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?? ??? 2016, PHP 7.1.0RC2

- Filter:
  . Fixed bug #72972 (Bad filter for the flags FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE and
    FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE). (julien)

-GD:
  . Fixed bug #67325 (imagetruecolortopalette: white is duplicated in palette).
    (cmb)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #72982 (Memory leak in zend_accel_blacklist_update_regexp()
    function). (Laruence)

- SQLite3:
  . Updated to SQLite3 3.14.1. (cmb)

01 Sep 2016, PHP 7.1.0RC1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #72944 (Null pointer deref in zval_delref_p). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #72943 (assign_dim on string doesn't reset hval). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72598 (Reference is lost after array_slice()) (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #72703 (Out of bounds global memory read in BF_crypt triggered by
    password_verify). (Anatol)
  . Implement \ArgumentCountError when passing in too few arguments (Davey)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #72922 (COM called from PHP does not return out parameters).
    (Anatol)

- Dba:
  . Fixed bug #70825 (Cannot fetch multiple values with group in ini file).
    (cmb)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #66005 (imagecopy does not support 1bit transparency on truecolor
    images). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72913 (imagecopy() loses single-color transparency on palette
    images). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #68716 (possible resource leaks in _php_image_convert()). (cmb)

- iconv:
  . Fixed bug #72320 (iconv_substr returns false for empty strings). (cmb)

- Intl:
  . Fixed bug #65732 (grapheme_*() is not Unicode compliant on CR LF
    sequence). (cmb)

- JSON:
  . Implemented earlier return when json_encode fails, fixes bugs #68992
    (Stacking exceptions thrown by JsonSerializable) and #70275 (On recursion
    error, json_encode can eat up all system memory). (Jakub Zelenka)

- mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #66797 (mb_substr only takes 32-bit signed integer). (cmb)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #72949 (Typo in opcache error message). (cmb)

- PDO_DBlib:
  . Implemented stringify 'uniqueidentifier' fields.
    (Alexander Zhuravlev, Adam Baratz)

- Reflection:
  . Reverted prepending \ for class names. (Trowski)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #72940 (SID always return "name=ID", even if session
    cookie exist). (Yasuo)
  . Implemented session_gc() (Yasuo)
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/session-create-id
  . Implemented session_create_id() (Yasuo)
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/session-gc

- SimpleXML:
  . Fixed bug #72971 (SimpleXML isset/unset do not respect namespace). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #72957 (Null coalescing operator doesn't behave as expected with
    SimpleXMLElement). (Nikita)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #71711 (Soap Server Member variables reference bug). (Nikita) 
  . Fixed bug #71996 (Using references in arrays doesn't work like expected).
    (Nikita)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #72920 (Accessing a private constant using constant() creates
    an exception AND warning). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #65550 (get_browser() incorrectly parses entries with "+" sign).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #71882 (Negative ftruncate() on php://memory exhausts memory).
    (cmb)

- XML:
  . Fixed bug #72714 (_xml_startElementHandler() segmentation fault). (cmb)

18 Aug 2016, PHP 7.1.0beta3

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #72813 (Segfault with __get returned by ref). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72767 (PHP Segfaults when trying to expand an infinite operator).
    (Nikita)
  . TypeError messages for arg_info type checks will now say "must be ...
    or null" where the parameter or return type accepts null. (Andrea)
  . Fixed bug #72857 (stream_socket_recvfrom read access violation). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #72663 (Create an Unexpected Object and Don't Invoke
    __wakeup() in Deserialization). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #72681 (PHP Session Data Injection Vulnerability). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #72742 (memory allocator fails to realloc small block to large
    one). (Stas)
  . Fixed URL rewriter. It would not rewrite '//example.com/' URL
    unconditionally. URL rewrite target hosts whitelist is implemented. (Yasuo)

- Bz2:
  . Fixed bug #72837 (integer overflow in bzdecompress caused heap
    corruption). (Stas)

- Curl
  . Fixed bug #72674 (Heap overflow in curl_escape). (Stas)

