[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: johnbillion
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.6
Component: General | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: has-patch | Focuses:
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Comment (by samiamnot):
Updated for early Sep based on [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ stats].
While the ticket is closed, I will continue updating since I find these
stats interesting.
As seen below, 7.0+7.1 only dropped by 0.09% since last month (identical
tp the previous month), a figure that is inline with previous drops. As we
stand now, 5.70% of sites are on unsupported PHP versions.
7.2+7.3 are still dropping at about 0.30% a month, so dropping those
versions will take a while (a year or more is my guess). We may want to
proactively start warning admins in a more clear manner.
||='''Month/Year'''=||='''PHP 7.2'''=||='''PHP 7.3'''=||='''PHP 7.2 +
7.3'''=||
||Jul 2023|| 6.48|| 8.16|| '''14.64%'''||
||Aug 2023|| 5.64|| 7.62|| '''13.26%'''||
||Sep 2023|| 5.55|| 7.18|| '''12.73%'''||
||Oct 2023|| 5.31|| 6.87|| '''12.18%'''||
||Nov 2023|| 5.20|| 6.51|| '''11.71%'''||
||Dec 2023|| 5.08|| 6.17|| '''11.25%'''||
||Jan 2024|| 4.79|| 5.90|| '''10.69%'''||
||Feb 2024|| 4.67|| 5.54|| '''10.21%'''||
||Mar 2024|| 4.30|| 5.11|| '''9.41%'''||
||Apr 2024|| 3.80|| 4.79|| '''8.59%'''||
||May 2024|| 3.63|| 4.52|| '''8.15%'''||
||Jun 2024|| 3.46|| 4.30|| '''7.76%'''||
||Jul 2024|| 3.33|| 4.10|| '''7.43%'''||
||Aug 2024|| 3.18|| 3.90|| '''7.08%'''||
||Sep 2024|| 3.05|| 3.73|| '''6.78%'''||
For historical reasons, here are the stats for no longer supported
versions (as of WP 6.6) going back to PHP 5.2. This is not changing much
(going down about 0.20% a month) and many are likely "abandoned" sites
that are on old versions of WP.
||='''Month/Year'''=||='''PHP 5.2'''=||='''PHP 5.3'''=||='''PHP
5.4'''=||='''PHP 5.5'''=||='''PHP 5.6'''=||='''PHP 7.0'''=||='''PHP
7.1'''=||='''Total'''=||
||Jan 2024|| 0.21|| 0.50|| 0.44|| 0.35|| 3.21|| 1.67|| 1.08||
'''7.46%'''||
||Feb 2024|| 0.21|| 0.49|| 0.42|| 0.35|| 3.12|| 1.62|| 1.04||
'''7.25%'''||
||Mar 2024|| 0.21|| 0.48|| 0.39|| 0.34|| 3.02|| 1.55|| 0.99||
'''6.98%'''||
||Apr 2024|| 0.20|| 0.47|| 0.38|| 0.33|| 2.93|| 1.50|| 0.95||
'''6.76%'''||
||May 2024|| 0.20|| 0.46|| 0.37|| 0.32|| 2.84|| 1.45|| 0.92||
'''6.56%'''||
||Jun 2024|| 0.20|| 0.45|| 0.36|| 0.31|| 2.76|| 1.41|| 0.89||
'''6.38%'''||
||Jul 2024|| 0.19|| 0.44|| 0.35|| 0.30|| 2.63|| 1.36|| 0.86||
'''6.13%'''||
||Aug 2024|| 0.19|| 0.43|| 0.34|| 0.29|| 2.53|| 1.31|| 0.82||
'''5.91%'''||
||Sep 2024|| 0.19|| 0.41|| 0.33|| 0.28|| 2.45|| 1.25|| 0.79||
'''5.70%'''||
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58719#comment:56>
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