[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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 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests 2nd-        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by masteradhoc):

 Replying to [comment:80 Hareesh Pillai]:
 > I propose that we target WP 6.4 to drop support for PHP 5.6 (and
 preferably 7.0 and 7.1 as well). This will provide us ample time to put up
 the Make blog post and inform the developers, users etc.

 Information is important and it definately should go out as early as
 possible. But…

 Do you really think there are still much todos for plugin authors and
 theme authors? As those that still would need to do somthing are probably
 abandoned anyway. Most those have a userbase thats by far further than php
 5.6.

 I would still vote for seperate and a early communication of a planned
 schedule to raise again awareness of upcoming changes and also encouraging
 themes/plugins to update their codebase.

 Let‘s just get started and do it step by step than rather pushing it out
 again and then still dont do in 6.4 for another reason..

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