andi            Fri Jun 10 12:55:29 2005 EDT

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    /php-src    NEWS 
  Log:
  - Go with Beta 1
  - Merged 5.0.x news and nuked anything prior to 5.0.0 release
  
  
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 PHP                                                                        NEWS
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-?? ??? 2004, PHP 5.1.0
+10 Jun 2005, PHP 5.1 Beta 1
 - Added user opcode API that allow overloading of opcode handlers. (Dmitry)
 - Opcodes ZEND_NEW, ZEND_JMP_NO_CTOR, ZEND_INIT_CTOR are mefget into one
   ZEND_NEW. (Dmitry)
@@ -163,15 +163,410 @@
   and other private variable problems in inherited classes (Stas)
 - Abstract private methods are no longer allowed (Stas)
 
-13 Jul 2004, PHP 5.0.0
+31 Mar 2005, PHP 5.0.4
+- Added SNMPv2 support. (harrie)
+- Added Oracle Instant Client support. (cjbj at hotmail dot com, Tony)
+- Added length and charsetnr for field array and object in mysqli. (Georg)
+- Added checks for negative values to gmp_sqrt(), gmp_powm(), gmp_sqrtrem()
+  and gmp_fact() to prevent SIGFPE. (Tony)
+- Changed foreach() to throw an exception if IteratorAggregate::getIterator()
+  does not return an Iterator. (Marcus)
+- Changed phpize not to require libtool. (Jani)
+- Updated bundled oniguruma library (used for multibyte regular expression)
+  to 3.7.0. (Moriyoshi)
+- Updated bundled libmbfl library (used for multibyte functions). (Moriyoshi)
+  Fixed bugs:
+  . Bug #32311 (mb_encode_mimeheader() does not properly escape characters)
+  . Bug #32063 (mb_convert_encoding ignores named entity 'alpha')
+  . Bug #31911 (mb_decode_mimeheader() is case-sensitive to hex escapes)
+  . bug #30573 (compiler warnings in libmbfl due to invalid type cast)
+  . Bug #30549 (incorrect character translations for some ISO8859 charsets).
+- Fixed bug preventing from building oci8 as shared. 
+  (stanislav dot voroniy at portavita dot nl, Tony)
+- Fixed a bug in mysql_affected_rows and mysql_stmt_affected_rows when the
+  api function returns -1 (Georg)
+- Fixed several leaks in ext/browscap and sapi/embed. (Andrei)
+- Fixed several leaks in ext/filepro. (Tony)
+- Fixed build system to always use bundled libtool files. (Jani)
+- Fixed a bug in mysqli_stmt_execute() (type conversion with NULL values).
+  (Georg)
+- Fixed segfault in mysqli_fetch_field_direct() when invalid field offset 
+  is passed. (Tony)
+- Fixed posix_getsid() & posix_getpgid() to return sid & pgid instead 
+  of true. (Tony)   
+- Fixed bug #32394 (offsetUnset() segfaults in a foreach). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #32373 (segfault in bzopen() if supplied path to non-existent 
+  file). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #32326 (Check values of Connection/Transfer-Encoding 
+  case-incentively in SOAP extension). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #32290 (call_user_func_array() calls wrong class method within 
+  child class). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #32238 (spl_array.c: void function cannot return value). (Johannes)
+- Fixed bug #32210 (proc_get_status() sets "running" always to true). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #32200 (Prevent using both --with-apxs2 and --with-apxs2filter).
+  (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #32134 (Overloading offsetGet/offsetSet). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #32130 (ArrayIterator::seek() does not throw an Exception on 
+  invalid index). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #32115 (dateTime SOAP encoding of timezone incorrect). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #32081 (in mysqli default socket value is not being used). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #32021 (Crash caused by range('', 'z')). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #32011 (Fragments which replaced Nodes are not globaly useable).
+  (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #32001 (xml_parse_into_struct() function exceeds maximum 
+  execution time). (Rob, Moriyoshi)
+- Fixed bug #31980 (Unicode exif data not available on Windows). (Edin)
+- Fixed bug #31960 (msql_fetch_row() and msql_fetch_array() dropping columns
+  with NULL values). (Daniel Convissor)
+- Fixed bug #31878 (Segmentation fault using clone keyword on nodes). (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #31858 (--disable-cli does not force --without-pear). (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #31842 (*date('r') does not return RFC2822 conforming date string).
+  (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #31832 (SOAP encoding problem with complex types in WSDL mode with
+  multiple parts). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #31797 (exif_read_data() uses too low nesting limit). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31796 (readline completion handler does not handle empty return
+  values). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31792 (getrusage() does not provide ru_nswap value). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31755 (Cannot create SOAP header in no namespace). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #31754 (dbase_open() fails for mode = 1). (Mehdi, Derick)
+- Fixed bug #31751 (pg_parameter_status() missing on Windows). (Edin)
+- Fixed bug #31747 (SOAP Digest Authentication doesn't work with 
+  "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" response). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #31732 (mb_get_info() causes segfault when no parameters 
+  specified). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #31710 (Wrong return values for mysqli_autocommit/commit/rollback).
+  (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #31705 (parse_url() does not recognize http://foo.com#bar). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31695 (Cannot redefine endpoint when using WSDL). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #31684 (dio_tcsetattr(): misconfigured termios settings).
+  (elod at itfais dot com)
+- Fixed bug #31683 (changes to $name in __get($name) override future 
+  parameters). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #31699 (unserialize() float problem on non-English locales). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31562 (__autoload() problem with static variables). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #31651 (ReflectionClass::getDefaultProperties segfaults with 
arrays).
+  (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #31623 (OCILogin does not support password grace period).
+  (daniel dot beet at accuratesoftware dot com, Tony)
+- Fixed bug #31527 (crash in msg_send() when non-string is stored without
+  being serialized). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31515 (Improve performance of scandir() by factor of 10 or so). 
(Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31514 (open_basedir uses path_translated rather then cwd for .
+  translation). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31480 (Possible infinite loop in imap_mail_compose()). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31479 (Fixed crash in chunk_split(), when chunklen > strlen). 
(Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31454 (session_set_save_handler crashes PHP when supplied 
+  non-existent object ref). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #31444 (Memory leak in zend_language_scanner.c).
