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 ?? ?? ????, Version 4.0 Beta 4
+- Session vars are now decoded into $HTTP_STATE_VARS[] array and the
+  globals, depending on track_vars and gpc_globals settings (Andrei)
 - Added get_used_files() function - returns a hash mapping the use()'d files
   to their full path (Zeev)
 - PHP 4 scripts will now obey the max_execution_time setting and actually