- EXIF:
  . Fixed bug #72735 (Samsung picture thumb not read (zero size)). (Kalle, Remi)
  . Fixed bug #72627 (Memory Leakage In exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF). (Stas)

- FTP:
  . Fixed bug #70195 (Cannot upload file using ftp_put to FTPES with
    require_ssl_reuse). (Benedict Singer)

- mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #72711 (`mb_ereg` does not clear the `$regs` parameter on
    failure). (ju1ius)

- Mcrypt:
  . Fixed bug #72782 (Heap Overflow due to integer overflows). (Stas)

- OCI8
  . Fixed invalid handle error with Implicit Result Sets. (Chris Jones)
  . Fixed bug #72524 (Binding null values triggers ORA-24816 error). (Chris Jones)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #72762 (Infinite loop while parsing a file with opcache enabled).
    (Nikita)

- PDO:
  . Fixed bug #72788 (Invalid memory access when using persistent PDO
    connection). (Keyur)
  . Fixed bug #72791 (Memory leak in PDO persistent connection handling). (Keyur)
  . Fixed bug #60665 (call to empty() on NULL result using PDO::FETCH_LAZY
    returns false). (cmb)

- Reflection:
  . Implemented request #38992 (invoke() and invokeArgs() static method calls
    should match). (cmb).
  . Add ReflectionNamedType::getName(). This method should be used instead of
    ReflectionType::__toString()
  . Prepend \ for class names and ? for nullable types returned from
    ReflectionType::__toString(). (Trowski)

- Session:
  . Implemented RFC: Session ID without hashing. (Yasuo)
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/session-id-without-hashing

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #72888 (Segfault on clone on splFileObject). (Laruence)

- SQLite3:
  . Updated to SQLite3 3.14.0. (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #55451 (substr_compare NULL length interpreted as 0). (Lauri
    Kenttä)
  . Fixed bug #72278 (getimagesize returning FALSE on valid jpg). (cmb)

- Stream: 
  . Fixed bug #72853 (stream_set_blocking doesn't work). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72743 (Out-of-bound read in php_stream_filter_create).
    (Loianhtuan)
  . Implemented FR #27814 (Multiple small packets send for HTTP request).
    (vhuk)
  . Fixed bug #72764 (ftps:// opendir wrapper data channel encryption fails
    with IIS FTP 7.5, 8.5). (vhuk)
  . Fixed bug #72810 (Missing SKIP_ONLINE_TESTS checks). (vhuk)

- sysvshm:
  . Fixed bug #72858 (shm_attach null dereference). (Anatol)

- XML:
  . Fixed bug #72085 (SEGV on unknown address zif_xml_parse). (cmb)

- ZIP:
  . Fixed bug #68302 (impossible to compile php with zip support). (cmb)

04 Aug 2016, PHP 7.1.0beta2

- Core:
  . Implemented FR #72614 (Support "nmake test" on building extensions by
    phpize). (Yuji Uchiyama)
  . Fixed bug #72641 (phpize (on Windows) ignores PHP_PREFIX).
    (Yuji Uchiyama)
  . Fixed bug #72683 (getmxrr broken). (Anatol)

- Calendar:
  . Fixed bug #67976 (cal_days_month() fails for final month of the French
    calendar). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #71894 (AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow in
    zif_cal_from_jd). (cmb)

- CURL:
  . Fixed bug #71709 (curl_setopt segfault with empty CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER).
    (Pierrick)
  . Fixed bug #71929 (CURLINFO_CERTINFO data parsing error). (Pierrick)

- Intl:
  . Fixed bug #72639 (Segfault when instantiating class that extends
    IntlCalendar and adds a property). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72658 (Locale::lookup() / locale_lookup() hangs if no match
    found). (Anatol)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #72709 (imagesetstyle() causes OOB read for empty $styles). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72697 (select_colors write out-of-bounds). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #72730 (imagegammacorrect allows arbitrary write access). (Stas)

- mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #72691 (mb_ereg_search raises a warning if a match zero-width).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72693 (mb_ereg_search increments search position when a match
    zero-width). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72694 (mb_ereg_search_setpos does not accept a string's last
    position). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72710 (`mb_ereg` causes buffer overflow on regexp compile error).
    (ju1ius)

