[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #46594: Bump PHP version requirements

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#46594: Bump PHP version requirements
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 Reporter:  jorbin          |       Owner:  jorbin
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  high            |   Milestone:  5.2
Component:  General         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by dd32):

 Replying to [comment:6 jorbin]:
 > In slack, afergen suggested going down to 5.6.20 as local by flywheel
 has that as it's PHP version.  As that is a fairly popular development
 environment, it feels like that might make sense.

 As a personal opinion, I feel like 5.6.20 is the safer option, especially
 given that bumping it to 5.6.30 doesn't gain WordPress much in the way of
 added features, bugfixes, or bring any major security improvement (that
 i'm aware of).

 I would normally advocate for supporting down to PHP 5.6.0, just to make
 messaging and support easier "PHP 5.6 or greater", but given the
 significantly small fraction of people who would be affected by that
 change it's not even worth considering.

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