PHP fatal error on WP <5.0

I recently upgraded WP Statistics to the latest version and immediately got a “white screen of death” from a PHP fatal error.

PHP error log says the culprit was:

Call to undefined function determine_locale()
...
thrown by [...]/wp-statistics/includes/class-wp-statistics.php line 274

I note that the function determine_locale was introduced to WP core in version 5.0.0. My site is running an earlier version of WordPress.

I also note that WP Statistics is intended to work on versions 4.4 and higher per the plugin page.

Removing this plugin brought my site back online.

I like this plugin, and I would love if you would continue to support older versions of WordPress, for example by checking function_exists before calling determine_locale.

Thanks for your help! I hope you have a great day.