- Mysqlnd:
  . Fixed bug #71863 (Segfault when EXPLAIN with "Unknown column" error when
    using MariaDB). (Andrey)
  . Fixed bug #72701 (mysqli_get_host_info() wrong output). (Anatol)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #72688 (preg_match missing group names in matches). (cmb)
  . Downgraded to PCRE 8.38. (Anatol)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #72661 (ReflectionType::__toString crashes with iterable).
    (Laruence)

- SNMP:
  . Fixed bug #72708 (php_snmp_parse_oid integer overflow in memory
    allocation). (djodjo at gmail dot com)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #72646 (SplFileObject::getCsvControl does not return the escape
    character). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72684 (AppendIterator segfault with closed generator). (Pierrick)

- SQLite3:
  . Fixed bug #72668 (Spurious warning when exception is thrown in user defined
    function). (Laruence)
  . Implemented FR #72653 (SQLite should allow opening with empty filename).
    (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #61967 (unset array item in array_walk_recursive cause
    inconsistent array). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #62607 (array_walk_recursive move internal pointer). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #69068 (Exchanging array during array_walk -> memory errors).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #70713 (Use After Free Vulnerability in array_walk()/
    array_walk_recursive()). (Nikita)

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug #41021 (Problems with the ftps wrapper). (vhuk)
  . Fixed bug #54431 (opendir() does not work with ftps:// wrapper). (vhuk)
  . Fixed bug #72667 (opendir() with ftp:// attempts to open data stream for
    non-existent directories). (vhuk)
  . Fixed bug #72771 (ftps:// wrapper is vulnerable to protocol downgrade
    attack). (Stas)

- Wddx:
  . Fixed bug #72142 (WDDX Packet Injection Vulnerability in
    wddx_serialize_value()). (Taoguang Chen)
  . Fixed bug #72749 (wddx_deserialize allows illegal memory access) (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #72750 (wddx_deserialize null dereference). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #72790 (wddx_deserialize null dereference with invalid xml).
    (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #72799 (wddx_deserialize null dereference in
    php_wddx_pop_element). (Stas)

- XMLRPC:
  . Fixed bug #72647 (xmlrpc_encode() unexpected output after referencing
    array elements). (Laruence)

- Zip:
  . Fixed bug #72660 (NULL Pointer dereference in zend_virtual_cwd).
    (Laruence)

21 Jul 2016, PHP 7.1.0beta1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #72629 (Caught exception assignment to variables ignores
    references). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72594 (Calling an earlier instance of an included anonymous
    class fatals). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72581 (previous property undefined in Exception after
    deserialization). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72543 (Different references behavior comparing to PHP 5)
    (Laruence, Dmitry, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #72347 (VERIFY_RETURN type casts visible in finally). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #72216 (Return by reference with finally is not memory safe).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #72215 (Wrong return value if var modified in finally). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #71818 (Memory leak when array altered in destructor). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #71539 (Memory error on $arr[$a] =& $arr[$b] if RHS rehashes)
    (Dmitry, Nikita)
  . Added new constant PHP_FD_SETSIZE. (cmb)
  . Added optind parameter to getopt(). (as)
  . Added PHP to SAPI error severity mapping for logs. (Martin Vobruba)
  . Fixed bug #71911 (Unable to set --enable-debug on building extensions by
    phpize on Windows). (Yuji Uchiyama)
  . Fixed bug #29368 (The destructor is called when an exception is thrown from
    the constructor). (Dmitry)
  . Implemented RFC: RNG Fixes. (Leigh)
  . Implemented email validation as per RFC 6531. (Leo Feyer, Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #72513 (Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in
    virtual_file_ex). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #72573 (HTTP_PROXY is improperly trusted by some PHP libraries
    and applications). (Stas)

- bz2:
  . Fixed bug #72613 (Inadequate error handling in bzread()). (Stas)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #72569 (DOTNET/COM array parameters broke in PHP7). (Anatol)

