[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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Component:  General                              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests 2nd-        |     Focuses:
  opinion                                        |
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Comment (by chris@…):

 I'm 100% all for this, but I'm also curious what the general message for
 upgrading will be? PHP 7.x is EOL but PHP 8.x is still listed as "beta
 support" in the [https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/php-
 compatibility-and-wordpress-versions/ WP matrix]?

 We can tell people to upgrade to 7.x, but your average user is probably
 just going to pick the most recent version. I know 8.2 just came up, but
 if core still is "beta" for 8.0 and 8.1, I'm just not sure we're ready to
 force/encourage an upgrade yet.

 And I know that most (or possibly all) of the "beta" is just deprecations,
 and "deprecations aren't errors", but your average user doesn't know that.

 To be very clear, I really want this. I write in other frameworks, too,
 and it is really frustrating to switch between PHP versions, remembering
 what is supported in each version, so any upgrade of minimum version
 support will help with that.

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