WordPress News – Announcement
The popular blogging platform WordPress have announced on their official blog the end of support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 in the near future.
WordPress 3.1 which is due in late 2010 will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4 and MySQL 4.
WordPress 3.2 which is due in the first half of 2011 will require PHP 5.2 or higher, and MySQL 5.0.15 or higher.
According to them, only around 11 percent of WordPress installs are running on a PHP version below 5.2, and fewer than 6 percent of WordPress users are running MySQL 4.
Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the requirements for running WordPress. Now is one of those times. You probably guessed it from the title — we’re finally ready to announce the end of support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4!
Read the full story on WordPress Blog
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