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?? ??? 201?, PHP 5.5.0

- General improvements:
  . Support list in foreach (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreachlist). (Laruence)
  . Implemented 'finally' keyword (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/finally). (Laruence)
  . Drop Windows XP and 2003 support. (Pierre)
  . Improve set_exception_handler while doing reset.(Laruence)
  . Support constant array/string dereferencing. (Laruence)
  . Add support for using empty() on the result of function calls and
    other expressions (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/empty_isset_exprs).
    (Nikita Popov)

- Calendar:
  . Fixed bug #54254 (cal_from_jd returns month = 6 when there is only one Adar)
    (Stas, Eitan Mosenkis).

- Core:
  . Added boolval(). (Jille Timmermans).
  . Fixed bug #18556 (Engine uses locale rules to handle class names). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #61681 (Malformed grammar). (Nikita Popov, Etienne, Laruence).
  . Fixed bug #61038 (unpack("a5", "str\0\0") does not work as expected).
    (srgoogleguy, Gustavo)
  . Implemented FR #60738 (Allow 'set_error_handler' to handle NULL).
    (Laruence, Nikita Popov)

- cURL:
  . Added support for CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT, CURLOPT_APPEND, 
    CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY, CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS, CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS, 
    CURLOPT_NETRC_FILE, CURLOPT_PREQUOTE, CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL, CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE,
    CURLOPT_FTP_ACCOUNT, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH,
    CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE, 
    CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER, CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE, 
    CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC, CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING, 
    CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING, CURLOPT_PROXY_TRANSFER_MODE, 
    CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE, CURLOPT_CRLFILE, CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT, 
    CURLOPT_USERNAME, CURLOPT_PASSWORD, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME, 
    CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD, CURLOPT_NOPROXY, CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_NEC, 
    CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE, CURLOPT_TFTP_BLKSIZE, 
    CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS, CURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET, CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM, 
    CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT, CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ, CURLOPT_RTSP_SERVER_CSEQ, 
    CURLOPT_RTSP_SESSION_ID, CURLOPT_RTSP_STREAM_URI, CURLOPT_RTSP_TRANSPORT,
    CURLOPT_RTSP_REQUEST, CURLOPT_RESOLVE, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, 
    CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING, CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS and CURLOPT_USE_SSL.
    (Pierrick)
  . Fixed bug #55635 (CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER no longer used. The constant
    still exists for backward compatibility but is doing nothing). (Pierrick)
  . Fixed bug #54995 (Missing CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE support). (Pierrick)

- Datetime
  . Fixed bug #61642 (modify("+5 weekdays") returns Sunday). 
    (Dmitri Iouchtchenko) 

- Hash
  . Added support for PBKDF2 via hash_pbkdf2(). (Anthony Ferrara)

- MCrypt
  . mcrypt_ecb(), mcrypt_cbc(), mcrypt_cfb() and mcrypt_ofb() now throw
    E_DEPRECATED. (GoogleGuy)

- MySQLi
  . Dropped support for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE handlers when using libmysql.
    Known for stability problems. (Andrey)

- PCRE:
  . Deprecated the /e modifier
    (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_preg_replace_eval_modifier). (Nikita Popov)

- pgsql
  . Added pg_escape_literal() and pg_escape_identifier() (Yasuo)

- Tokenizer:
  . Fixed bug #60097 (token_get_all fails to lex nested heredoc). (Nikita Popov)

- Zip:
  . Upgraded libzip to 0.10.1 (Anatoliy)

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