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euantorano authored Dec 1, 2017
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PHP 5.2 has served us well but has not received any performance or security updates in over 6 years, supporting it actively hinders the development and modernisation of MyBB as a whole. Since then, there have been several other PHP releases made generally available and then reaching end of life status. The PHP Group maintain [a list of PHP versions which have reached end of life status](https://secure.php.net/eol.php).

In the interest of ensuring MyBB remains up to date with current best practices and to leverage the new features and optimisations generally found in new versions of PHP, we propose that the minimum PHP version requirement be increased from PHP 5.2 to either 5.6 (which has just over a year until it reaches EOL on 31st December, 2018) or 7.0 (which has around two years).
In the interest of ensuring MyBB remains up to date with current best practices and to leverage the new features and optimisations generally found in new versions of PHP, we propose that the minimum PHP version requirement be increased with the release of MyBB 1.10 - from PHP 5.2 to either 5.6 (which has just over a year until it reaches EOL on December 31, 2018) or 7.0 (which has around two years). MyBB 1.8 would continue to support the PHP versions that it currently supports, should users be unable to update the versions of software running on their servers.

MyBB 1.10 development is underway (some PRs have entered the review stage and suggestions are being taken in the [1.10 Suggestions and Feedback](https://community.mybb.com/forum-199.html) forum). We are really keen to gather as much feedback as possible and to learn from our userbase what their concerns might be when met by a change as substantial as this.

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