Closes #1751

ChangeLog-6.0.md

@@ -4,5 +4,9 @@ All notable changes of the PHPUnit 6.0 release series are documented in this fil
 
 ## [6.0.0] - 2017-02-03
 
+### Removed
+
+* PHPUnit is no longer supported on PHP 5.6
+
 [6.0.0]: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/compare/5.7...6.0.0
 

README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
 
 [![Latest Stable Version](https://img.shields.io/packagist/v/phpunit/phpunit.svg?style=flat-square)](https://packagist.org/packages/phpunit/phpunit)
-[![Minimum PHP Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/php-%3E%3D%205.6-8892BF.svg?style=flat-square)](https://php.net/)
+[![Minimum PHP Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/php-%3E%3D%207.0-8892BF.svg?style=flat-square)](https://php.net/)
 [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/master.svg?style=flat-square)](https://travis-ci.org/sebastianbergmann/phpunit)
 
 ## Installation

composer.json

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
         "issues": "https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues"
     },
     "require": {
-        "php": "^5.6 || ^7.0",
+        "php": "^7.0",
         "phpunit/php-file-iterator": "~1.4",
         "phpunit/php-text-template": "~1.2",
         "phpunit/php-code-coverage": "^4.0.1",
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     },
     "config": {
         "platform": {
-            "php": "5.6.0"
+            "php": "7.0.0"
         }
     },
     "suggest": {

phpunit

@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
  * file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
 
-if (version_compare('5.6.0', PHP_VERSION, '>')) {
+if (PHP_MAJOR_VERSION < 7) {
     fwrite(
         STDERR,
-        'This version of PHPUnit requires PHP 5.6; using the latest version of PHP is highly recommended.' . PHP_EOL
+        'This version of PHPUnit requires PHP 7; using the latest version of PHP is highly recommended.' . PHP_EOL
     );
 
     die(1);