk version.php file.
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 Reporter:  Luciano      |      Owner:  luciano-croce
  Croce                  |
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:  2nd-opinion needs-dev-note has-
  Focuses:               |  patch
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 Please change again minimum required PHP and SQL versions for the best
 security and consistency environments in WordPress 5.2+ trunk version.php
 file.

 The primary scope of bumping PHP and SQL version is

 - Educate users to update your's LAMP / WAMP / MAMP environment's
 - Involved hosting to support more secure and speed environment's
 - Adding new features that requires modernn and new environment's
 - Updating core for run at the best possible levels environment's
 - Releases the best security and maintenance levels environment's

 Recently constant $required_php_version was bumped to minimum support PHP
 5.6.30

 OK this is a best direction but is incositency, because not have "sense"
 in the original optical.

 I think that the minimum PHP was bumped again to the latest 5.6+ available
 and secure release that is PHP 5.6.40

 {{{
 /**
  * Holds the required PHP version
  *
  * @global string $required_php_version
  */
 $required_php_version = '5.6.40';
 }}}

 In the same direction I think that also constant $required_mysql_version
 was bumped to more recent version SQL 5.5.62 instead of actual legacy SQL
 5.0

 {{{
 /**
  * Holds the required MySQL version
  *
  * @global string $required_mysql_version
  */
 $required_mysql_version = '5.5.62';
 }}}

 In this direction more users and hosting are "obligated" to modernize your
 infrastructure with more benefit yo all WordPress Users and Developers.

 Finally I suggest to introduce new constant $required_apache_version like
 this:

 {{{
 /**
  * Holds the required Apache version
  *
  * @global string $required_apache_version
  */
 $required_mysql_version = '2.2.34';
 }}}

 Some useful informations about PHP / SQL / Apache

 PHP

 5.6 / 5.6.40 ~ 28   August 2014 / EOL 31 December 2018 -- Best minimum
 choice IMHO
 7.0 / 7.0.33 ~ 03 December 2015 / EOL 03 December 2018
 7.1 / 7.1.26 ~ 01 December 2016 / EOL 01 December 2019
 7.2 / 7.2.15 ~ 30 November 2017 / EOL 30 November 2020
 7.3 / 7.3.03 ~ 06 December 2018 / EOL 06 December 2021

 SQL

 5.1 November 14, 2008 ~ 10  years ago 5.1.73 2013-12-03 / EOL December
 2013
 5.5 December 03, 2010 ~ 08  years ago 5.5.62 2018-10-22 / EOL December
 2018 -- Best choice IMHO MariaDB supported
 5.6 February 05, 2013 ~ 06  years ago 5.6.43 2019-01-21 / EOL February
 2021
 5.7  October 21, 2015 ~ 03  years ago 5.7.25 2019-01-21 / EOL  October
 2023
 8.0    April 19, 2018 ~ 10 months ago 8.0.15 2019-02-01 / EOL    April
 2026

 APACHE

 1.3 1998-06-06 / 1.3.42 2010-02-03 EOL
 2.0 2002-04-06 / 2.0.65 2013-07-10 EOL
 2.2 2005-12-01 / 2.2.34 2017-07-11 EOL -- Best minimum choice IMHO
 2.4 2012-02-21 / 2.4.38 2019-01-22 EOL

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