php-src/NEWS

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?? ??? 20??, PHP 7.0.0

- CLI server:
  . Refactor MIME type handling to use a hash table instead of linear search.
    (Adam)
  . Update the MIME type list from the one shipped by Apache HTTPD. (Adam)

- Core:
  . Fixed #68868 (Segfault in clean_non_persistent_constants() in SugarCRM 
    6.5.20). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #68104 (Segfault while pre-evaluating a disabled function).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #68252 (segfault in Zend/zend_hash.c in function
    _zend_hash_del_el). (Laruence)
  . Added PHP_INT_MIN constant. (Andrea)
  . Added Closure::call() method. (Andrea)
  . Implemented FR #38409 (parse_ini_file() looses the type of booleans). (Tjerk)
  . Fixed #67959 (Segfault when calling phpversion('spl')). (Florian)
  . Implemented the RFC `Catchable "Call to a member function bar() on a
    non-object"`. (Timm)
  . Added options parameter for unserialize allowing to specify acceptable
    classes (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #68185 ("Inconsistent insteadof definition."- incorrectly triggered). (Julien)
  . Fixed bug #65419 (Inside trait, self::class != __CLASS__). (Julien)
  . Fixed bug #65576 (Constructor from trait conflicts with inherited
    constructor). (dunglas at gmail dot com)
  . Removed ZEND_ACC_FINAL_CLASS, promoting ZEND_ACC_FINAL as final class 
    modifier. (Guilherme Blanco)
  . is_long() & is_integer() is now an alias of is_int(). (Kalle)
  . Implemented FR #55467 (phpinfo: PHP Variables with $ and single quotes). (Kalle)
  . Fixed bug #55415 (php_info produces invalid anchor names). (Kalle, Johannes)
  . Added ?? operator. (Andrea)
  . Added \u{xxxxx} Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax. (Andrea)
  . Fixed oversight where define() did not support arrays yet const syntax did. (Andrea, Dmitry)
  . Use "integer" and "float" instead of "long" and "double" in ZPP, type hint and conversion error messages. (Andrea)
  . Implemented FR #55428 (E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR when output buffering in output buffering handler). (Kalle)
  . Removed scoped calls of non-static methods from an incompatible $this
    context. (Nikita)
  . Removed support for #-style comments in ini files. (Nikita)
  . Removed support for assigning the result of new by reference. (Nikita)
  . Invalid octal literals in source code now produce compile errors, fixes PHPSadness #31. (Andrea)
  . Removed dl() function on fpm-fcgi. (Nikita)

- Date:
  . Fixed day_of_week function as it could sometimes return negative values
    internally. (Derick)
  . Removed $is_dst parameter from mktime() and gmmktime(). (Nikita)

- DBA:
  . Fixed bug #62490 (dba_delete returns true on missing item (inifile)). (Mike)
  . Fixed bug #68711 (useless comparisons). (bugreports at internot dot info)

- DOM:
  . Made DOMNode::textContent writeable. (Tjerk)

- GD:
  . Made fontFetch's path parser thread-safe. (Sara)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #66242 (libmagic: don't assume char is signed). (ArdB)

- Filter:
  . New FILTER_VALIDATE_DOMAIN and better RFC conformance for FILTER_VALIDATE_URL. (Kevin Dunglas)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #65933 (Cannot specify config lines longer than 1024 bytes). (Chris Wright)
  . Implement request #67106 (Split main fpm config). (Elan Ruusamäe, Remi)

- LiteSpeed:
  . Updated LiteSpeed SAPI code from V5.5 to V6.6. (George Wang)

- Mcrypt:
  . Fixed possible read after end of buffer and use after free. (Dmitry)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug with try blocks being removed when extended_info opcode
    generation is turned on. (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #68644 (strlen incorrect : mbstring + func_overload=2 +UTF-8
    + Opcache). (Laruence)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fix bug #61285, #68329, #68046, #41631: encrypted streams don't observe
    socket timeouts (Brad Broerman)

- pcntl:
  . Fixed bug #60509 (pcntl_signal doesn't decrease ref-count of old handler
    when setting SIG_DFL). (Julien)

- PCRE:
  . Removed support for the /e (PREG_REPLACE_EVAL) modifier. (Nikita)

- PDO_mysql:
  . Fixed bug #68424 (Add new PDO mysql connection attr to control multi
    statements option). (peter dot wolanin at acquia dot com)

- Reflection
  . Fixed inheritance chain of Reflector interface. (Tjerk)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #67694 (Regression in session_regenerate_id()). (Tjerk)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #68361 (Segmentation fault on SoapClient::__getTypes).
    (Laruence)

- SPL:
  . Implemented #67886 (SplPriorityQueue/SplHeap doesn't expose extractFlags
    nor curruption state). (Julien)
  . Fixed bug #66405 (RecursiveDirectoryIterator::CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME
    breaks the RecursiveIterator). (Paul Garvin)
  . Fixed bug #68479 (Added escape parameter to SplFileObject::fputcsv). (Salathe)

- Sqlite3:
  . Fix bug #68260 (SQLite3Result::fetchArray declares wrong 
    required_num_args). (Julien)

- Standard:
  . Removed call_user_method() and call_user_method_array() functions. (Kalle)
  . Fix user session handlers (See rfc:session.user.return-value). (Sara)
  . Added intdiv() function. (Andrea)
  . Improved precision of log() function for base 2 and 10. (Marc Bennewitz)
  . Remove string category support in setlocale(). (Nikita)
  . Remove set_magic_quotes_runtime() and its alias magic_quotes_runtime().
    (Nikita)

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug #68532 (convert.base64-encode omits padding bytes).
    (blaesius at krumedia dot de)
  . Removed set_socket_blocking() in favor of its alias stream_set_blocking().
    (Nikita)

- XSL:
  . Fixed bug #64776 (The XSLT extension is not thread safe). (Mike)

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