{"id":188976,"date":"2026-08-16T22:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/handbook\/compatibility\/version\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T22:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:34:33","slug":"version","status":"publish","type":"handbook","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/handbook\/compatibility\/version\/","title":{"rendered":"Version Compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Server<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Server<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>A server is a piece of computer hardware or software that provides functionality for other programs or devices. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.<\/span><\/span><\/span> compatibility details for each WordPress release. Each page under this one records the <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>PHP<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>PHP<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response.<\/span><\/span><\/span>, <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>MySQL<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>MySQL<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.<\/span><\/span><\/span> \/ <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>MariaDB<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>MariaDB<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. MariaDB intended to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a drop-in replacement capability with library binary parity and exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands.<\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>web server<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Server<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>A server is a piece of computer hardware or software that provides functionality for other programs or devices. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.<\/span><\/span><\/span> versions that were available and receiving security support at the time that version of WordPress shipped, together with the PHP compatibility work done in <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Core<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Core<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress.<\/span><\/span><\/span> for that release.<\/p>\n<p>For the summary matrix across every release, see <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/handbook\/compatibility\/\">WordPress Compatibility<\/a>. Announcements for each release are published under <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/category\/release-compatibility\/\">Release Compatibility<\/a> on the <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Hosting<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Hosting<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web.<\/span><\/span><\/span> Team blog.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-wporg-notice is-info-notice\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-wporg-notice__icon\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-wporg-notice__content\"><p>If you\u2019re interested in improving this handbook, check the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WordPress\/hosting-handbook\/\">Github Handbook repo<\/a>, or leave a message in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/archives\/hosting\/\">#hosting channel<\/a> of the official <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/\">WordPress Slack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"author":5911429,"featured_media":0,"parent":73123,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188976","handbook","type-handbook","status-publish","hentry","author-wordpressdotorg","make-version"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook\/188976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/handbook"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5911429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook\/188976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188979,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook\/188976\/revisions\/188979"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/handbook\/73123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}