- Curl:
  . Fixed bug #72541 (size_t overflow lead to heap corruption). (Stas)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #66836 (DateTime::createFromFormat 'U' with pre 1970 dates fails
    parsing). (derick)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #66502 (DOM document dangling reference). (Sean Heelan, cmb)

- Exif:
  . Fixed bug #72603 (Out of bound read in exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE).
    (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #72618 (NULL Pointer Dereference in exif_process_user_comment).
    (Stas)

- Filter:
  . Fixed bug #71745 (FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE does not cover whole 127.0.0.0/8
    range). (bugs dot php dot net at majkl578 dot cz)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #72575 (using --allow-to-run-as-root should ignore missing user).
    (gooh)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #72596 (imagetypes function won't advertise WEBP support). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72604 (imagearc() ignores thickness for full arcs). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70315 (500 Server Error but page is fully rendered). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #43828 (broken transparency of imagearc for truecolor in
    blendingmode). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72512 (gdImageTrueColorToPaletteBody allows arbitrary write/read
    access). (Pierre)
  . Fixed bug #72519 (imagegif/output out-of-bounds access). (Pierre)
  . Fixed bug #72558 (Integer overflow error within _gdContributionsAlloc()).
    (Pierre)
  . Fixed bug #72482 (Ilegal write/read access caused by gdImageAALine
    overflow). (Pierre)
  . Fixed bug #72494 (imagecropauto out-of-bounds access). (Pierre)

- Intl:
  . Partially fixed #72506 (idn_to_ascii for UTS #46 incorrect for long domain
    names). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72533 (locale_accept_from_http out-of-bounds access). (Stas)

- Mbstring:
  . Deprecated mb_ereg_replace() eval option. (Rouven Weßling, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #69151 (mb_ereg should reject ill-formed byte sequence).
    (Masaki Kagaya)

- MCrypt:
  . Deprecated ext/mcrypt. (Scott Arciszewski, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #72551, bug #72552 (In correct casting from size_t to int lead to
    heap overflow in mdecrypt_generic). (Stas)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #72590 (Opcache restart with kill_all_lockers does not work).
    (Keyur)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #72360 (ext/openssl build failure with OpenSSL 1.1.0).
    (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Bumped a minimal version to 1.0.1. (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Dropped support for SSL2. (Remi)

- PDO_pgsql:
  . Fixed bug #70313 (PDO statement fails to throw exception). (Matteo)
  . Fixed bug #72570 (Segmentation fault when binding parameters on a query
    without placeholders). (Matteo)
  . Implemented FR #72633 (Postgres PDO lastInsertId() should work without
    specifying a sequence). (Pablo Santiago Sánchez, Matteo)

- Pcntl
  . Implemented asynchronous signal handling without TICKS. (Dmitry)
  . Added pcntl_signal_get_handler() that returns the current signal handler
    for a particular signal. Addresses FR #72409. (David Walker)
  . Add signinfo to pcntl_signal() handler args (Bishop Bettini, David Walker)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #72222 (ReflectionClass::export doesn't handle array constants).
    (Nikita Nefedov)

- SimpleXML:
  . Fixed bug #72588 (Using global var doesn't work while accessing SimpleXML
    element). (Laruence)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #72622 (array_walk + array_replace_recursive create references
    from nothing). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72330 (CSV fields incorrectly split if escape char followed by
    UTF chars). (cmb)

- Tidy:
  . Implemented support for libtidy 5.0.0 and above. (Michael Orlitzky, Anatol)

- Wddx:
  . Fixed bug #72564 (boolean always deserialized as "true") (Remi)

- XMLRPC:
  . Fixed bug #72606 (heap-buffer-overflow (write) simplestring_addn
    simplestring.c). (Stas)

- Zip:
  . Fixed bug #72520 (Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in
    php_stream_zip_opener). (Stas)

07 Jul 2016, PHP 7.1.0alpha3

- Core:
  . Implemented RFC: Iterable. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Fixed bug #72523 (dtrace issue with reflection (failed test)). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72508 (strange references after recursive function call and
    "switch" statement). (Laruence)
  . Implemented RFC: Closure::fromCallable (Danack)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #72498 (variant_date_from_timestamp null dereference). (Anatol)

