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11 Jun 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1

- Core:

. Fixed bug #69767 (Default parameter value with wrong type segfaults).

(cmb, Laruence)

. Fixed bug #69756 (Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency

? with ===). (Dmitry, Laruence)

. Fixed bug #69758 (Item added to array not being removed by array_pop/shift

). (Laruence)

. Fixed bug #68475 (Add support for $callable() sytnax with 'Class::method').

(Julien, Aaron Piotrowski)

. Fixed bug #69485 (Double free on zend_list_dtor). (Laruence)

. Fixed bug #69427 (Segfault on magic method __call of private method in

superclass). (Laruence)

. Improved __call() and __callStatic() magic method handling. Now they are

called in a stackless way using ZEND_CALL_TRAMPOLINE opcode, without

additional stack frame. (Laruence, Dmitry)

. Optimized strings concatenation. (Dmitry, Laruence)

. Fixed weird operators behavior. Division by zero now emits warning and

returns +/-INF, modulo by zero and intdid() throws an exception, shifts

by negative offset throw exceptions. Compile-time evaluation of division

by zero is disabled. (Dmitry, Andrea, Nikita)

. Fixed bug #69371 (Hash table collision leads to inaccessible array keys).

(Laruence)

. Fixed bug #68933 (Invalid read of size 8 in zend_std_read_property).

(Laruence, arjen at react dot com)

. Fixed bug #68252 (segfault in Zend/zend_hash.c in function

_zend_hash_del_el). (Laruence)

. Fixed bug #65598 (Closure executed via static autoload incorrectly marked as

static). (Nikita)

. Fixed bug #66811 (Cannot access static::class in lambda, writen outside of a

class). (Nikita)

. Fixed bug #69568 (call a private function in closure failed). (Nikita)

. Added PHP_INT_MIN constant. (Andrea)

. Added Closure::call() method. (Andrea)

. Fixed bug #67959 (Segfault when calling phpversion('spl')). (Florian)

. Implemented the RFC `Catchable "Call to a member function bar() on a

non-object"`. (Timm)

. Added options parameter for unserialize allowing to specify acceptable

classes (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize). (Stas)

. Fixed bug #63734 (Garbage collector can free zvals that are still

referenced). (Dmitry)

. Removed ZEND_ACC_FINAL_CLASS, promoting ZEND_ACC_FINAL as final class

modifier. (Guilherme Blanco)

. is_long() & is_integer() is now an alias of is_int(). (Kalle)

. Implemented FR #55467 (phpinfo: PHP Variables with $ and single quotes). (Kalle)

. Added ?? operator. (Andrea)

. Added <=> operator. (Andrea)

. Added \u{xxxxx} Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax. (Andrea)

. Fixed oversight where define() did not support arrays yet const syntax did.

(Andrea, Dmitry)

. Use "integer" and "float" instead of "long" and "double" in ZPP, type hint

and conversion error messages. (Andrea)

. Implemented FR #55428 (E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR when output buffering in output

buffering handler). (Kalle)

. Removed scoped calls of non-static methods from an incompatible $this

context. (Nikita)

. Removed support for #-style comments in ini files. (Nikita)

. Removed support for assigning the result of new by reference. (Nikita)

. Invalid octal literals in source code now produce compile errors, fixes

PHPSadness #31. (Andrea)

. Removed dl() function on fpm-fcgi. (Nikita)

. Removed support for hexadecimal numeric strings. (Nikita)

. Removed obsolete extensions and SAPIs. See the full list in UPGRADING. (Anatol)

. Added NULL byte protection to exec, system and passthru. (Yasuo)

. Added error_clear_last() function. (Reeze Xia)

. Fixed bug #68797 (Number 2.2250738585072012e-308 converted incorrectly).

(Anatol)

. Improved zend_qsort(using hybrid sorting algo) for better performance,

and also renamed zend_qsort to zend_sort. (Laruence)

. Added stable sorting algo zend_insert_sort. (Laruence)

. Implemented the RFC `Scalar Type Decalarations v0.5`. (Anthony)

. Implemented the RFC `Group Use Declarations`. (Marcio)

. Implemented the RFC `Continue Output Buffering`. (Mike)

. Implemented the RFC `Constructor behaviour of internal classes`. (Dan, Dmitry)

. Implemented the RFC `Fix "foreach" behavior`. (Dmitry)

. Implemented the RFC `Generator Delegation`. (Bob)

. Implemented the RFC `Anonymous Class Support`. (Joe, Nikita, Dmitry)

. Implemented the RFC `Context Sensitive Lexer`. (Marcio Almada)

. Fixed bug #69511 (Off-by-one buffer overflow in php_sys_readlink).