+  (hexer at studentcenter dot org)
+- Fixed bug #31442 (unserialize broken on 64-bit systems). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #31440 ($GLOBALS can be overwritten via GPC when register_globals
+  is enabled). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31422 (No Error-Logging on SoapServer-Side). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #31413 (curl POSTFIELDS crashes on 64-bit platforms). (Joe)
+- Fixed bug #31396 (compile fails with gd 2.0.33 without freetype). (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #31371 (highlight_file() trims new line after heredoc). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31361 (simplexml/domxml segfault when adding node twice). (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #31348 (CachingIterator::rewind() leaks). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #31346 (ArrayIterator::next segfaults). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #31190 (Unexpected warning then exception is thrown from 
+  call_user_func_array()). (phpbugs at domain51 dot net, Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #31142 (imap_mail_compose() fails to generate correct output). 
(Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31139 (XML Parser Functions seem to drop & when parsing). 
(Rob)
+- Fixed bug #31398 (When magic_guotes_gpc are enabled filenames with ' get 
cutoff).
+  (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31288 (Possible crash in mysql_fetch_field(), if 
mysql_list_fields() 
+  was not called previously). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31107, #31110, #31111, #31249 (Compile failure of zend_strtod.c).
+  (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #31110 (PHP 4.3.10 does not compile on Tru64 UNIX 5.1B). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #31107 (Compile failure on Solaris 9 (Intel) and gcc 3.4.3). 
(Derick)
+- Fixed bug #31103 (Better error message when c-client cannot be found). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31101 (missing kerberos header file path with --with-openssl). 
(Jani)
+- Fixed bug #31098 (isset() / empty() incorrectly return true in dereference of
+  a string type). (Moriyoshi)
+- Fixed bug #31087 (broken php_url_encode_hash macro). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31072 (var_export() does not output an array element with an empty
+  string key). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #31060 (imageftbbox() does not use linespacing parameter). (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #31056 (php_std_date() returns invalid formatted date if 
+  y2k_compliance is On). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #31055 (apache2filter: per request leak proportional to the full
+  path of the request URI). (kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
+- Fixed bug #30901 (can't send cookies with soap envelop). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30871 (Misleading warning message for array_combine()). (Andrey)
+- Fixed bug #30868 (evaluated pointer comparison in mbregex causes compile
+  failure). (Moriyoshi)
+- Fixed bug #30862 (Static array with boolean indexes). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30726 (-.1 like numbers are not being handled correctly). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30725 (PHP segfaults when an exception is thrown in getIterator() 
+  within foreach). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30609 (cURL functions bypass open_basedir). (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #30446 (apache2handler: virtual() includes files out of sequence)
+- Fixed bug #30430 (odbc_next_result() doesn't bind values and that results 
+  in segfault). (pdan-php at esync dot org, Tony)
+- Fixed bug #30266 (Invalid opcode 137/1/8). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30120 (imagettftext() and imagettfbbox() accept too many
+  parameters). (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #30106 (SOAP cannot not parse 'ref' element. Causes Uncaught
+  SoapFault exception). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29989 (type re_registers redefined in oniguruma.h). (Moriyoshi)
+- Fixed bug #28803 (enabled debug causes bailout errors with CLI on AIX 
+  because of fflush() called on already closed filedescriptor). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #29767 (Weird behaviour of __set($name, $value)). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29733 (printf() handles repeated placeholders wrong).
+  (bugs dot php dot net at bluetwanger dot de, Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29424 (width and height inverted for JPEG2000 files). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29329 (configure for mysqli with shared doesn't work). (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #29136 (make test - libtool failure on MacOSX). (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #28976 (mail(): use "From:" from headers if sendmail_from is 
empty).
+  (Jani)
+- Fixed bug #28930 (PHP sources pick wrong header files generated by bison).
+  (eggert at gnu dot org, Jani)
+- Fixed bug #28840 (__destruct of a class that extends mysqli not called).
+  (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #28804 (ini-file section parsing pattern is buggy).
+  (wendland at scan-plus dot de)
+- Fixed bug #28451 (corrupt EXIF headers have unlimited recursive IFD directory
+  entries). (Andrei)
+- Fixed bug #28444 (Cannot access undefined property for object with overloaded
+  property access). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #28442 (Changing a static variables in a class changes it across 
+  sub/super classes.) (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #28324 (HTTP_SESSION_VARS appear when register_long_arrays is 
+  Off). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #28074 (FastCGI: stderr should be written in a FCGI stderr stream).
+  (chris at ex-parrot dot com)
+- Fixed bug #28067 (partially incorrect utf8 to htmlentities mapping). (Derick,
+  Benjamin Greiner)
+- Fixed bug #28041 (SOAP HTTP Digest Access Authentication). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #27633 (Double \r problem on ftp_get in ASCII mode on Win32). 
(Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #18613 (Multiple OUs in x509 certificate not handled properly).
+  (Jani)
+
+15 Dec 2004, PHP 5.0.3
+- Added the %F modifier to *printf to render a non-locale-aware representation
+  of a float with the . as decimal seperator. (Derick)
+- Fixed error handling in mysqli_multi_query. (Georg)
+- Extended the functionality of is_subclass_of() to accept either a class name
+  or an object as first parameter. (Andrey) 
+- Fixed potential problems with unserializing invalid serialize data. (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #32076 (ReflectionMethod::isDestructor() always return true). 
+  (Derick, Tony)
+- Fixed bug #31034 (Problem with non-existing iconv header file). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #30995 (snmp extension does not build with net-snmp 5.2). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30994 (SOAP server unable to handle request with references).
+  (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30990 (allow popen() on *NIX to accept 'b' flag). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30967 (properties in extended mysqli classes don't work). (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #30928 (When Using WSDL, SoapServer doesn't handle private or
+  protected properties). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30922 (reflective functions crash PHP when interfaces extend
+  themselves). (Tony, Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30904 (segfault when recording soapclient into session). (Tony,
+  Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30890 (MySQLi testsuite)
+- Fixed bug #30856 (ReflectionClass::getStaticProperties segfaults). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30832 ("!" stripped off comments in xml parser). (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #30799 (SoapServer doesn't handle private or protected properties).
+  (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30783 (Apache crash when using ReflectionFunction::
+  getStaticVariables()). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30750 (Meaningful error message when upload directory is not 
+  accessible). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30685 (Malformed SOAPClient http header reequest). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30672 (Problem handling exif data in jpeg images at unusual 
+  places). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30658 (Ensure that temporary files created by GD are removed).
