[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 chris@…):

 > Finally, we can show users running on PHP 5.6 a message about its
 support being dropped in WP 6.2 once they upgrade to WP6.2 and provide
 them link to a make blog post which explain how to upgrade to newer PHP
 version.

 Is support for PHP 5.6 being dropped ''in'' WP 6.2 or ''after'' 6.2? If
 they upgrade to 6.2 and 5.6 isn't supported, then they'd be broken? So
 we'd do it in 6.3 then? Or by "announcing" it, we're not declaring a
 specific version yet, just that it will be happening in a future version?
 I apologize, not trying to be pedantic, I just want to be clear.

 > I hope this address your concerns.

 If there was an official current and stable (non-beta) version of WP that
 matched a non-EOL PHP, that would address it. It could be as simple as
 removing "beta" from the compatibility table.

 I've read the note from [https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/11/23
 /wordpress-and-php-8-0/ two years ago] about "beta compatibility", and I
 fully understand the difference between core's compatibility versus plugin
 and theme compatibility, along with the fact that many users will blame
 core if a plugin isn't compatible. But at a certain point I'd hope that
 we'd declare core itself at least fully compatible with some version of
 PHP 8, without any asterisks.

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