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- Core:
  . Added zend_call_stack_get implementation for NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD,
    Solaris and Haiku. (David Carlier)
  . Enabled ifunc checks on FreeBSD from the 12.x releases. (Freaky)
  . Changed the type of PHP_DEBUG and PHP_ZTS constants to bool. (haszi)
  . Fixed bug GH-13142 (Undefined variable name is shortened when contains \0).
    (nielsdos)
  . Fixed bug GH-13178 (Iterator positions incorrect when converting packed
    array to hashed). (ilutov)
  . Fixed zend fiber build for solaris default mode (32 bits). (David Carlier)
  . Fixed zend call stack size for macOs/arm64. (David Carlier)
  . Added support for Zend Max Execution Timers on FreeBSD (Kévin Dunglas)

- Curl:
  . Deprecated the CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER constant. (divinity76)
  . Bumped required libcurl version to 7.61.0. (Ayesh)
  . Added feature_list key to the curl_version() return value (Ayesh)

- Date:
  . Added DateTime[Immutable]::createFromTimestamp. (Marc Bennewitz)
  . Added DateTime[Immutable]::[get|set]Microseconds. (Marc Bennewitz)

- DOM:
  . Added DOMNode::compareDocumentPosition(). (nielsdos)
  . Implement #53655 (Improve speed of DOMNode::C14N() on large XML documents).
    (nielsdos)
  . Fix cloning attribute with namespace disappearing namespace. (nielsdos)
  . Implement DOM HTML5 parsing and serialization RFC. (nielsdos)
  . Fix DOMElement->prefix with empty string creates bogus prefix. (nielsdos)
  . Handle OOM more consistently. (nielsdos)
  . Implemented "Improve callbacks in ext/dom and ext/xsl" RFC. (nielsdos)

- Fileinfo:
  . Update to libmagic 5.45. (nielsdos)

- FPM:
  . Implement GH-12385 (flush headers without body when calling flush()).
    (nielsdos)
  . Added DragonFlyBSD system to the list which set FPM_BACKLOG_DEFAULT
    to SOMAXCONN. (David Carlier)

- FTP:
  . Removed the deprecated inet_ntoa call support. (David Carlier)

- GD:
  . Fixed detection of image formats in system gd library. (Michael Orlitzky)

- IMAP:
  . Moved to PECL. (Derick Rethans)

- Intl:
  . Added IntlDateFormatter::PATTERN constant. (David Carlier)
  . Fixed Numberformatter::__construct when the locale is invalid, now
    throws an exception. (David Carlier)
  . Added NumberFormatter::ROUND_TOWARD_ZERO and ::ROUND_AWAY_FROM_ZERO as
    aliases for ::ROUND_DOWN and ::ROUND_UP. (Jorg Sowa)
  . Added NumberFormatter::ROUND_HALFODD. (Ayesh Karunaratne)
  . Added PROPERTY_IDS_UNARY_OPERATOR, PROPERTY_ID_COMPAT_MATH_START and
    PROPERTY_ID_COMPAT_MATH_CONTINUE constants. (David Carlier)
  . Added IntlDateFormatter::getIanaID/intltz_get_iana_id method/function.
    (David Carlier)
  . Set to C++17 standard for icu 74 and onwards. (David Carlier)

- LDAP:
  . Added LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_PROTOCOL_MAX/LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_PROTOCOL_TLS1_3
    constants. (StephenWall)

- MBString:
  . Added mb_trim, mb_ltrim and mb_rtrim. (Yuya Hamada)

- Opcache:
  . Added large shared segments support for FreeBSD. (David Carlier)
  . If JIT is enabled, PHP will now exit with a fatal error on startup in case
    of JIT startup initialization issues. (danog)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #80269 (OpenSSL sets Subject wrong with extraattribs parameter).
    (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Implement request #48520 (openssl_csr_new - allow multiple values in DN).
    (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Introduced new serial_hex parameter to openssl_csr_sign. (Jakub Zelenka,
    Florian Sowade)
  . Added X509_PURPOSE_OCSP_HELPER and X509_PURPOSE_TIMESTAMP_SIGN constants.
    (Vincent Jardin)

- Output:
  . Clear output handler status flags during handler initialization. (haszi)

- PCRE:
  . Upgrade bundled pcre2lib to version 10.43. (nielsdos)

- PDO:
  . Fixed setAttribute and getAttribute. (SakiTakamachi)
  . Implemented PDO driver-specific subclasses RFC. (danack, kocsismate)

