- New ReflectionClass method

Add Berkeley DB 5 support. (An outstanding issue with BDB 4.8 related to 51086 that also affects BDB 5 is not yet resolved)

Add Berkeley DB 5 support. (An outstanding issue with BDB 4.8 related to 51086 that also affects BDB 5 is not yet resolved)

- fix leak on error in mcrypt_create_iv on windows

new output api NEWS

- Added recent Windows versions to php_uname and fix undefined windows version

Fixed bug #50976 (Soap headers Authorization not allowed)

Fixed bug #50762 (in WSDL mode Soap Header handler function only being called if defined in WSDL). (mephius at gmail dot com)

From user's perspective this was added

merge FPM SAPI from trunk (as agreed with Johannes)

Added support for object references in recursive serialize() calls. FR #36424

- Fixed bug #51899 (Parse error in parse_ini_file() function when empy value followed by no newline)

- Fixed bug #51905 (ReflectionParameter fails if default value is an array with an access to self::)

- Fixed bug #51911 (ReflectionParameter::getDefaultValue() memory leaks with constant array)

Added caches to eliminate repeatable run-time bindings of functions, classes, constants, methods and properties

Add JSON_BIGINT_AS_STRING for json_decode() to parse large numbers
as strings rather than casting to double and loosing precision.

- Improved CLI Interactive readline shell (Johannes)
. Added cli.pager ini setting to set a pager for output.
. Added cli.prompt ini settingto configure the shell prompt.
. Added sh

- Improved CLI Interactive readline shell (Johannes)
. Added cli.pager ini setting to set a pager for output.
. Added cli.prompt ini settingto configure the shell prompt.
. Added shortcut #inisetting=value to change ini settings at run-time.
. Don't terminate shell on fatal errors.

A pager can be a an shell command which will receive the command output on its
STDIN channel

php > #cli.pager=less
php > phpinfo();
(output will appear in the pager)
php > #cli.pager=grep -i readline
php > phpcredits();
Readline => Thies C. Arntzen
php > #cli.pager=
(output appears again direct on the terminal)

A prompt can contain a few escape sequences like

php > #cli.prompt=\e[032m\v \e[031m\b \e[34m\> \e[0m
5.3.99-dev php > //Colorful prompt with version number

A prompt can also contaian PHP code in backticks

php > #cli.prompt=`echo gethostname();` \b \>
guybrush php >

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Added support for JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK option in json_encode() that converts
numeric strings to integers.

Added support for JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK option in json_encode() that converts
numeric strings to integers.

- Added scalar typehinting.

MFH: Add IV to openssl_(en|de)crypt()
Add openssl_cipher_iv_length()

* fixed bug #47842 sscanf() does not support 64-bit values

NEWS entry

fix typo

add missing news about backlog socket context option for stream_socket_server()