- CURL:
  . Add curl_multi_errno(), curl_share_errno() and curl_share_strerror()
	functions. (Pierrick)
  . Add support for HTTP/2 Server Push (davey)

- Date:
  . Invalid serialization data for a DateTime or DatePeriod object will now
    throw an instance of Error from __wakeup() or __set_state() instead of
    resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Timezone initialization failure from serialized data will now throw an
    instance of Error from __wakeup() or __set_state() instead of resulting in
    a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Export date_get_interface_ce() for extension use. (Jeremy Mikola)

- DBA:
  . Data modification functions (e.g.: dba_insert()) now throw an instance of
    Error instead of triggering a catchable fatal error if the key is does not
    contain exactly two elements. (Aaron Piotrowski)

- DOM:
  . Invalid schema or RelaxNG validation contexts will throw an instance of
    Error instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Attempting to register a node class that does not extend the appropriate
    base class will now throw an instance of Error instead of resulting in a
    fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Attempting to read an invalid or write to a readonly property will throw
    an instance of Error instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron
    Piotrowski)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #72404 (imagecreatefromjpeg fails on selfie). (cmb)

- IMAP:
  . An email address longer than 16385 bytes will throw an instance of Error
    instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
    
- Intl:
  . Failure to call the parent constructor in a class extending Collator
    before invoking the parent methods will throw an instance of Error
    instead of resulting in a recoverable fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Cloning a Transliterator object may will now throw an instance of Error
    instead of resulting in a fatal error if cloning the internal
    transliterator fails. (Aaron Piotrowski)

- LDAP:
  . Providing an unknown modification type to ldap_batch_modify() will now
    throw an instance of Error instead of resulting in a fatal error.
    (Aaron Piotrowski)

- Mbstring:
  . mb_ereg() and mb_eregi() will now throw an instance of ParseError if an
    invalid PHP expression is provided and the 'e' option is used. (Aaron
    Piotrowski)

- Mcrypt:
  . mcrypt_encrypt() and mcrypt_decrypt() will throw an instance of Error
    instead of resulting in a fatal error if mcrypt cannot be initialized.
    (Aaron Piotrowski)

- Mysqli:
  . Attempting to read an invalid or write to a readonly property will throw
    an instance of Error instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron
    Piotrowski)

- OpenSSL:
  . Implemented FR #61204 (Add elliptic curve support for OpenSSL).
    (Dominic Luechinger)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #72476 (Memleak in jit_stack). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72463 (mail fails with invalid argument). (Anatol)

- Readline:
  . Fixed bug #72538 (readline_redisplay crashes php). (Laruence)

- Reflection:
  . Failure to retrieve a reflection object or retrieve an object property
    will now throw an instance of Error instead of resulting in a fatal error.
    (Aaron Piotrowski)

- SQLite3:
  . Fixed bug #70628 (Clearing bindings on an SQLite3 statement doesn't work).
    (cmb)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #72531 (ps_files_cleanup_dir Buffer overflow). (Laruence)
  . Custom session handlers that do not return strings for session IDs will 
    now throw an instance of Error instead of resulting in a fatal error
    when a function is called that must generate a session ID.
    (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . An invalid setting for session.hash_function will throw an instance of
    Error instead of resulting in a fatal error when a session ID is created.
    (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Fixed bug #72562 (Use After Free in unserialize() with Unexpected Session
    Deserialization). (Stas)

- SimpleXML:
  . Creating an unnamed or duplicate attribute will throw an instance of Error
    instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)

- SNMP:
  . Fixed bug #72479 (Use After Free Vulnerability in SNMP with GC and
    unserialize()). (Stas)

- SPL:
  . Attempting to clone an SplDirectory object will throw an instance of Error
    instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Calling ArrayIterator::append() when iterating over an object will throw an
    instance of Error instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Fixed bug #55701 (GlobIterator throws LogicException). (Valentin VĂLCIU)

