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?? ??? 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Release Candidate 4

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #41577 (DOTNET is successful once per server run)
    (Aidas Kasparas)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #67693 (incorrect push to the empty array). (Tjerk)
  . Removed inconsistency regarding behaviour of array in constants at
    run-time. (Bob)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #67705 (extensive backtracking in rule regular expression).
    (CVE-2014-3538) (Remi)

- FPM:
  . Fix bug #67606 (revised fix 67541, broke mod_fastcgi BC). (David Zuelke)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #66901 (php-gd 'c_color' NULL pointer dereference).
    (CVE-2014-2497) (Remi)

- Milter:
  . Fixed bug #67715 (php-milter does not build and crashes randomly). (Mike)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #41631 (socket timeouts not honored in blocking SSL reads)
    (Daniel Lowrey).

- SPL:
  . Revert fix for bug #67064 (BC issues). (Bob)

- Zlib:
  . Fixed bug #67724 (chained zlib filters silently fail with large amounts of 
    data). (Mike)

31 Jul 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Release Candidate 3

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #67497 (eval with parse error causes segmentation fault in
    generator). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #67151 (strtr with empty array crashes). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #67407 (Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 reported as Windows 8/Server
    2012). (Christian Wenz)
  . Fixed bug #66608 (Incorrect behavior with nested "finally" blocks).
    (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Implemented FR #34407 (ucwords and Title Case). (Tjerk)

- COM:
  . Fixed missing type checks in com_event_sink (Yussuf Khalil, Stas).

- CLI server:
  . Fixed bug #66830 (Empty header causes PHP built-in web server to hang).
    (Adam)
  . Fixed bug #67594 (Unable to access to apache_request_headers() elements).
    (Tjerk)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #67530 (error_log=syslog ignored). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #67635 (php links to systemd libraries without using pkg-config).
    (pacho@gentoo.org, Remi)

- Intl:
  . Fixed bug #66921 (Wrong argument type hint for function
    intltz_from_date_time_zone). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #67052 (NumberFormatter::parse() resets LC_NUMERIC setting).
    (Stas)

- pgsql:
  . Fixed bug #67555 (Cannot build against libpq 7.3). (Adam)

- ODBC:
  . Fixed bug #60616 (odbc_fetch_into returns junk at end of multi-byte char
    fields). (Keyur Govande)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed missing type checks in OpenSSL options (Yussuf Khalil, Stas).
  . Fixed bug #67609 (TLS connections fail behind HTTP proxy). (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Fixed broken build against OpenSSL older than 0.9.8 where ECDH unavailable.
    (Lior Kaplan)
  . Fixed bug #67666 (Subject altNames doesn't support wildcard matching). (Tjerk)

- Phar:
  . Fixed bug #67587 (Redirection loop on nginx with FPM). (Christian Weiske)

- readline:
  . Fixed bug #55496 (Interactive mode doesn't force a newline before the
    prompt). (Bob, Johannes)
  . Fixed bug #67496 (Save command history when exiting interactive shell
    with control-c). (Dmitry Saprykin, Johannes)

- Reflection:
  . Implemented FR #67713 (loosen the restrictions on
    ReflectionClass::newInstanceWithoutConstructor()). (Ferenc)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #67539 (ArrayIterator use-after-free due to object change during 
    sorting). (research at insighti dot org, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #67538 (SPL Iterators use-after-free). (CVE-2014-4670) (Laruence)

- Session:
  . Fixed missing type checks in php_session_create_id (Yussuf Khalil, Stas).
  . Fixed bug #66827 (Session raises E_NOTICE when session name variable is array).
    (Yasuo)

- OPCache:
  . Fixed bug #67215 (php-cgi work with opcache, may be segmentation fault
    happen) (Dmitry, Laruence)

- phpdbg
  . Fixed bug #67575 (Compilation fails for phpdbg when the
    build directory != src directory). (Andy Thompson)

03 Jul 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Release Candidate 2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #67091 (make install fails to install libphp5.so on FreeBSD 10.0).
    (Ferenc)
  . Fixed bug #67368 (Memory leak with immediately dereferenced array in class
    constant). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #67468 (Segfault in highlight_file()/highlight_string()).
    (Andreas Ferber)
  . Fixed bug #67498 (phpinfo() Type Confusion Information Leak Vulnerability).
    (Stefan Esser)
  . Fixed bug #67551 (php://input temp file will be located in sys_temp_dir
    instead of upload_tmp_dir). (Mike)

