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- 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)

- 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.

- 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:
  . Lifted requirements to ICU ≥ 50.1. (cmb)
  . Changed default of $variant parameter of idn_to_ascii() and idn_to_utf8().
    (cmb)

- Opcache:
  . Implemented preloading RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/preload. (Dmitry)

- OpenSSL:
  . Added openssl_x509_verify function. (Ben Scholzen)

- PDO_OCI:
  . Implemented FR #76908 (PDO_OCI getColumnMeta() not implemented).
    (Valentin Collet, Chris Jones, Remi)

- PDO_SQLite:
  . Implemented sqlite_stmt_readonly in PDO_SQLite. (BohwaZ)
  . Lifted requirements to SQLite 3.5.0. (cmb)

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

- SQLite3:
  . Unbundled libsqlite. (cmb)
  . Lifted 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)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #74764 (Bindto IPv6 works with file_get_contents but fails with
    stream_socket_client). (Ville Hukkamäki)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #76737 (Unserialized reflection objects are broken, they
    shouldn't be serializable). (Nikita)

- Tidy:
  . Added TIDY_TAG_* constants for HTML5 elements. (cmb)

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