PHP NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ?? ??? ????, PHP 7.4.0alpha1 - Core: . Implemented request #76148 (Add array_key_exists() to the list of specially compiled functions). (Majkl578) . Fixed bug #76430 (__METHOD__ inconsistent outside of method). (Ryan McCullagh, Nikita) . Fixed bug #75921 (Inconsistent: No warning in some cases when stdObj is created on the fly). (David Walker) - COM: . Deprecated registering of case-insensitive constants from typelibs. (cmb) - CURL: . Fixed bug #76480 (Use curl_multi_wait() so that timeouts are respected). (Pierrick) - Date: . Fixed bug #75232 (print_r of DateTime creating side-effect). (Nikita) - FFI: . Added FFI extension. (Dmitry) - FPM: . Implemented FR #72510 (systemd service should be hardened). (Craig Andrews) - GD: . Fixed bug #73291 (imagecropauto() $threshold differs from external libgd). (cmb) . Fixed bug #76324 (cannot detect recent versions of freetype with pkg-config). (Eli Schwartz) . The bundled libgd behaves now like system libgd wrt. IMG_CROP_DEFAULT never falling back to IMG_CROP_SIDES. . The default $mode parameter of imagecropauto() has been changed to IMG_CROP_DEFAULT; passing -1 is now deprecated. . Added support for aspect ratio preserving scaling to a fixed height for imagescale(). (Andreas Treichel) - Hash: . The hash extension is now an integral part of PHP and cannot be disabled as per RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/permanent_hash_ext. (Kalle) - Intl: . Raised requirements to ICU ≥ 50.1. (cmb) . Changed default of $variant parameter of idn_to_ascii() and idn_to_utf8(). (cmb) - LDAP: . Deprecated ldap_control_paged_result_response and ldap_control_paged_result - Opcache: . Implemented preloading RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/preload. (Dmitry) - OpenSSL: . Added openssl_x509_verify function. (Ben Scholzen) . openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() now throws in error conditions. (Sammy Kaye Powers) - PDO_OCI: . Support Oracle Database tracing attributes ACTION, MODULE, CLIENT_INFO, and CLIENT_IDENTIFIER. (Cameron Porter) . Implemented FR #76908 (PDO_OCI getColumnMeta() not implemented). (Valentin Collet, Chris Jones, Remi) - PDO_SQLite: . Implemented sqlite_stmt_readonly in PDO_SQLite. (BohwaZ) . Raised requirements to SQLite 3.5.0. (cmb) - phpdbg: . Fixed bug #76596 (phpdbg support for display_errors=stderr). (kabel) - Sockets: . Fixed bug #67619 (Validate length on socket_write). (thiagooak) - sodium: . Fixed bug #77646 (sign_detached() strings not terminated). (Frank) - SQLite3: . Unbundled libsqlite. (cmb) . Raised requirements to SQLite 3.7.4. (cmb) . Forbid (un)serialization of SQLite3, SQLite3Stmt and SQLite3Result. (cmb) . Added support for the SQLite @name notation. (cmb, BohwaZ) . Added SQLite3Stmt::getSQL() to retrieve the SQL of the statement. (Bohwaz) - SPL: . Fixed bug #77518 (SeekableIterator::seek() should accept 'int' typehint as documented). (Nikita) - Standard: . Fixed bug #74764 (Bindto IPv6 works with file_get_contents but fails with stream_socket_client). (Ville Hukkamäki) . Implemented FR #38301 (field enclosure behavior in fputcsv). (cmb) . Implemented FR #51496 (fgetcsv should take empty string as an escape). (cmb) . Implemented FR #77377 (No way to handle CTRL+C in Windows). (Anatol) - Reflection: . Fixed bug #76737 (Unserialized reflection objects are broken, they shouldn't be serializable). (Nikita) - Tidy: . Added TIDY_TAG_* constants for HTML5 elements. (cmb) . Fixed bug #76736 (wrong reflection for tidy_get_head, tidy_get_html, tidy_get_root, and tidy_getopt) (tandre) - WDDX: . Deprecated the WDDX extension. (cmb) <<< NOTE: Insert NEWS from last stable release here prior to actual release! >>>