[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 jrf):

 Replying to [comment:35 johnbillion]:
 > One noteworthy benefit of dropping support for 7.0 and 7.1 is that the
 sodium compat library can be removed because libsodium is part of PHP
 since 7.2.

 @johnbillion While Sodium ships with PHP as of PHP 7.2, PHP can still be
 compiled without it and the extension can be turned off from the config as
 well.

 In other words, the Sodium Compat library can **not** be removed
 **unless** the Sodium extension is made a hard requirement for installing
 WordPress, including for updating to the WordPress version in which the
 library would be dropped.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58719#comment:40>
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