PHP NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 25 Jun 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2 - Core: . Fixed bug #69823 (PHP 7.0.0alpha1 segmentation fault when exactly 33 extensions are loaded). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #69805 (null ptr deref and seg fault in zend_resolve_class_name). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #69802 (Reflection on Closure::__invoke borks type hint class name). (Dmitry) . Fixed bug #69761 (Serialization of anonymous classes should be prevented). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #69551 (parse_ini_file() and parse_ini_string() segmentation fault). (Christoph M. Becker) . Fixed bug #69781 (phpinfo() reports Professional Editions of Windows 7/8/8.1/10 as "Business"). (Christian Wenz) - mysqlnd: . Fixed Bug #69796 (mysqli_stmt::fetch doesn't assign null values to bound variables). (Laruence); - Curl: . Fixed bug #69831 (Segmentation fault in curl_getinfo). (im dot denisenko at yahoo dot com) - Opcache: . Removed opcache.load_comments configuration directive. Now doc comments loading costs nothing and always enabled. (Dmitry) - PDO_pgsql: . Fixed bug #69752 (PDOStatement::execute() leaks memory with DML Statements when closeCuror() is u). (Philip Hofstetter) 11 Jun 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1 - Core: . Fixed bug #69767 (Default parameter value with wrong type segfaults). (cmb, Laruence) . Fixed bug #69756 (Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency ? with ===). (Dmitry, Laruence) . Fixed bug #69758 (Item added to array not being removed by array_pop/shift ). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #68475 (Add support for $callable() sytnax with 'Class::method'). (Julien, Aaron Piotrowski) . Fixed bug #69485 (Double free on zend_list_dtor). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #69427 (Segfault on magic method __call of private method in superclass). (Laruence) . Improved __call() and __callStatic() magic method handling. Now they are called in a stackless way using ZEND_CALL_TRAMPOLINE opcode, without additional stack frame. (Laruence, Dmitry) . Optimized strings concatenation. (Dmitry, Laruence) . Fixed weird operators behavior. Division by zero now emits warning and returns +/-INF, modulo by zero and intdid() throws an exception, shifts by negative offset throw exceptions. Compile-time evaluation of division by zero is disabled. (Dmitry, Andrea, Nikita) . Fixed bug #69371 (Hash table collision leads to inaccessible array keys). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #68933 (Invalid read of size 8 in zend_std_read_property). (Laruence, arjen at react dot com) . Fixed bug #68252 (segfault in Zend/zend_hash.c in function _zend_hash_del_el). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #65598 (Closure executed via static autoload incorrectly marked as static). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #66811 (Cannot access static::class in lambda, writen outside of a class). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #69568 (call a private function in closure failed). (Nikita) . Added PHP_INT_MIN constant. (Andrea) . Added Closure::call() method. (Andrea) . Fixed bug #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 #63734 (Garbage collector can free zvals that are still referenced). (Dmitry) . 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) . Added ?? operator. (Andrea) . 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) . Removed support for hexadecimal numeric strings. (Nikita) . Removed obsolete extensions and SAPIs. See the full list in UPGRADING. (Anatol) . Added NULL byte protection to exec, system and passthru. (Yasuo) . Added error_clear_last() function. (Reeze Xia) . Fixed bug #68797 (Number 2.2250738585072012e-308 converted incorrectly). (Anatol) . Improved zend_qsort(using hybrid sorting algo) for better performance, and also renamed zend_qsort to zend_sort. (Laruence) . Added stable sorting algo zend_insert_sort. (Laruence) . Implemented the RFC `Scalar Type Decalarations v0.5`. (Anthony) . Implemented the RFC `Group Use Declarations`. (Marcio) . Implemented the RFC `Continue Output Buffering`. (Mike) . Implemented the RFC `Constructor behaviour of internal classes`. (Dan, Dmitry) . Implemented the RFC `Fix "foreach" behavior`. (Dmitry) . Implemented the RFC `Generator Delegation`. (Bob) . Implemented the RFC `Anonymous Class Support`. (Joe, Nikita, Dmitry) . Implemented the RFC `Context Sensitive Lexer`. (Marcio Almada) . Fixed bug #69511 (Off-by-one buffer overflow in php_sys_readlink). (Jan Starke, Anatol) - 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) . Added support for SEARCH WebDav method. (Mats Lindh) - Curl: . Fixed bug #68937 (Segfault in curl_multi_exec). (Laruence) . Removed support for unsafe file uploads. (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) . Removed date.timezone warning (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal). (Bob) . Added "v" DateTime format modifier to get the 3-digit version of fraction of seconds. (Mariano Iglesias) . Implemented FR #69089: Added DateTime::RFC3339_EXTENDED to output in RFC3339 Extended format which includes fraction of seconds (Mariano Iglesias) - 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) . Removed T1Lib support. (Kalle) - 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 #68945 (Unknown admin values segfault pools). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #65933 (Cannot specify config lines longer than 1024 bytes). (Chris Wright) . Implement request #67106 (Split main fpm config). (Elan Ruusamäe, Remi) - FTP: . Fixed bug #69082 (FTPS support on Windows). (Anatol) - Intl: . Removed deprecated aliases datefmt_set_timezone_id() and IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZoneID(). (Nikita) - JSON . Replace non-free JSON parser with a parser from Jsond extension, fixes #63520 (JSON extension includes a problematic license statement). (Jakub Zelenka) . Fixed bug #68938 (json_decode() decodes empty string without error). (jeremy at bat-country dot us) - LDAP . Fixed bug #47222 (Implement LDAP_OPT_DIAGNOSTIC_MESSAGE). (Andreas Heigl) - LiteSpeed: . Updated LiteSpeed SAPI code from V5.5 to V6.6. (George Wang) - libxml: . Fixed handling of big lines in error messages with libxml >= 2.9.0. (Christoph M. Becker) - Mcrypt: . Fixed possible read after end of buffer and use after free. (Dmitry) . Removed mcrypt_generic_end() alias. (Nikita) . Removed mcrypt_ecb(), mcrypt_cbc(), mcrypt_cfb(), mcrypt_ofb(). (Nikita) - Opcache: . Fixed bug #69688 (segfault with eval and opcache fast shutdown). (Laruence) . Added experimental (disabled by default) file based opcode cache. (Dmitry, Laruence, Anatol) . 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: . Added "alpn_protocols" SSL context option allowing encrypted client/server streams to negotiate alternative protocols using the ALPN TLS extension when built against OpenSSL 1.0.2 or newer. Negotiated protocol information is accessible through stream_get_meta_data() output. . Removed "CN_match" and "SNI_server_name" SSL context options. Use automatic detection or the "peer_name" option instead. (Nikita) - pcntl: . Fixed bug #60509 (pcntl_signal doesn't decrease ref-count of old handler when setting SIG_DFL). (Julien) . Added wifcontinued and wcontinued. (xilon-jul) . Added rusage support to pcntl_wait() and pcntl_waitpid(). (Anton Stepanenko, Tony) - PCRE: . Removed support for the /e (PREG_REPLACE_EVAL) modifier. (Nikita) - PDO: . Fixed bug #59450 (./configure fails with "Cannot find php_pdo_driver.h"). (maxime dot besson at smile dot fr) - PDO_mysql: . Fixed bug #68424 (Add new PDO mysql connection attr to control multi statements option). (peter dot wolanin at acquia dot com) - PDO_pgsql: . Removed PGSQL_ATTR_DISABLE_NATIVE_PREPARED_STATEMENT attribute in favor of ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES). (Nikita) - Reflection . Fixed inheritance chain of Reflector interface. (Tjerk) . Added ReflectionGenerator class. (Bob) . Added reflection support for return types and type declarations. (Sara, Matteo) - Session: . Fixed bug #67694 (Regression in session_regenerate_id()). (Tjerk) . Fixed bug #68941 (mod_files.sh is a bash-script). (bugzilla at ii.nl, Yasuo) - SOAP: . Fixed bug #68361 (Segmentation fault on SoapClient::__getTypes). (Laruence) - SPL: . Changed ArrayIterator implementation using zend_hash_iterator_... API. Allowed modification of iterated ArrayObject using the same behavior as proposed in `Fix "foreach" behavior`. Removed "Array was modified outside object and internal position is no longer valid" hack. (Dmitry) . Implemented #67886 (SplPriorityQueue/SplHeap doesn't expose extractFlags nor curruption state). (Julien) . Fixed bug #66405 (RecursiveDirectoryIterator::CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME breaks the RecursiveIterator). (Paul Garvin) - Sqlite3: . Fixed bug #68260 (SQLite3Result::fetchArray declares wrong required_num_args). (Julien) - Standard: . Fixed bug #69723 (Passing parameters by reference and array_column). (Laruence) . Fixed bug #69523 (Cookie name cannot be empty). (Christoph M. Becker) . Fixed bug #69325 (php_copy_file_ex does not pass the argument). (imbolk at gmail dot com) . Fixed bug #69299 (Regression in array_filter's $flag argument in PHP 7). (Laruence) . Removed call_user_method() and call_user_method_array() functions. (Kalle) . Fixed 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) . Fixed bug #65272 (flock() out parameter not set correctly in windows). (Daniel Lowrey) . Added preg_replace_callback_array function. (Wei Dai) . Deprecated salt option to password_hash. (Anthony) . Fixed bug #69686 (password_verify reports back error on PHP7 will null string). (Anthony) . Added Windows support for getrusage(). (Kalle) . Removed hardcoded limit on number of pipes in proc_open(). (Tony) - 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) . Removed xsl.security_prefs ini option. (Nikita) - Zlib: . Added deflate_init(), deflate_add(), inflate_init(), inflate_add() functions allowing incremental/streaming compression/decompression. (Daniel Lowrey & Bob Weinand) - Zip: . Added ZipArchive::setCompressionName and ZipArchive::setCompressionIndex methods (Remi, Cedric Delmas) . Update bundled libzip to 1.0.1 (Remi, Anatol) . Fixed bug #67161. (ZipArchive::getStream() returns NULL for certain file) (Christoph M. Becker) <<< NOTE: Insert NEWS from last stable release here prior to actual release! >>>