- FPM:
  . Fix bug #67531 (syslog cannot be set in pool configuration). (Remi)
  . Fix bug #67541 (Fix Apache 2.4.10+ SetHandler proxy:fcgi://
    incompatibilities). (David Zuelke)

- Intl:
  . Fixed bug #67349 (Locale::parseLocale Double Free). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #67397 (Buffer overflow in locale_get_display_name and
    uloc_getDisplayName (libicu 4.8.1)). (Stas)

- pgsql:
  . Fix bug #67550 (Error in code "form" instead of "from", pgsql.c, line 756),
    which affected builds against libpq < 7.3. (Adam)

- phpdbg:
  . Fix Bug #67499 (readline feature not enabled when build with libedit). (Remi)
  . Fix issue krakjoe/phpdbg#94 (List behavior is inconsistent). (Bob)
  . Fix issue krakjoe/phpdbg#97 (The prompt should always ensure it is on a
    newline). (Bob)
  . Fix issue krakjoe/phpdbg#98 (break if does not seem to work). (Bob)
  . Fix issue krakjoe/phpdbg#99 (register function has the same behavior as
    run). (Bob)
  . Fix issue krakjoe/phpdbg#100 (No way to list the current stack/frames)
    (Help entry was missing). (Bob)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #67492 (unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage Type
    Confusion) (CVE-2014-3515). (Stefan Esser)

19 Jun 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Release Candidate 1

- Core:
  . Implemented FR #64744 (Differentiate between member function call on a null 
    and non-null, non-objects). (Boro Sitnikovski)
  . Fixed bug #67436 (Autoloader isn't called if two method definitions don't
    match). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #66622 (Closures do not correctly capture the late bound class
    (static::) in some cases). (Levi Morrison)
  . Fixed bug #67390 (insecure temporary file use in the configure script).
    (Remi) (CVE-2014-3981)
  . Fixed bug #67392 (dtrace breaks argument unpack). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #67428 (header('Location: foo') will override a 308-399 response
    code). (Adam)
  . Fixed bug #67433 (SIGSEGV when using count() on an object implementing
    Countable). (Matteo)
  . Fixed bug #67399 (putenv with empty variable may lead to crash). (Stas)

- CLI server:
  . Implemented FR #67429 (CLI server is missing some new HTTP response codes).
    (Adam)
  . Fixed Bug #67406 (built-in web-server segfaults on startup). (Remi)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #67410 (fileinfo: mconvert incorrect handling of truncated pascal
    string size). (Francisco Alonso, Jan Kaluza, Remi)
  . Fixed bug #67411 (fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset insufficient boundary
    check). (Francisco Alonso, Jan Kaluza, Remi)
  . Fixed bug #67412 (fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check).
    (Francisco Alonso, Jan Kaluza, Remi)
  . Fixed bug #67413 (fileinfo: cdf_read_property_info insufficient boundary
    check). (Francisco Alonso, Jan Kaluza, Remi)

- mysqlnd:
  . Added support for gb18030 from MySQL 5.7. (Andrey)

- Network:
  . Fixed bug #67432 (Fix potential segfault in dns_get_record()).
    (CVE-2014-4049). (Sara)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #65698 (certificates validity parsing does not work past 2050).
    (Paul Oehler)
  . Fixed bug #66636 (openssl_x509_parse warning with V_ASN1_GENERALIZEDTIME).
    (Paul Oehler)

- phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #67212 (phpdbg uses non-standard TIOCGWINSZ). (Ferenc)

- SOAP:
  . Implemented FR #49898 (Add SoapClient::__getCookies()). (Boro Sitnikovski)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #66127 (Segmentation fault with ArrayObject unset). (Stas)
  . Fixed request #67453 (Allow to unserialize empty data). (Remi)

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug #67430 (http:// wrapper doesn't follow 308 redirects). (Adam)

- Tokenizer:
  . Fixed bug #67395 (token_name() does not return name for T_POW and T_POW_EQUAL
    token). (Ferenc)

05 Jun 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Beta 4

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #67249 (printf out-of-bounds read). (Stas)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #67308 (Serialize of DateTime truncates fractions of second).
    (Adam)
  . Fixed regression in fix for bug #67118 (constructor can't be called twice).
    (Remi)


- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #67327 (fileinfo: CDF infinite loop in nelements DoS).
  . Fixed bug #67328 (fileinfo: fileinfo: numerous file_printf calls resulting in
    performance degradation).
  . Fixed bug #67326 (fileinfo: cdf_read_short_sector insufficient boundary check).
  . Fixed bug #67329 (fileinfo: NULL pointer deference flaw by processing certain
    CDF files).

