[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 hellofromTonya):

 As of today, [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ here's the percentage of
 sites running on PHP versions older than PHP 7.2]:

 ||='''PHP''=||='''Usage Percentage'''=||
 ||7.1||1.08%||
 ||7.0||1.67%||
 ||5.6||3.21%||
 ||5.5||0.35%||
 ||5.4||0.44%||
 ||5.2||0.50%||
 ||5.2||0.21%||

 Total = 7.46%

 Bumps are intentionally slow to avoid leaving users behind for those users
 who are on hosting that does not offer the version being proposed as the
 next minimum. Leaving these users behind means they are unable to upgrade
 their PHP version on their current hosting in order to upgrade to the
 newest version of WordPress.

 Once the usage percentage drops below 5%, then the next step is for Matt
 to review and approve the bump.

 Though the stats weren't low enough yet, I did ask during 6.4 but a bump
 was not approved.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58719#comment:27>
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