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?? ??? ????, PHP 7.3.1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #71041 (zend_signal_startup() needs ZEND_API).
    (Valentin V. Bartenev)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #77177 (Serializing or unserializing COM objects crashes). (cmb)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #77195 (Incorrect error handling of imagecreatefromjpeg()). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77198 (auto cropping has insufficient precision). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77200 (imagecropauto(…, GD_CROP_SIDES) crops left but not right).
    (cmb)

- PDO:
  . Handle invalid index passed to PDOStatement::fetchColumn() as error. (Sergei
    Morozov)

- Soap:
  . Fixed bug #77088 (Segfault when using SoapClient with null options).
    (Laruence)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #77136 (Unsupported IPV6_RECVPKTINFO constants on macOS).
    (Mizunashi Mana)

22 Nov 2018, PHP 7.3.0RC6

- CLI:
  . Fixed bug #77111 (php-win.exe corrupts unicode symbols from cli
    parameters). (Anatol)

- ftp:
  . Fixed bug #77151 (ftp_close(): SSL_read on shutdown). (Remi)

- iconv:
  . Fixed bug #77147 (Fixing 60494 ignored ICONV_MIME_DECODE_CONTINUE_ON_ERROR).
    (cmb)

- IMAP:
  . Fixed bug #77153 (imap_open allows to run arbitrary shell commands via
    mailbox parameter). (Stas)

- MBstring:
  . Fixed bug #77165 (mb_check_encoding crashes when argument given an empty
    array). (Nikita)

- PGSQL:
  . Fixed bug #77047 (pg_convert has a broken regex for the 'TIME WITHOUT
    TIMEZONE' data type). (Andy Gajetzki)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #77141 (Signedness issue in SOAP when precision=-1). (cmb)

08 Nov 2018 PHP 7.3.0RC5

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76825 (Undefined symbols ___cpuid_count). (Laruence, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77110 (undefined symbol zend_string_equal_val in C++ build).
    (Remi)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #77095 (slowness regression in 7.2/7.3 (compared to 7.1)).
    (Anatol)

- ODBC:
  . Fixed bug #77079 (odbc_fetch_object has incorrect type signature).
    (Jon Allen)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #77058 (Type inference in opcache causes side effects). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77092 (array_diff_key() - segmentation fault). (Nikita)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #50675 (SoapClient can't handle object references correctly).
    (Cameron Porter)
  . Fixed bug #76348 (WSDL_CACHE_MEMORY causes Segmentation fault). (cmb)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #67619 (Validate length on socket_write). (thiagooak)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #77081 (ftruncate() changes seek pointer in c mode). (cmb, Anatol)

- XML:
  . Fixed bug 71592 (External entity processing never fails). (cmb)

25 Oct 2018, PHP 7.3.0RC4

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #77035 (The phpize and ./configure create redundant .deps file).
    (Peter Kokot)
  . Fixed bug #77041 (buildconf should output error messages to stderr)
    (Mizunashi Mana)

- Date:
  . Updated timelib to 2018.01RC1 to address several bugs: (Derick)
    . Fixed bug #75577 (DateTime::createFromFormat does not accept 'v' format
      specifier). (Derick)
    . Fixed bug #75642 (Wrap around behaviour for microseconds is not working).
      (Derick)
    . Fixed bug #77007 (fractions in `diff()` are not correctly normalized).
      (Derick)

- Mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #77025 (mb_strpos throws Unknown encoding or conversion error).
    (Nikita)

- Tidy:
  . Fixed bug #77027 (tidy::getOptDoc() not available on Windows). (cmb)

- Tokenizer:
  . Fixed bug #76991 (Incorrect tokenization of multiple invalid flexible
    heredoc strings). (Nikita)

- XML:
  . Fixed bug #30875 (xml_parse_into_struct() does not resolve entities). (cmb)
  . Add support for getting SKIP_TAGSTART and SKIP_WHITE options. (cmb)

- XMLRPC:
  . Fixed bug #75282 (xmlrpc_encode_request() crashes). (cmb)

11 Oct 2018, PHP 7.3.0RC3

- CURL:
  . Expose curl constants from curl 7.50 to 7.61. (Pierrick)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76846 (Segfault in shutdown function after memory limit error).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76946 (Cyclic reference in generator not detected). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #72635 (Undefined class used by class constant in constexpr
    generates fatal error). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76947 (file_put_contents() blocks the directory of the file
    (__DIR__)). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76979 (define() error message does not mention resources as
    valid values). (Michael Moravec)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #75851 (Year component overflow with date formats "c", "o", "r"
    and "y"). (Adam Saponara)

