Increase the minimum required version of PHP and clarify other minimums #252
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This increases the minimum required version of PHP to 7.2, which is the current minimum required version to run WordPress.
WordPress does not currently differentiate between MariaDB and MySQL when it comes to checking the required version is present.
Crixu
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This increases the minimum required version of PHP from
7.0to7.2, which is what WordPress Core has required since WordPress 6.6.The version of MySQL required has also been changed from
5.5+to5.5.5+which also matches the current minimum required version.Since WordPress Core does not currently differentiate between MariaDB and MySQL when checking that the minimum required version is met, technically MariaDB 5.5.5+ is also supported. I've updated the README to also reflect this, but I'm unsure if there were other reasons within the test runner itself as to why
10.0+was used previously.