archived-php-src/NEWS

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?? ??? 20??, PHP 5.6.0 

- Core:
  . Disallowed JMP into a finally block. (Laruence)
  . Added validation of class names in the autoload process. (Dmitry)
  . Fixed invalid C code in zend_strtod.c. (Lior Kaplan)
  . Fixed bug #66041 (list() fails to unpack yielded ArrayAccess object).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #65764 (generators/throw_rethrow FAIL with
    ZEND_COMPILE_EXTENDED_INFO). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #61645 (fopen and O_NONBLOCK). (Mike)
  . Fixed bug #66218 (zend_register_functions breaks reflection). (Remi)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #66060 (Heap buffer over-read in DateInterval). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #65768 (DateTimeImmutable::diff does not work). (Nikita Nefedov)
  
- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #65196 (Passing DOMDocumentFragment to DOMDocument::saveHTML() 
    Produces invalid Markup). (Mike)

- Exif:
  . Fixed bug #65873 (Integer overflow in exif_read_data()). (Stas)

- Filter:
  . Fixed bug #66229 (128.0.0.0/16 isn't reserved any longer). (Adam)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #64405 (Use freetype-config for determining freetype2 dir(s)).
    (Adam)
    
- PDO_odbc:
  . Fixed bug #66311 (Stack smashing protection kills PDO/ODBC queries). 
    (michael at orlitzky dot com)

- MySQLi:
  . Fixed bug #65486 (mysqli_poll() is broken on win x64). (Anatol)

- OPCache:
  . Fixed reavlidate_path=1 behavior to avoid caching of symlinks values.
    (Dmitry)

- SNMP:
  . Fixed SNMP_ERR_TOOBIG handling for bulk walk operations. (Boris Lytochkin)

- SOAP
  . Fixed bug #66112 (Use after free condition in SOAP extension).
    (martin dot koegler at brz dot gv dot at)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #65923 (ext/socket assumes AI_V4MAPPED is defined). (Felipe)

- XSL
  . Fixed bug #49634 (Segfault throwing an exception in a XSL registered
    function). (Mike)

- ZIP:
  . Fixed Bug #66321 (ZipArchive::open() ze_obj->filename_len not real). (Remi)

12 Dec 2013, PHP 5.5.7
>>>>>>> PHP-5.5

- CLI server:
  . Added some MIME types to the CLI web server. (Chris Jones)

- Core:
  . Improved IS_VAR operands fetching. (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Implemented internal operator overloading
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp). (Nikita)
  . Made calls from incompatible context issue an E_DEPRECATED warning instead
    of E_STRICT (phase 1 of RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incompat_ctx).
	(Gustavo)
  . Uploads equal or greater than 2GB in size are now accepted.
    (Ralf Lang, Mike)
  . Reduced POST data memory usage by 200-300%. Removed INI setting
    always_populate_raw_post_data and the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA global
    variable. (Mike)
  . Implemented dedicated syntax for variadic functions
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #50333 Improving multi-threaded scalability by using
    emalloc/efree/estrdup (Anatol, Dmitry)
  . Implemented constant scalar expressions (with support for constants)
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/const_scalar_exprs). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #65784 (Segfault with finally). (Laruence, Dmitry)

- cURL:
  . Implemented FR #65646 (re-enable CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION with open_basedir
    or safe_mode). (Adam)

- GMP:
  . Moved GMP to use object as the underlying structure and implemented various
    improvements based on this.
    (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp). (Nikita)
  . Added gmp_root() and gmp_rootrem() functions for calculating nth roots.
    (Nikita)

- Hash:
  . Added gost-crypto (CryptoPro S-box) GOST hash algo. (Manuel Mausz)

- JSON:
  . Fixed case part of bug #64874 ("json_decode handles whitespace and
    case-sensitivity incorrectly")

- mysqlnd:
  . Disabled flag for SP OUT variables for 5.5+ servers as they are not natively
    supported by the overlying APIs. (Andrey)

- OPcache:
  . Added an optimization of class constants and constant calls to some
    internal functions (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Added an optimization pass to convert FCALL_BY_NAME into DO_FCALL.
    (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Added an optimization pass to merged identical constants (and related
    cache_slots) in op_array->literals table. (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Added script level constant replacement optimization pass. (Dmitry)

- Openssl:
  . Added crypto_method option for the ssl stream context. (Martin Jansen)
  . Added certificate fingerprint support. (Tjerk Meesters)
  . Added explicit TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 stream transports. (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Fixed bug #65729 (CN_match gives false positive). (Tjerk Meesters)
  
- PDO_pgsql:
  . Fixed Bug #42614 (PDO_pgsql: add pg_get_notify support). (Matteo)
  . Fixed Bug #63657 (pgsqlCopyFromFile, pgsqlCopyToArray use Postgres < 7.3
    syntax). (Matteo)

- phpdbg:
  . Included phpdbg sapi (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/phpdbg).
    (Felipe Pena, Joe Watkins and Bob Weinand)

- Session:
  . Fixed Bug #65315 (session.hash_function silently fallback to default md5)
    (Yasuo)
  . Implemented Request #54649 (Create session_serializer_name()). (Yasuo)
  . Implemented Request #17860 (Session write short circuit). (Yasuo)
  . Implemented Request #20421 (session_abort() and session_reset() function).
    (Yasuo)
  . Implemented Request #11100 (session_gc() function). (Yasuo)

- Standard:
  . Implemented FR #65634 (HTTP wrapper is very slow with protocol_version
    1.1). (Adam)
  . Implemented Change crypt() behavior w/o salt RFC. (Yasuo)
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/crypt_function_salt
  . Implemented request #49824 (Change array_fill() to allow creating empty
    array). (Nikita)

- XMLReader:
  . Fixed bug #55285 (XMLReader::getAttribute/No/Ns methods inconsistency). 
    (Mike)

- Zip:
  . update libzip to version 1.11.1.
    PHP don't use any ilibzip private symbol anymore.  (Pierre, Remi)
  . new method ZipArchive::setPassword($password). (Pierre)
  . add --with-libzip option to build with system libzip. (Remi)

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