Issue #3272275 by eelkeblok, smustgrave, xjm, ravi.shankar, quietone, sergiogsanchez: Decide what to say very early in the installer if the site is below the absolute minimum

Issue #3261611 by xjm, andregp, ranjith_kumar_k_u, Suresh Prabhu Parkala, ravi.shankar, quietone, Gábor Hojtsy: Fix PHP requirements link and standardize the strings that reference it

This reverts commit d87707c8.

Issue #2908079 by jungle, voleger, mpdonadio, zahord, andypost, RoSk0, Mile23, claudiu.cristea, alexpott, xjm, Krzysztof Domański, naveenvalecha, piggito, Suresh Prabhu Parkala, daffie, dawehner, gumanist: Move some of the bootstrap.inc PHP-related constants to \Drupal and deprecate the old versions

Issue #3106075 by Krzysztof Domański, heddn, Gábor Hojtsy, xjm, catch, mondrake, larowlan, greg.1.anderson: Bump minimum PHP for Drupal 9 to PHP 7.3

Issue #3079791 by mikelutz, shaal, Wim Leers, hussainweb, xjm, catch, Charlie ChX Negyesi, Mixologic, Gábor Hojtsy, heddn, amateescu: Bump Drupal's minimum PHP version to 7.2 as soon as 9.0.x is branched (a higher version may be required later)

Issue #3053363 by alexpott, Wim Leers, Berdir, mondrake, xjm: Remove support for PHP 5 in Drupal 8.8

Issue #2933424 by David_Rothstein, harsha012, jhodgdon, vaplas: English-specific links to php.net shouldn't be used in non-translatable strings

Issue #2639878 by RobLoach, omega8cc, memtkmcc: Use less demanding check to see if OPcache is active

Issue #2508231 by timmillwood, amateescu, hussainweb, catch, dawehner, David_Rothstein, Mixologic, effulgentsia: Raise minimum required version of PHP to 5.5.9

Issue #2491155 by mikeburrelljr, Mac_Weber, opdavies: Update drupal.org and kernel.org URLs in core modules (Follow-up to 2489912)

Issue #2406681 by tstoeckler, hussainweb, alexpott, ParisLiakos, almaudoh, tadityar: Add an autoload.php in the repo root to control the autoloader of front controllers

Issue #2386247 by tstoeckler: install.php should pass the class loader down into install_begin_request()

Issue #2267551 followup by jfhovinne: [meta] Deal with PHP requirement vs. Debian PHP version numbering.

Issue #2267551 by jfhovinne, ParisLiakos, catch: PHP 5.4.5 needed to avoid zend failure when using autoloaded traits.

Issue #2019911 by johnmcc: Add install requirement that open_basedir() = Off since 8.x currently doesn't support it.

Issue #2038135 by RobLoach, donquixote, Crell, ParisLiakos, catch: Use the Composer autoloader to make everything simpler.

Issue #1355798 by Kjartan, xjm: Fixed Installer on PHP <5.3 results in parse error instead of warning about old php.

Issue #334024 by klausi, catch, beejeebus, sun: Use const keyword to define constants instead of define().

Nate Lampton authored Oct 30, 2011 and catch committed Nov 01, 2011

Issue #22336 by quicksketch, scor, boombatower, and rfay. Move all core Drupal files under a core subdirectory.

Nate Lampton authored Oct 30, 2011 and catch committed Nov 01, 2011

Issue #22336 by quicksketch, scor, boombatower, and rfay. Move all core Drupal files under a core subdirectory.

#722974 by chx, moshe weitzman, David_Rothstein: Fixed install script returns a blank page for PHP 5.1.