php-src/UPGRADING

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PHP 5.6 UPGRADE NOTES

1. Backward Incompatible Changes
2. New Features
2. Changes in SAPI modules
3. Deprecated Functionality
4. Changed Functions
5. New Functions
6. New Classes and Interfaces
7. Removed Extensions
8. Other Changes to Extensions
9. New Global Constants
10. Changes to INI File Handling
11. Other Changes


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1. Backward Incompatible Changes
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- JSON:
  json_decode() no longer accepts non-lowercase variants of lone JSON true,
  false or null values. For example, True or FALSE will now cause json_decode to
  return NULL and set an error value you can fetch with json_last_error().
  This affects JSON texts consisting solely of true, false or null. Text
  containing non-lowercase values inside JSON arrays or objects has never been
  accepted.

- OpenSSL:
  To prevent man-in-the-middle attacks against encrypted transfers client
  streams now verify peer certificates by default. Previous versions
  required users to manually enable peer verification. As a result of this
  change, existing code using ssl:// or tls:// stream wrappers (e.g.
  file_get_contents(), fsockopen(), stream_socket_client()) may no longer
  connect successfully without manually disabling peer verification via the
  stream context's "verify_peer" setting. Encrypted transfers delegate to
  operating system certificate stores by default if not overridden via the
  new openssl.cafile and openssl.cafile ini directives or via call-time SSL
  context options, so most users should be unaffected by this transparent
  security enhancement. (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/tls-peer-verification)

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2. New Features
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- Added constant scalar expressions syntax.
  (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/const_scalar_exprs)

- Added dedicated syntax for variadic functions.
  (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics)

- Added support for argument unpacking to complement the variadic syntax.
  (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argument_unpacking)

- Added an exponentiation operator (**).
  (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pow-operator)

- Added unified default encoding. default_charset=UTF-8 and functions/extensions
  use encoding settings honor default_charset.

- The php://input stream is now re-usable and can be used concurrently with
  enable_post_data_reading=0.

- Added use function and use const.
  (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/use_function)

- Added gost-crypto (CryptoPro S-box) hash algorithm.

- Stream wrappers verify peer certificates and host names by default in
  encrypted client streams.

- Added openssl certificate fingerprint support (inclusive stream context
  option).

- Added support for SAN x509 extension matching when verifing host names in
  encrypted streams.

- Added a range of new SSL context options for improved encrypted stream
  server security (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/improved-tls-defaults):

    . "honor_cipher_order" allows servers to prioritize cipher suites of their
      choosing when negotiating SSL/TLS handshakes.
    . "single_ecdh_use" and "single_dh_use" allow for improved forward
      secrecy in encrypted stream servers.
    . "dh_param" allows specification of pre-generated key generation
       parameters when negotiating ephemeral DHE ciphers in stream servers.
    . "ecdh_curve" allows stream servers to specify which curve to use when
       negotiating ephemeral ECDHE ciphers (defaults to NIST P-256).
    . "rsa_key_size" SSL context option gives stream servers control
      over the key size (in bits) used when negotiating RSA ciphers.
    . "capture_session_meta" if specified stores an array of data describing
      the TLS session's protocol/cipher in the "session_meta" SSL context key.

- Added automatic mitigation against client-initated TLS renegotiation DoS
  attacks in encrypted server streams. Renegotiation limiting may be
  customized via three new SSL context options:

    . "reneg_limit" (number of allowed renegotiations per time window)
    . "reneg_window" (renegotiation time window in seconds)
    . "reneg_limit_callback" (optional notification callback on limiting)

- Encrypted TLS servers now support the server name indication (SNI) TLS
  extension via the new "SNI_server_certs" SSL context option.

- Added "crypto_method" SSL context option for use in encrypted streams.

- Added "peer_name" SSL context option to better reflect peer certificate
  name matching using SAN extension (replaces deprecated "CN_match").

- Added stream wrapper support when specifying "cafile" SSL context paths.

- Independent peer cert and peer name validation is now available via a new
  boolean "verify_peer_name" SSL context option. This option is enabled by
  default in encrypted client streams.

- Added protocol-specific tlsv1.0://, tlsv1.1:// and tlsv1.2:// encryption
  stream wrappers. tls:// wrapper now supports TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 (previously
  only supported TLSv1).

- Stream crypto method specification now accepts flags instead of values
  allowing support for multiple discrete protocols in a given stream.

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2. Changes in SAPI modules
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- Added phpdbg SAPI.
  (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/phpdbg)

- Support for FPM workers changing the apparmor profile through the pool configuration.
  (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fpm_change_hat)

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3. Deprecated Functionality
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- Incompatible context calls:
  Instance calls from an incompatible context are now deprecated and issue
  E_DEPRECATED instead of E_STRICT. See https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incompat_ctx

- The "CN_match" SSL context option is deprecated in favor of the new
  "peer_name" option. Name verification now checks certificate SAN names as
  well as the CN field and "CN_match" is deprecated to avoid confusion. Its
  use triggers E_DEPRECATED but continues to work as before. If both values
  are specified "CN_match" takes precedence. Otherwise, the two options are
  interchangeable.

