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?? ??? ????, PHP 8.2.0beta1

- CLI:
  . Updated the mime-type table for the builtin-server. (Ayesh Karunaratne)
  . Fixed potential overflow for the builtin server via the PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS
    environment variable. (yiyuaner)

- Core:
  . Reduced the memory footprint of strings returned by var_export(),
    json_encode(), serialize(), iconv_*(), mb_ereg*(), session_create_id(),
    http_build_query(), strstr(), Reflection*::__toString(). (Arnaud)
  . Fixed bug GH-8995 (WeakMap object reference offset causing TypeError).
    (Tobias Bachert)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug GH-8750 (Can not create VT_ERROR variant type). (cmb)

- FPM:
  . Added listen.setfib pool option to set route FIB on FreeBSD. (David Carlier)
  . Added access.suppress_path pool option to filter access log entries.
    (Mark Gallagher)

- Opcache:
  . Added initial support for JIT performance profiling generatio
    for macOs Instrument. (David Carlier)

- PCRE:
  . Updated bundled libpcre to 10.40. (cmb)

- PDO_Firebird:
  . Fixed bug GH-8576 (Bad interpretation of length when char is UTF-8). (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed empty array returned by str_split on empty input. (Michael Vorisek)
  . Added ini_parse_quantity function to convert ini quantities shorthand
    notation to int. (Dennis Snell)
  . Enable arc4random_buf for Linux glibc 2.36 and onwards
    for the random_bytes. (Cristian Rodriguez)
  . Uses CCRandomGenerateBytes instead of arc4random_buf on macOs. (David Carlier).

07 Jul 2022, PHP 8.2.0alpha3

- Core:
  . Uses safe_perealloc instead of perealloc for the
    ZEND_PTR_STACK_RESIZE_IF_NEEDED to avoid possible overflows. (David Carlier)

- DBA:
  . Fixed LMDB driver hanging when attempting to delete a non-existing key
    (Girgias)

- Intl:
  . Fixed build for ICU 69.x and onwards. (David Carlier)

- Opcache:
  . Allocate JIT buffer close to PHP .text segemnt to allow using direct
    IP-relative calls and jumps.
    (Su Tao, Wang Xue, Chen Hu, Lizhen Lizhen, Dmitry)

- Sockets:
  . Added TCP_CONGESTION socket option. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_ZEROCOPY/MSG_ZEROCOPY options. (David Carlier)

- SPL:
  . Uses safe_erealloc instead of erealloc to handle heap growth
    for the SplHeap::insert method to avoid possible overflows. (David Carlier)

- Standard:
  . Fixed the crypt_sha256/512 api build with clang > 12. (David Carlier)
  . Uses safe_erealloc instead of erealloc to handle options in getopt
    to avoid possible overflows. (David Carlier)

- Zip:

  . Implement fseek for zip stream when possible with libzip 1.9.1. (Remi)

23 Jun 2022, PHP 8.2.0alpha2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug GH-8655 (Casting an object to array does not unwrap refcount=1
    references). (Nicolas Grekas)
  . Fixed bug GH-8661 (Nullsafe in coalesce triggers undefined variable
    warning). (ilutov)
  . Fixed bug GH-7821 and GH-8418 (Allow arbitrary const expressions in backed
    enums). (ilutov)
  . Fixed bug GH-8810 (Incorrect lineno in backtrace of multi-line function
    calls). (ilutov)
  . Optimised code path for newly created file with the stream plain wrapper. (Max Kellermann)

- Curl:
  . Added new constants from cURL 7.62 to 7.80. (Pierrick)
  . New function curl_upkeep(). (Pierrick)

- OpenSSL:
  . Discard poll calls on socket when no timeout/non blocking/MSG_DONTWAIT. (Max Kellermann)

- PCRE:
  . Implemented FR #77726 (Allow null character in regex patterns). (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Deprecated utf8_encode() and utf8_decode(). (Rowan Tommins)

- Streams:
  . Discard poll calls on socket when no timeout/non blocking/MSG_DONTWAIT. (Max Kellermann)

