PHP 5.3 has been our for some time and has a number of new features that would be useful for core and contrib. PHP 5.3 adoption is on an upswing with hosts making it the default. If Drupal 8 is going to be a couple years out we could start developing in PHP 5.3 now so we are on top of technology when D8 is released.

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Yeah. PHP 5.2's support ended.

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I am cautiously +1 on this change, with the proviso that I'd like to get a sense of where the hosting market is at. I know Pair just converted all their shared hosting customers, but I don't have a sense of the rest of the hosts.

That said, PHP 5.3 is already two years old, and we're going to be living with D8 for at least 5 more into the future. All the major Linux distros and OSX now ship with PHP 5.3 as default, even RHEL. We have also proven that we can drive adoption. I think it's well worth doing, and the earlier we announce it the more time everyone has to get it together.

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Duplicate of #576508: Require PHP 5.3.

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I can see anonymous functions being mighty handy. How many places do we pass in a function callback?

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I've already seen several web hosts switch to 5.3 as default, or offer it as an option. +1 for D8.

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This came up first in google. Adding link to - http://drupal.org/requirements