WP STAGING 3.0.0 dropped support for PHP 5.6

This major version dropped support for php 5.6. The minimum version now is php 7.0. If you need to support php 5.6 you need to downgrade to WP STAGING 2.16.0.

See the full changelog:

3.0.0 Release July 26, 2023

• New: Drop support for php 5.6. Minimum php version is 7.0 #2579
• New: Flywheel hosting compatibility. Create staging sites and create backups on hosting providers where the WordPress core is located outside the public dir. #2372
• New: Add system info to backup log file #2309
• Enh: Check if sftp backup directory path is writeable while testing remote connection #2506
• Enh: Add a tooltip to inform that backups will be created only for the current site and do not contain other sites, like staging websites #2483
• Enh: Allow the user to click on “Copy” to copy the generated login link #2443
• Enh: Improved code to be compatible with PHPstan level 3 rules #2461
• Enh: Changed the order of login link expiry to day, min, sec #2380
• Enh: Update back button color to make clear it is an active button #2512
• Enh: Display the size of backup index parts in the list of backups #1678
• Enh: Show the “Push Changes” button always in WP STAGING PRO and disable it until the license is activated #2466
• Fix: WP CLI command wp wpstg backup-status did not work as expected #2467
• Fix: Unselect folders starting with wp-admin* and wp-includes* when creating a new staging site #2340
• Fix: Show the “primary key” warning only on WP STAGING admin page #2477
• Fix: Multisite related constants missing during network clone when the original wp-config.php is not valid defaul multisite configuration file #2504
• Fix: Restoring a backup fails because redis/memcache not configured on the destination site. This disables object cache if object-cache.php is not identical on backup and restoring site #2517
• Fix: Php error ‘Undefined constant DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’ #2512
• Fix: Microsoft IIS 7.5 with php 8.1.9 produces unexpected time format when using microtime() resulting in fatal error “division by zero” while creating a backup #2571
• Fix: www prefix is set in domain property of subsite would result into repeating www prefix during network clone #2544
• Fix: Don’t escape MySQL binary and blob data during cloning as this results into invalid data #2565
• Tweak: Small visual glitches on tooltip in upload backup modal #2496
• Dev: Improved usage of $status variable in backup and cloning #2332
• Dev: This PR does a comprehensive pass on the codebase to verify that authorization checks are being done on callbacks that takes user input. #2531