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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 ?? ??? 200?, PHP 5.3.0 RC 2
 - Undeprecated ticks. (Arnaud)
 - Upgraded bundled sqlite to version 3.6.12. (Scott)
+- Added 'n' flag to fopen to allow passing O_NONBLOCK to the underlying
+  open(2) system call. (Mikko)
 
 - Fixed bug #47880 (crashes in call_user_func_array()). (Dmitry)
 - Fixed bug #47856 (stristr() converts needle to lower-case). (Ilia)