- PDO_DBLIB:
  . Fixed setAttribute and getAttribute. (SakiTakamachi)
  . Added class PdoDbLib (danack, kocsismate)

- PDO_FIREBIRD:
  . Fixed setAttribute and getAttribute. (SakiTakamachi)
  . Feature: Add transaction isolation level and mode settings to pdo_firebird.
    (SakiTakamachi)
  . Added class PdoFirebird. (danack, kocsismate)

- PDO_MYSQL:
  . Fixed setAttribute and getAttribute. (SakiTakamachi)
  . Added class PdoMysql. (danack, kocsismate)
  . Fixed binding of Stringable objects. (SakiTakamachi)
  . Added an error message when a non-scalar value is bound with PARAM_INT.
    (SakiTakamachi)

- PDO_ODBC:
  . Added class PdoOdbc. (danack, kocsismate)

- PDO_PGSQL:
  . Fixed GH-12423, DSN credentials being prioritized over the user/password
    PDO constructor arguments. (SakiTakamachi)
  . Fixed native float support with pdo_pgsql query results. (Yurunsoft)
  . Added class PdoPgsql. (danack, kocsismate)

- PDO_SQLITE:
  . Added class PdoSqlite. (danack, kocsismate)

- PGSQL:
  . Added the possibility to have no conditions for pg_select. (OmarEmaraDev)

- Phar:
  . Fixed bug GH-12532 (PharData created from zip has incorrect timestamp).
    (nielsdos)

- POSIX:
  . Added POSIX_SC_CHILD_MAX and POSIX_SC_CLK_TCK constants. (Jakub Zelenka)

- PSpell:
  . Moved to PECL. (Derick Rethans)

- Reflection:
  . Implement GH-12908 (Show attribute name/class in ReflectionAttribute dump).
    (nielsdos)

- SimpleXML:
  . Fixed bug GH-12192 (SimpleXML infinite loop when getName() is called
    within foreach). (nielsdos)
  . Fixed bug GH-12208 (SimpleXML infinite loop when a cast is used inside a
    foreach). (nielsdos)
  . Fixed bug #55098 (SimpleXML iteration produces infinite loop). (nielsdos)
  . Fix signature of simplexml_import_dom(). (nielsdos)

- Sockets:
  . Added multicast group support for ipv4 on FreeBSD. (jonathan@tangential.ca)

- SNMP:
  . Removed the deprecated inet_ntoa call support. (David Carlier)

- SOAP:
  . Add support for clark notation for namespaces in class map. (lxShaDoWxl)
  . Mitigate #51561 (SoapServer with a extented class and using sessions,
    lost the setPersistence()). (nielsdos)
  . Fixed bug #49278 (SoapClient::__getLastResponseHeaders returns NULL if
    wsdl operation !has output). (nielsdos)
  . Fixed bug #44383 (PHP DateTime not converted to xsd:datetime). (nielsdos)

- Sockets:
  . Removed the deprecated inet_ntoa call support. (David Carlier)
  . Added the SO_EXECLUSIVEADDRUSE windows constant. (David Carlier)

- Sodium:
  . Add support for AEGIS-128L and AEGIS-256 (jedisct1)
  . Enable AES-GCM on aarch64 with the ARM crypto extensions (jedisct1)

- Standard:
  . Implement GH-12188 (Indication for the int size in phpinfo()). (timwolla)
  . Partly fix GH-12143 (Incorrect round() result for 0.49999999999999994).
    (timwolla)
  . Fix GH-12252 (round(): Validate the rounding mode). (timwolla)
  . Increase the default BCrypt cost to 12. (timwolla)
  . Fixed bug GH-12592 (strcspn() odd behaviour with NUL bytes and empty mask).
    (nielsdos)
  . Removed the deprecated inet_ntoa call support. (David Carlier)
  . Cast large floats that are within int range to int in number_format so
    the precision is not lost. (Marc Bennewitz)
  . Add support for 4 new rounding modes to the round() function. (Jorg Sowa)
  . debug_zval_dump() now indicates whether an array is packed. (Max Semenik)
  . Fix GH-12143 (Optimize round). (SakiTakamachi)
  . Changed return type of long2ip to string from string|false. (Jorg Sowa)

- XML:
  . Added XML_OPTION_PARSE_HUGE parser option. (nielsdos)

- XSL:
  . Implement request #64137 (XSLTProcessor::setParameter() should allow both
    quotes to be used). (nielsdos)
  . Implemented "Improve callbacks in ext/dom and ext/xsl" RFC. (nielsdos)

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