(Jan Starke, Anatol)

- CLI server:

. Refactor MIME type handling to use a hash table instead of linear search.

(Adam)

. Update the MIME type list from the one shipped by Apache HTTPD. (Adam)

. Added support for SEARCH WebDav method. (Mats Lindh)

- Curl:

. Fixed bug #68937 (Segfault in curl_multi_exec). (Laruence)

. Removed support for unsafe file uploads. (Nikita)

- Date:

. Fixed day_of_week function as it could sometimes return negative values

internally. (Derick)

. Removed $is_dst parameter from mktime() and gmmktime(). (Nikita)

. Removed date.timezone warning

(https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal). (Bob)

. Added "v" DateTime format modifier to get the 3-digit version of fraction

of seconds. (Mariano Iglesias)

. Implemented FR #69089: Added DateTime::RFC3339_EXTENDED to output in

RFC3339 Extended format which includes fraction of seconds (Mariano

Iglesias)

- DBA:

. Fixed bug #62490 (dba_delete returns true on missing item (inifile)). (Mike)

. Fixed bug #68711 (useless comparisons). (bugreports at internot dot info)

- DOM:

. Made DOMNode::textContent writeable. (Tjerk)

- GD:

. Made fontFetch's path parser thread-safe. (Sara)

. Removed T1Lib support. (Kalle)

- Fileinfo:

. Fixed bug #66242 (libmagic: don't assume char is signed). (ArdB)

- Filter:

. New FILTER_VALIDATE_DOMAIN and better RFC conformance for FILTER_VALIDATE_URL. (Kevin Dunglas)

- FPM:

. Fixed bug #68945 (Unknown admin values segfault pools). (Laruence)

. Fixed bug #65933 (Cannot specify config lines longer than 1024 bytes). (Chris Wright)

. Implement request #67106 (Split main fpm config). (Elan Ruusamäe, Remi)

- FTP:

. Fixed bug #69082 (FTPS support on Windows). (Anatol)

- Intl:

. Removed deprecated aliases datefmt_set_timezone_id() and

IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZoneID(). (Nikita)

- JSON

. Replace non-free JSON parser with a parser from Jsond extension, fixes #63520

(JSON extension includes a problematic license statement). (Jakub Zelenka)

. Fixed bug #68938 (json_decode() decodes empty string without error).

(jeremy at bat-country dot us)

- LDAP

. Fixed bug #47222 (Implement LDAP_OPT_DIAGNOSTIC_MESSAGE). (Andreas Heigl)

- LiteSpeed:

. Updated LiteSpeed SAPI code from V5.5 to V6.6. (George Wang)

- libxml:

. Fixed handling of big lines in error messages with libxml >= 2.9.0.

(Christoph M. Becker)

- Mcrypt:

. Fixed possible read after end of buffer and use after free. (Dmitry)

. Removed mcrypt_generic_end() alias. (Nikita)

. Removed mcrypt_ecb(), mcrypt_cbc(), mcrypt_cfb(), mcrypt_ofb(). (Nikita)

- Opcache:

. Fixed bug #69688 (segfault with eval and opcache fast shutdown).

(Laruence)

. Added experimental (disabled by default) file based opcode cache.

(Dmitry, Laruence, Anatol)

. Fixed bug with try blocks being removed when extended_info opcode

generation is turned on. (Laruence)

. Fixed bug #68644 (strlen incorrect : mbstring + func_overload=2 +UTF-8

+ Opcache). (Laruence)

- OpenSSL:

. Added "alpn_protocols" SSL context option allowing encrypted client/server

streams to negotiate alternative protocols using the ALPN TLS extension when

built against OpenSSL 1.0.2 or newer. Negotiated protocol information is

accessible through stream_get_meta_data() output.

