One wonders though .. Is it just because someone finally thought: “Ugh! PHP 5.4 is pretty dang outdated, lets allow the peasants their plea … *clickety-click* et voila!” .. or is there more behind it?

cu, w0lf.

ps: Hint: CP was released as stable 1.0 release just a few weeks ago. Its minimum PHP version is 5.6. But probably just a coincidence ..