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Subject: Re: Minimum MySQL version
From: gmblar@gmail.com (Andreas Treichel)

On 18.7.2017 21:37, Nikita Popov wrote:

> What is the minimum MySQL version we support? can I drop checks for MySQL
> 3.x and 4.x?

The "oldoldstable" Debian Wheezy from 2013 supports MySQL 5.5. The 
unsupported Debian Lenny has MySQL 5.0 since 2009. In my opinion the 
next release of PHP no longer needs to support MySQL older than version 5.0.