- Standard:
  . Implemented RFC: More precise float values. (Jakub Zelenka, Yasuo)
  . array_multisort now uses zend_sort instead zend_qsort. (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72505 (readfile() mangles files larger than 2G). (Cschneid)
  . assert() will throw a ParseError when evaluating a string given as the first
    argument if the PHP code is invalid instead of resulting in a catchable
    fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Calling forward_static_call() outside of a class scope will now throw an
    instance of Error instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug #72534 (stream_socket_get_name crashes). (Anatol)
    
- Tidy:
  . Creating a tidyNode manually will now throw an instance of Error instead of
    resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)

- WDDX:
  . A circular reference when serializing will now throw an instance of Error
    instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)

- XML-RPC:
  . A circular reference when serializing will now throw an instance of Error
    instead of resulting in a fatal error. (Aaron Piotrowski)

- Zip:
  . ZipArchive::addGlob() will throw an instance of Error instead of resulting
    in a fatal error if glob support is not available. (Aaron Piotrowski)

23 Jun 2016, PHP 7.1.0alpha2

- Core:
  . Implemented RFC: Replace "Missing argument" warning with "Too few
    arguments" exception. (Dmitry)
  . Implemented RFC: Fix inconsistent behavior of $this variable. (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #72441 (Segmentation fault: RFC list_keys). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72395 (list() regression). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72373 (TypeError after Generator function w/declared return type
    finishes). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #69489 (tempnam() should raise notice if falling back to temp dir).
    (Laruence, Anatol)
  . Fixed UTF-8 and long path support on Windows. (Anatol)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #63740 (strtotime seems to use both sunday and monday as start of
    week). (Derick)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #43475 (Thick styled lines have scrambled patterns). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #53640 (XBM images require width to be multiple of 8). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #64641 (imagefilledpolygon doesn't draw horizontal line). (cmb)

- JSON
  . Implemented FR #46600 ("_empty_" key in objects). (Jakub Zelenka)

- Mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #72405 (mb_ereg_replace - mbc_to_code (oniguruma) -
    oob read access). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #72399 (Use-After-Free in MBString (search_re)). (Laruence)

- OpenSSL:
  . Implemented FR #67304 (Added AEAD support [CCM and GCM modes] to
    openssl_encrypt and openssl_decrypt). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Implemented error storing to the global queue and cleaning up the OpenSSL
    error queue (resolves bugs #68276 and #69882). (Jakub Zelenka)

- PCRE:
  . Upgraded to PCRE 8.39. (Anatol)

- Sqlite3:
  . Implemented FR #72385 (Update SQLite bundle lib(3.13.0)). (Laruence)

- Standard:
  . Added is_iterable() function. (Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Fixed bug #72306 (Heap overflow through proc_open and $env parameter).
    (Laruence)

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug #72439 (Stream socket with remote address leads to a segmentation
    fault). (Laruence)

