Today, WordPress announced it is dropping PHP 5.6 support, raising the minimum supported version to PHP 7.0 for WordPress 6.3.0. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/05/dropping-support-for-php-5/ [Changeset 56141](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/56141) dropped the PHP 5.6 CI jobs. After the changeset was committed, Gutenberg's CI started failing on each of the PHP 5.6 jobs (e.g. PR https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/52343) with the following error message: ``` Your server is running PHP version 5.6.39 but WordPress 6.3-beta3-56142 requires at least 7.0.0. ``` ## What is your proposed solution? To keep parity with WordPress Core, this ticket proposes for Gutenberg to: * Raise the minimum support PHP version. * Drop the PHP 5.6 CI jobs. ## Tasks 1. [X] Drop PHP 5.6 CI jobs running on WordPress trunk. 2. [x] Get consensus on when to raise the minimum required PHP version. 3. [x] Change the plugin header `Requires PHP:` to `7.0`.
Today, WordPress announced it is dropping PHP 5.6 support, raising the minimum supported version to PHP 7.0 for WordPress 6.3.0.
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/05/dropping-support-for-php-5/
Changeset 56141 dropped the PHP 5.6 CI jobs.
After the changeset was committed, Gutenberg's CI started failing on each of the PHP 5.6 jobs (e.g. PR #52343) with the following error message:
What is your proposed solution?
To keep parity with WordPress Core, this ticket proposes for Gutenberg to:
Tasks
Requires PHP:to7.0.