...C++14 is supported since gcc 5 and this one was released five years ago.
I think it is reasonable to require a compiler from 2015...

I believe Scintilla is using C++17 features, so probably more like 2016-2018 for GCC, depending on which features Scintilla uses.

Users who compile Geany themselves and use systems which are older than this, have to stick also with an older version of Geany.

Not necessarily. They can still use the latest greatest Geany, they just have to install an extra toolchain/stdlib in addition to the one that their distro ships with. It's more effort, but it's not exactly rocket science.

I would not vote for maintaining a LTS release.

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