PHP NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ?? ??? 20??, PHP 5.6.0 - Core: . Improved IS_VAR operands fetching. (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%. Removed INI setting always_populate_raw_post_data and the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA global variable. (Mike) . Implemented dedicated syntax for variadic functions (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics). (Nikita) - cURL: . Implemented FR #65646 (re-enable CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION with open_basedir or safe_mode). (Adam) - 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) - Hash: . Added gost-crypto (CryptoPro S-box) GOST hash algo. (Manuel Mausz) - 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 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) - PDO_pgsql: . Fixed Bug #42614 (PDO_pgsql: add pg_get_notify support). (Matteo) . Fixed Bug #63657 (pgsqlCopyFromFile, pgsqlCopyToArray use Postgres < 7.3 syntax). (Matteo) - Session: . Fixed Bug #65315 (session.hash_function silently fallback to default md5) (Yasuo) . Implemented Request #54649 (Create session_serializer_name()). (Yasuo) . Implemented Request #17860 (Session write short circuit). (Yasuo) . Implemented Request #20421 (session_abort() and session_reset() function). (Yasuo) . Implemented Request #11100 (session_gc() function). (Yasuo) - Standard: . Implemented FR #65634 (HTTP wrapper is very slow with protocol_version 1.1). (Adam) - XMLReader: . Fixed bug #55285 (XMLReader::getAttribute/No/Ns methods inconsistency). (Mike) <<< NOTE: Insert NEWS from last stable release here prior to actual release! >>>