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #67359 (Segfault in recursiveDirectoryIterator). (Laruence)

- phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug which caused phpdbg to fail immediately on startup in non-debug
    builds. (Bob)

15 May 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Beta 3

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #67169 (array_splice all elements, then []= gives wrong index).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #67198 (php://input regression). (Mike)
  . Fixed bug #67247 (spl_fixedarray_resize integer overflow). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #67250 (iptcparse out-of-bounds read). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #67252 (convert_uudecode out-of-bounds read). (Stas)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #67251 (date_parse_from_format out-of-bounds read). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #67253 (timelib_meridian_with_check out-of-bounds read). (Stas)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #67248 (imageaffinematrixget missing check of parameters). (Stas)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #67224 (Fall back to crypto_type from context if not specified
    explicitly in stream_socket_enable_crypto). (Chris Wright)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #67238 (Ungreedy and min/max quantifier bug, applied patch
    from the upstream). (Anatol)

- mbstring
  . Fixed bug #67199 (mb_regex_encoding mismatch). (Yasuo)

01 May 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Beta 2

- CLI server:
  . Fixed bug #67079 (Missing MIME types for XML/XSL files). (Anatol)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #66431 (Special Character via COM Interface (CP_UTF8)). (Anatol)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #65701 (copy() doesn't work when destination filename is created
    by tempnam()). (Boro Sitnikovski)
  . Fixed bug #66015 (Unexpected array indexing in class's static property). (Bob)
  . Added (constant) string/array dereferencing to static scalar expressions
    to complete the set; now possible thanks to bug #66015 being fixed. (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #66568 (Update reflection information for unserialize() function).
    (Ferenc)
  . Fixed bug #66660 (Composer.phar install/update fails). (Ferenc)
  . Fixed bug #67024 (getimagesize should recognize BMP files with negative
    height). (Gabor Buella)
  . Fixed bug #67064  (Countable interface prevents using 2nd parameter
    ($mode) of count() function). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #67072 (Echoing unserialized "SplFileObject" crash). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #67033 (Remove reference to Windows 95). (Anatol)

- cURL:
  . Fixed bug #64247 (CURLOPT_INFILE doesn't allow reset). (Mike)
  . Fixed bug #66562 (curl_exec returns differently than curl_multi_getcontent).
    (Freek Lijten)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #66721 (__wakeup of DateTime segfaults when invalid object data is
    supplied). (Boro Sitnikovski)
  . Fixed bug #67118 (DateTime constructor crash with invalid data). (Anatol)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #67081 (DOMDocumentType->internalSubset returns entire DOCTYPE tag,
    not only the subset). (Anatol)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #66907 (Solaris 10 is missing strcasestr and needs substitute).
    (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #66307 (Fileinfo crashes with powerpoint files). (Anatol)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #66482 (unknown entry 'priority' in php-fpm.conf).
  . Fixed bug #66908 (php-fpm reload leaks epoll_create() file descriptor).
    (Julio Pintos)
  . Fixed bug #67060 (sapi/fpm: possible privilege escalation due to insecure
    default configuration) (CVE-2014-0185). (Stas)

- GMP:
  . Fixed crashes in serialize/unserialize. (Stas)

- JSON:
  . Fixed bug #66021 (Blank line inside empty array/object when
    JSON_PRETTY_PRINT is set). (Kevin Israel)

- LDAP:
  . Fixed issue with null bytes in LDAP bindings. (Matthew Daley)

- litespeed
  . Fixed bug #63228 (-Werror=format-security error in lsapi code).
    (Elan Ruusamäe, George)

- mysqli:
  . Fixed building against an external libmysqlclient. (Adam)