- FCGI:
  . Fixed #76948 (Failed shutdown/reboot or end session in Windows). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76954 (apache_response_headers removes last character from header
    name). (stodorovic)

- FTP:
  . Fixed bug #76972 (Data truncation due to forceful ssl socket shutdown).
    (Manuel Mausz)

- intl:
  . Fixed bug #76942 (U_ARGUMENT_TYPE_MISMATCH). (anthrax at unixuser dot org)

- Mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #76958 (Broken UTF7-IMAP conversion). (Nikita)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #76936 (Objects cannot access their private attributes while
    handling reflection errors). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #66430 (ReflectionFunction::invoke does not invoke closure with
    object scope). (Nikita)

27 Sep 2018, PHP 7.3.0RC2

- CURL:
  . Fixed bug #76480 (Use curl_multi_wait() so that timeouts are respected).
    (Pierrick)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76869 (Incorrect bypassing protected method accessibilty check).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #76800 (foreach inconsistent if array modified during loop).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #76901 (method_exists on SPL iterator passthrough method corrupts
    memory). (Nikita)

- iconv:
  . Fixed bug #66828 (iconv_mime_encode Q-encoding longer than it should be).
    (cmb)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #76711 (OPcache enabled triggers false-positive "Illegal string
   offset"). (Dmitry)

- PCRE:
  . Upgrade PCRE2 to 10.32. (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76909 (preg_match difference between 7.3 and < 7.3). (Anatol)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #75533 (array_reduce is slow when $carry is large array).
    (Manabu Matsui)
  . Fixed bug #76965 (INI_SCANNER_RAW doesn't strip trailing whitespace).
    (Pierrick)

- XMLRPC:
  . Fixed bug #76886 (Can't build xmlrpc with expat). (Thomas Petazzoni, cmb)

13 Sep 2018, PHP 7.3.0RC1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76820 (Z_COPYABLE invalid definition). (mvdwerve, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76510 (file_exists() stopped working for phar://). (cmb)

- intl:
  . Fixed bug #76829 (Incorrect validation of domain on idn_to_utf8()
    function). (Anatol)

- MBString:
  . Updated to Oniguruma 6.9.0. (cmb)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #76832 (ZendOPcache.MemoryBase periodically deleted by the OS).
    (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76796 (Compile-time evaluation of disabled function in opcache
    causes segfault). (Nikita)

- POSIX:
  Fixed bug #75696 (posix_getgrnam fails to print details of group). (cmb)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #74454 (Wrong exception being thrown when using ReflectionMethod).
    (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #76803 (ftruncate changes file pointer). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76818 (Memory corruption and segfault). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #73457 (Wrong error message when fopen FTP wrapped fails to open
    data connection). (Ville Hukkamäki)

- Zlib:
  . Fixed bug #75273 (php_zlib_inflate_filter() may not update bytes_consumed).
    (Martin Burke, cmb)

30 Aug 2018, PHP 7.3.0beta3

- Core:
  . Fixed #76773 (Traits used on the parent are ignored for child classes).
    (daverandom)
  . Fixed #76767 (‘asm’ operand has impossible constraints in zend_operators.h).
    (ondrej)
  . Fixed bug #76754 (parent private constant in extends class memory leak).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76752 (Crash in ZEND_COALESCE_SPEC_TMP_HANDLER - assertion in
    _get_zval_ptr_tmp failed). (Laruence)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #76285 (DOMDocument::formatOutput attribute sometimes ignored).
    (Andrew Nester, Laruence, Anatol)

- iconv:
  . Fixed bug #68180 (iconv_mime_decode can return extra characters in a
    header). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #63839 (iconv_mime_decode_headers function is skipping headers).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #60494 (iconv_mime_decode does ignore special characters). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #55146 (iconv_mime_decode_headers() skips some headers). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #53891 (iconv_mime_encode() fails to Q-encode UTF-8 string). (cmb)

- libxml:
  . Fixed bug #76777 ("public id" parameter of libxml_set_external_entity_loader
    callback undefined). (Ville Hukkamäki)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #76747 (Opcache treats path containing "test.pharma.tld" as a phar
    file). (Laruence)

