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Repair wp/5.6 branch Actions: Swap phpunit/phpunit for a release PHP 5.6 and 7.0 can load - #84976

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Part of #82937.

What?

Adds an "Install a PHPUnit release this PHP version can load" step to the unit-php job of unit-test.yml. On the PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 legs, after the Composer dependencies are installed, it sets config.platform.php to 5.6.20 or 7.0.33 and runs composer require --dev phpunit/phpunit:<version> --with-all-dependencies in wp-env's composer container: ^5.7.21 on PHP 5.6 (resolves to 5.7.27) and ^6.5 on PHP 7.0 (6.5.14). The tests still run the PHPUnit bundled in those legs' wordpressdevelop/phpunit images.

Why?

wp-env's composer service installs the dev dependencies with its own PHP version, so vendor contains phpunit/phpunit 7.5.20 (#84975) on every leg. The test bootstrap loads vendor/autoload.php, which autoloads PHPUnit 7.5's classes, and PHP 5.6 and 7.0 can't parse them:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '{' in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/gutenberg/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Runner/Version.php on line 26

Removing phpunit/phpunit isn't possible: yoast/phpunit-polyfills, which WordPress 5.6's test library requires (#84974), requires it. composer remove fails ("Removal failed, phpunit/phpunit is still present"), and re-resolves PHPUnit to 9.6.38 on the way, which is a fatal error on PHP 5.6. So these legs swap it for the newest release their PHP supports instead. These are the same PHPUnit lines their images ship.

The changes to composer.json and composer.lock only exist inside the job.

How?

wp/5.8 and wp/5.7 make the same change (#84456, #84774). The condition is the same one the PHPUNIT variable uses to pick the image's PHPUnit.

wp/6.0 and wp/5.9 lock PHPUnit 5.7 for every leg instead, because their test libraries accept the PHPUnit 8.5 and 9.6 that the newer images ship. Here the PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0 legs need Composer's PHPUnit 7.5, so the old-PHP legs swap it in the job.

PHPUnit 5.7 requires symfony/yaml, which every 2.x–4.x release blocks on security advisories. #84975 ignores them.

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The failing checks pass at the top of this stack (#85312).

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desrosj force-pushed the fix-actions-5.6/remove-phpunit-for-old-php branch from 917995b to 94582f6 Compare October 23, 2026 14:12

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