[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58719: Bump the minimum PHP version to 7.2

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#58719: Bump the minimum PHP version to 7.2
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 Reporter:  justlevine   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by peq42):

 It surprised me to see wordpress wasting resources on supporting very old
 versions of PHP while not having full support for newer ones.

 [https://twitter.com/official_php/status/1597203297537957888]
 PHP devs have **dropped** support to all versions of PHP below 8.0 since
 NOVEMBER last year. A whole 10 months.
 PHP 8.2 has existed for at least 9 months, and has only fairly recent
 joined beta support, without even a dev note about it.

 PHP 8 and above, even though they are the only supported versions, still
 are beta for all versions of wordpress according to
 https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/php-compatibility-and-
 wordpress-versions/

 My opinion?** Drop PHP 7.4 and below completely** and focus on PHP 8 and
 Above, their performance improvements and new features. People who don't
 update PHP to the stable, maintained versions won't be updating wordpress
 anyway, so its worthless wasting time and resources keeping compatibility.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58719#comment:8>
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