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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion contributing/community/releases.rst
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Expand Up @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ deprecated features, which your project no longer uses).
PHP Compatibility
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The **minimum** PHP version is decided for each major Symfony version by consensus
The **minimum** PHP version is decided for each **major** Symfony version by consensus
amongst the :doc:`core team </contributing/code/core_team>` and documented as
part of the :ref:`technical requirements for running Symfony applications
<symfony-tech-requirements>`.
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For out-of-support releases of Symfony, the latest PHP version at time of EOL is the last
supported PHP version. Newer versions of PHP may or may not function.

.. note::

By exception to the rule, bumping the minimum **minor** version of PHP is
possible for a **minor** Symfony version when this helps fix important
issues.
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Should we mention that such case would imply extending the maintenance of the previous minor version (as done for 6.0) ?

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No, I don't think this should be automatic.


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Expand Up @@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ Before creating your first Symfony application you must:
enabled by default in most PHP 7 installations): `Ctype`_, `iconv`_, `JSON`_,
`PCRE`_, `Session`_, `SimpleXML`_, and `Tokenizer`_;

* Note that all newer, released versions of PHP will be supported during the
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Let's remove this as this is a duplicate of the releases docs.

lifetime of each Symfony release (including new major versions).
For example, PHP 8.0 is supported.
* `Install Composer`_, which is used to install PHP packages.

Optionally, you can also `install Symfony CLI`_. This creates a binary called
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