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?? ??? 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)
  . 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)

- 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)

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

- 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)

- Openssl:
  . Added crypto_method option for the ssl stream context. (Martin Jansen)
  . Added certificate fingerprint support. (Tjerk Meesters)
  . 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)

- 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)

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

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