[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:  6.2
Component:  General                               |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by JavierCasares):

 > Yep, we talked about bumping it (about a month ago?) but don't think all
 the conditions are met yet. Generally the conditions are as follows:

 But, are really those numbers real? Or are they ghosted sites? This is
 something that we usually talk in the Hosting team meetings. To be
 accurate, the real data should be “WordPress major version + PHP major
 version” (if this data exists, I didn't find out).

 If you have WP 3.9 + PHP 5.6, that's a ''ghost'' site… and this should'b
 be counted.

 If you have a WP 6.0 + PHP 5.6, that's a ''problem'' site… and this need
 to be counted.

 I asked some time ago for this data, but couldn't get it to analyze with
 the others Hosting Team Reps.

 The real question here is… should we check WordPress older than WP 4.0
 (for example) whatever PHP have?

 If you have some older versions of WordPress, and you want to update, you
 don't need to update WordPress only you need to update everything. For
 that reason, we created this post:
 https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/handbook/upgrading/

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