[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):

 Adding my two cents again: WP 5.6 added "beta" support for PHP 8.0 (5.9
 did for 8.1 and 6.1 did for 8.2). PHP 8 usage is now at 22.5%, over 5
 times a much as PHP 5.6 usage (currently at 4.2%)!

 Even if you combine all PHP 5 versions (which makes no sense because they
 can't update to the latest WP version anyway), they have only 5.9% usage.
 Please, stop supporting ancient PHP versions in favour of modern PHP! The
 core codebase could benefit **so much** from dropping 5.6...

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57345#comment:71>
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