[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.0

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#57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.0
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 Reporter:  SergeyBiryukov            |       Owner:  johnbillion
     Type:  task (blessed)            |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  6.4
Component:  General                   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by samiamnot):

 Updated [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ stats] for Jul 2023.


 ||='''Month/Year'''=||='''PHP 5.6'''=||='''PHP 7.0'''=||='''PHP
 7.1'''=||='''Total'''=||
 ||Apr 2022||6.6||3.7||2.7||13.0||
 ||Apr 2023||4.4||2.3||1.6||8.3||
 ||May 2023||4.19||2.21||1.51||7.91||
 ||Jun 2023||4.06||2.13||1.44||7.63||
 ||Jul 2023||3.94||2.06||1.39||7.39||

 in short, it is not moving quickly. I assume that the large hosting
 companies can probably do something about this is pushed.

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