Title: Bump PHP version requirement
Last modified: August 29, 2022

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# Bump PHP version requirement

 *  Resolved [snoringdragon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snoringdragon/)
 * (@snoringdragon)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bump-php-version-requirement/)
 * Hi,
 * It’s been around 4 years since wordpress last increased its minimum PHP requirement.
   
   Make post => [https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/updating-the-minimum-php-version/](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/updating-the-minimum-php-version/)
 * At that time, only 85% websites were using PHP version 5.6 or higher but wordpress
   still decided to increase its minimum PHP requirement to 5.6 for security and
   performance reasons.
 * Buw now, as per wordpress statistics, only 5.8% wordpress installations are currently
   running on PHP version 5.6.
 * I think we are now ready to further increase minimum PHP requirement to 7.0.
 * With proper coordination with hosting companies and encouraging the sites to 
   increase PHP version to 7.0 by showing message in WordPress 6.1, we will be able
   to further decrease that 5.8% statistics.
 * This change will allow wordpress to enhance the security while at the same time
   get rid some bloat from core, improving the performance.
 * Thanks for your time.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bump-php-version-requirement/#post-15957500)
 * The best place to bring this up, so it will be seen and discussed by the developers,
   is during the Core Developer meeting, every Wednesday at 20:00 UTC in the #core
   channel on Slack: [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)
 * If you can’t attend at that time, please file this is Trac instead: [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket)
 *  Thread Starter [snoringdragon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snoringdragon/)
 * (@snoringdragon)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bump-php-version-requirement/#post-15958113)
 * Thanks for pointing it out.
    Trac ticket => [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56454](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56454)
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bump-php-version-requirement/#post-15958180)
 * Thanks!
 * Discussion will continue over there. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bump-php-version-requirement/#post-15958180)
 * Status: resolved

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