PHP NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ?? ??? ????, PHP 8.4.0alpha3 - Core: . Fix GH-14978 (The xmlreader extension phpize build). (Peter Kokot) . Throw Error exception when encountering recursion during comparison, rather than fatal error. (ilutov) . Added missing cstddef include for C++ builds. (cmb) - BCMath: . Adjust bcround()'s $mode parameter to only accept the RoundingMode enum. (timwolla, saki) - DOM: . Fix trampoline leak in xpath callables. (nielsdos) . Throw instead of silently failing when creating a too long text node in (DOM)ParentNode and (DOM)ChildNode. (nielsdos) - FPM: . /dev/poll events.mechanism for Solaris/Illumos setting had been retired. (David Carlier) - Intl: . Added SpoofChecker::setAllowedChars to set unicode chars ranges. (David Carlier) . Fixed bug GH-15087 (IntlChar::foldCase()'s $option is not optional). (cmb) - Opcache: . Fixed bug GH-13775 (Memory leak possibly related to opcache SHM placement). (Arnaud) - OpenSSL: . Bumped minimum required OpenSSL version to 1.1.0. (cmb) - PDO_FIREBIRD: . Added Pdo\Firebird::ATTR_API_VERSION. (SakiTakamachi) . Added getApiVersion() and removed from getAttribute(). (SakiTakamachi) . Supported Firebird 4.0 datatypes. (sim1984) - PGSQL: . pg_convert/pg_insert/pg_update/pg_delete ; regexes are now cached. (David Carlier) - Random: . Fixed bug GH-15094 (php_random_default_engine() is not C++ conforming). (cmb) - Standard: . Fix references in request_parse_body() options array. (nielsdos) . Add RoundingMode enum. (timwolla, saki) - Tidy: . Failures in the constructor now throw exceptions rather than emitting warnings and having a broken object. (nielsdos) . Add tidyNode::getNextSibling() and tidyNode::getPreviousSibling(). (nielsdos) - XSL: . Fix trampoline leak in xpath callables. (nielsdos) 18 Jul 2024, PHP 8.4.0alpha2 - Core: . Fixed bug GH-14801 (Fix build for armv7). (andypost) . Implemented property hooks RFC. (ilutov) - DOM: . Improve support for template elements. (nielsdos) - GD: . Check overflow/underflow for imagescale/imagefilter. (David Carlier) - LibXML: . Added LIBXML_NO_XXE constant. (nielsdos) - Opcache: . Fixed bug GH-14873 (PHP 8.4 min function fails on typed integer). (nielsdos) - PDO: . Fixed bug GH-14792 (Compilation failure on pdo_* extensions). (Peter Kokot) - Standard: . Change highlight_string() and print_r() return type to string|true. (Ayesh) - Windows: . Update the icon of the Windows executables, e.g. php.exe. (Ayesh, Nurudin Imširović) - XML: . Fixed bug #81481 (xml_get_current_byte_index limited to 32-bit numbers on 64-bit builds). (nielsdos) 04 Jul 2024, PHP 8.4.0alpha1 - BCMath: . [RFC] Add bcfloor, bcceil and bcround to BCMath. (Saki Takamachi) . Improve performance. (Saki Takamachi, nielsdos) - Core: . Added zend_call_stack_get implementation for NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Solaris and Haiku. (David Carlier) . Enabled ifunc checks on FreeBSD from the 12.x releases. (Freaky) . Changed the type of PHP_DEBUG and PHP_ZTS constants to bool. (haszi) . Fixed bug GH-13142 (Undefined variable name is shortened when contains \0). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-13178 (Iterator positions incorrect when converting packed array to hashed). (ilutov) . Fixed zend fiber build for solaris default mode (32 bits). (David Carlier) . Fixed zend call stack size for macOs/arm64. (David Carlier) . Added support for Zend Max Execution Timers on FreeBSD. (Kévin Dunglas) . Ensure fiber stack is not backed by THP. (crrodriguez) . Implement GH-13609 (Dump wrapped object in WeakReference class). (nielsdos) . Added sparc64 arch assembly support for zend fiber. (Claudio Jeker) . Fixed GH-13581 no space available for TLS on NetBSD. (Paul Ripke) . Added fiber Sys-V