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Consider increasing minimum supported WordPress version
WordPress bumped the minimum supported version to 4.1. WP-CLI's minimum supported WP version is 3.7. Should we consider increasing our minimum supported version?
Originally https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4T41/p1669205224451499
Done is:
- We've made a decision on our minimum supported WP version policy.
- The policy is documented to the website in the appropriate forum.
- We've announced the policy in a make/cli blog post.
@schlessera For https://github.com/wp-cli/core-command/actions/runs/3758881768/jobs/6387768124 (from https://github.com/wp-cli/core-command/pull/222), I think the problem is that WordPress 3.7.9 is no longer getting a download offer.
I kinda don't want to futz with these really old tests. What do you think about increasing the minimum supported WP version to 4.1, and then taking the next WP-CLI release as 3.0? Folks can always download 2.x if they need to upgrade old WP sites, and we could potentially offer some form of LTS for the 2.x series.
In conversation with @schlessera, we're going to hold off on formally bumping the minimum supported WP version until core bumps its minimum PHP version (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57345) and we can address that too.
https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/blob/26340383741b7e8764f10c7d40cde5a9b4a4d61f/php/WP_CLI/Runner.php#L984-L992