- mysqlnd:
  . Added a new fetching mode to mysqlnd. (Andrey)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fix bug #66942 (memory leak in openssl_seal()). (Chuan Ma)
  . Fix bug #66952 (memory leak in openssl_open()). (Chuan Ma)
  . Fix bug #66840 (Fix broken build when extension built separately).
    (Daniel Lowrey)

- phpdbg:
  . Added watchpoints (watch command). (Bob)
  . Renamed some commands (next => continue and how to step). (Joe)
  . Fixed issue #85 (https://github.com/krakjoe/phpdbg/issues/85)
    (Added stdin/stdout/stderr constants and their php:// wrappers). (Bob)

- PDO:
  . Fixed bug #66604 ('pdo/php_pdo_error.h' not copied to the include dir).
    (Matteo)

- PDO-ODBC:
  . Fixed bug #50444 (PDO-ODBC changes for 64-bit). 

- Phar:
  . Fix bug #64498 ($phar->buildFromDirectory can't compress file with an accent
    in its name). (PR #588)

- SQLite:
  . Fixed bug #66967 (Updated bundled libsqlite to 3.8.4.3). (Anatol)

- Apache2 Handler SAPI:
  . Fixed Apache log issue caused by APR's lack of support for %zu
    (APR issue https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56120).
    (Jeff Trawick)

10 Apr 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Beta 1

- Core:
  . Allow zero length comparison in substr_compare() (Tjerk)
  . Fixed bug #60602 (proc_open() changes environment array) (Tjerk)
  . Fixed bug #61019 (Out of memory on command stream_get_contents). (Mike)
  . Fixed bug #64330 (stream_socket_server() creates wrong Abstract Namespace 
    UNIX sockets). (Mike)
  . Fixed bug #66182 (exit in stream filter produces segfault). (Mike)  
  . Fixed bug #66736 (fpassthru broken). (Mike)
  . Fixed bug #66822 (Cannot use T_POW in const expression) (Tjerk)
  . Fixed bug #67043 (substr_compare broke by previous change) (Tjerk)

- SPL:
  . Added feature #65545 (SplFileObject::fread()) (Tjerk)
  . Fixed bug #66834 (empty() does not work on classes that extend ArrayObject) (Tjerk)
  . Fixed bug #66702 (RegexIterator::INVERT_MATCH does not invert). (Joshua
    Thijssen)

- cURL:
  . Fixed bug #66109 (Can't reset CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST to default behaviour)
    (Tjerk)
  . Fix compilation on libcurl versions between 7.10.5 and 7.12.2, inclusive.
    (Adam)

- Date:
  . Added DateTimeImmutable::createFromMutable to create a DateTimeImmutable
    object from an existing DateTime (mutable) object (Derick)

- Embed:
  . Fixed bug #65715 (php5embed.lib isn't provided anymore). (Anatol).

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #66820 (out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo)
    (CVE-2014-2270). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #66946i (fileinfo: extensive backtracking in awk rule regular
    expression). (CVE-2013-7345) (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #66987 (Memory corruption in fileinfo ext / bigendian).
    (Remi)


- GD:
  . Fixed bug #66815 (imagecrop(): insufficient fix for NULL defer
    CVE-2013-7327). (Tomas Hoger, Remi).
  . Fixed #66869 (Invalid 2nd argument crashes imageaffinematrixget) (Pierre)
  . Fixed bug #66887 (imagescale - poor quality of scaled image). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #66890 (imagescale segfault). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #66893 (imagescale ignore method argument). (Remi)

- GMP:
  . Fixed bug #66872 (invalid argument crashes gmp_testbit) (Pierre)

- Hash:
  . Fixed bug #66698 (Missing FNV1a32 and FNV1a64 hash functions).
    (Michael M Slusarz).
  . Implemented timing attack safe string comparison function
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/timing_attack). (Rouven Weßling)
  . hash_pbkdf2() now works correctly if the $length argument is not specified.
    (Nikita)

- Intl:
  . Fixed bug #66873 (A reproductible crash in UConverter when given invalid
    encoding) (Stas)

- Mail:
  . Fixed bug #66535 (Don't add newline after X-PHP-Originating-Script) (Tjerk)

