Title: What PHP version is required?
Last modified: July 18, 2019

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# What PHP version is required?

 *  Resolved [Česlav Przywara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chesio/)
 * (@chesio)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-php-version-is-required-2/)
 * Hello,
 * The changelog for recent version 2.1.1 says: “Now require PHP v7.0 at least.”
   However, the plugin meta information still have “Requires PHP: 5.6” listed.
 * I skimmed through the code quickly and there seems to be no feature that requires
   PHP 7. I had also no problems upgrading the plugin on my PHP 5.6 installation.
   Could you clarify?
 * Cheers
    Česlav
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by [Česlav Przywara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chesio/).
      Reason: Fix typo

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 *  Plugin Author [Anand Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anand_kumar/)
 * (@anand_kumar)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-php-version-is-required-2/#post-11751269)
 * There is no PHP v7 code but we are going to push users to switch to a supported
   PHP version. It will ultimately help them to make their site secure and bring
   performance improvement.
 * But, I have to temporarily roll back it because some users are still on v5.6.
   However, In the next update it will be v7.x for sure.
 * HTH.
 *  Thread Starter [Česlav Przywara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chesio/)
 * (@chesio)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-php-version-is-required-2/#post-11753992)
 * Thanks for clarification! I’m generally in favor of pushing users towards more
   recent PHP versions.
 * Please, just don’t forget to update “Requires PHP” header when the version bump
   happens. I guess a lot of people (like I do) still has to maintain some PHP 5.
   x installations.
 *  Plugin Author [Anand Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anand_kumar/)
 * (@anand_kumar)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-php-version-is-required-2/#post-11754050)
 * Hi,
 * It was a bug fix update with change in “Requires PHP”. But after some feedback
   I decided to roll back the “Requires PHP” thing.
 * Thanks for the feedback.

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