- SimpleXML:
  . Fixed bug #76712 (Assignment of empty string creates extraneous text node).
    (cmb)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #68825 (Exception in DirectoryIterator::getLinkTarget()). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #68175 (RegexIterator pregFlags are NULL instead of 0). (Tim
    Siebels)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #76778 (array_reduce leaks memory if callback throws exception).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76755 (setcookie does not accept "double" type for expire time).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76674 (improve array_* failure messages exposing what was passed
    instead of an array). (carusogabriel)

16 Aug 2018, PHP 7.3.0beta2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76030 (RE2C_FLAGS rarely honoured) (Cristian Rodríguez)
  . Fixed broken zend_read_static_property (Laruence)

- Bz2:
  . Fixed arginfo for bzcompress. (Tyson Andre)

- DOM:
  . Reverted fix for bug #76285 (DOMDocument::formatOutput attribute sometimes
    ignored). (cmb)

- gettext:
  . Fixed bug #76517 (incorrect restoring of LDFLAGS). (sji)

- intl:
  . Fixed bug #74484 (MessageFormatter::formatMessage memory corruption with
    11+ named placeholders). (Anatol)

- mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #76704 (mb_detect_order return value varies based on argument
    type). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76706 (mbstring.http_output_conv_mimetypes is ignored). (cmb)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #76705 (unusable ssl => peer_fingerprint in
    stream_context_create()). (Jakub Zelenka)

- phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #76595 (phpdbg man page contains outdated information).
    (Kevin Abel)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #76688 (Disallow excessive parameters after options array).
    (pmmaga)
  . Fixed bug #76713 (Segmentation fault caused by property corruption).
    (Laruence)

- Tidy:
  . Fixed arginfo for tidy::__construct(). (Tyson Andre)

- zlib:
  . Fixed bug #65988 (Zlib version check fails when an include/zlib/ style dir
    is passed to the --with-zlib configure option). (Jay Bonci)
  . Fixed bug #76709 (Minimal required zlib library is 1.2.0.4). (petk)

02 Aug 2018, PHP 7.3.0beta1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76667 (Segfault with divide-assign op and __get + __set).
    (Laruence)

- PDO_PgSQL:
  . Fixed bug #75402 (Possible Memory Leak using PDO::CURSOR_SCROLL option).
    (Anatol)

- SQLite3:
  . Fixed #76665 (SQLite3Stmt::bindValue() with SQLITE3_FLOAT doesn't juggle).
    (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #68553 (array_column: null values in $index_key become incrementing
    keys in result). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76643 (Segmentation fault when using `output_add_rewrite_var`).
    (cmb)
  . Added support for the SameSite cookie directive, including an alternative
    signature for setcookie(), setrawcookie() and session_set_cookie_params().
    (Frederik Bosch, pmmaga)

19 Jul 2018, PHP 7.3.0alpha4

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #33502 (Some nullary functions don't check the number of
    arguments). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76392 (Error relocating sapi/cli/php: unsupported relocation
    type 37). (Peter Kokot)
  . The declaration and use of case-insensitive constants has been deprecated.
    (Nikita)
  . Added syslog.filter INI entry for syslog filtering. (Philip Prindeville)

- Calendar:
  . Fixed bug #52974 (jewish.c: compile error under Windows with GBK charset).
    (cmb)

- Filter:
  . Added the 'add_slashes' sanitization mode (FILTER_SANITIZE_ADD_SLASHES).
	(Kalle)
  . Fixed bug #76366 (References in sub-array for filtering breaks the filter).
    (ZiHang Gao)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #62596 (getallheaders() missing with PHP-FPM). (Remi)
  . Added fpm_get_status function. (Till Backhaus)
  . Fixed bug #69031 (Long messages into stdout/stderr are truncated
    incorrectly) - added new log related FPM configuration options:
    log_limit, log_buffering and decorate_workers_output. (Jakub Zelenka)

- mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #76574 (use of undeclared identifiers INT_MAX and LONG_MAX). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76594 (Bus Error due to unaligned access in zend_ini.c
    OnUpdateLong). (cmb, Nikita)

