General: Increase the minimum supported version of PHP to 7.2.24.

Props justlevine, masteradhoc, samiamnot, hellofromTonya, azaozz, jrf, dd32, desrosj, jorbin

Fixes #58719

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git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@57471 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd

readme.html

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ <h2>Migrating from other systems</h2>
 
 <h2>System Requirements</h2>
 <ul>
-	<li><a href="https://secure.php.net/">PHP</a> version <strong>7.0</strong> or greater.</li>
+	<li><a href="https://secure.php.net/">PHP</a> version <strong>7.2.24</strong> or greater.</li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a> version <strong>5.5.5</strong> or greater.</li>
 </ul>
 

wp-admin/includes/misc.php

@@ -1647,8 +1647,8 @@ function wp_check_php_version() {
 
 	$response['is_lower_than_future_minimum'] = false;
 
-	// The minimum supported PHP version will be updated to 7.2. Check if the current version is lower.
-	if ( version_compare( $version, '7.2', '<' ) ) {
+	// The minimum supported PHP version will be updated to 7.4 in the future. Check if the current version is lower.
+	if ( version_compare( $version, '7.4', '<' ) ) {
 		$response['is_lower_than_future_minimum'] = true;
 
 		// Force showing of warnings.

wp-includes/compat.php

@@ -359,23 +359,6 @@ function is_countable( $value ) {
 	}
 }
 
-if ( ! function_exists( 'is_iterable' ) ) {
-	/**
-	 * Polyfill for is_iterable() function added in PHP 7.1.
-	 *
-	 * Verify that the content of a variable is an array or an object
-	 * implementing the Traversable interface.
-	 *
-	 * @since 4.9.6
-	 *
-	 * @param mixed $value The value to check.
-	 * @return bool True if `$value` is iterable, false otherwise.
-	 */
-	function is_iterable( $value ) {
-		return ( is_array( $value ) || $value instanceof Traversable );
-	}
-}
-
 if ( ! function_exists( 'array_key_first' ) ) {
 	/**
 	 * Polyfill for array_key_first() function added in PHP 7.3.
@@ -520,16 +503,6 @@ function str_ends_with( $haystack, $needle ) {
 	}
 }
 
-// IMAGETYPE_WEBP constant is only defined in PHP 7.1 or later.
-if ( ! defined( 'IMAGETYPE_WEBP' ) ) {
-	define( 'IMAGETYPE_WEBP', 18 );
-}
-
-// IMG_WEBP constant is only defined in PHP 7.0.10 or later.
-if ( ! defined( 'IMG_WEBP' ) ) {
-	define( 'IMG_WEBP', IMAGETYPE_WEBP );
-}
-
 // IMAGETYPE_AVIF constant is only defined in PHP 8.x or later.
 if ( ! defined( 'IMAGETYPE_AVIF' ) ) {
 	define( 'IMAGETYPE_AVIF', 19 );

wp-includes/version.php

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '6.6-alpha-57984';
+$wp_version = '6.6-alpha-57985';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $required_php_version
  */
-$required_php_version = '7.0.0';
+$required_php_version = '7.2.24';
 
 /**
  * Holds the required MySQL version.