+  (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30645 (def. multi result set support for mysql_connect). (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #30637 (compile with pear error). (Antony)
+- Fixed bug #30587 (array_multisort doesn't separate zvals before 
+  changing them). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #30572 (crash when comparing SimpleXML attribute to a boolean).
+  (Andi)
+- Fixed bug #30566 (attribute namespace URIs are inconsistent when parsing).
+  (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #30490 (PEAR installation fails). (Antony)
+- Fixed bug #30475 (curl_getinfo() may crash in some situations). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30442 (segfault when parsing ?getvariable[][ ). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #30388 (rename across filesystems loses ownership and 
+  permission info). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #30387 (stream_socket_client async connect was broken).
+  (vnegrier at esds dot com, Wez).
+- Fixed bug #30381 (Strange results with get_class_vars()). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30375 (cal_info() does not work without a parameter). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30362 (stream_get_line() not handling end string correctly).
+  (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30359 (SOAP client requests have no port in "Host" field).
+  (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30356 (str_ireplace() does not work on all strings). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30344 (Reflection::getModifierNames() returns too long strings).
+  (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30329 (Error Fetching http body, No Content-Length, connection
+  closed or chunked data). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30282 (segfault when using unknown/unsupported 
+  session.save_handler and/or session.serialize_handler). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #30281 (Prevent non-wbmp images from being detected as such).
+  (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30276 (Possible crash in ctype_digit on large numbers). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30230 (exception handler not working with objects). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30224 (Sybase date strings are sometimes not null terminated).
+  (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #30175 (SOAP results aren't parsed correctly). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30147 (OO sqlite_fetch_object did not reset error handler). (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #30133 (get_current_user() crashes on Windows). (Edin)
+- Fixed bug #30061 (xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler not called). (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #30057 (did not detect IPV6 on FreeBSD 4.1). (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #30042 (strtotime does not use second param). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #30027 (Possible crash inside ftp_get()).
+  (cfield at affinitysolutions dot com)
+- Fixed bug #29954 (array_reduce segfaults when initial value is array). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #29883 (isset gives invalid values on strings). (Tony, Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29801 (Set limit on the size of mmapable data). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29557 (strtotime error). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #29418 (double free when openssl_csr_new fails).
+  (Kamesh Jayachandran).
+- Fixed bug #29385 (Soapserver always uses std class). (David, Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29211 (SoapClient doesn't request wsdl through proxy). (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #28817 (Var problem when extending domDocument). (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #28599 (strtotime fails with zero base time). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #28598 (Lost support for MS Symbol fonts). (Pierre)
+- Fixed bug #28220 (mb_strwidth() returns wrong width values for some hangul
+  characters). (Moriyoshi)
+- Fixed bug #28228 (NULL decimal separator is not being handled correctly).
+  (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #28209 (strtotime("now")). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #27798 (private / protected variables not exposed by 
+  get_object_vars() inside class). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #27728 (Can't return within a zend_try {} block or the previous
+  bailout state isn't restored. (Andi)
+- Fixed bug #27183 (Userland stream wrapper segfaults on stream_write). 
+  (Christian)
+
+23 Sep 2004, PHP 5.0.2
+- Added new boolean (fourth) parameter to array_slice() that turns on the
+  preservation of keys in the returned array. (Derick)
+- Added the sorting flag SORT_LOCALE_STRING to the sort() functions which makes
+  them sort based on the current locale. (Derick)
+- Added interface_exists() and make class_exists() only return true for real
+  classes. (Andrey)
+- Added PHP_EOL constant that contains the OS way of representing newlines.
+  (Paul Hudson, Derick)
+- Implemented periodic PCRE compiled regexp cache cleanup, to avoid memory
+  exhaustion. (Andrei)
+- Renamed SoapClient->__call() to SoapClinet->__soapCall(). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug with raw_post_data not getting set (Brian)
+- Fixed a file-descriptor leak with phpinfo() and other 'special' URLs (Zeev)
+- Fixed bug #30209 (ReflectionClass::getMethod() lowercases attribute). 
+  (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #30182 (SOAP module processing WSDL file dumps core). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #30045 (Cannot pass big integers (> 2147483647) in SOAP requests).
+  (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29985 (unserialize()/ __PHP_Incomplete_class does not report 
+  correctly class name). (Marcus, Tony)
+- Fixed bug #29945 (simplexml_load_file URL limitation 255 char). (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #29873 (No defines around pcntl_*priority definitions). (Derick)
+- Fixed bug #29844 (SOAP doesn't return the result of a valid SOAP request).
+  (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29842 (soapclient return null value). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29839 (incorrect convert (xml:lang to lang)). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29830 (SoapServer::setClass() should not export non-public
+  methods). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29828 (Interfaces no longer work). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #29821 (Fixed possible crashes in convert_uudecode() on invalid
+  data). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29808 (array_count_values() breaks with numeric strings). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29805 (HTTP Authentication Issues). (Uwe Schindler)
+- Fixed bug #29795 (SegFault with Soap and Amazon's Web Services). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29737 (ip2long should return -1 if IP is 255.255.255.255 and FALSE
+  on error). (Tony)
+- Fixed bug #29711 (Changed ext/xml to default to UTF-8 output). (Rob)
+- Fixed bug #29678 (opendir() with ftp:// wrapper segfaults if path does not
+  have trailing slash). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29657 (xml_* functions throw non descriptive error). 
+  (Christian, Rob)
+- Fixed bug #29656 (segfault on result and statement properties). (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #29566 (foreach/string handling strangeness (crash)). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29447 (Reflection API issues). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #29296 (Added sslv2 and sslv3 transports). (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #29283 (Invalid statement handle in mysqli on execute). (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #29913 (parse_url() is now binary safe). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #27994 (segfault with Soapserver when WSDL-Cache is enabled).
+  (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #27791 (Apache 2.0 SAPI build against Apache 2 HEAD). (Joe Orton,
+  Derick)
+- Fixed bug #26737 (private/protected properties not serialized when user
+  declared method __sleep() exists). E_NOTICE thrown when __sleep() returns
+  name of non-existing member. (Andrey, Curt)
+
+12 Aug 2004, PHP 5.0.1
+- Changed destructor mechanism so that destructors are called prior to request
+  shutdown. (Marcus)
 - Rewritten UNIX and Windows install help files. (Documentation Team)
+- Updated several libraries bundled with the windows release which now 
+  includes libxml2-2.6.11, libxslt-1.1.7 and iconv-1.9.1. (Rob, Edin)
+- Improved and moved ActiveScript SAPI to PECL.  (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #29606 (php_strip_whitespace() prints to stdout rather then
+  returning the value). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29577 (MYSQLI_CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS undefined) (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #29573 (Segmentation fault, when exception thrown within
+  PHP function called from XSLT). (Christian)
+- Fixed bug #29522 (accessing properties without connection) (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #29505 (get_class_vars() severely broken when used with arrays).
