$Id$ UPGRADE NOTES - PHP X.Y 1. Changes made to default configuration 2. Reserved words and classes 3. Changes made to engine behaviour 4. Changes made to existing functions 5. Changes made to existing methods 6. Changes made to existing classes 7. Deprecated 8. Removed 9. Extensions: a. moved out to PECL and actively maintained there b. no longer maintained c. with changed behaviour d. no longer possible to disable 10. Changes in SAPI support 11. Changes in INI directives 12. Syntax additions 13. Windows support 14. New in PHP X.Y: a. New libraries b. New extensions c. New stream wrappers d. New stream filters e. New functions f. New global constants g. New classes h. New methods i. New class constants j. New hash algorithms k. New Syntax ======================================== 1. Changes made to default configuration ======================================== - The default_charset setting now defaults to UTF-8. It was ISO-88590-1 before, so if you were relying on the default, you will need to add: default_charset = iso-8859-1 to your php.ini to preserve pre-PHPX.Y behavior. - We now check at compile time if /dev/urandom or /dev/arandom are present to provide non-blocking entropy to session id generation. If either is present, session.entropy_file now defaults to that file and session.entropy_length defaults to 32. If you do not want extra entropy for your session ids for some reason, add: session.entropy_file= session.entropy_length=0 to your php.ini to preserve pre-PHPX.Y behavior. - Deprecated ini directives will now throw an E_CORE_WARNING's instead of the previous E_WARNING's. The following directives are marked as deprecated: - magic_quotes_gpc - magic_quotes_runtime - magic_quotes_sybase - The following directives, which indicates a removed feature in PHP will now throw an E_CORE_ERROR upon startup like the deprecation warnings. The following directives are no longer available: - allow_call_time_pass_reference - define_syslog_variables - highlight.bg - register_globals - register_long_arrays - safe_mode - safe_mode_gid - safe_mode_include_dir - safe_mode_exec_dir - safe_mode_allowed_env_vars - safe_mode_protected_env_vars - zend.ze1_compatibility_mode ============================= 2. Reserved words and classes ============================= - ============================= 3. Changes made to engine behaviour ============================= - Turning null, false or empty string into an object by adding a property will now emit a warning instead of an E_STRICT error. $test = null; $test->baz = 1; To create a generic object you can use StdClass: $test = new StdClass; $test->baz = 1; - It's now possible to enforce the class' __construct arguments in an abstract constructor in the base class. abstract class Base { abstract public function __construct(); } class Foo extends Base { public function __construct($bar) {} } Now emits a Fatal error due the incompatible declaration. - In previous versions, names of superglobals could be used for parameter names, thereby shadowing the corresponding superglobal. This now causes a fatal error such as "Cannot re-assign auto-global variable GLOBALS". ===================================== 4. Changes made to existing functions ===================================== - array_combine now returns array() instead of FALSE when two empty arrays are provided as parameters. - Added an extra parameter to dns_get_record(), which allows requesting DNS records by numeric type and makes the result include only the raw data of the response. - call_user_func_array no longer allows call-time pass by reference. - htmlentities/htmlspecialchars are stricter in the code units they accept for the asian encodings. For Big5-HKSCS, the octets 0x80 and 0xFF are rejected. For GB2312/EUC-CN, the octets 0x8E, 0x8F, 0xA0 and 0xFF are rejected. For SJIS, the octets 0x80, 0xA0, 0xFD, 0xFE and 0xFF are rejected, except maybe after a valid starting byte. For EUC-JP, the octets 0xA0 and 0xFF are rejected. - htmlentities now emits an E_STRICT warning when used with asian characters, as in that case htmlentities has (and already had before this version) the same functionality as htmlspecialchars. - htmlentities no longer numerically encodes high characters for single-byte encodings (except when there's actually a corresponding named entity). This behavior was not documented and was inconsistent with that for "UTF-8". - html_entity_decode/htmlspecialchars_decode behave more consistently, now decoding entities in malformed strings such as "&&" or "&#&". - htmlentities/htmlspecialchars/html_entity_decode/htmlspecialchars_decode: Added the flags ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML, and ENT_HTML5. The behavior of these functions including, but not limited to, the characters that are encoded and the entities that are decoded depend on the document type that is specified by those flags. - htmlentities/htmlspecialchars with !