09 Jun 2022, PHP 8.2.0alpha1

- CLI:
  . Fixed bug #81496 (Server logs incorrect request method). (lauri)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #81380 (Observer may not be initialized properly). (krakjoe)
  . Fixed bug GH-7771 (Fix filename/lineno of constant expressions). (ilutov)
  . Fixed bug GH-7792 (Improve class type in error messages). (ilutov)
  . Support huge pages on MacOS. (David CARLIER)

- Curl:
  . Added support for CURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION. (David Carlier)
  . Added support for CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE_LARGE. (David Carlier)

- Date:
  . Fixed GH-8458 (DateInterval::createFromDateString does not throw if
    non-relative items are present). (Derick)
  . Fixed bug #52015 (Allow including end date in DatePeriod iterations)
    (Daniel Egeberg, Derick)
  . idate() now accepts format specifiers "N" (ISO Day-of-Week) and "o" (ISO
    Year). (Pavel Djundik)

- FPM:
  . Emit error for invalid port setting. (David Carlier)
  . Added extra check for FPM proc dumpable on SELinux based systems.
    (David Carlier)
  . Added support for listening queue on macOS. (David Carlier)
  . Changed default for listen.backlog on Linux to -1. (Cristian Rodríguez)

- FTP:
  . Fix datetime format string to follow POSIX spec in ftp_mdtm(). (Jihwan Kim)

- Intl:
  . Update all grandfathered language tags with preferred values
  . Fixed GH-7939 (Cannot unserialize IntlTimeZone objects). (cmb)

- OCI8:
  . Added oci8.prefetch_lob_size directive to tune LOB query performance
  . Support for building against Oracle Client libraries 10.1 and 10.2 has been
    dropped. Oracle Client libraries 11.2 or newer are now required.

- ODBC:
  . Fixed bug GH-8300 (User input not escaped when building connection string).
    (Calvin Buckley)

- PDO_ODBC:
  . Fixed bug #80909 (crash with persistent connections in PDO_ODBC). (Calvin
    Buckley)
  . Fixed bug GH-8300 (User input not escaped when building connection string).
    (Calvin Buckley)

- Reflection:
  . Added ReflectionFunction::isAnonymous(). (Nicolas Grekas)
  . Added ReflectionMethod::hasPrototype(). (Ollie Read)
  . Narrow ReflectionEnum::getBackingType() return type to ReflectionNamedType.
    (SamMousa)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug GH-7787 (Improve session write failure message for user error
    handlers). (ilutov)

- Sockets:
  . Added TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_MEMINFO socket option. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_RTABLE socket option (OpenBSD), equivalent of SO_MARK (Linux).
    (David Carlier)
  . Added TCP_KEEPALIVE, TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPINTVL, TCP_KEEPCNT socket
    options. (David Carlier)
  . Added ancillary data support for FreeBSD. (David Carlier)
  . Added ancillary data support for NetBSD. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS socket option. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_SETFIB socket option. (David Carlier)

- Sodium:
  . Added sodium_crypto_stream_xchacha20_xor_ic(). (Scott)

- SQLite3:
  . Changed sqlite3.defensive from PHP_INI_SYSTEM to PHP_INI_USER. (bohwaz)

- Standard:
  . net_get_interfaces() also reports wireless network interfaces on Windows.
    (Yurun)
  . Finished AVIF support in getimagesize(). (Yannis Guyon)
  . Fixed bug GH-7847 (stripos with large haystack has bad performance).
    (ilutov)
  . New function memory_reset_peak_usage(). (Patrick Allaert)
  . Fixed parse_url(): can not recognize port without scheme. (pandaLIU)

- Streams:
  . Set IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT if available when connecting to remote host.
    (Cristian Rodríguez)
  . Fixed bug GH-8548 (stream_wrapper_unregister() leaks memory). (ilutov)

- Zip:
  . add ZipArchive::clearError() method
  . add ZipArchive::getStreamName() method
  . add ZipArchive::getStreamIndex() method
  . On Windows, the Zip extension is now built as shared library (DLL) by
    default. (cmb)

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