+  (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #29490 (.Net object instantiation failed). (Michael Sisolak).
+- Fixed bug #29474 (win32: usleep() doesn't work). (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #29449 (win32: feof() hangs on empty tcp stream). (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #29437 (Possible crash inside array_walk_recursive()). (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29431 (crash when parsing invalid address; invalid address
+  returned by stream_socket_recvfrom(), stream_socket_getname()). (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #29409 (Segfault in PHP functions called from XSLT). (Rob)
+- Fixed unloading of dynamically loaded extensions. 
+  (Marcus, kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
+- Fixed bug #29395 (sqlite_escape_string() returns bogus data on empty
+  strings). (Ilia, Tony)
+- Fixed bug #29392 (com_dotnet crashes when echo'ing an object). (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #29368 (The destructor is called when an exception is thrown from 
+  the constructor). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #29354 (Exception constructor marked as both public and protected).
+  (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #29342 (strtotime() does not handle empty date string properly).
+  (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #29340 (win32 build produces invalid php_ifx.dll). (Edin)
+- Fixed bug #29335 (fetch functions now use MYSQLI_BOTH as default) (Georg)
+- Fixed bug #29291 (get_class_vars() return names with NULLs). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #29264 (gettext extension not working). (Edin)
+- Fixed bug #29258 (variant_date_from_timestamp() does not honour
+  timezone).  (Wez)
+- Fixed bug #29256 (error when sending large packets on a socket). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29236 (memory error when wsdl-cache is enabled). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29147 (Compile Error in mnoGoSearch functions). (Sergey, Antony)
+- Fixed bug #29132 ($_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"] isn't defined). (Stefan)
+- Fixed bug #29119 (html_entity_decode() misbehaves with UTF-8). (Moriyoshi)
+- Fixed bug #29109 (SoapFault exception: [WSDL] Out of memory). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #29061 (soap extension segfaults). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #28985 (__getTypes() returning nothing on complex WSDL). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #28969 (Wrong data encoding of special characters). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed bug #28895 (ReflectionClass::isAbstract always returns false). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #28829 (Thread-unsafety in bcmath elementary values). (Sara)
+- Fixed bug #28464 (catch() does not catch exceptions by interfaces). (Marcus)
+- Fixed bug #27669 (PHP 5 didn't support all possibilities for calling static
+  methods dynamically). (Dmitry)
+- Fixed ReflectionClass::getMethod() and ReflectionClass::getProperty() to
+  raise an ReflectionException instead of returning NULL on failure.
+  (Sebastian)
+- Fixed convert.* filters to consume remaining buckets_in on flush. (Sara)
+- Fixed bug in mysqli->client_version. (Georg)
+
+13 Jul 2004, PHP 5.0.0
 - Updated PCRE to provide better error handling in certain cases. (Andrei)
 - Changed doc comments to require a single white space after '/**'. (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #29019 (Database not closing). (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #29008 (array_combine() does not handle non-numeric/string keys).
   (Ilia)
 - Fixed bug #28999 (fixed behaviour of exec() to work as it did in 4.X). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #28895 (ReflectionClass::isAbstract always returns false). (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #28868 (Internal filter registry not thread safe). (Sara)
 - Fixed bug #28851 (call_user_func_array has typo in error message). (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #28831 (ArrayObject::offsetGet() does the work of offsetUnset()). 
@@ -188,511 +583,5 @@
 - Fixed bug #28699 (Reflection api bugs). (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #28694 (ReflectionExtension::getFunctions() crashes PHP). (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #28512 (Allocate enough space to store MSSQL data). (Frank)
-- Fixed bug #28325 (Circular references not properly serialised). (Moriyoshi)
 - Fixed strip_tags() to correctly handle '\0' characters. (Stefan)
 
-7 Jun 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 3
-- Moved the PDFLib extension to PECL. (Wez)
-- Added MySQL 4.1.2-alpha and 4.1.3-beta support to MySQLI extension. (Georg)
-- Added support for dumping private/protected properties to var_dump().
-  (Andrey)
-- Added count() support for COM arrays. (Wez)
-- Added Firebird/InterBase UDF source that allows PHP functions to be called 
-  from SQL (Ard)
-- Removed Firebird/Interbase function ibase_timefmt() (Ard)
-- Changed user error handler mechanism to relay to built-in error handler if it
-  returns false. (Andrei)
-- Changed class type hints for function parameters to not allow the passing of
-  NULL values. (Andi)
-- Changed tidy_node to tidyNode and removed tidy_exception. (John)
-- Fixed ip2long() to return FALSE if an IP address passed to this function
-  is not valid. (Derick)
-- Fixed memory leak in memory manager. (Andi)
-- Fixed problem with exceptions returning from include(). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #28641 (Instance of Interface). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #28430 (Extending mysqli class). (Georg)
-- Fixed bug #28311 (Transparency detection code is off by 1).
-  (Ilia, pikeman at pikeman dot sytes dot net)
-- Fixed bug #28304 (Missing bounds check inside imagefilter()). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #28300 (Userspace stream/filter names forced to lowercase). (Sara)
-- Fixed bug #28287 (stream_*_register() not calling __autoload()). (Sara)
-- Fixed bug #28267 (php_image_filter_contrast calls gdImageBrightness). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #28239 (No results returned on SOAP call, no error given). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #28205 (num_rows property for statement object). (Georg)
-- Fixed bug #28161 (COM: Array style properties could not be accessed). (Wez)
-- Fixed bug #28125 (ArrayObject leaks when accessing elements). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #28100 (NULL parameter support for mysqli_ssl_set). (Georg)
-- Fixed bug #28099 (ArrayObject doesn't implement ArrayAccess). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27929 (SPL: change visibility of ArrayIterator::__construct).
