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Flesh out required and suggested extensions in composer.json based on Hosting handbook#12384

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Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65571

See https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/handbook/server-environment/#required-extensions

Notes:

  • All PHP extensions, whether highly recommended or merely suggested by the handbook, are all included in suggest.
  • The mysqli extension is moved from suggest to require.
  • The hash extension is only suggested by the Handbook page but it is actually required.
  • The image extension mentioned by the Handbook page is actually the gd extension.

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westonruter and others added 3 commits July 1, 2026 11:26
There is no PHP extension named "image"; the GD extension (ext-gd) is
what provides the image functionality referenced by the hosting
handbook. Composer would never find a satisfying "ext-image" on any
real system, so correct it to ext-gd.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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