[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #62622: Bump minimum PHP version to 7.3

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#62622: Bump minimum PHP version to 7.3
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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 masteradhoc):

 Thanks @justlevine for your work on this ticket and pushing further to get
 WP more into modern php versions. It would be great to get an early
 approve for this as it gives hosters, developers & webmasters an early
 headsup on whats going to be needed / possible for core, themes & plugins
 on the next WP Release.

 To give a deeper insight here you can find a timeline with the recent drop
 - the pause in between - and a possible drop in the upcoming version.

 ||= WordPress Version =||= Minimum PHP Version =||= PHP EOL (of dropped
 version) since Date* =||= Comment / PHP Version Number dropped =||
 ||WP 6.6||PHP 7.2||10 Jan 2019\\1 Dec 2019|| PHP 7.0 and PHP 7.1 Support
 was dropped ||
 ||WP 6.7||PHP 7.2||-|| no change ||
 ||WP 6.8||PHP 7.3||30 Nov 2020||  PHP 7.2 Support will be dropped'' ||
 * see https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

 As the PHP 7.2 Usage seems way below the requested benchmark this could be
 the easiesr way to get an agreemeent on dropping this. The combined Usage
 of PHP 7.2/7.3 is still above the 5% threshold but could change until the
 release. I‘d still be in favor to drop both at the same time and inform
 everyone as early as possible. That way hosters maybe could already mass
 migrate a lot of their older WP-Sites. Happy to help here in the efforts
 to get this further.

 An important comment in my view from @jrf about the big effort in
 maintaining WP running PHP cross-version see
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58719

 To help maintainers here to get a proper solution i‘d support a version
 increase of php 7.2 & 7.3.

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