-  (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27640 (memory leak of registered_zend_ini_directives).  (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27063 (SPL: ArrayObject does not handle PPP correctly). (Marcus)
-
-25 Apr 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 2
-- Implementing an interface/abstract method with the wrong prototype is now
-  a fatal error. (Zeev)
-- Reimplemented zend.ze1_compatibility_mode to have better PHP 4 compliance.
-  (Dmitry, Andi)
-- Under CLI, fclose() on php://stdin, php://stdout and php://stderr will now
-  close the real stream.  Please update your CLI scripts to use STDIN, STDOUT
-  and STDERR constants instead of fopen()/fclose(). (Wez)
-- Moved yaz extension to PECL. (Wez)
-- Added pty support to proc_open(). (Wez)
-- Added possibility to check in which extension an internal class was defined 
-  in using reflection API. (Marcus)
-- Changed tidy error handling to no longer use exceptions and 
-  renamed the "error_buf" property to errorBuffer. (John)
-- Changed class and method names to use studlyCaps convention. (Marcus)
-- Changed language parser to throw errors when a non-empty signature is used in
-  a destructor definition. (Marcus)
-- Changed HTTP file uploads not to throw E_WARNINGs and E_NOTICEs. The error 
-  value in the $_FILES global should be used for error handling. (Derick)
-- Changed __construct() to always take precedence over old style constructor.
-  (Dmitry)
-- Fixed handling of return values from storred procedures in mssql_execute()
-  with multiple result sets returned. (Frank)
-- Fixed bug #28096 (stream_socket_accept() doesn't work with ssl). (Wez)
-- Fixed bug #28007 (compile mssql extension with old versions of FreeTDS
-  fails). (Frank)
-- Fixed bug #27997 (SPL: Crash with getInnerIterator()). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27974 (COM doesn't pass array parameters). (Wez)
-- Fixed bug #27928 (sqlite incorrectly handles invalid filenames). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug $27923 (in some cases using foreach() to iterate over values
-  led to a false error message about the key being a reference). (Adam)
-- Fixed bug #27865 (STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR are dup()d under CLI). (Wez)
-- Fixed bug #27821 (xml_parse() segfaults when xml_set_object() is called from
-  class method). (Andi, Rob)
-- Fixed bug #27742 (WDSL SOAP Parsing Schema bug). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27722 (Segfault on schema without targetNamespace). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27719 (mktime issues on and around DST changeover). (Rasmus)
-- Fixed bug #27681 (soap extension fails without HAVE_TM_GMTOFF). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27641 (Object cloning in ze1_compatibility_mode was reimplemented)
-  (Dmitry, Andi)
-- Fixed bug #27628 (Simplify the process of making a POST request via stream
-  context). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #27619 (filters not applied to pre-buffered stream data). (Sara)
-- Fixed bug #27519 (Reflection_Function constructor crashes with non-existant 
-  function's name). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27469 (serialize() objects of incomplete class). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27457 (handling of numeric indexes in strtr()). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27397 (debug_backtrace() not showing function arguments). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #27283 (The last catch statement was sometimes skipped). (Andi)
-- Fixed bug #26441 (When __set() returned a value it corrupted it). (Andi)
-- Fixed bug #19749 (shouldn't mmap() files larger than memory_limit). (Wez)
-
-18 March 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 1
-- Fixed numerous bugs with the just-in-time auto-global initialization, that
-  could cause $_SERVER, $argv/$argc and other variables not to work properly.
-  (Zeev)
-- Fixed data corruption with constant assignments to object properties. (Zeev)
-- Changed __toString() to be called automatically only with print and echo
-  statements. (Andi)
-- Replaced the exec_finished hook by the zend_post_deactive hook for
-  extensions. The new hook will be run after the symbol table and destructors
-  are run. (Derick)
-- Fixed possible crash when internal get_method() is not defined. (Andi)
-- Fixed calling methods using call_user_func() in conjunction with 
-  the array("Class","Method") syntax to use the scope of the PHP user function.
-  (Dmitry)
-- Fixed php-cgi to not ignore command-line switches when run in a web context.
-  This fixes our test cases allowing INI with GET sections to work. (Rasmus)
-- Fixed getopt() so it works without $_SERVER. (Rasmus, bfrance)
-- Added support for PHP 4 style object comparisons which is enabled in
-  ze1_compatiblity_mode. (Andi)
-- Added support for PHP 4 style object conversion to long, double, and boolean
-  values which is enabled in ze1_compatibility_mode. (Andi, Stas)
-- Allow object oriented extensions to overload comparison functions and other
-  operations. Solves problems using SimpleXML values. (Andi, Zeev)
-- Fixed crash when accessing a class constant with a value which in turn is
-  also a constant. (Dmitry)
-- Fixed object's truth value conversion. It is always true unless
-  ze1_compatibility_mode is on in which it behaves like in PHP 4. (Stas)
-- Improved out of memory handling in new memory manager. (Stas)
-- Fixed crash when an object references itself during destructor call. (Andi)
-- Fixed crash in foreach() when iterating over object properties or a method's
-  return values. (Andi)
-- Fixed crash when an exception is thrown in a destructor. Such exceptions are
-  now ignored as destruction happens out of context at no definite time. (Andi)
-- Fixed crashes in exception handling. (Dmitry, Andi)
-- Changed prototype checks so that they aren't done on constructors. (Andi)
-- Changed prototype checks to output an E_STRICT message instead of
-  an E_COMPILE_ERROR. (Andi)
-- Changed Iterator::has_more() to Iterator::valid(). (Marcus)
-- Upgraded bundled oniguruma library to version 2.2.2. (Rui, Moriyoshi)
-- Added mb_list_encoding() to return an array with all mbstring supported
-  encodings. (Derick)
-- Added support for more ISO8601 datetime formats in strtotime(). (Moriyoshi)
-  . Timezone specifier (ex. "20040301T02:00:00+19:00")
-  . Week specifier (ex. "1997W021")
-- Renamed php.ini option "zend2.implicit_clone" to 
-  "zend.ze1_compatibility_mode" as it doesn't only affect implicit cloning.