. Removed "CN_match" and "SNI_server_name" SSL context options. Use automatic

detection or the "peer_name" option instead. (Nikita)

- pcntl:

. Fixed bug #60509 (pcntl_signal doesn't decrease ref-count of old handler

when setting SIG_DFL). (Julien)

. Added wifcontinued and wcontinued. (xilon-jul)

. Added rusage support to pcntl_wait() and pcntl_waitpid(). (Anton Stepanenko,

Tony)

- PCRE:

. Removed support for the /e (PREG_REPLACE_EVAL) modifier. (Nikita)

- PDO:

. Fixed bug #59450 (./configure fails with "Cannot find php_pdo_driver.h").

(maxime dot besson at smile dot fr)

- PDO_mysql:

. Fixed bug #68424 (Add new PDO mysql connection attr to control multi

statements option). (peter dot wolanin at acquia dot com)

- PDO_pgsql:

. Removed PGSQL_ATTR_DISABLE_NATIVE_PREPARED_STATEMENT attribute in favor of

ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES). (Nikita)

- Reflection

. Fixed inheritance chain of Reflector interface. (Tjerk)

. Added ReflectionGenerator class. (Bob)

. Added reflection support for return types and type declarations. (Sara,

Matteo)

- Session:

. Fixed bug #67694 (Regression in session_regenerate_id()). (Tjerk)

. Fixed bug #68941 (mod_files.sh is a bash-script). (bugzilla at ii.nl, Yasuo)

- SOAP:

. Fixed bug #68361 (Segmentation fault on SoapClient::__getTypes). (Laruence)

- SPL:

. Changed ArrayIterator implementation using zend_hash_iterator_... API.

Allowed modification of iterated ArrayObject using the same behavior

as proposed in `Fix "foreach" behavior`. Removed "Array was modified

outside object and internal position is no longer valid" hack. (Dmitry)

. Implemented #67886 (SplPriorityQueue/SplHeap doesn't expose extractFlags

nor curruption state). (Julien)

. Fixed bug #66405 (RecursiveDirectoryIterator::CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME

breaks the RecursiveIterator). (Paul Garvin)

- Sqlite3:

. Fixed bug #68260 (SQLite3Result::fetchArray declares wrong

required_num_args). (Julien)

- Standard:

. Fixed bug #69723 (Passing parameters by reference and array_column).

(Laruence)

. Fixed bug #69523 (Cookie name cannot be empty). (Christoph M. Becker)

. Fixed bug #69325 (php_copy_file_ex does not pass the argument).

(imbolk at gmail dot com)

. Fixed bug #69299 (Regression in array_filter's $flag argument in PHP 7).

(Laruence)

. Removed call_user_method() and call_user_method_array() functions. (Kalle)

. Fixed user session handlers (See rfc:session.user.return-value). (Sara)

. Added intdiv() function. (Andrea)

. Improved precision of log() function for base 2 and 10. (Marc Bennewitz)

. Remove string category support in setlocale(). (Nikita)

. Remove set_magic_quotes_runtime() and its alias magic_quotes_runtime().

(Nikita)

. Fixed bug #65272 (flock() out parameter not set correctly in windows).

(Daniel Lowrey)

. Added preg_replace_callback_array function. (Wei Dai)

. Deprecated salt option to password_hash. (Anthony)

. Fixed bug #69686 (password_verify reports back error on PHP7 will null

string). (Anthony)

. Added Windows support for getrusage(). (Kalle)

. Removed hardcoded limit on number of pipes in proc_open(). (Tony)

- Streams:

. Fixed bug #68532 (convert.base64-encode omits padding bytes).

(blaesius at krumedia dot de)

. Removed set_socket_blocking() in favor of its alias stream_set_blocking().

(Nikita)

- XSL:

. Fixed bug #64776 (The XSLT extension is not thread safe). (Mike)

. Removed xsl.security_prefs ini option. (Nikita)

- Zlib:

. Added deflate_init(), deflate_add(), inflate_init(), inflate_add()

functions allowing incremental/streaming compression/decompression.

(Daniel Lowrey & Bob Weinand)

- Zip:

. Added ZipArchive::setCompressionName and ZipArchive::setCompressionIndex

methods (Remi, Cedric Delmas)

. Update bundled libzip to 1.0.1 (Remi, Anatol)

. Fixed bug #67161. (ZipArchive::getStream() returns NULL for certain file)

(Christoph M. Becker)

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