- Mbstring:
  . Upgraded to oniguruma 5.9.5 (Anatol)

- Mcrypt:
  . No longer allow invalid key sizes, invalid IV sizes or missing required IV
    in mcrypt_encrypt, mcrypt_decrypt and the deprecated mode functions.
    (Nikita)
  . Use /dev/urandom as the default source for mcrypt_create_iv(). (Nikita)

- MySQLi:
  . Fixed bug #66762 (Segfault in mysqli_stmt::bind_result() when link closed)
    (Remi)

- OCI8
  . Fixed Bug #66875 (Improve performance of multi-row OCI_RETURN_LOB queries)
   (Perrier, Chris Jones)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed memory leak in windows cert verification on verify failure.
    (Chris Wright)
  . Peer certificate capturing via SSL context options now functions even if
    peer verification fails. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Encrypted TLS servers now support the server name indication TLS extension
    via the new  "SNI_server_certs" SSL context option. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Fixed bug #66833 (Default disgest algo is still MD5, switch to SHA1). (Remi)

- PCRE:
  . Added support for (*MARK) backtracking verbs. (Nikita)

- PDO_firebird:
  . Fixed Bug #66071 (memory corruption in error handling) (Popa)

- PDO_pgsql:
  . Cleaned up code by increasing the requirements to libpq versions providing
    PQexecParams, PQprepare, PQescapeStringConn, PQescapeByteaConn. According
    to the release notes that means 8.0.8+ or 8.1.4+. (Matteo)
  . Deprecated PDO::PGSQL_ATTR_DISABLE_NATIVE_PREPARED_STATEMENT, an
    undocument constant effectively equivalent to PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES.
    (Matteo)
  . Added PDO::PGSQL_ATTR_DISABLE_PREPARES constant to execute the queries
    without preparing them, while still passing parameters separately from
    the command text using PQexecParams. (Matteo)

- Pgsql:
  . Read-only access to the socket stream underlying database connections is
    exposed via a new pg_socket() function to allow read/write polling when
    establishing asynchronous connections and executing queries in non-blocking
    applications. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Asynchronous connections are now possible using the PGSQL_CONNECT_ASYNC
    flag in conjunction with a new pg_connect_poll() function and connection
    polling status constants. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New pg_flush() and pg_consume_input() functions added to manually complete
    non-blocking reads/writes to underlying connection sockets. (Daniel Lowrey)

- Session
  . Remove session_gc() and session_serializer_name() wich were introduced in the first 5.6.0 alpha.

- SimpleXML:
  . Fixed bug #66084 (simplexml_load_string() mangles empty node name)
    (Anatol)

- SQLite:
  . Updated the bundled libsqlite to the version 3.8.3.1 (Anatol)

- XSL:
  . Fixed bug #53965 (<xsl:include> cannot find files with relative paths
    when loaded with "file://"). (Anatol)

27 Feb 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Alpha 3

- Core
  . Expose get_debug_info class hook as __debugInfo() magic method. (Sara)
  . Implemented unified default encoding
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/default_encoding). (Yasuo Ohgaki)

- Curl
  . Check for openssl.cafile ini directive when loading CA certs. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Remove cURL close policy related constants as these have no effect and are
    no longer used in libcurl. (Chris Wright)

- Fileinfo
  . Upgraded to libmagic-5.17 (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #66731 (file: infinite recursion). (CVE-2014-1943) (Remi)

- FPM:
  . Added clear_env configuration directive to disable clearenv() call.
  (Github PR# 598, Paul Annesley)

- GD:
  . Fixed imagettftext to load the correct character map rather than the last one.
    (Scott)
  . Fixed bug #66714 ( imageconvolution breakage). (Brad Daily)

- JSON:
  . Fixed bug #65753 (JsonSerializeable couldn't implement on module extension)
  (chobieeee@php.net)

- OPCache
  . Added function opcache_is_script_cached(). (Danack)
  . Added information about interned strings usage. (Terry, Julien, Dmitry)

