[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 snoringdragon):

 Replying to [comment:41 chris@…]:
 > > Finally, we can show users running on PHP 5.6 a message about its
 support being dropped in WP 6.2 once they upgrade to WP6.2 and provide
 them link to a make blog post which explain how to upgrade to newer PHP
 version.
 >
 > Is support for PHP 5.6 being dropped ''in'' WP 6.2 or ''after'' 6.2? If
 they upgrade to 6.2 and 5.6 isn't supported, then they'd be broken? So
 we'd do it in 6.3 then? Or by "announcing" it, we're not declaring a
 specific version yet, just that it will be happening in a future version?
 I apologize, not trying to be pedantic, I just want to be clear.
 >
 > > I hope this address your concerns.
 >
 > If there was an official current and stable (non-beta) version of WP
 that matched a non-EOL PHP, that would address it. It could be as simple
 as removing "beta" from the compatibility table.
 >
 > I've read the note from [https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/11/23
 /wordpress-and-php-8-0/ two years ago] about "beta compatibility", and I
 fully understand the difference between core's compatibility versus plugin
 and theme compatibility, along with the fact that many users will blame
 core if a plugin isn't compatible. But at a certain point I'd hope that
 we'd declare core itself at least fully compatible with some version of
 PHP 8, without any asterisks.

 Hi, sorry for confusion.
 I meant WP 6.2 will be last WP version to support PHP 5.6 in case this
 ticket got accepted.
 After that they will not be able to upgrade to next WP version unless they
 increase PHP version.
 So no their sites will not be broken in any case.

 WP team is actively working on deprecations introduced by PHP 8.0 and 8.1
 once it is completed "beta support" label will be removed.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57345#comment:43>
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