[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:
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Comment (by SergeyBiryukov):

 Replying to [comment:75 samiamnot]:
 > If they are mostly on old unsupported WordPress versions they may
 indicate unmaintained sites. Will this make a difference?

 If I remember the discussion in #51043 correctly, counting only recent
 WordPress versions may indeed show a higher percentage of newer PHP
 versions, but that won't make a difference, we need PHP < 7.2 to drop
 below 5% across all WordPress versions.

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