- OpenSSL
  . Fallback to Windows CA cert store for peer verification if no openssl.cafile
    ini directive or "cafile" SSL context option specified in Windows.
    (Chris Wright)
  . The openssl.cafile and openssl.capath ini directives introduced in alpha2
    now have PHP_INI_PERDIR accessibility (was PHP_INI_ALL). (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New "peer_name" SSL context option replaces "CN_match" (which still works
    as before but triggers E_DEPRECATED). (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Fixed segfault when accessing non-existent context for client SNI use
    (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Fixed bug #66501 (Add EC key support to php_openssl_is_private_key).
    (Mark Zedwood)
  . Fixed Bug #47030 (add new boolean "verify_peer_name" SSL context option
    allowing clients to verify cert names separately from the cert itself).
    "verify_peer_name" is enabled by default for client streams.
    (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Fixed Bug #65538 ("cafile" SSL context option now supports stream
    wrappers). (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New openssl_get_cert_locations() function to aid CA file and peer
    verification debugging. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Encrypted stream wrappers now disable TLS compression by default.
    (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New "capture_session_meta" SSL context option allows encrypted client and
    server streams access to negotiated protocol/cipher information.
    (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New "honor_cipher_order" SSL context option allows servers to prioritize
    cipher suites of their choosing when negotiating SSL/TLS handshakes.
    (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New "single_ecdh_use" and "single_dh_use" SSL context options allow for
    improved forward secrecy in encrypted stream servers. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New "dh_param" SSL context option allows stream servers control over
    the parameters when negotiating DHE cipher suites. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New "ecdh_curve" SSL context option allowing stream servers to specify
    the curve to use when negotiating ephemeral ECDHE ciphers (defaults to
    NIST P-256). (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New "rsa_key_size" SSL context option gives stream servers control
    over the key size (in bits) used for RSA key agreements. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Crypto methods for encrypted client and server streams now use
    bitwise flags for fine-grained protocol support. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Added new tlsv1.0 stream wrapper to specify TLSv1 client/server method.
    tls wrapper now negotiates TLSv1, TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Encrypted client streams now enable SNI by default. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Encrypted streams now prioritize ephemeral key agreement and high strength
    ciphers by default. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New OPENSSL_DEFAULT_STREAM_CIPHERS constant exposes default cipher
    list. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_* constants for enhanced control over the crypto
    methods negotiated encrypted server/client sessions. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Encrypted stream servers now automatically mitigate potential DoS vector
    arising from client-initiated TLS renegotiation. New "reneg_limit",
    "reneg_window" and "reneg_limit_callback" SSL context options for custom
    renegotiation limiting control. (Daniel Lowrey)

- Pgsql:
  . pg_insert()/pg_select()/pg_update()/pg_delete() are no longer EXPERIMENTAL.
    (Yasuo)
  . Impremented FR #25854 Return value for pg_insert should be resource instead of bool.
    (Yasuo)
  . Implemented FR #41146 - Add "description" with exteneded flag pg_meta_data().
    pg_meta_data(resource $conn, string $table [, bool extended])
    It also made pg_meta_data() return "is enum" always.
    (Yasuo)

13 Feb 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Alpha 2
- Core:
  . Added T_POW (**) operator
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pow-operator). (Tjerk Meesters)

- mysqli
  . Added new function mysqli_get_links_stats() as well as new INI variable
    mysqli.rollback_on_cached_plink of type bool (Andrey)

- PCRE:
  . Upgraded to PCRE 8.34. (Anatol)

- ldap
  . Added new function ldap_modify_batch(). (Ondrej Hosek)

- OpenSSL
  . Peer certificates now verified by default in client socket operations
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/tls-peer-verification). (Daniel Lowrey)
  . New openssl.cafile and openssl.capath ini directives. (Daniel Lowrey)

23 Jan 2014, PHP 5.6.0 Alpha 1
- CLI server:
  . Added some MIME types to the CLI web server. (Chris Jones)

- Core:
  . Improved IS_VAR operands fetching. (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Improved empty string handling. Now ZE uses an interned string instead of
    allocation new empty string each time. (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Implemented internal operator overloading
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp). (Nikita)
  . Made calls from incompatible context issue an E_DEPRECATED warning instead
    of E_STRICT (phase 1 of RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incompat_ctx).
	(Gustavo)
  . Uploads equal or greater than 2GB in size are now accepted.
    (Ralf Lang, Mike)
  . Reduced POST data memory usage by 200-300%. Changed INI setting
    always_populate_raw_post_data to throw a deprecation warning when enabling
	and to accept -1 for never populating the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA global 
	variable, which will be the default in future PHP versions. (Mike)
  . Implemented dedicated syntax for variadic functions
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #50333 Improving multi-threaded scalability by using
    emalloc/efree/estrdup (Anatol, Dmitry)
  . Implemented constant scalar expressions (with support for constants)
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/const_scalar_exprs). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #65784 (Segfault with finally). (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #66509 (copy() arginfo has changed starting from 5.4). (willfitch)