-  (Andi, Zeev)
-- Methods that override parent methods are now subject to prototype checking,
-  and have to be compatible with the method they're overriding - this check is 
-  disabled in compatibility mode. (Andi, Zeev)
-- Fixed crash in php_ini_scanned_files() when no additional INI files were
-  actually parsed. (Jon)
-- Fixed bug in gdImageFilledRectangle in the bundled GD library, that required
-  x1 < x2 and y1 < y2 for coordinates. (Derick)
-- Fixed crash with foreach() and temporary objects($obj->method()->a ...) where
-  method returns a non-referenced object. (Andi, Zeev)
-- Fixed problem preventing startup errors from being displayed. (Marcus)
-- Fixed start-up problem if both SPL and SimpleXML were enabled. The double
-  initialization of apache 1.3 was causing problems here. (Marcus, Derick)
-- Fixed bug #27606 (Expression must be a modifiable lvalue compiler error).
-  (Derick)
-- Fixed bug #27597 (pg_fetch_array not returning false). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27586 (ArrayObject::getIterator crashes with [] assignment). 
-  (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27537 (Objects pointing to each other segfaults). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27535 (Problem with object freeing mechanism). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27504 (Visibility bugs in call_user_function()). (Dmitry)
-- Fixed bug #27338 (memory leak inside tsrm_virtual_cwd.c on win32). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #27291 (get_browser matches browscap.ini patterns incorrectly). 
-  (Jay)
-- Fixed bug #27287 (wddx segfaults during deserialization). (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #27263 (session extension crashes when unserializing referenced
-  values / objects). (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #27237 (Working with simplexml crashes apache2). (Rob)
-- Fixed bug #27227 (Mixed case class names causes Fatal Error in Constructor 
-  call). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27125 (strval() doesn't work for objects with __toString()).
-  (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27123 (Fix crash caused by bug in get_object_vars()). (Andi)
-- Fixed bug #26677 (mbstring compile errors with IRIX compiler).
-  (K.Kosako <kosako at sofnec dot co dot jp>, Rui, Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #26206 (register_long_arrays breaks superglobals). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #25724 (argv and argc not defined). (Zeev)
-
-12 Feb 2004, PHP 5 Beta 4
-- Changed exceptions so that they must now inherit from the built-in Exception
-  class. This allows for a general catch(Exception $e) statement to catch all
-  exceptions. (Andi, Zeev)
-- Added SPL extension. (Marcus, Derick)
-- Added checks for invalid characters in a cookie name and cookie data 
-  into set[raw]cookie(). (Brian)
-- Added support for ++ and += (and similar) to SimpleXML. (Andi, Zeev)
-- Added infrastructure for ++ and += (and similar) to object overloading
-  modules. (Andi, Zeev)
-- Added error message when trying to re-assign to $this variable. (Zeev, Andi)
-- Added support for an interface to extend another interface. (Zeev)
-- Added new pspell functions: (Brian)
-  . pspell_config_dict_dir()
-  . pspell_config_data_dir()
-- Added new Interbase functions: (Ard)
-  . ibase_service_attach() and ibase_service_detach().
-  . ibase_backup() and ibase_restore().
-  . ibase_maintain_db(), ibase_db_info() and ibase_server_info().
-- Added context option "http"/"request_fulluri" to send entire URI in request
-  which is required format for some proxies. (Sara)
-- Added optional third parameter 'strict' to array_keys(). (Andrey)
-- Added stream_lock() method to userspace streams interface. (Hartmut, Wez)
-- Added xsltprocessor->registerPHPFunctions(). (Christian)
-- Readded support for using classes before they are declared according to
-  the behavior in PHP 4. This won't work with classes who are using PHP 5
-  features such as interfaces. (Zeev, Andi)
-- Completely overhauled SimpleXML extension. (Marcus, Rob, Sterling)
-- Upgraded bundled SQLite library to version 2.8.11. (Ilia, Wez)
-- Improved destructor implementation to always call destructors on clean
-  shutdown. An order of destruction is not guaranteed. (Zeev, Andi)
-- Redesigned exception support. This fixes many bugs in the previous design
-  such as nested try's and problems with overloaded extensions. (Zeev, Andi)
-- Redesigned clone by adding a clone keyword (clone $obj) and copying all
-  properties before __clone() is called. Also allows calling parent __clone
-  function by using parent::__clone(). (Zeev, Andi)
-- Fixed interfaces to check for function return-by-reference equality when
-  inheriting and implementing interfaces. (Andi, Zeev)
-- Fixed foreach() to respect property visibility. (Marcus)
-- Fixed problem with parse error in include() file not stopping PHP's
-  execution. (Ilia)
-- Fixed var_export() to show public, protected and private modifiers properly.
-  (Derick)
-- Fixed problems with longlong values in mysqli. (Georg)
-- Fixed class name case preserving of user defined classes. (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27145 (Unmangle private/protected property names before printing
-  them inside error messages). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #27103 (preg_split('//u') incorrectly splits UTF-8 strings into
-  octets). (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #27042 (SPL: SeekableIterator seek() broken). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #27008 (Every class method can be called as static). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #26938 (exec() has problems reading long lines).
-  (Ilia, runekl[at]opoint[dot]com
-- Fixed bug #26947 (ext/dom: Crash when using DomDocument::getElementById()).
-  (Christian)
-- Fixed bug #26911 (crash in sqlite extension when fetching data from empty
-  queries). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #26844 (ext/mime_magic: magic file validation broken). (Jani)
-- Fixed bug #26819 (http_build_query() crashes on NULL output). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #26817 (http_build_query() does not handle private & protected
-  object properties correctly). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #26815 (foreach of (DOM) childnodes crashes when Xinclude is used).
-  (Rob)
-- Fixed bug #26796 (SQLite causes crashes with other extensions *connect()
-  calls). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #26762 (unserialize() produces lowercase classnames). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #26743 (getElementsByTagName doesn't work properly). (Rob)
-- Fixed bug #26736 (__autoload not invoked for parent classes). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #26723 (domNode::appendChild() changes child node namespace). (Rob)
-- Fixed bug #26697 (calling class_exists() on a nonexistent class in __autoload
-  results in segfault). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #26696 (string index in a switch() crashes with multiple matches).
-  (Andi)
-- Fixed bug #26695 (Reflection API does not recognize mixed-case class hints).
-  (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #26690 (make xsltProcessor->transformToUri use streams wrappers).
-  (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #26680 (Added version check in mysqli_report_index). (Georg)
-- Fixed bug #26675 (Segfault on ArrayAccess use). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #26640 (__autoload() not invoked by Reflection classes). (Jani)
-- Fixed bug #26543 (call_user_func() broken for self, parent). (Stanislav)
-- Fixed bug #26077 (memory leak when new() result is not assigned and no
-  constructor is defined). (Stanislav)
-- Fixed bug #26065 (Crash when nesting classes). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #25816 (disallow arrays in class constants). (Stanislav)
-- Fixed bug #25329 (sqlite_create_function with method and reference to $this).
