diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index e9da29a6eff..c7f6bd45d7a 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
   "require-dev": {
     "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "*",
     "wp-coding-standards/wpcs": "*",
+    "wimg/php-compatibility": "*",
     "simplyadmire/composer-plugins" : "@dev"
   },
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index fcff19cb928..2308b66d811 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "hash": "c0725e9be114961060a386f5c89f7761",
-    "content-hash": "baf243fe1844691347a33632c8530537",
+    "hash": "548c88751f0e940d1d7dffa55b1209a6",
+    "content-hash": "98c6ef11b19d95e7145cf4666917256b",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "composer/installers",
@@ -246,6 +246,53 @@
             ],
             "time": "2016-09-01 23:53:02"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "wimg/php-compatibility",
+            "version": "7.0.5",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility.git",
+                "reference": "695a68e82039b7034c12b13488bf15255d118944"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/wimg/PHPCompatibility/zipball/695a68e82039b7034c12b13488bf15255d118944",
+                "reference": "695a68e82039b7034c12b13488bf15255d118944",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "ext-tokenizer": "*",
+                "php": ">=5.1.2",
+                "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "~2.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "satooshi/php-coveralls": "dev-master"
+            },
+            "type": "phpcodesniffer-standard",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "PHPCompatibility\\": ""
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "LGPL-3.0"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Wim Godden",
+                    "role": "lead"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "This is a set of sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer that checks for PHP version compatibility.",
+            "homepage": "http://techblog.wimgodden.be/tag/codesniffer/",
+            "keywords": [
+                "compatibility",
+                "phpcs",
+                "standards"
+            ],
+            "time": "2016-09-08 21:42:12"
+        },
         {
             "name": "wp-coding-standards/wpcs",
             "version": "0.10.0",