PHP NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ?? ??? ????, PHP 7.4.0beta2 25 Jul 2019, PHP 7.4.0beta1 - Core: . Fixed bug #78212 (Segfault in built-in webserver). (cmb) . Fixed bug #60677 (CGI doesn't properly validate shebang line contains #!). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #78066 (PHP eats the first byte of a program that comes from process substitution). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #52752 (Crash when lexing). (Nikita) . Implemented RFC: Deprecate curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string offsets. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_curly_braces_array_access (Andrey Gromov) . Implemented RFC: Deprecations for PHP 7.4. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_4 (Kalle, Nikita) - GD: . Fixed bug #78314 (missing freetype support/functions with external gd). (Remi) - Libxml: . Fixed bug #78279 (libxml_disable_entity_loader settings is shared between requests (cgi-fcgi)). (Nikita) - LiteSpeed: . Updated to LiteSpeed SAPI V7.5 (Fixed clean shutdown). (George Wang) - Opcache: . Fixed bug #78271 (Invalid result of if-else). (Nikita) . Added new INI directive opcache.cache_id (Windows only). (cmb) - Recode: . Unbundled the recode extension. (cmb) - Standard: . Fixed bug #78282 (atime and mtime mismatch). (cmb) . Fixed bug #73535 (php_sockop_write() returns 0 on error, can be used to trigger Denial of Service). (Nikita) 11 Jul 2019, PHP 7.4.0alpha3 - Core: . Fixed bug #78239 (Deprecation notice during string conversion converted to exception hangs). (Nikita) . Implemented FR #77230 (Support custom CFLAGS and LDFLAGS from environment). (cmb) - Date: . Updated timelib to 2018.02. (Derick) - Fileinfo: . Fixed bug #78183 (finfo_file shows wrong mime-type for .tga file). (Anatol) - LiteSpeed: . Updated to LiteSpeed SAPI V7.4.3 (increased response header count limit from 100 to 1000, added crash handler to cleanly shutdown PHP request, added CloudLinux mod_lsapi mode). (George Wang) . Fixed bug #76058 (After "POST data can't be buffered", using php://input makes huge tmp files). (George Wang) - Openssl: . Fixed bug #78231 (Segmentation fault upon stream_socket_accept of exported socket-to-stream). (Nikita) - Opcache: . Fixed #78202 (Opcache stats for cache hits are capped at 32bit NUM). (cmb) - mysqlnd: . Fixed #60594 (mysqlnd exposes 160 lines of stats in phpinfo). (PeeHaa) - PDO: . Implemented FR #78033 (PDO - support username & password specified in DSN). (sjon) - PDO_Sqlite: . Fixed #78192 (SegFault when reuse statement after schema has changed). (Vincent Quatrevieux) - Reflection: . Fixed bug #78263 (\ReflectionReference::fromArrayElement() returns null while item is a reference). (Nikita) - Standard: . Implemented FR #78177 (Make proc_open accept command array). (Nikita) . Fixed #78208 (password_needs_rehash() with an unknown algo should always return true). (Sara) . Fixed #78241 (touch() does not handle dates after 2038 in PHP 64-bit). (cmb) . Implemented RFC where password_hash() has argon2i(d) implementations from ext/sodium when PHP is built without libargon: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/sodium.argon.hash (Sara) 27 Jun 2019, PHP 7.4.0alpha2 - Core: . Fixed bug #78151 (Segfault caused by indirect expressions in PHP 7.4a1). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #78154 (SEND_VAR_NO_REF does not always send reference). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #78182 (Segmentation fault during by-reference property assignment). (Nikita) - Date: . Fixed #69044 (discrepency between time and microtime). (krakjoe) - GD: . Added TGA read support. (cmb) - MySQLi: . Fixed bug #67348 (Reading $dbc->stat modifies $dbc->affected_rows). (Derick) - Opcache: . Fixed bug #78106 (Path resolution fails if opcache disabled during request). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #78175 (Preloading segfaults at preload time and at runtime). (Dmitry) - SQLite3: . Implement FR ##70950 (Make SQLite3 Online Backup API available). (BohwaZ) 13 Jun 2019, PHP 7.4.0alpha1 - Core: . Fixed bug #77345 (Stack Overflow caused by circular reference in garbage collection). (Alexandru Patranescu, Nikita, Dmitry) . Fixed bug #77877 (call_user_func() passes $this to static methods). (Dmitry) . Implemented FR #76148 (Add array_key_exists() to the list of specially compiled functions). (Majkl578) . Fixed bug #76430 (__METHOD__ inconsistent outside of method). (Ryan McCullagh, Nikita) . Fixed bug #75921 (Inconsistent: No warning in some cases when stdObj is created on the fly). (David Walker) . Fixed bug #71030 (Self-assignment in list() may have inconsistent behavior). