Doc: update system requirements for 2.x

Fixes #21841, #21965
mantisbt · Dec 5, 2016 · b1a77d2 · b1a77d2
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diff --git a/admin/check/check_database_inc.php b/admin/check/check_database_inc.php
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@
 	$t_db_min_version = DB_MIN_VERSION_PGSQL;
 } elseif( db_is_mssql() ) {
 	$t_db_min_version = DB_MIN_VERSION_MSSQL;
+} elseif( db_is_oracle() ) {
+	$t_db_min_version = DB_MIN_VERSION_ORACLE;
 } else {
 	$t_db_min_version = 0;
 }
@@ -282,6 +284,8 @@
 	# Version support information
 	$t_versions = array(
 		# Version => EOL date
+		'9.6' => '2021-09-31',
+		'9.5' => '2021-01-31',
 		'9.4' => '2019-12-31',
 		'9.3' => '2018-09-30',
 		'9.2' => '2017-09-30',

diff --git a/admin/install.php b/admin/install.php
@@ -353,8 +353,6 @@ function print_test( $p_test_description, $p_result, $p_hard_fail = true, $p_mes
 	print_test( 'Checking PHP support for database type', db_check_database_support( $f_db_type ), true, 'database is not supported by PHP. Check that it has been compiled into your server.' );
 
 	# ADOdb library version check
-	# PostgreSQL, Oracle and MSSQL require at least 5.19. MySQL should be fine
-	# with 5.10 but to simplify we align to the requirement of the others.
 	$t_adodb_version = substr( $ADODB_vers, 1, strpos( $ADODB_vers, ' ' ) - 1 );
 	print_test( 'Checking ADOdb Library version is at least ' . DB_MIN_VERSION_ADODB,
 		version_compare( $t_adodb_version, DB_MIN_VERSION_ADODB, '>=' ),

diff --git a/core/constant_inc.php b/core/constant_inc.php
@@ -41,9 +41,10 @@
 # installation
 define( 'CONFIGURED_PASSWORD', '______' );
 define( 'DB_MIN_VERSION_ADODB', '5.20.2' );  # For mssql, oracle and pgsql
-define( 'DB_MIN_VERSION_MSSQL', '9.0.0' );
-define( 'DB_MIN_VERSION_MYSQL', '5.0.8' );   # See #16584
-define( 'DB_MIN_VERSION_PGSQL', '9.0' );     # Earliest supported version as of August 2014
+define( 'DB_MIN_VERSION_MSSQL', '11.0.0' );  # MS SQL Server 2012
+define( 'DB_MIN_VERSION_MYSQL', '5.5.35' );  # See #20431
+define( 'DB_MIN_VERSION_PGSQL', '9.2' );     # Earliest supported version as of Nov 2016
+define( 'DB_MIN_VERSION_ORACLE', '11.2' );
 
 # error types
 define( 'ERROR', E_USER_ERROR );

diff --git a/docbook/Admin_Guide/en-US/Installation.xml b/docbook/Admin_Guide/en-US/Installation.xml
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 						<itemizedlist>
 							<listitem><para><emphasis>mandatory</emphasis>:
 								the extension for the RDBMS being used (
-									mysql/mysqli,
+									mysqli,
 									pgsql,
 									oci8,
 									sqlsrv
@@ -268,30 +268,44 @@
 						<tbody>
 							<row>
 								<entry morerows='4' valign='middle'>RDBMS</entry>
-								<entry>MySQL / MariaDB</entry>
-								<entry>5.0.8</entry>
-								<entry>5.5.x or above</entry>
-								<entry>PHP extension: mysqli (recommended) or mysql</entry>
+								<entry>MySQL</entry>
+								<entry>5.5.35</entry>
+								<entry>5.6 or above</entry>
+								<entry>PHP extension: mysqli</entry>
+							</row>
+							<row>
+								<entry>MariaDB</entry>
+								<entry>5.5.35</entry>
+								<entry>10.x or above</entry>
+								<entry>PHP extension: mysqli</entry>
 							</row>
 							<row>
 								<entry>PostgreSQL</entry>
-								<entry>7.0</entry>
-								<entry>9.x</entry>
+								<entry>9.2</entry>
+								<entry>9.2 or later</entry>
 								<entry>PHP extension: pgsql</entry>
 							</row>
 							<row>
 								<entry>MS SQL Server</entry>
-								<entry>2005</entry>
-								<entry>2005 or above</entry>
+								<entry>2012</entry>
+								<entry>2012 or later</entry>
 								<entry>PHP extension: sqlsrv</entry>
 							</row>
 							<row>
 								<entry>Oracle</entry>
-								<entry>8i</entry>
 								<entry>11gR2</entry>
+								<entry>11gR2 or later</entry>
 								<entry>PHP extension: oci8</entry>
 							</row>
 
+							<row>
+								<entry>PHP</entry>
+								<entry>PHP</entry>
+								<entry>5.5.x</entry>
+								<entry>7.0 or later</entry>
+								<entry>See above for PHP extensions</entry>
+							</row>
+
 							<row>
 								<entry morerows='3' valign='middle'>Web Server</entry>
 								<entry>Apache</entry>
@@ -313,22 +327,21 @@
 							</row>
 							<row>
 								<entry>IIS</entry>
-								<entry>6.0</entry>
-								<entry>7.x</entry>
-								<entry></entry>
-							</row>
-
-							<row>
-								<entry>PHP</entry>
-								<entry>PHP</entry>
-								<entry>5.3.2</entry>
-								<entry>5.5.x or above</entry>
-								<entry>See above for PHP extensions</entry>
+								<entry>7.5</entry>
+								<entry>8.0</entry>
+								<entry>Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or later</entry>
 							</row>
 						</tbody>
 					</tgroup>
 				</informaltable>
 
+				<para>Our minimum requirements are generally based on availability
+					of support for the underlying software by their respective
+					vendors.
+					In some cases, we do require a specific version because we
+					rely on a feature that is not available in older releases.
+				</para>
+
 				<warning>
 					<para>Running MantisBT with versions of the software
 						components lower than the minimum requirements listed