09 Jun 2016, PHP 7.1.0alpha1

- Core:
  . Added nullable types. (Levi, Dmitry)
  . Added DFA optimization framework based on e-SSA form. (Dmitry, Nikita)
  . Added specialized opcode handlers (e.g. ZEND_ADD_LONG_NO_OVERFLOW).
    (Dmitry)
  . Change statement and fcall extension handlers to accept frame. (Joe)
  . Implemented safe execution timeout handling, that prevents random crashes
    after "Maximum execution time exceeded" error. (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #53432 (Assignment via string index access on an empty string
    converts to array). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #62210 (Exceptions can leak temporary variables). (Dmitry, Bob)
  . Fixed bug #62814 (It is possible to stiffen child class members visibility).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #69989 (Generators don't participate in cycle GC). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #70228 (Memleak if return in finally block). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #71266 (Missing separation of properties HT in foreach etc).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #71604 (Aborted Generators continue after nested finally).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #71572 (String offset assignment from an empty string inserts
    null byte). (Francois)
  . Fixed bug #71897 (ASCII 0x7F Delete control character permitted in
    identifiers). (Andrea)
  . Fixed bug #72188 (Nested try/finally blocks losing return value). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #72213 (Finally leaks on nested exceptions). (Dmitry, Nikita)
  . Implemented the RFC `Support Class Constant Visibility`. (Sean DuBois,
    Reeze Xia, Dmitry)
  . Added void return type. (Andrea)
  . Added support for negative string offsets in string offset syntax and
    various string functions. (Francois)
  . Added a form of the list() construct where keys can be specified. (Andrea)
  . Number operators taking numeric strings now emit E_NOTICEs or E_WARNINGs
    when given malformed numeric strings. (Andrea)
  . (int), intval() where $base is 10 or unspecified, settype(), decbin(),
    decoct(), dechex(), integer operators and other conversions now always
    respect scientific notation in numeric strings. (Andrea)
  . Implemented the RFC `Catching multiple exception types`. (Bronislaw Bialek,
    Pierrick)
  . Raise a compile-time warning on octal escape sequence overflow. (Sara)
  . Added [] = as alternative construct to list() =. (Bob)
  . Implemented logging to syslog with dynamic error levels. (Jani Ollikainen)
  . Fixed bug #47517 (php-cgi.exe missing UAC manifest).
    (maxdax15801 at users noreply github com)

- Apache2handler:
  . Enable per-module logging in Apache 2.4+. (Martin Vobruba)

- CLI Server:
  . Fixed bug #71276 (Built-in webserver does not send Date header).
    (see at seos fr)

- FTP:
  . Implemented FR #55651 (Option to ignore the returned FTP PASV address).
    (abrender at elitehosts dot com)

- Intl:
  . Added IntlTimeZone::getWindowsID() and
    IntlTimeZone::getIDForWindowsID(). (Sara)
  . Fixed bug #69374 (IntlDateFormatter formatObject returns wrong utf8 value).
    (lenhatanh86 at gmail com)
  . Fixed bug #69398 (IntlDateFormatter formatObject returns wrong value when
    time style is NONE). (lenhatanh86 at gmail com)

- Hash:
  . Added SHA3 fixed mode algorithms (224, 256, 384, and 512 bit). (Sara)
  . Added SHA512/256 and SHA512/224 algorithms. (Sara)

- JSON:
  . Exported JSON parser API including json_parser_method that can be used
    for implementing custom logic when parsing JSON. (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Escaped U+2028 and U+2029 when JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE is supplied as
    json_encode options and added JSON_UNESCAPED_LINE_TERMINATORS to restore
    the previous behaviour. (Eddie Kohler)

- PDO_Firebird:
  . Fixed bug #60052 (Integer returned as a 64bit integer on X86_64). (Mariuz)

- Pgsql:
  . Implemented FR #31021 (pg_last_notice() is needed to get all notice
    messages). (Yasuo)
  . Implemented FR #48532 (Allow pg_fetch_all() to index numerically). (Yasuo)

- Reflection:
  . Fix #72209 (ReflectionProperty::getValue() doesn't fail if object doesn't match type). (Joe)

- Session:
  . Improved fix for bug #68063 (Empty session IDs do still start sessions).
    (Yasuo)
  . Fixed bug #71038 (session_start() returns TRUE on failure).
    Session save handlers must return 'string' always for successful read.
    i.e. Non-existing session read must return empty string. PHP 7.0 is made
    not to tolerate buggy return value. (Yasuo)
  . Fixed bug #71394 (session_regenerate_id() must close opened session on
    errors). (Yasuo)

- SQLite3:
  . Implemented FR #71159 (Upgraded bundled SQLite lib to 3.9.2). (Laruence)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #71100 (long2ip() doesn't accept integers in strict mode).
    (Laruence)
  . Implemented FR #55716 (Add an option to pass a custom stream context to
    get_headers()). (Ferenc)
  . Additional validation for parse_url() for login/pass components).
    (Ilia) (Julien)
  . Implemented FR #69359 (Provide a way to fetch the current environment
    variables). (Ferenc)
  . unpack() function accepts an additional optional argument $offset. (Dmitry)
  . Implemented #51879 stream context socket option tcp_nodelay (Joe)

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