MariaDB 10.3 EOL - Requirements page update

[JavierCasares]

MariaDB 10.3 is ​reaching EOL (May 2023) and documentation should be updated.

​Requirements page should be updated to:

MySQL version 5.7 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.6 or greater.

MariaDB changed its roadmap and is launching numerous versions for testing / development, and currently the only LTS versions are 10.6 and 10.11.

​Hosting Handbook has been updated with this new information.

[JavierCasares]

BTW, I just saw that 10.4 and 10.5 are also LTS

​https://mariadb.org/about/#maintenance-policy

[SergeyBiryukov]

Thanks for the ticket!

Since the ​Hosting handbook mentions MariaDB 10.4 as the minimum recommended version, I think we could do the same in core for now. That would also match what was done for 10.3 last year in [53435] and [54069].

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 55665:

Site Health: Bump the recommended MariaDB version to 10.4.

MariaDB 10.3 reaches EOL (“End of Life”) in May 2023. The recommended minimum is bumped to 10.4 for now.

References:

• ​MariaDB Maintenance policy
• ​Hosting team handbook: Server Environment: Database

Follow-up to [52420], [53435], [54069], [54076].

Props JavierCasares.
See #58158.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Keeping the ticket open for now to also update the ​Requirements page.

There is a ​new main theme on WordPress.org, so commits like ​[meta11866] would no longer work.

This appears to be the process to follow:

• ​Meta handbook: Updating content on WordPress.org
• ​WordPress.org Block Theme: Building Patterns from Page Content

[ipajen]

MariaDb 10.3 is now eol (23th may 2023) so it would be great if the ​https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ could be updated.

Matches the version number in the WordPress readme and Site Health.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58158

[chaion07]

Thanks @JavierCasares for reporting this. We reviewed this ticket during a recent bug-scrub session and based on the feedback we are updating this request from enhancement to task.

Props to @audrasjb & @mikeschroder

[chaion07]

A meta track ticket was created for this: ​https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7099

[audrasjb]

Closing this as fixed since a Meta ticket was opened for the dotorg changes.