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4. Changed Functions
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- cURL:
  CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD is now turned on by default and uploads with @file 
  do not work unless it is explicitly set to false.

- Crypt:
  crypt() will now raise an E_NOTICE error if the salt parameter is omitted.
  See: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/crypt_function_salt

- XMLReader:
  XMLReader::getAttributeNs and XMLReader::getAttributeNo now return NULL if
  the attribute could not be found, just like XMLReader::getAttribute.

- Pgsql:
  pg_insert()/pg_select()/pg_update()/pg_delete() are no longer EXPERIMENTAL.

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5. New Functions
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- GMP:
  Added gmp_root($a, $nth) and gmp_rootrem($a, $nth) for calculating nth roots.

- OpenSSL:
  Added string openssl_x509_fingerprint($x509, $type, $binary).
  Added string openssl_spki_new($private_key, $challenge, $algorithm)
  Added bool openssl_spki_verify($spkac)
  Added string openssl_spki_export($spkac)
  Added string openssl_spki_export_challenge($spkac)
  Added array openssl_get_cert_locations()

- LDAP:
  Added ldap_escape($value, $ignore = "", $flags = 0).
  Added ldap_modify_batch($link_identifier, $dn, $modifications) described in 
  https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ldap_modify_batch.

- Zip:
  Added ZipArchive::setPassword($password)

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6. New Classes and Interfaces
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7. Removed Extensions
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8. Other Changes to Extensions
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- cURL:
  - The following constants have been removed as they are now marked "obsolete"
    in the underlying library and never had any effect to begin with:
      . CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY
      . CURLCLOSEPOLICY_CALLBACK
      . CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED
      . CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_TRAFFIC
      . CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST
      . CURLCLOSEPOLICY_SLOWEST

- GMP:
  The GMP extension now uses objects as the underlying data structure, rather
  than resources. GMP instances now support dumping, serialization, cloning,
  casts to primitive types and have overloaded operators.
  (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp)

- OCI8:
  - Added Implicit Result Set support for Oracle Database 12c with a
    new oci_get_implicit_resultset() function.
  - Using 'oci_execute($s, OCI_NO_AUTO_COMMIT)' for a SELECT no longer
    unnecessarily initiates an internal ROLLBACK during connection
    close.
  - Added DTrace probes enabled with PHP's generic --enable-dtrace
  - The oci_internal_debug() function is now a no-op.
  - The phpinfo() output format for OCI8 has changed.

- Pgsql:
  - pg_insert()/pg_select()/pg_update()/pg_delete()/pg_meta_data()/pg_convert()
    are no longer EXPERIMENTAL
  - Added PGSQL_DML_ESCAPE option for pg_insert()/pg_select()/pg_update()/pg_delete()
    that simply escapes all supplied parameters. These functions can be as fast as
    native query. Unvalidated data(Unknown data types) is passed as string.
    JSON/Array/etc are supported both PGSQL_DML_ESCAPE and pg_convert() as string.
  - pg_select() returns PostgreSQL query resource when query is executed.
  - Added extended flag parameter for pg_meta_data(). pg_meta_data() always
    returns "is enum" attribute.

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9. New Global Constants
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- LDAP:
  LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER int(1)
  LDAP_ESCAPE_DN     int(2)

- Pgsql:
  PGSQL_DML_ESCAPE   int(4096)

- OpenSSL:
  STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_0_CLIENT   int(9)
  STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_1_CLIENT   int(17)
  STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_2_CLIENT   int(33)
  STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_ANY_CLIENT       int(63)
  STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_0_SERVER   int(8)
  STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_1_SERVER   int(16)
  STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_2_SERVER   int(32)
  STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_ANY_SERVER       int(62)
  OPENSSL_DEFAULT_STREAM_CIPHERS        string

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10. Changes to INI File Handling
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- Core:
  Changed always_populate_raw_post_data to throw a deprecation warning when
  enabled and to recognize the value -1 for never populating the global 
  $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable, which will be default in future PHP versions.

- OpenSSL:
  openssl.cafile and openssl.capath ini directives have been added to allow
  global CA default specification as necessary.

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11. Other Changes
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- File upload:
  Uploads equal or greater than 2GB in size are now accepted.

- HTTP stream wrapper:
  HTTP 1.1 requests now include a Connection: close header unless explicitly
  overridden by setting a Connection header via the header context option.

- Zip:
  New --with-libzip option allow to use system libzip. Version > 0.11 required,
  Version >= 0.11.2 recommended for all features.