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- CLI:
  . Add --ini=diff to print INI settings changed from the builtin default.
    (timwolla)
  . Drop support for -z CLI/CGI flag. (nielsdos)
  . Fixed GH-17956 - development server 404 page does not adapt to mobiles.
    (pascalchevrel)

- COM:
  . Fixed property access of PHP objects wrapped in variant. (cmb)
  . Fixed method calls for PHP objects wrapped in variant. (cmb)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug GH-16665 (\array and \callable should not be usable in
    class_alias). (nielsdos)
  . Added PHP_BUILD_DATE constant. (cmb)
  . Added support for Closures and first class callables in constant
    expressions. (timwolla, Volker Dusch)
  . Use `clock_gettime_nsec_np()` for high resolution timer on macOS
    if available. (timwolla)
  . Implement GH-15680 (Enhance zend_dump_op_array to properly represent
    non-printable characters in string literals). (nielsdos, WangYihang)
  . Add support for backtraces for fatal errors. (enorris)
  . Fixed bug GH-17442 (Engine UAF with reference assign and dtor). (nielsdos)
  . Improved error message of UnhandledMatchError for
    zend.exception_string_param_max_len=0. (timwolla)
  . Fixed bug GH-17959 (Relax missing trait fatal error to error exception).
    (ilutov)

- Curl:
  . Added curl_multi_get_handles(). (timwolla)
  . Added curl_share_init_persistent(). (enorris)
  . Added CURLINFO_USED_PROXY, CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_USED, and CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_USED
    support to curl_getinfo. (Ayesh Karunaratne)

- Date:
  . Fix undefined behaviour problems regarding integer overflow in extreme edge
    cases. (nielsdos, cmb, ilutov)

- DOM:
  . Added Dom\Element::$outerHTML. (nielsdos)
  . Added Dom\Element::insertAdjacentHTML(). (nielsdos)

- Enchant:
  . Added enchant_dict_remove_from_session(). (nielsdos)
  . Added enchant_dict_remove(). (nielsdos)

- Fileinfo:
  . Upgrade to file 5.46. (nielsdos)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #68629 (Transparent artifacts when using imagerotate). (pierre,
    cmb)
  . Fixed bug #64823 (ZTS GD fails to to find system TrueType font). (cmb)

- Intl:
  . Bumped ICU requirement to ICU >= 57.1. (cmb)
  . IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone()/datefmt_set_timezone() throws an exception
    with uninitialised classes or clone failure. (David Carlier)
  . Added DECIMAL_COMPACT_SHORT/DECIMAL_COMPACT_LONG for NumberFormatter class.
    (BogdanUngureanu)

- MySQLi:
  . Fixed bugs GH-17900 and GH-8084 (calling mysqli::__construct twice).
    (nielsdos)

- MySQLnd:
  . Added mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics to ini quick reference.
    (hauk92)

- OPcache:
  . Fixed ZTS OPcache build on Cygwin. (cmb)
  . Added opcache.file_cache_read_only. (Samuel Melrose)

- Output:
  . Fixed calculation of aligned buffer size. (cmb)

- PCRE:
  . Upgraded to pre2lib from 10.44 to 10.45. (nielsdos)

- PDO_PGSQL:
  . Added Iterable support for PDO::pgsqlCopyFromArray. (KentarouTakeda)
  . Implement GH-15387 Pdo\Pgsql::setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH, 0) or
    Pdo\Pgsql::prepare(…, [ PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH => 0 ]) make fetch() lazy
    instead of storing the whole result set in memory (Guillaume Outters)

- PGSQL:
  . Added pg_close_stmt to close a prepared statement while allowing
    its name to be reused. (David Carlier)
  . Added Iterable support for pgsql_copy_from. (David Carlier)
  . pg_connect checks if connection_string contains any null byte,
    pg_close_stmt check if the statement contains any null byte.
    (David Carlier)

- POSIX:
  . Added POSIX_SC_OPEN_MAX constant to get the number of file descriptors
    a process can handle. (David Carlier)
  . posix_ttyname() sets last_error to EBADF on invalid file descriptors,
    posix_isatty() raises E_WARNING on invalid file descriptors,
    posix_fpathconf checks invalid file descriptors. (David Carlier)

- Random:
  . Moves from /dev/urandom usage to arc4random_buf on Haiku. (David Carlier)

- Reflection:
  . Added ReflectionConstant::getExtension() and ::getExtensionName().
    (DanielEScherzer)
  . Fixed bug GH-12856 (ReflectionClass::getStaticPropertyValue() returns UNDEF
    zval for uninitialized typed properties). (nielsdos)

- Session:
  . session_start() throws a ValueError on option argument if not a hashmap
    or a TypeError if read_and_close value is not compatible with int.
    (David Carlier)

- SNMP:
  . snmpget, snmpset, snmp_get2, snmp_set2, snmp_get3, snmp_set3 and
    SNMP::__construct() throw an exception on invalid hostname, community
    timeout and retries arguments. (David Carlier)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #49169 (SoapServer calls wrong function, although "SOAP action"
    header is correct). (nielsdos)

- Sockets:
  . Added IPPROTO_ICMP/IPPROTO_ICMPV6 to create raw socket for ICMP usage.
    (David Carlier)
  . Added TCP_FUNCTION_BLK to change the TCP stack algorithm on FreeBSD.
    (David Carlier)
  . socket_set_option() catches possible overflow with SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO
    with timeout setting on windows. (David Carlier)
  . Added TCP_FUNCTION_ALIAS, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA_NODOM,
    TCP_REUSPORT_LB_CURDOM, TCP_BBR_ALGORITHM constants.
  . socket_create_listen() throws an exception on invalid port value.
    (David Carlier)
  . socket_bind() throws an exception on invalid port value.
    (David Carlier)
  . socket_sendto() throws an exception on invalid port value.
    (David Carlier)
  . socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception on invalid hints value types.
    (David Carlier)
  . socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception if any of the hints value
    overflows. (David Carlier)
  . socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception if one or more hints entries
    has an index as numeric. (David Carlier)
  . socket_set_option with the options MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP/MCAST_LEAVE_SOURCE_GROUP
    will throw an exception if its value is not a valid array/object.
    (David Carlier)
  . socket_getsockname/socket_create/socket_bind handled AF_PACKET family socket.
    (David Carlier)
  . Added IP_BINDANY for a socket to bind to any address. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_BUSY_POOL to reduce packets poll latency. (David Carlier)

- Sodium:
  . Fix overall theorical overflows on zend_string buffer allocations.
    (David Carlier/nielsdos)

- Standard:
  . Fixed crypt() tests on musl when using --with-external-libcrypt
    (Michael Orlitzky).

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug GH-16889 (stream_select() timeout useless for pipes on Windows).
    (cmb)

- Tests:
  . Allow to shuffle tests even in non-parallell mode. (dhuang00)

- Windows:
  . Fixed bug GH-10992 (Improper long path support for relative paths). (cmb,
    nielsdos)
  . Fixed bug GH-16843 (Windows phpize builds ignore source subfolders). (cmb)

- XMLWriter:
  . Improved performance and reduce memory consumption. (nielsdos)

- XSL:
  . Implement request #30622 (make $namespace parameter functional). (nielsdos)

- Zlib:
  . gzfile, gzopen and readgzfile, their "use_include_path" argument
    is now a boolean. (David Carlier)
  . Fixed bug GH-16883 (gzopen() does not use the default stream context when
    opening HTTP URLs). (nielsdos)
  . Implemented GH-17668 (zlib streams should support locking). (nielsdos)


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