-  (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #25038 (call_user_func() issues a warning if function throws an
-  exception). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #24608 (__set not triggered when overloading with array).
-  (Stanislav)
-- Fixed bug #24243 (enabling browscap causes segfault). (Wez)
-
-21 Dec 2003, PHP 5 Beta 3
-- Bundled new tidy extension (John, Wez)
-- Upgraded PCRE library to version 4.5. (Andrei)
-- Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)
-- Moved extensions to PECL:
-  . ext/crack (Jani, Derick)
-  . ext/db (Jani, Derick)
-  . ext/mcal (Jani, Derick)
-  . ext/qtdom (Jani, Derick)
-  . ext/notes (Wez)
-- Added 'c' modifier to date() which returns the date in the ISO 8601 format.
-  (Derick, Manuzhai)
-- Added an optional parameter to microtime() to get the time as float. (Andrey)
-- Added MacRoman encoding support to htmlentities(). (Derick, Marcus Bointon)
-- Added possibility to call PHP functions as XSLT-functions. (Christian)
-- Added possibility to prevent PHP from registering variables when input filter
-  support is used. (Derick)
-- Added iconv stream filter (convert.iconv.*). (Moriyoshi)
-- Added EXSLT support in ext/xsl. (Christian)
-- Added qdbm handler for dba extension. (mg at iceni dot pl, Marcus)
-- Added new functions:
-  . dba_key_split() to split inifile keys in an array. (Marcus)
-  . time_nanosleep() signal safe sleep (Magnus, Ilia)
-  . headers_list(). (Sara)
-  . php_strip_whitespace(). strip whitespace & comments from a script. (Ilia)
-  . php_check_syntax(). check php script for parse errors. (Ilia)
-  . image_type_to_extension(). return extension based on image type. (Ilia)
-  . stream_socket_sendto() and stream_socket_recvfrom(). (Wez)
-  . iconv_mime_decode_headers(). (Moriyoshi)
-  . get_declared_interfaces(). (Andrey, Marcus)
-  . sqlite_fetch_column_types(). (Ilia)
-- Added proxy support to http:// wrapper. (Sara)
-- Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to userstreams. (Sara)
-- Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to ftp:// wrapper. (Sara)
-- Changed rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
-- Changed stat() and family to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
-- Fixed include_once() / require_once() on Windows to honor case-insensitivity
-  of files. (Andi)
-- Fixed get_declared_classes() to return only classes. (Andrey, Marcus)
-- Fixed __autoload() to preserve case of the passed class name. (Andi)
-- Fixed bug #26615 () (runekl at opoint dot com, Derick)
-- Fixed bug #26591 ("__autoload threw an exception" during an uncaught).
-  (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #26534 (stream_get_meta_data() -> Access Violation). (Wez)
-- Fixed bug #26528 (HTML entities are not being decoded by
-  xml_parse()/xml_parse_into_struct()). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #26182 (Object properties created redundantly). (Andi)
-- Fixed bug #26156 (REPLACE_ZVAL_VALUE works on uninit stack-based zvals).
-  (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #26083 (Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #26072 (--disable-libxml does not work). (Jani)
-- Fixed bug #26001 (serialize crashes when accessing an overloaded object that
-  has no properties (NULL hashtable)). (Wez)
-- Fixed bug #25664 (COM crashes when calling a Delphi implementations of
-  ITypeInfo). (Wez)
-- Fixed bug #24837 (Incorrect behaviour of PPP using foreach). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #24693 (Allow session.use_trans_sid to be enabled/disabled from
-  inside the script). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #24394 (Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault).
-  (Moriyoshi)
-
-30 Oct 2003, PHP 5 Beta 2
-- Lots and lots of changes in the Zend Engine 2 since beta 1:
-  . Added Iterators
-  . Improved memory manager
-  . Added Reflection API
-  . Removed the not so working namespaces support
-  . Removed support for expressions within constant declarations.
-  . You can read about most changes in ZEND_CHANGES under the Zend directory.
-- Improved the DBX extension: (Marc)
-  . Added DBX_RESULT_UNBUFFERED flag for dbx_query().
-  . Added dbx_fetch_row()
-  . Added SQLite support.
-- Improved the Interbase extension: (Ard Biesheuvel)
-  . Added support for multiple databases into ibase_trans()
-  . Added support for CREATE DATABASE, SET TRANSACTION and EXECUTE PROCEDURE
-    statements into ibase_query()
-  . Added ability to bind PHP arrays to native Interbase arrays
-  . Added ibase_commit_ret() and ibase_rollback_ret()
-  . Added ibase_drop_db()
-  . Added ibase_gen_id()
-  . Added ibase_name_result()
-  . Added ibase_errcode()
-  . Added ibase_affected_rows() and ibase_num_params()
-  . Added ibase_param_info()
-  . Added ibase_wait_event()
-  . Added ibase_set_event_handler() and ibase_free_event_handler()
-- Added new COM extension with integrated .Net support. (Wez)
-- Added new functions:
-  . setrawcookie(). (Brian)
-  . pg_version(). (Marcus)
-  . dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak)
-  . snmp_read_mib(). (Jani)
-  . http_build_query(). (Sara)
-  . ftp_alloc(). (Sara)
-  . array_udiff(). (Andrey)
-  . array_udiff_assoc(). (Andrey)
-  . array_udiff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
-  . array_diff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
-  . convert_uuencode(). (Ilia)
-  . convert_uudecode(). (Ilia)
-  . substr_compare(). (Ilia)
-  . pcntl_wait(). (GeorgeS)
-- Added "resume_pos" context option to "ftp://"; wrapper. (Sara)
-- Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of LOB
-  (Patch by Novicky Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). (Thies)
-- Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm)
-- Changed length parameter in fgetcsv() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed IPv6 support in MacOSX Panther. (Dan, Marko)
-- Fixed fgetcsv() to correctly handle international (non-ascii) characters.
-  (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed support for <![CDATA[]]> fields within XML documents in ext/xml.
