Thread:Project:Support desk/Message: MediaWiki 1.25 requires at least PHP version 5.3.3, you are using PHP 5.4.24

I'm trying to install 1.25.1 locally before to migrate my MediaWiki 1.18 to the 1.25.1 But, 1.25.1 fails to start with an internal error page; extract: "MediaWiki 1.25 internal error MediaWiki 1.25 requires at least PHP version 5.3.3, you are using PHP 5.4.24"

which is very confusing: 5.24 seems to be more recent than 5.3.3 I can't figure how to work around such a message