[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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 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests 2nd-        |     Focuses:
  opinion                                        |
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Comment (by snoringdragon):

 To Replying to [comment:35 knutsp]:
 > Replying to [comment:34 SergeyBiryukov]:
 >
 > > * Announce dropping PHP 5.6 support in WP 6.2
 > > * Announce dropping PHP 7.0 and 7.1 support in WP 6.3
 >
 > I have always been in favor of doing this step by step (by PHP .x
 version), unless, of course, next two steps combined are smaller than the
 maximum 5% "left behind" (here 7.0 + 7.1). Announcing dropping PHP 5.6 in
 WP 6.2 will probably (force) migrate many of the 5.6 users to 7.4 or
 higher, paving the way for the next drop, and so forth.
 >
 > By waiting, to be able to do several steps at once, we might end up
 waiting endlessly.
 >
 > It is clearly time to drop PHP 5.6 support now, according to the earlier
 decided policy/strategy.

 You are absolutely right.
 If we didn't do it step by step as you mentioned, we will run into another
 blockage with php 7.4 like we did with php 5.6
 That will also last for years.
 Right now WordPress is still not fully compatible with php 8.0 even if
 it's been 2 years since it's release. What's more amusing is that security
 support for it is ending in nov 2023. So we will most likely reach it's
 EOL before WordPress is even fully compatible with it.
 With this is mind, we have php 9.0 coming in less than 3 years.
 More we delay thing, worse it will get at end.

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