PHP NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ?? ??? 201?, PHP 5.6.0 - 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) - 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) - 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 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) - PDO_pgsql: . Fixed Bug #42614 (PDO_pgsql: add pg_get_notify support). (Matteo) . Fixed Bug #63657 (pgsqlCopyFromFile, pgsqlCopyToArray use Postgres < 7.3 syntax). (Matteo) - 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) <<< NOTE: Insert NEWS from last stable release here prior to actual release! >>>