Php 5.2 tls update#

Php 5.2 tls update#

That is, the percentage of WordPress 5.0 sites using PHP <= 5.6 dropped by 0.01 every day, prior to the release of WordPress 5.1.įor WordPress 5.1 (after adding the update notice), that has increased to a steady 5 basis points per day. Gary Pendergast shared a few stats about how effective WordPress 5.1’s PHP update notice has been in prodding site owners to get on newer versions of PHP:įor WordPress 5.0, sites updated their PHP version from PHP <= 5.6 to PHP 7+ at the rate of 1 basis point per day. “Collaborating with and supporting these users gives that power to everyone in the long run.” “Leaving users behind for technical reasons creates a two-folded web with only few being able to leverage its power,” WordPress Core Committer Felix Arntz said.

Steamrolling this requirement has not been the WordPress way, despite years of immense pressure from the developer community. However, WordPress contributors believe in supporting users who, for whatever reason, need more help upgrading PHP. With its influence and dominant market share, this requirement would inevitably force users to get on board. One might wonder why WordPress’ approach isn’t to just bump it all the way up to PHP 7. Nearly half of WordPress installs are on PHP 7.0+. Roughly 20% are on versions 5.5 or earlier. Today only 2% of WordPress sites remain on PHP 5.2. Sites on PHP 5.5 or earlier can still get security updates but will not be able to upgrade to the latest major WordPress version. The plan announced last December was to bump the minimum required version in early 2019 and, depending on the results, bump it again to PHP 7 in December 2019. WordPress has officially ended support for PHP 5.2 – 5.5 and bumped its minimum required PHP version to 5.6.