[Drupal 7] Require PHP 5.3

Created on 6 October 2015, over 8 years ago
Updated 26 March 2023, about 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

According to https://dri.es/the-end-of-php-5:

Drupal 7 will drop support for older versions of PHP 5 on December 31st [2018], but will continue to support PHP 5.6 as long there are one or more third-party organizations providing reliable, extended security support for PHP 5.

Earlier today, we released Drupal 7.61 which now supports PHP 7.2. This should make upgrades from PHP 5 easier. Drupal 7's support for PHP 7.3 is being worked on but we don't know yet when it will be available.

Also, according to http://php.net/eol.php, all PHP 5 support reached end of life on Dec. 31st 2018.

Proposed resolution

Increase the requirement for Drupal 7 to PHP 5.6 and recommend to use PHP 7 or above.

Remaining tasks

  1. Update INSTALL.TXT
  2. Update DRUPAL_MINIMUM_PHP constant
  3. Update requirements page β†’
  4. Stop automated testing on unsupported versions of PHP

User interface changes

None

API changes

None

Data model changes

None

πŸ“Œ Task
Status

Closed: duplicate

Version

7.0 ⚰️

Component
BaseΒ  β†’

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Created by

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³China skyredwang Shanghai

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