$double_encode do more strict checks on the validity of the entities. Numerical entities are checked for a valid range (0 to 0x10FFFF); if the flag ENT_DISALLOWED is given, the validity of such numerical entity in the target document type is also checked. Named entities are checked for necessary existence in the target document type instead of only checking whether they were constituted by alphanumeric characters. - The flag ENT_DISALLOWED was added. In addition to the behavior described in the item before, it also makes htmlentities/htmlspecialchars substitute characters that appear literally in the argument string and which are not allowed in the target document type with U+FFFD (UTF-8) or �. - The flag ENT_SUBSTITUTE was added. This flag makes invalid multibyte sequences be replaced by U+FFFD (UTF-8) or &#FFFD; by htmlspecialchars and htmlentities. It is an alternative to the default behavior, which just returns an empty string and to ENT_IGNORE, which is a security risk. The behavior follows the recommendations of Unicode Technical Report #36. - htmlspecialchars_decode/html_entity_decode now decode ' if the document type is ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML, or ENT_HTML5. - Charset detection with $charset == '' no longer turns to mbstring's internal encoding defined through mb_internal_encoding(). Only the encoding defined through the ini setting mbstring.internal_encoding is considered. - number_format() no longer truncates multibyte decimal points and thousand separators to the first byte. - The third parameter ($matches) to preg_match_all() is now optional. If omitted, the function will simply return the number of times the pattern was matched in the subject and will have no other side effects. - The second argument of scandir() now accepts SCANDIR_SORT_NONE (2) as a possible value. This value results in scandir() performing no sorting: on local filesystems, this allows files to be returned in native filesystem order. - stream_select() now preserves the keys of the passed array, be they numeric or strings. This breaks code that iterated the resulting stream array using a numeric index, but makes easier to identify which of the passed streams are present in the result. - stream_set_write_buffer() no longer disables the read buffer of a plain stream when 0 is given as the second argument. - stream_set_write_buffer() no longer changes the chunk size in socket streams. - fclose() closes streams with resource refcount > 1; it doesn't merely decrement the resource refcount. - socket_set_options() and socket_get_options() now support multicast options. - Arrays cast from SimpleXMLElement now always contain all nodes instead of just the first matching node. - All SimpleXMLElement children are now always printed when using var_dump(), var_export(), and print_r(). - The raw data parameter in openssl_encrypt()/openssl_decrypt() is now an options integer rather than a boolean. A value of true produces the same behaviour. - Write operations within XSLT (for example with the extension sax:output) are disabled by default. You can define what is forbidden with the method XsltProcess::setSecurityPrefs($options) =================================== 5. Changes made to existing methods =================================== - =================================== 6. Changes made to existing classes =================================== - Classes that implement stream wrappers can define a method called stream_truncate that will respond to truncation, e.g. through ftruncate. Strictly speaking, this is an addition to the user-space stream wrapper template, not a change to an actual class. - Constructors of userspace subclasses of the following SPL classes are now required to call the parent constructor and not clear any exceptions they throw (replacing the thrown exception by another one is permitted): SplFileInfo, DirectoryIterator, FilesystemIterator, GlobIterator, SplFileObject, SplTempFileObject, RecursiveDirectoryIterator, IteratorIterator, FilterIterator, RecursiveFilterIterator, ParentIterator, LimitIterator, CachingIterator, RecursiveCachingIterator, NoRewindIterator, AppendIterator, InfiniteIterator, RegexIterator, RecursiveRegexIterator, and RecursiveTreeIterator. It is no longer possible to defer the parent constructor call until after the object is constructed. ============= 7. Deprecated ============= ========== 8. Removed ========== a. removed features - magic quotes . remove magic_quotes_gpc, magic_quotes_runtime, magic_quotes_sybase (calling ini_set('magic_....') returns 0|false . get_magic_quotes_gpc, get_magic_quotes_runtime are kept but always return false . set_magic_quotes_runtime raises an E_CORE_ERROR - register_globals - register_long_arrays - Safe mode - Session extension bug compatibility mode - y2k_compliance mode b. removed ini directives - define_syslog_variables - register_globals - register_long_arrays - safe_mode - safe_mode_gid - safe_mode_include_dir - safe_mode_exec_dir - safe_mode_allowed_env_vars - safe_mode_protected_env_vars - session.bug_compat42 - session.bug_compat_warn - y2k_compliance c. removed functions - define_syslog_variables() - import_request_variables() - session_is_registered() - session_register() - session_unregister() - mysqli_bind_param() (alias of mysqli_stmt_bind_param()) - mysqli_bind_result() (alias of mysqli_stmt_bind_result()) - mysqli_client_encoding() (alias of mysqli_character_set_name()) - mysqli_fetch() (alias of mysqli_stmt_fetch()) - mysqli_param_count() (alias of mysqli_stmt_param_count()) - mysqli_get_metadata() (alias of mysqli_stmt_result_metadata()) - mysqli_send_long_data() (alias of mysqli_stmt_send_long_data()) - mysqli::client_encoding() (alias of mysqli::character_set_name) - mysqli_stmt::stmt() (never worked/always throws, undocumented) d. removed syntax - break $var; - continue $var; ============= 9. Extensions ============= a. moved out to PECL and actively maintained there - b. no longer maintained - ext/sqlite