id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc focuses 24974 Deprecated use of assignment by reference in testcase.php jdgrimes ">As of PHP 5, the new operator returns a reference automatically, so assigning the result of new by reference results in an E_DEPRECATED message in PHP 5.3 and later, and an E_STRICT message in earlier versions. (From [http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.assignment.php#example-115 the PHP docs]) There are two instances of this in [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tests/trunk/includes/testcase.php#L132 /includes/testcase.php]. Since WordPress requires at least PHP 5.2, I assume that the unit tests do also." defect (bug) closed normal 3.7 Unit Tests normal fixed has-patch