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5- COM:
6  . Fixed property access of PHP objects wrapped in variant. (cmb)
7  . Fixed method calls for PHP objects wrapped in variant. (cmb)
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9- Core:
10  . Fixed bug GH-16665 (\array and \callable should not be usable in
11    class_alias). (nielsdos)
12  . Added PHP_BUILD_DATE constant. (cmb)
13  . Added support for Closures in constant expressions. (timwolla,
14    Volker Dusch)
15  . Use `clock_gettime_nsec_np()` for high resolution timer on macOS
16    if available. (timwolla)
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18- Curl:
19  . Added curl_multi_get_handles(). (timwolla)
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21- Date:
22  . Fix undefined behaviour problems regarding integer overflow in extreme edge
23    cases. (nielsdos, cmb, ilutov)
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25- DOM:
26  . Added Dom\Element::$outerHTML. (nielsdos)
27  . Added Dom\Element::insertAdjacentHTML(). (nielsdos)
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29- Intl:
30  . Bumped ICU requirement to ICU >= 57.1. (cmb)
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32- MySQLnd:
33  . Added mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics to ini quick reference.
34    (hauk92)
35
36- OPcache:
37  . Fixed ZTS OPcache build on Cygwin. (cmb)
38  . Added opcache.file_cache_read_only. (Samuel Melrose)
39
40- Output:
41  . Fixed calculation of aligned buffer size. (cmb)
42
43- PDO_PGSQL:
44  . Added Iterable support for PDO::pgsqlCopyFromArray. (KentarouTakeda)
45  . Implement GH-15387 Pdo\Pgsql::setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH, 0) or
46    Pdo\Pgsql::prepare(…, [ PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH => 0 ]) make fetch() lazy
47    instead of storing the whole result set in memory (Guillaume Outters)
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49- PGSQL:
50  . Added pg_close_stmt to close a prepared statement while allowing
51    its name to be reused. (David Carlier)
52  . Added Iterable support for pgsql_copy_from. (David Carlier)
53
54- POSIX:
55  . Added POSIX_SC_OPEN_MAX constant to get the number of file descriptors
56    a process can handle. (David Carlier)
57  . posix_ttyname() sets last_error to EBADF on invalid file descriptors,
58    posix_isatty() raises E_WARNING on invalid file descriptors,
59    posix_fpathconf checks invalid file descriptors. (David Carlier)
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61- Random:
62  . Moves from /dev/urandom usage to arc4random_buf on Haiku. (David Carlier)
63
64- Reflection:
65  . Added ReflectionConstant::getExtension() and ::getExtensionName().
66    (DanielEScherzer)
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68- SOAP:
69  . Fixed bug #49169 (SoapServer calls wrong function, although "SOAP action"
70    header is correct). (nielsdos)
71
72- Sockets:
73  . Added IPPROTO_ICMP/IPPROTO_ICMPV6 to create raw socket for ICMP usage.
74    (David Carlier)
75  . Added TCP_FUNCTION_BLK to change the TCP stack algorithm on FreeBSD.
76    (David Carlier)
77  . socket_set_option() catches possible overflow with SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO
78    with timeout setting on windows. (David Carlier)
79
80- Standard:
81  . Fixed crypt() tests on musl when using --with-external-libcrypt
82    (Michael Orlitzky).
83
84- Streams:
85  . Fixed bug GH-16889 (stream_select() timeout useless for pipes on Windows).
86    (cmb)
87
88- Windows:
89  . Fixed bug GH-10992 (Improper long path support for relative paths). (cmb,
90    nielsdos)
91  . Fixed bug GH-16843 (Windows phpize builds ignore source subfolders). (cmb)
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93- XMLWriter:
94  . Improved performance and reduce memory consumption. (nielsdos)
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96- XSL:
97  . Implement request #30622 (make $namespace parameter functional). (nielsdos)
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99- Zlib:
100  . gzfile, gzopen and readgzfile, their "use_include_path" argument
101    is now a boolean. (David Carlier)
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