Near the beginning of each development cycle, we reassess BuddyPress’s minimum required WP version. Our rough guidelines are as follows:

• If a WordPress version’s use slips below 5% of all WP installations, it’s a strong candidate for removal;
• If a WordPress version became obsolete over a year ago, it’s a candidate for removal.

We reassessed it recently as part of #9051, and we will be raising the minimum version of WordPress and PHP required as follow:

• WordPress 6.4
• PHP 7.0

As part of this update, we also streamlined our testing matrix. And we already have been testing using cache services like Redis and Memcache to identify any possible issues for users of those tools.

Recommended Requirements

As part of this update, we also reviewed our recommendations to run BuddyPress, we recommend your host supports:

• PHP version 7.4 or greater;
• MySQL version 8.0 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.5 or greater;
• HTTPS support.

^ this is not the minimum requirements, but solely our recommended ones.

#15-0-0, #9225, #wp-requirements