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #76451 (Aliases during inheritance type checks affected by opcache). (Nikita) - CLI: . The built-in CLI server now reports the request method in log files. (Simon Welsh) - COM: . Deprecated registering of case-insensitive constants from typelibs. (cmb) - CURL: . Fixed bug #76480 (Use curl_multi_wait() so that timeouts are respected). (Pierrick) . Implemented FR #77711 (CURLFile should support UNICODE filenames). (cmb) . Deprecated CURLPIPE_HTTP1. (cmb) . Deprecated $version parameter of curl_version(). (cmb) - Date: . Fixed bug #75232 (print_r of DateTime creating side-effect). (Nikita) - FFI: . Added FFI extension. (Dmitry) -Fileinfo: . Fixed bug #78075 (finfo_file treats JSON file as text/plain). (Anatol) - Filter: . The filter extension no longer have the --with-pcre-dir on Unix builds, allowing the extension to be once more compiled as shared using ./configure. (Kalle) - FPM: . Implemented FR #72510 (systemd service should be hardened). (Craig Andrews) - GD: . Implemented the scatter filter (IMG_FILTER_SCATTER). (Kalle) . Fixed bug #73291 (imagecropauto() $threshold differs from external libgd). (cmb) . Fixed bug #76324 (cannot detect recent versions of freetype with pkg-config). (Eli Schwartz) . The bundled libgd behaves now like system libgd wrt. IMG_CROP_DEFAULT never falling back to IMG_CROP_SIDES. . The default $mode parameter of imagecropauto() has been changed to IMG_CROP_DEFAULT; passing -1 is now deprecated. . Added support for aspect ratio preserving scaling to a fixed height for imagescale(). (Andreas Treichel) - Hash: . The hash extension is now an integral part of PHP and cannot be disabled as per RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/permanent_hash_ext. (Kalle) . Implemented FR #71890 (crc32c checksum algorithm). (Andrew Brampton) - InterBase: . Unbundled the InterBase extension and moved it to PECL. (Kalle) - Intl: . Raised requirements to ICU ≥ 50.1. (cmb) . Changed ResourceBundle to implement Countable. (LeSuisse) . Changed default of $variant parameter of idn_to_ascii() and idn_to_utf8(). (cmb) - LDAP: . Deprecated ldap_control_paged_result_response and ldap_control_paged_result - Mbstring: . Fixed bug #77907 (mb-functions do not respect default_encoding). (Nikita) - Opcache: . Implemented preloading RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/preload. (Dmitry) - OpenSSL: . Added TLS 1.3 support to streams including new tlsv1.3 stream. (Codarren Velvindron, Jakub Zelenka) . Added openssl_x509_verify function. (Ben Scholzen) . openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() now throws in error conditions. (Sammy Kaye Powers) - PCRE: . Implemented FR #77094 (Support flags in preg_replace_callback). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #72685 (Repeated UTF-8 validation of same string in UTF-8 mode). (Nikita) . Fixed bug #73948 (Preg_match_all should return NULLs on trailing optional capture groups). - PDO: . Fixed bug #77849 (Disable cloning of PDO handle/connection objects). (camporter) - PDO_OCI: . Support Oracle Database tracing attributes ACTION, MODULE, CLIENT_INFO, and CLIENT_IDENTIFIER. (Cameron Porter) . Implemented FR #76908 (PDO_OCI getColumnMeta() not implemented). (Valentin Collet, Chris Jones, Remi) - PDO_SQLite: . Implemented sqlite_stmt_readonly in PDO_SQLite. (BohwaZ) . Raised requirements to SQLite 3.5.0. (cmb) - phpdbg: . Fixed bug #76596 (phpdbg support for display_errors=stderr). (kabel) . Fixed bug #76801 (too many open files). (alekitto) . Fixed bug #77800 (phpdbg segfaults on listing some conditional breakpoints). (krakjoe) . Fixed bug #77805 (phpdbg build fails when readline is shared). (krakjoe) - SimpleXML: . Implemented FR #65215 (SimpleXMLElement could register as implementing Countable). (LeSuisse) - Sockets: . Fixed bug #67619 (Validate length on socket_write). (thiagooak) - sodium: . Fixed bug #77646 (sign_detached() strings not terminated). (Frank) - SQLite3: . Unbundled libsqlite. (cmb) . Raised requirements to SQLite 3.7.4. (cmb) . Forbid (un)serialization of SQLite3, SQLite3Stmt and SQLite3Result. (cmb) . Added support for the SQLite @name notation. (cmb, BohwaZ) . Added SQLite3Stmt::getSQL() to retrieve the SQL of the statement. (Bohwaz) - SPL: . Fixed bug #77518 (SeekableIterator::seek() should accept 'int' typehint as documented). (Nikita) - Standard: . Fixed bug #74764 (Bindto IPv6 works with file_get_contents but fails with stream_socket_client). (Ville Hukkamäki) . Implemented FR #38301 (field enclosure behavior in fputcsv). (cmb) . Implemented FR #51496 (fgetcsv should take empty string as an escape). (cmb) . Implemented FR #77377 (No way to handle CTRL+C in Windows). (Anatol) . Implemented password hashing registry RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/password_registry. (Sara) - Reflection: . Fixed bug #76737 (Unserialized reflection objects are broken, they shouldn't be serializable). (Nikita) - Tidy: . Added TIDY_TAG_* constants for HTML5 elements. (cmb) . Fixed bug #76736 (wrong reflection for tidy_get_head, tidy_get_html, tidy_get_root, and tidy_getopt) (tandre) - WDDX: . Deprecated and unbundled the WDDX extension. (cmb) <<< NOTE: Insert NEWS from last stable release here prior to actual release! >>>