> Wordpress could solve a lot of security issues by using a newer version of PHP, but they are scared of breaking legacy items. There's nothing stopping you fr

> Wordpress could solve a lot of security issues by using a newer version of PHP, but they are scared of breaking legacy items. There's nothing stopping you from running it on PHP 7.1 (and we are on our client sites). There's not a great amount that could be gained by WordPress (the project) by dropping support for the older versions; the main gains would be namespacing and closures. That said, I do think it's time to drop 5.2 support. 5.2 is down to single digit percentages: https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ https://wordpress.org/about/stats/