- cURL:
  . Implemented FR #65646 (re-enable CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION with open_basedir
    or safe_mode). (Adam)

- FPM
  . Included apparmor support in fpm
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fpm_change_hat). (Gernot Vormayr)

- GMP:
  . Moved GMP to use object as the underlying structure and implemented various
    improvements based on this.
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp). (Nikita)
  . Added gmp_root() and gmp_rootrem() functions for calculating nth roots.
    (Nikita)

- Hash:
  . Added gost-crypto (CryptoPro S-box) GOST hash algo. (Manuel Mausz)

- JSON:
  . Fixed case part of bug #64874 ("json_decode handles whitespace and
    case-sensitivity incorrectly")

- mysqlnd:
  . Disabled flag for SP OUT variables for 5.5+ servers as they are not natively
    supported by the overlying APIs. (Andrey)

- OPcache:
  . Added an optimization of class constants and constant calls to some
    internal functions (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Added an optimization pass to convert FCALL_BY_NAME into DO_FCALL.
    (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Added an optimization pass to merged identical constants (and related
    cache_slots) in op_array->literals table. (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Added script level constant replacement optimization pass. (Dmitry)

- OpenSSL:
  . Added crypto_method option for the ssl stream context. (Martin Jansen)
  . Added certificate fingerprint support. (Tjerk Meesters)
  . Added explicit TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 stream transports. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Fixed bug #65729 (CN_match gives false positive). (Tjerk Meesters)
  . Peer name verification matches SAN DNS names for certs using
    the Subject Alternative Name x509 extension. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Fixed segfault when built against OpenSSL>=1.0.1 (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Added SPKAC support. (Jason Gerfen)

- PDO_pgsql:
  . Fixed Bug #42614 (PDO_pgsql: add pg_get_notify support). (Matteo)
  . Fixed Bug #63657 (pgsqlCopyFromFile, pgsqlCopyToArray use Postgres < 7.3
    syntax). (Matteo)

- phpdbg:
  . Included phpdbg sapi (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/phpdbg).
    (Felipe Pena, Joe Watkins and Bob Weinand)

- pgsql:
  . pg_version() returns full report which obtained by PQparameterStatus().
    (Yasuo)
  . Added pg_lo_truncate(). (Yasuo)
  . Added 64bit large object support for PostgreSQL 9.3 and later. (Yasuo)

- Session:
  . Fixed Bug #65315 (session.hash_function silently fallback to default md5)
    (Yasuo)
  . Implemented Request #17860 (Session write short circuit). (Yasuo)
  . Implemented Request #20421 (session_abort() and session_reset() function).
    (Yasuo)

- Standard:
  . Implemented FR #65634 (HTTP wrapper is very slow with protocol_version
    1.1). (Adam)
  . Implemented Change crypt() behavior w/o salt RFC. (Yasuo)
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/crypt_function_salt
  . Implemented request #49824 (Change array_fill() to allow creating empty
    array). (Nikita)

- XMLReader:
  . Fixed bug #55285 (XMLReader::getAttribute/No/Ns methods inconsistency). 
    (Mike)

- Zip:
  . update libzip to version 1.11.2.
    PHP don't use any ilibzip private symbol anymore.  (Pierre, Remi)
  . new method ZipArchive::setPassword($password). (Pierre)
  . add --with-libzip option to build with system libzip. (Remi)
  . new methods:
    ZipArchive::setExternalAttributesName($name, $opsys, $attr [, $flags])
    ZipArchive::setExternalAttributesIndex($idx, $opsys, $attr [, $flags])
    ZipArchive::getExternalAttributesName($name, &$opsys, &$attr [, $flags])
    ZipArchive::getExternalAttributesIndex($idx, &$opsys, &$attr [, $flags])

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