[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #46594: Bump PHP version requirements

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#46594: Bump PHP version requirements
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 Reporter:  jorbin          |       Owner:  jorbin
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  high            |   Milestone:  5.2
Component:  General         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by jorbin):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 in #46624, @luciano-croce proposed setting the minimum as 5.6.40.
 Unfortunately, I think that's going in the wrong direction. As the stats
 point out, only 54% of 5.6.x sites are on that, so we would be eliminating
 a lot more sites than intended from upgrading to WordPress 5.2 by doing
 so. ~20% of users are already going to be left behind.

 In slack, @afergen suggested going down to 5.6.20 as local by flywheel has
 that as it's PHP version.  As that is a fairly popular development
 environment, it feels like that might make sense.

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