[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 masteradhoc):

 +1 on seperating the upgrading of the minimum php version for wordpress.

 [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ Updated stats.]
 ||= Month / Year =||= PHP 5.6=||= PHP 7.0 =||= PHP 7.1 =||= PHP 7.2 =||
 ||Apr 2022||6.6||3.7||2.7||?||
 ||Apr 2023||4.4||2.3||1.6||?||
 ||Mid May 2023||4.16||2.19||1.49||6.26||


 What i could see doable is:
 ||= WordPress Version =||= Minimum PHP Version =||= PHP EOL since Date*
 =||= Comment =||
 ||WP 6.3||PHP 7.0||31 Dec 2018|| PHP 5.6 Support will be dropped ||
 ||WP 6.4||PHP 7.2||10 Jan 2019\\1 Dec 2019|| PHP 7.0 will be dropped\\PHP
 7.1 Support will be dropped ||
 ||WP 6.5||PHP 7.2||30 Nov 2020||  PHP 7.1 Support will be dropped\\''TBD
 as currently still on 6.26% - might be possible to get that number below
 5% for that release'' ||


 * [https://www.php.net/eol.php EOL Date PHP]

 This will bring another good awareness of keeping things up to date for
 all people involved.

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