[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.2

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#57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.2
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 Reporter:  SergeyBiryukov                       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)                       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
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 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests 2nd-        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by SergeyBiryukov):

 Replying to [comment:33 SergeyBiryukov]:
 > Looking at the previous post again, it was published in December with
 the proposed cut-off date in April. My thinking was that 6.2 would likely
 be released in April or May, which should give us a few months, same as
 last time.

 Thinking about this some more, rather than waiting for three PHP versions
 combined to drop below 5%, and then waiting a few more months before the
 cut-off date, maybe we could do this in two steps for versions that are
 already below 5%?

 * Announce dropping PHP 5.6 support in WP 6.2
 * Announce dropping PHP 7.0 and 7.1 support in WP 6.3

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