- PDO_Firebird:
  . Fixed bug #74462 (PDO_Firebird returns only NULLs for results with boolean
    for FIREBIRD >= 3.0). (Dorin Marcoci)
  . Fixed bug #76488 (Memory leak when fetching a BLOB field). (Simonov Denis)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #73817 (Incorrect entries in get_html_translation_table). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76136 (stream_socket_get_name should enclose IPv6 in brackets).
    (seliver)

- Zip:
  . Fixed bug #76524 (ZipArchive memory leak (OVERWRITE flag and empty archive)).
    (Timur Ibragimov)

05 Jul 2018, PHP 7.3.0alpha3

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76534 (PHP hangs on 'illegal string offset on string references
    with an error handler). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76520 (Object creation leaks memory when executed over HTTP).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76502 (Chain of mixed exceptions and errors does not serialize
    properly). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76509 (Inherited static properties can be desynchronized from
    their parent by ref). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76439 (Changed behaviour in unclosed HereDoc). (Nikita, tpunt)
  . Added syslog.facility and syslog.ident INI entries for customizing syslog
    logging. (Philip Prindeville)
  . Fixed bug #63217 (Constant numeric strings become integers when used as
    ArrayAccess offset). (Rudi Theunissen, Dmitry)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #76285 (DOMDocument::formatOutput attribute sometimes ignored).
    (Andrew Nester)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #73342 (Vulnerability in php-fpm by changing stdin to
    non-blocking). (Nikita)

- GMP:
  . Fixed bug #74670 (Integer Underflow when unserializing GMP and possible
    other classes). (Nikita)

- intl:
  . Fixed bug #76556 (get_debug_info handler for BreakIterator shows wrong
    type). (cmb)

- mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #76532 (Integer overflow and excessive memory usage
    in mb_strimwidth). (MarcusSchwarz)

- OpenSSL:
  . Add min_proto_version and max_proto_version ssl stream options as well as
    related constants for possible TLS protocol values. (Jakub Zelenka)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #76512 (\w no longer includes unicode characters). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76514 (Regression in preg_match makes it fail with
    PREG_JIT_STACKLIMIT_ERROR). (Anatol)

- PGSQL:
  . Fixed bug #76548 (pg_fetch_result did not fetch the next row). (Anatol)

- phpdbg:
  . Fix arginfo wrt. optional/required parameters. (cmb)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #76536 (PHP crashes with core dump when throwing exception in
    error handler). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #75231 (ReflectionProperty#getValue() incorrectly works with
    inherited classes). (Nikita)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #76505 (array_merge_recursive() is duplicating sub-array keys).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #71848 (getimagesize with $imageinfo returns false). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #48016 (stdClass::__setState is not defined although var_export() uses it). (Andrea)

- Tokenizer:
  . Fixed bug #76538 (token_get_all with TOKEN_PARSE flag fails to recognise
    close tag with newline). (Nikita)

21 Jun 2018, PHP 7.3.0alpha2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76427 (Segfault in zend_objects_store_put). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76422 (ftruncate fails on files > 2GB). (Anatol)

- CLI:
  . Fixed bug #44217 (Output after stdout/stderr closed cause immediate exit
    with status 0). (Robert Lu)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #76462 (Undefined property: DateInterval::$f). (Anatol)

- EXIF:
  . Fixed bug #76409 (heap use after free in _php_stream_free). (cmb)

- Interbase:
  . Fixed bug #76443 (php+php_interbase.dll crash on module_shutdown). (Kalle)

- Mysqlnd:
  . Fixed bug #76386 (Prepared Statement formatter truncates fractional seconds
    from date/time column). (Victor Csiky)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #76477 (Opcache causes empty return value).
    (Nikita, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76466 (Loop variable confusion). (Dmitry, Laruence, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76463 (var has array key type but not value type). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76446 (zend_variables.c:73: zend_string_destroy: Assertion
    `!(zval_gc_flags((str)->gc)). (Nikita, Laruence)

- Tokenizer:
  . Fixed bug #76437 (token_get_all with TOKEN_PARSE flag fails to recognise
    close tag). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #75218 (Change remaining uncatchable fatal errors for parsing
    into ParseError). (Nikita)

- ZIP:
  . Fixed bug #76461 (OPSYS_Z_CPM defined instead of OPSYS_CPM).
    (Dennis Birkholz, Remi)

