Drupal 8 (release in a few months) requires PHP 5.5 (not 5.6 Tristan) so hosts will be forced to update in the next few months anyway although most major shared hosts are now running 5.5, one exception being BlueHost who Drupal are working with to upgrade to PHP 5.5.
5.6 is not workabale due to a lack of support in distros right now.
They don't care about people, they do care about projects saying to upgrade (GoPHP5)VSE wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:53 amI've dealt with a fair share of shared hosts, and the really big ones won't care how many people ask them to update. They are immovable forces and just won't care, and can more easily tell their users to stick with phpBB 3.1 or even 3.0.Nicofuma wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:30 pm The thing is also that shared host like GoDaddy will never update if no one force them to. (refs GoPHP5)
About the version, we currently require 5.3.9 because that's what is required by Symfony.
And Symfony 3.0 will require php 5.5 http://symfony.com/blog/symfony-3-0-the-roadmap
P.S phpBB 3.2 will require Symfony 2.8, the next LTS and phpBB 3.3/4 may require Symfony 3.2, the following LTS
P.S2 Drupal8 requires php 5.6
We kinda need to let what is being used out there influence our minimum version more so than what the developers at PHP are up to. Otherwise we will just wind up shrinking our user base and alienating a lot of phpBB users from upgrading to our latest version. Just look at TWIG which supports still PHP 5.2.xWe should make our min version req. as minimum as it can be, which I guess is currently 5.3.9.
Don't forget in theory we are announcing that we will drop support for 5.3.x in November 2016 as we will continue to support 3.1.x until then. So that's 1 and 3 months notice.
