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 ?? Jul 2004, PHP 5.0.0
-- Changed doc comments to not require NEWLINE after '/**'. (Marcus)
+- Changed doc comments to require a single white space after '/**'. (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #28702 (SOAP does not parse WSDL service address correctly). (Dmitry)
 - Fixed bug #28699 (Reflection api bugs). (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #28694 (ReflectionExtension::getFunctions() crashes PHP). (Marcus)