News for PHP 5.5.0 Alphas

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?? ??? 201?, PHP 5.5.0
?? ??? 201?, PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 3
18 Dec 2012, PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2
- General improvements:
. Added generators and coroutines (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators).
(Nikita Popov)
. Added "finally" keyword (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/finally). (Laruence)
. Added simplified password hashing API
(https://wiki.php.net/rfc/password_hash). (Anthony Ferrara)
. Added systemtap support by enabling systemtap compatible dtrace probes on
linux. (David Soria Parra)
. Added support for list in foreach (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreachlist).
(Laruence)
. Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and
other expressions (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_isset_exprs).
(Nikita Popov)
. Added support for constant array/string dereferencing. (Laruence)
. Improved set_exception_handler while doing reset.(Laruence)
. Removed php_logo_guid(), php_egg_logo_guid(), php_real_logo_guid(),
zend_logo_guid(). (Adnrew Faulds)
. Dropped support for Windows XP and 2003. (Pierre)
. Optimized access to temporary and compiled VM variables. 8% less memory
reads. (Dmitry)
. The VM stacks for passing function arguments and syntaticaly nested calls
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all the stack push operatins don't require checks for stack overflow
any more. (Dmitry)
- MySQL
. This extension is now deprecated, and deprecation warnings will be generated
when connections are established to databases via mysql_connect(),
mysql_pconnect(), or through implicit connection: use MySQLi or PDO_MySQL
instead (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation). (Adam)
- Fileinfo:
. Fixed bug #63590 (Different results in TS and NTS under Windows).
(Anatoliy)
- Apache2 Handler SAPI:
. Enabled Apache 2.4 configure option for Windows (Pierre, Anatoliy)
13 Nov 2012, PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1
- General improvements:
. Added generators and coroutines (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators).
(Nikita Popov)
. Added "finally" keyword (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/finally). (Laruence)
. Add simplified password hashing API
(https://wiki.php.net/rfc/password_hash). (Anthony Ferrara)
. Added support for list in foreach (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreachlist).
(Laruence)
. Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and
other expressions (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_isset_exprs).
(Nikita Popov)
. Added support for constant array/string dereferencing. (Laruence)
. Improve set_exception_handler while doing reset.(Laruence)
. Remove php_logo_guid(), php_egg_logo_guid(), php_real_logo_guid(),
zend_logo_guid(). (Adnrew Faulds)
. Drop Windows XP and 2003 support. (Pierre)
- Calendar:
. Fixed bug #54254 (cal_from_jd returns month = 6 when there is only one Adar)
(Stas, Eitan Mosenkis)
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. mcrypt_ecb(), mcrypt_cbc(), mcrypt_cfb() and mcrypt_ofb() now throw
E_DEPRECATED. (GoogleGuy)
- MySQL
. This extension is now deprecated, and deprecation warnings will be generated
when connections are established to databases via mysql_connect(),
mysql_pconnect(), or through implicit connection: use MySQLi or PDO_MySQL
instead (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation). (Adam)
- MySQLi
. Dropped support for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE handlers when using libmysql.
Known for stability problems. (Andrey)
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- Fileinfo:
. Fixed bug #63248 (Load multiple magic files from a directory under Windows).
(Anatoliy)
. Fixed bug #63590 (Different results in TS and NTS under Windows).
(Anatoliy)
- Apache2 Handler SAPI:
. Enabled Apache 2.4 configure option for Windows (Pierre, Anatoliy)
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