-  (Sterling)
-- Fixed visibility of __construct and __clone. (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #25756 (SimpleXML's validate_schema_file() broken). (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #25581 (getimagesize() returns incorrect values on bitmap (os2)
-  files). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #25494 (array_merge*() allows non-arrays as argument). (Jay)
-- Fixed bug #24766 (strange result array from unpack()). (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #24729 ($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not
-  set). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #24565 (cannot read array elements received via $_REQUEST). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #24445 (get_parent_class() returns different values).
-  (Sterling, Stanislav)
-- Fixed bug #24403 (preg_replace() problem: Using $this when not in object
-  context). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #24399 (PEAR DB isError crash [instanceof_function fault?]).
-  (Sterling, Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #24396 (foreach ($k=>$v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #24279 (__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #22367 (undefined variable has a value). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #19859 (allow fast_call_user_function to support __call).
-  (Stanislav)
-- Fixed bug #17997 (Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #17988 (strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick)
-
-29 Jun 2003, PHP 5 Beta 1
-- Removed the bundled MySQL client library. (Sterling)
-- Switched to Zend Engine 2, which includes numerous engine level improvements.
-  A full list is available at http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php.
-- Added SQLite (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) extension: (Wez, Marcus, Tal)
-  . Includes bundled SQLite library
-  . Enabled by default
-- Completely Overhauled XML support:
-  . New simplexml extension. (Sterling)
-  . New DOM extension. (Rob, Chregu, Marcus)
-  . New XSL extension. (Chregu, Rob)
-  . Moved the old DOM-XML and XSLT extensions to PECL. (James, Sterling)
-  . ext/xml can now use either libxml2 or expat to parse XML. (Sterling)
-  . Removed bundled expat library. (Jani)
-- New php.ini options:
-  . "session.hash_function" and "session.hash_bits_per_character". (Sascha)
-  . "mail.force_extra_paramaters". (Derick)
-  . "register_long_arrays". (Zeev)
-- Improved the speed of internal functions that use callbacks by 40% due to a
-  new internal fast_call_user_function() function. (Sterling)
-- Improved the streams support: (Wez)
-  . Improved performance of readfile(), fpassthru() and some internal streams
-    operations under Win32.
-  . stream_socket_client() - similar to fsockopen(), but more powerful.
-  . stream_socket_server() - Creates a server socket.
-  . stream_socket_accept() - Accept a client connection.
-  . stream_socket_get_name() - Get local or remote name of socket.
-  . stream_copy_to_stream()
-  . stream_get_line() - Reads either the specified number of bytes or until
-    the ending string is found. (Ilia)
-  . Added context property to userspace streams object. (Sara)
-  . Added generic crypto interface for streams.
-    (supports dynamic loading of OpenSSL)
-  . Added lightweight streaming input abstraction to the Zend Engine scanners
-    to provide uniform support for include()'ing data from PHP streams across
-    all platforms.
-  . Added 'string.base64' stream filter. (Moriyoshi)
-  . Renamed stream_register_wrapper() to stream_wrapper_register(). (Derick)
-- Improved the GD extension: (Pierre-Alain Joye, Ilia)
-   . imagefilter() - Apply different filters to image.
-    (Only available with bundled GD library)
-   . Antialiased drawing support:
-     o imageantialias() - (de)active antialias
-     o imageline() and imagepolygon() antialias support
-- Changed the length parameter in fgetss() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
-- Changed ini parser to allow for handling of quoted multi-line values. (Ilia)
-- Changed get_extension_funcs() to return list of the built-in Zend Engine
-  functions if "zend" is specified as the module name. (Ilia)
-- Changed array_search() to accept also objects as a needle. (Moriyoshi)
-- Changed ext/mcrypt to require libmcrypt version 2.5.6 or greater. (Derick)
-- Changed uniqid() parameters to be optional and allow any prefix length.
-  (Marcus)
-- Added new iconv functions. (Moriyoshi)
-  . iconv_strlen()
-  . iconv_substr()
-  . iconv_strpos()
-  . iconv_strrpos()
-  . iconv_mime_decode()
-  . iconv_mime_encode()
-- Added misc. new functions:
-  . ldap_sasl_bind(). ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Jani)
-  . imap_getacl(). (Dan, Holger Burbach)
-  . file_put_contents(). (Sterling)
-  . proc_nice() - Changes priority of the current process. (Ilia)
-  . pcntl_getpriority() and pcntl_setpriority(). (Ilia)
-  . idate(), date_sunrise() and date_sunset(). (Moshe Doron)
-  . strpbrk() - Searches a string for a list of characters. (Ilia)
-  . get_headers() - Returns headers sent by the server of the specified URL.
-    (Ilia)
-  . str_split() - Breaks down a string into an array of elements based on
-    length. (Ilia)
-  . array_walk_recursive(). (Ilia)
-  . array_combine(). (Andrey)
-- Added optional parameter to get_browser() to make it return an array. (Jay)
-- Added optional parameter to openssl_sign() to specify the hashing algorithm.
-  ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Derick)
-- Added optional parameter to sha1(), sha1_file(), md5() and md5_file() which
-  makes them return the digest as binary data. (Michael Bretterklieber, Derick)
-- Added optional parameter to mkdir() to make directory creation recursive.
-  (Ilia)
-- Added optional parameter to file() which makes the result array not contain
-  the line endings and to skip empty lines. (Ilia)
-- Added new range() functionality:
-  . Support for float modifier. (Ilia)
-  . Detection of numeric values inside strings passed as high & low. (Ilia)
-  . Proper handle the situations where high == low. (Ilia)
-  . Added an optional step parameter. (Jon)
-- Added encoding detection feature for expat XML parser.
-  (Adam Dickmeiss, Moriyoshi)
-- Added missing multibyte (unicode) support and numeric entity support to
-  html_entity_decode(). (Moriyoshi)
-- Added IPv6 support to ext/sockets. (Sara)
-- Added "ftp://"; wrapper support to opendir(), stat() and unlink(). (Sara)
-- Added context options 'method', 'header' and 'content' for "http://"; fopen
-  wrapper. (Sara)
-- Added input filter support. See README.input_filter for more info. (Rasmus)
-- Added a replace count for str_[i]replace(), see bug #8218. (Sara)
-- Fixed is_executable() to be available also on Windows. (Shane)
-- Fixed dirname() and strip_tags() to be binary-safe. (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #24098 (crash in pathinfo()). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #21985 and #22064 (various mb_send_mail() issues). (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #21600 (Assign by reference function call changes variable
-  contents). (Zeev)

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