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

 Sadly there has been very little change in real world WordPress
 [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ PHP versions] over the past year. The
 total use of PHP < 7.2 only dropped 0.6% in over a year.

 ||='''Month/Year'''=||='''PHP 5.6'''=||='''PHP 7.0'''=||='''PHP
 7.1'''=||='''Total'''=||
 ||Feb 2022||4.6||2.5||1.7||8.8||
 ||Mar 2023||4.3||2.3||1.6||8.29||

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