[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58719: Bump the minimum PHP version to 7.2

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#58719: Bump the minimum PHP version to 7.2
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 Reporter:  justlevine   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by samiamnot):

 While developers want to move on, note that based on the current stats,
 the no longer supported PHP 5.6 and lower accounts for 4.78% of all sites.
 The cumulative count of PHP 7.0 and lower versions stands at 6.47%. Does
 this number have to drop below 5% to allow dropping PHP 7.0? One things
 that surprised me was that there was no significant drop in sites using
 PHP 5.6 since support was dropped in WP 6.3 in Aug. At that time PHP 5.6
 was used on 4.02% of sites. It is now used in 3.25%, a drop of less than a
 percent despite it not being supported for over 4 months. This does not
 bode well for significant changes in the supported versions.

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