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 ?? ??? 200?, Version 4.2.0-dev
+- added function overload in mbstring to add multibyte support for string and mail functions.
 - Added flags parameter to preg_grep(). The only flag currently is
   PREG_GREP_INVERT that will make the function return entries that
   did not match. (Andrei)