[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 azaozz):

 Replying to [comment:33 SergeyBiryukov]:

 > I was excited to see 5.6 finally drop below 5%

 Same here :)

 > I think part of the confusion was that it does not seem to match what
 happened with the previous version bump.
 >
 > The [https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/updating-the-minimum-
 php-version/ proposal post for bumping the minimum to PHP 5.6] mentions
 that

 Gary's proposal was to bypass the "no more than 5% of sites on old
 versions" requirement, and also to give a bit less time until the bump. At
 the time the expectations were that many sites would be updated rapidly to
 PHP 5.6+. However that was proven wrong, and the proposal failed. Only a
 small part of the sites on older PHP versions were updated, and a large
 number (more than 10,000,000) were "left behind" (the numbers you posted
 also show this).

 > it's great to have more clarity on the conditions

 I think the "no more than 5% of sites on old PHP versions" and "six months
 notice" were set with the previous bump to PHP 5.2/MySQL 5.0.

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