Fixed the $context parameter on copy() to have an effect (approved for 5.3 by Johannes)

# To not change a PHPAPI in a point release, a new function have been added to support contexts:
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Fixed the $context parameter on copy() to have an effect (approved for 5.3 by Johannes)

# To not change a PHPAPI in a point release, a new function have been added to support contexts:
# php_copy_file_ctx(), php_copy_file_ex() now simply wraps to that

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Added utf16 and utf32 support, as in MySQL 5.5, in mysqlnd.
Fixed tests, so they don't try to use SET NAMES utf16|utf32,
as character_set_client can't be set to those (the lexer can't
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Added utf16 and utf32 support, as in MySQL 5.5, in mysqlnd.
Fixed tests, so they don't try to use SET NAMES utf16|utf32,
as character_set_client can't be set to those (the lexer can't
read ucs2, utf16 and utf32).
Added support for 4-byte utf8, as found in MySQL 5.5

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Here comes the news

Bug #52361 (Throwing an exception in a destructor causes invalid catching)

Upgraded bundled Sqlite3 to version 3.7.0.1

MFH: Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.10.

Changed mysqli_report() to be per-request specific rather than per-process specific (Fixes #52390)

Fix for bug #52413 MySQLi build failure on OS X

Fix for bug #52433 Call to undefined method mysqli::poll()

Changed deprecated ini options on startup from E_WARNING to E_DEPRECATED (Fixes #52570)

# Trunk patch will follow shortly

- Fixed bug #52573 (SplFileObject::fscanf Segmentation fault)

Fix Request #52302 mysqli_fetch_all does not work with MYSQLI_USE_RESULT

Implemented FR #52555 (Ability to get HTTP response code)
- Patch by Paul Dragoonis

- Fixed bug #50481 (Storing many SPLFixedArray in an array crashes)

Fixed bug #51610 (Using oci_connect causes PHP to take a long time to exit). Do PECL OCI8 1.4.3 release

- Fixed bug #52546 (pdo_dblib segmentation fault when iterating MONEY values)

- Drop (broken) support for libmysql 3.23 and 4.0 from pdo_mysql, see bug #51259

- Fixed bug #52534 (var_export array with negative key)

Added Traits to the NEWS file.
#There doesn't seem to be a consitent ordering,
#so I put it in front of the list, since it is a major language addition. Hope thats ok.

- Fixed bug #52468 (wddx_deserialize corrupts integer field value when left empty)

- Fixed bug #52508 (newline problem with parse_ini_file+INI_SCANNER_RAW)

- Fixed bug #52484 (__set() ignores setting properties with empty names)

- Fixed bug #52487 (PDO::FETCH_INTO leaks memory)

- Fixed bug #52436 (Compile error in pcre if systems do not have stdint.h)
# PCRE's config.h can very well reuse the definitions made available from
# PHP's configure script output available

- Fixed bug #52436 (Compile error in pcre if systems do not have stdint.h)
# PCRE's config.h can very well reuse the definitions made available from
# PHP's configure script output available within php_config.h

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Let's keep NEWS entries to things that might affect users.
A typo in a comment isn't very news-worthy.