[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 ZanderZ):

 WordPress 5.2 was the first version to require PHP 5.6. It was released in
 May 2019, so roughly 4 years ago. Sites that are currently on PHP 5.2-5.5
 (2.1% of total) must still be using WP 5.2 or lower, because of this.
 They are unlikely to upgrade to WP 6.3, so why are we still talking about
 "5% combined"?! Instead, let's focus on the 90% of sites that would
 benefit from a bump to PHP 7.0 (or higher) which will undoubtedly lead to
 better code in core (type declarations and return type declarations would
 be a HUGE benefit)

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57345#comment:63>
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