[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.0

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#57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.0
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 Reporter:  SergeyBiryukov            |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)            |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  6.3
Component:  General                   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by samiamnot):

 Updated [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ stats].


 ||='''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||
 ||May 2023||4.19||2.21||1.51||7.91||
 ||Jun 2023||4.06||2.13||1.44||7.63||

 Once 6.3 is live, do we stop looking at 5.6 just like we ignore numbers
 where PHP < 5.6? If we include 5.2 at 0.25%, 5.3 at 0.61%, 5.4 at 0.53%,
 5.5 at 0.43% we would be unable to move to a PHP 7.0 minimum for a while
 since PHP versions 5.2 - 5.6 have a 5.88% market share. Assuming it is
 ignored, that opens us to easily set the minimum PHP version of 7.2 in WP
 6.4, and we probably want to have that info published.

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