[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:66 samiamnot]:
 > Sadly there has been very little change in real world WordPress
 [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ PHP versions] over the past year.

 It looks like the numbers for Feb 2022 come from comment:62, but the data
 there is actually for Feb 2023, it's just that the label was incorrect
 (updated now).

 Here's the current data for April:

 ||='''Month/Year'''=||='''PHP 5.6'''=||='''PHP 7.0'''=||='''PHP
 7.1'''=||='''Total'''=||
 ||Apr 2022||6.6||3.7||2.7||13.0||
 ||Apr 2023||4.4||2.3||1.6||8.3||

 So the total use of PHP < 7.2 actually dropped 4.7% over the last year.

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