c. with changed behaviour - The MySQL extensions (ext/mysql, mysqli and PDO_mysql) use mysqlnd as defalt library now. It is still possible to use libmysql by specifying a path to the configure options. - The session extension now can hook into the file upload feature in order to provide upload progress information through session variables. - SNMP extension - Functions in SNMP extension now returns FALSE on every error condition including SNMP-related (no such instance, end of MIB, etc). Thus, in patricular, breaks previous behaviour of get/walk functions returning an empty string on SNMP-related errors. - Multi OID get/getnext/set queries are now supported. - New constants added for use in snmp_set_oid_output_format() function. - Function snmp_set_valueretrieval() changed it's behaviour: SNMP_VALUE_OBJECT can be combined with one of SNMP_VALUE_PLAIN or SNMP_VALUE_LIBRARY resulting OID value changes. When no SNMP_VALUE_PLAIN or SNMP_VALUE_LIBRARY is supplied with SNMP_VALUE_OBJECT, SNMP_VALUE_LIBRARY is used. Prior to 5.4.0 when no SNMP_VALUE_PLAIN or SNMP_VALUE_LIBRARY was supplied with SNMP_VALUE_OBJECT, SNMP_VALUE_PLAIN was used. - Added feature-rich OO API (SNMP class) - Dropped UCD-SNMP compatibility code. Consider upgrading to net-snmp v5.3+. Net-SNMP v5.4+ is required for Windows version. - In sake of adding support for IPv6 DNS name resolution of remote SNMP agent (peer) is done by extension now, not by Net-SNMP library anymore. d. no longer possible to disable - ========================== 10. Changes in SAPI support ========================== - The REQUEST_TIME value inside server now returns a floating point number indicating the time with microsecond precision. All SAPIs providing this value should be returning float and not time_t. ============================= 11. Changes in INI directives ============================= - Added session.upload_progress.enabled, session.upload_progress.cleanup, session.upload_progress.prefix, session.upload_progress.name, session.upload_progress.freq, session.upload_progress.min_freq. - Added zend.multibyte directive as a replacement of PHP compile time configuration option --enable-zend-multibyte. Now ZE always contains code for multibyte support, but may enable or disable it by zend.multibyte. It doesn't make a lot of sense to enable this option without ext/mbstring, because the most functionality is implemented by mbstrings callbacks. - Added enable_post_data_reading, which is enabled by default. When it's disabled, the POST data is not read (and processed); the behavior is similar to that of other request methods with body, like PUT. This allows reading the raw POST data in multipart requests and read/process the POST data in a stream fashion (through php://input), without having it copied in memory two/ three times. - Changed E_ALL to include E_STRICT. Recommended production value changed to E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT. ==================== 12. Syntax additions ==================== - Array dereferencing. e.g. foo()[0] $foo->bar()[0] - Callable typehint, argument must be callable (i.e. pass is_callable($arg, false)) example: function foo(callable $do) { } foo("strcmp"); foo(function() {}); $o = new ArrayObject(); foo(array($o, "count")); =================== 13. Windows support =================== - is_link now works properly for symbolic links on Windows Vista or later. Earlier systems do not support symbolic links. =================== 14. New in PHP X.Y: =================== a. New libraries - b. New extensions - c. New stream wrappers - d. New stream filters - e. New functions - Core: - get_declared_traits() - hex2bin() - http_response_code() - stream_set_chunk_size() - socket_import_stream() - trait_exists() - LDAP: - ldap_control_paged_results() - ldap_control_paged_results_response() - libxml - libxml_set_external_entity_loader() f. New global constants - JSON_PRETTY_PRINT - JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES - ENT_SUBSTITUTE - ENT_ALLOWED - ENT_HTML401 - ENT_XML1 - ENT_XHTML - ENT_HTML5 - SCANDIR_SORT_ASCENDING - SCANDIR_SORT_DESCENDING - SCANDIR_SORT_NONE - MCAST_JOIN_GROUP - MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP - MCAST_BLOCK_SOURCE - MCAST_UNBLOCK_SOURCE - MCAST_JOIN_SOURCE_GROUP - MCAST_LEAVE_SOURCE_GROUP - IP_MULTICAST_IF - IP_MULTICAST_TTL - IP_MULTICAST_LOOP - IPV6_MULTICAST_IF - IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS - IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP - IPPROTO_IP - IPPROTO_IPV6 - OPENSSL_RAW_DATA - OPENSSL_ZERO_PADDING g. New classes - Reflection: - ReflectionZendExtension - Intl: - Transliterator - SNMP: - SNMP - SPL: - CallbackFilterIterator - RecursiveCallbackFilterIterator h. New methods - DirectoryIterator - DirectoryIterator::getExtension() - Reflection: - ReflectionClass::isCloneable() - ReflectionClass::getTraits() - ReflectionClass::getTraitNames() - ReflectionClass::getTraitAliases() - ReflectionParameter::canBePassedByValue() - ReflectionParameter::isCallable() - RegexIterator - RegexIterator::getRegex() - PDO_dblib - PDO::newRowset() - SplFileInfo - SplFileInfo::getExtension() - SplFileObject - SplFileObject::fputcsv() i. New class constants - j. New Hash algorithms - fnv132 - fnv164 - joaat k. New Syntax - Short array syntax in 5.4.0 $a = [1, 2, 3, 4]; $a = ['one' => 1, 'two' => 2, 'three' => 3, 'four' => 4]; $a = ['one' => 1, 2, 'three' => 3, 4]; - Binary number format 0b00100 0b010101