07 Jun 2018, PHP 7.3.0alpha1

- Core:
  . Improved PHP GC. (Dmitry, Nikita)
  . Redesigned the old ext_skel program written in PHP, run:
    'php ext_skel.php' for all options. This means there are no dependencies,
    thus making it work on Windows out of the box. (Kalle)
  . Removed support for BeOS. (Kalle)
  . Add PHP_VERSION to phpinfo() <title/>. (github/MattJeevas)
  . Add net_get_interfaces(). (Sara, Joe, Anatol)
  . Implemented flexible heredoc and nowdoc syntax, per
    RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes.
    (Thomas Punt)
  . Added support for references in list() and array destructuring, per
    RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_reference_assignment.
    (David Walker)
  . Fixed bug #75683 (Memory leak in zend_register_functions() in ZTS mode).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #75031 (support append mode in temp/memory streams). (adsr)
  . Fixed bug #74860 (Uncaught exceptions not being formatted properly when
    error_log set to "syslog"). (Philip Prindeville)
  . Fixed bug #75220 (Segfault when calling is_callable on parent).
    (andrewnester)
  . Fixed bug #69954 (broken links and unused config items in distributed ini
    files). (petk)
  . Fixed bug #74922 (Composed class has fatal error with duplicate, equal const
    properties). (pmmaga)
  . Fixed bug #63911 (identical trait methods raise errors during composition).
    (pmmaga)
  . Fixed bug #75677 (Clang ignores fastcall calling convention on variadic
    function). (Li-Wen Hsu)
  . Fixed bug #54043 (Remove inconsitency of internal exceptions and user
    defined exceptions). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #53033 (Mathematical operations convert objects to integers).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #73108 (Internal class cast handler uses integer instead of
    float). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #75765 (Fatal error instead of Error exception when base class is
    not found). (Timur Ibragimov)
  . Fixed bug #76198 (Wording: "iterable" is not a scalar type). (Levi Morrison)
  . Fixed bug #76137 (config.guess/config.sub do not recognize RISC-V). (cmb)
  . Improved effectiveness of ZEND_SECURE_ZERO for NetBSD and systems
    without native similar feature (devnexen).

- BCMath:
  . Fixed bug #66364 (BCMath bcmul ignores scale parameter). (cmb)
  . Implemented request #67855 (No way to get current scale in use). (Chris
    Wright, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #75164 (split_bc_num() is pointless). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #75169 (BCMath errors/warnings bypass PHP's error handling). (cmb)

- cURL:
  . Fixed bug #74125 (Fixed finding CURL on systems with multiarch support).
    (cebe)

- Date:
  . Implemented FR #74668: Add DateTime::createFromImmutable() method.
    (majkl578, Rican7)
  . Fixed bug #75222 (DateInterval microseconds property always 0). (jhdxr)
  . Fixed bug #68406 (calling var_dump on a DateTimeZone object modifies it).
    (jhdxr)
  . Fixed bug #76131 (mismatch arginfo for date_create). (carusogabriel)

- DBA:
  . Fixed bug #75264 (compiler warnings emitted). (petk)

- GD:
  . Added support for WebP in imagecreatefromstring() (Andreas Treichel, cmb).

- GMP:
  . Export internal structures and accessor helpers for GMP object. (Sara)
  . Added gmp_binomial(n, k). (Nikita)
  . Added gmp_lcm(a, b). (Nikita)
  . Added gmp_perfect_power(a). (Nikita)
  . Added gmp_kronecker(a, b). (Nikita)

- interbase:
  . Fixed bug #75453 (Incorrect reflection for ibase_[p]connect). (villfa)

- intl:
  . Fixed bug #75317 (UConverter::setDestinationEncoding changes source instead
    of destination). (andrewnester)

- JSON:
  . Added JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR flag. (Andrea)

- LDAP:
  . Added ldap_exop_refresh helper for EXOP REFRESH operation with dds overlay.
    (Come)
  . Added full support for sending and parsing ldap controls (Come)
  . Fixed bug #49876 (Fix LDAP path lookup on 64-bit distros). (dzuelke)

- libxml2:
  . Fixed bug #75871 (use pkg-config where available). (pmmaga)

- litespeed:
  . Fixed bug #75248 (Binary directory doesn't get created when building
    only litespeed SAPI). (petk)
  . Fixed bug #75251 (Missing program prefix and suffix). (petk)

- mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #65544 (mb title case conversion-first word in quotation isn't
    capitalized). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #71298 (MB_CASE_TITLE misbehaves with curled apostrophe/quote.
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #73528 (Crash in zif_mb_send_mail). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #74929 (mbstring functions version 7.1.1 are slow compared to 5.3
    on Windows). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76319 (mb_strtolower with invalid UTF-8 causes segmentation
    fault). (Nikita)
  . Updated to Oniguruma 6.8.2. (cmb)

- ODBC:
  . Removed support for ODBCRouter. (Kalle)
  . Removed support for Birdstep. (Kalle)

- OpenSSL:
  . Added openssl_pkey_derive function. (Jim Zubov)

- PCRE:
  . Implemented https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pcre2-migration (Anatol, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #75355 (preg_quote() does not quote # control character).
    (Michael Moravec)

- PDO_DBlib:
  . Implemented request #69592 (allow 0-column rowsets to be skipped
    automatically). (fandrieu)
  . Fixed bug #74243 (allow locales.conf to drive datetime format). (fandrieu)
  . Expose TDS version as \PDO::DBLIB_ATTR_TDS_VERSION attribute on \PDO
    instance. (fandrieu)
  . Treat DATETIME2 columns like DATETIME. (fandrieu)

- PDO_OCI:
  . Fixed bug #74631 (PDO_PCO with PHP-FPM: OCI environment initialized
    before PHP-FPM sets it up). (Ingmar Runge)

- PDO SQLite
  . Add support for additional open flags

- pgsql:
  . Added new error constants for pg_result_error(): (Kalle)
    - Requires Postgres 9.3
      - PGSQL_DIAG_SCHEMA_NAME
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_TABLE_NAME
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_COLUMN_NAME
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_DATATYPE_NAME
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_CONSTRAINT_NAME
	- Requires Postgres 9.6
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_SEVERITY_NONLOCALIZED

- phar:
  . Fixed bug #74991 (include_path has a 4096 char limit in some cases).
    (bwbroersma)
  . Fixed bug #65414 (deal with leading slash when adding files correctly).
    (bishopb)

- readline:
  . Added completion_append_character and completion_suppress_append options
    to readline_info() if linked against libreadline. (krageon)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #74941 (session fails to start after having headers sent).
    (morozov)

- SimpleXML:
  . Fixed bug #54973 (SimpleXML casts integers wrong). (Nikita)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #75464 (Wrong reflection on SoapClient::__setSoapHeaders). (villfa)
  . Fixed bug #70469 (SoapClient generates E_ERROR even if exceptions=1 is
    used). (Anton Artamonov)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #74977 (Appending AppendIterator leads to segfault).
    (Andrew Nester)
  . Fixed bug #75173 (incorrect behavior of AppendIterator::append in foreach
    loop). (jhdxr)
  . Fixed bug #74372 (autoloading file with syntax error uses next autoloader,
    may hide parse error). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #75878 (RecursiveTreeIterator::setPostfix has wrong signature).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #74519 (strange behavior of AppendIterator). (jhdxr)
  . Fixed bug #76131 (mismatch arginfo for splarray constructor).
    (carusogabriel)

- SQLite3:
  . Updated bundled libsqlite to 3.24.0. (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Added is_countable() function. (Gabriel Caruso)
  . Fixed bug #75916 (DNS_CAA record results contain garbage). (Mike,
    Philip Sharp)
  . Fixed unserialize(), to disable creation of unsupported data structures
    through manually crafted strings. (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #75409 (accept EFAULT in addition to ENOSYS as indicator
    that getrandom() is missing). (sarciszewski)
  . Fixed bug #74719 (fopen() should accept NULL as context). (Alexander Holman)
  . Fixed bug #69948 (path/domain are not sanitized in setcookie). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #75996 (incorrect url in header for mt_rand). (tatarbj)
  . Remove superfluous warnings from inet_ntop()/inet_pton(). (daverandom)
  . Added hrtime() function, to get high resolution time. (welting)

- Testing:
  . Implemented request #62055 (Make run-tests.php support --CGI-- sections).
    (cmb)

- Tidy:
  . Fixed bug #74707 (Tidy has incorrect ReflectionFunction param counts for
    functions taking tidy). (Gabriel Caruso)
  . Support using tidyp instead of tidy (devnexen).

- Zlib:
  . Added zlib/level context option for compress.zlib wrapper. (Sara)

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