[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:  johnbillion
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  6.6
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by desrosj):

 For what it's worth, I wanted to weigh in with my support for raising the
 required minimum to PHP 7.2 in WordPress 6.6, dropping PHP 7.0 and 7.1 at
 this point.

 With the broader context of the projects and libraries WordPress relies on
 from @jrf above, it's clear that the maintenance for several parts of Core
 will become unmanageable and potentially result in exposing sites to
 security problems if we don't also raise our minimum at this time.

 While PHP 7.2 is currently sitting at 3.8%, I don't see much benefit to
 also trimming support for 7.2 at this time. Though it's likely and
 reasonable to circle back to 7.2 and 7.3 late this/early next year.

 It's a shame that so many sites have PHP compiled without Sodium, but
 perhaps we could call this out to hosts in an attempt to get that number
 up so the compat library can be dropped in a future release.

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