[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.2

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#57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.2
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 Reporter:  SergeyBiryukov                       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)                       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
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 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests 2nd-        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by knutsp):

 Replying to [comment:34 SergeyBiryukov]:

 > * Announce dropping PHP 5.6 support in WP 6.2
 > * Announce dropping PHP 7.0 and 7.1 support in WP 6.3

 I have always been in favor of doing this step by step (by PHP .x
 version), unless next two steps combined are small than the maximum 5%
 "left behind" (here 7.0 + 7.1). Announcing dropping PHP 5.6 in WP 6.2 will
 probably (force) migrate many of the 5.6 users to 7.4 or higher, paving
 the way for the next drop, and so forth.

 By waiting, to be able to do several steps at once, we might end up
 waiting endlessly.

 It is clearly time to drop PHP 5.6 support now, according to the earlier
 decided policy/strategy.

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