Reinstate 7.0 support, clarify policy

We’ve discussed dropping support for 5.6 once it’s EOL on https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/issues/6705.
The same question needs to be asked for 7.0, which goes EOL in the same month. And should be generalised to future PHP versions.
Follow up to https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/pull/6718/
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Ingo Schommer 2017-03-20 12:50:10 +13:00 committed by Sam Minnée
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## Web server software requirements
* PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.1+
* PHP 5.6 support will be dropped in Dec 2018 (see [php.net: Supported Versions](http://php.net/supported-versions.php))
* PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.x
* Once PHP versions become [unsupported by the PHP Project](http://php.net/supported-versions.php)),
we drop support for those versions in the [next minor release](/contributing/release-process)
* We recommend using a PHP accelerator or opcode cache, such as [xcache](http://xcache.lighttpd.net/) or [WinCache](http://www.iis.net/download/wincacheforphp).
* Allocate at least 48MB of memory to each PHP process. (SilverStripe can be resource hungry for some intensive operations.)
* Required modules: dom, gd2, fileinfo, hash, iconv, mbstring, mysqli (or other database driver), session, simplexml, tokenizer, xml.

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#### <a name="overview-general-api"></a>General and Core API Additions / Changes
* Minimum PHP version raised to 5.6 (with support for PHP 7.1+)
* PHP 5.6 support will be dropped in Dec 2018 (see [php.net: Supported Versions](http://php.net/supported-versions.php))
* Minimum PHP version raised to 5.6 (with support for PHP 7.x)
* Once PHP versions become [unsupported by the PHP Project](http://php.net/supported-versions.php)),
we drop support for those versions in the [next minor release](/contributing/release-process
This means PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 support will become unsupported in Dec 2018.
* Minimum CMS browser requirement raised from Internet Explorer 8 to Internet Explorer 10
* Updated PHPUnit from 3.7 to 4.8 ([upgrade notes](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/wiki/Release-Announcement-for-PHPUnit-4.0.0#backwards-compatibility-issues)).
Please remove any PHPUnit related `require_once()` calls (e.g. in `FeatureContext`