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 ?? ??? 2000, Version 4.0.4
+- Make increment of empty string ("") behave like in PHP 3 and result in "1"
+  (Andi, Zend Engine)
 - POST handler for Adobe FDF format (Hartmut)
 - read and write .gz-files transparently on glibc based systems
   using the 'zlib:' fopen wrapper (Hartmut)