Officially WordPress Core currently provides “beta support” (or “beta compatibility”) for PHP 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2, as per the compatibility table in the handbook. The term “beta support” was first used in 2020 for WordPress 5.6 and PHP 8.0, though no criteria were set for determining when it could be removed. When should WordPress Core be considered compatible with a specific PHP version? Could it be compatible even with known and documented incompatible exceptions? This proposal is being set forth by a group of trusted contributors (see the props list below) who have consistently focused on the overall forward and backward compatibility of WordPress in the context of PHP as a way to outline any criteria, data, or roadmap needed to answer these questions.