loongarch64 support. (qiangxuhui) . Adjusted closure names to include the parent function's name. (timwolla) . Improve randomness of uploaded file names and files created by tempnam(). (Arnaud) . Added gc and shutdown callbacks to zend_mm custom handlers. (Florian Engelhardt) . Fixed bug GH-14650 (Compute the size of pages before allocating memory). (Julien Voisin) . Fixed bug GH-11928 (The --enable-re2c-cgoto doesn't add the -g flag). (Peter Kokot) . Added the #[\Deprecated] attribute. (beberlei, timwolla) . Fixed GH-11389 (Allow suspending fibers in destructors). (Arnaud, trowski) - Curl: . Deprecated the CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER constant. (divinity76) . Bumped required libcurl version to 7.61.0. (Ayesh) . Added feature_list key to the curl_version() return value. (Ayesh) - Date: . Added DateTime[Immutable]::createFromTimestamp. (Marc Bennewitz) . Added DateTime[Immutable]::[get|set]Microsecond. (Marc Bennewitz) - DOM: . Added DOMNode::compareDocumentPosition(). (nielsdos) . Implement #53655 (Improve speed of DOMNode::C14N() on large XML documents). (nielsdos) . Fix cloning attribute with namespace disappearing namespace. (nielsdos) . Implement DOM HTML5 parsing and serialization RFC. (nielsdos) . Fix DOMElement->prefix with empty string creates bogus prefix. (nielsdos) . Handle OOM more consistently. (nielsdos) . Implemented "Improve callbacks in ext/dom and ext/xsl" RFC. (nielsdos) . Added DOMXPath::quote() static method. (divinity76) . Implemented opt-in ext/dom spec compliance RFC. (nielsdos) . Fixed bug #79701 (getElementById does not correctly work with duplicate definitions). (nielsdos) . Implemented "New ext-dom features in PHP 8.4" RFC. (nielsdos) . Fixed GH-14698 (segfault on DOM node dereference). (David Carlier) - Fileinfo: . Update to libmagic 5.45. (nielsdos) . Fixed bug #65106 (PHP fails to compile ext/fileinfo). (Guillaume Outters) - FPM: . Implement GH-12385 (flush headers without body when calling flush()). (nielsdos) . Added DragonFlyBSD system to the list which set FPM_BACKLOG_DEFAULT to SOMAXCONN. (David Carlier) - FTP: . Removed the deprecated inet_ntoa call support. (David Carlier) . Fixed bug #63937 (Upload speed 10 times slower with PHP). (nielsdos) - GD: . Fix parameter numbers and missing alpha check for imagecolorset(). (Giovanni Giacobbi) . imagepng/imagejpeg/imagewep/imageavif now throw an exception on invalid quality parameter. (David Carlier) - Gettext: . bind_textdomain_codeset, textdomain and d(*)gettext functions now throw an exception on empty domain. (David Carlier) - Hash: . Changed return type of hash_update() to true. (nielsdos) . Added HashContext::__debugInfo(). (timwolla) - IMAP: . Moved to PECL. (Derick Rethans) - Intl: . Added IntlDateFormatter::PATTERN constant. (David Carlier) . Fixed Numberformatter::__construct when the locale is invalid, now throws an exception. (David Carlier) . Added NumberFormatter::ROUND_TOWARD_ZERO and ::ROUND_AWAY_FROM_ZERO as aliases for ::ROUND_DOWN and ::ROUND_UP. (Jorg Sowa) . Added NumberFormatter::ROUND_HALFODD. (Ayesh Karunaratne) . Added PROPERTY_IDS_UNARY_OPERATOR, PROPERTY_ID_COMPAT_MATH_START and PROPERTY_ID_COMPAT_MATH_CONTINUE constants. (David Carlier) . Added IntlDateFormatter::getIanaID/intltz_get_iana_id method/function. (David Carlier) . Set to C++17 standard for icu 74 and onwards. (David Carlier) . resourcebundle_get(), ResourceBundle::get(), and accessing offsets on a ResourceBundle object now throw: - TypeError for invalid offset types - ValueError for an empty string - ValueError if the integer index does not fit in a signed 32 bit integer . ResourceBundle::get() now has a tentative return type of: ResourceBundle|array|string|int|null . Added the new Grapheme function grapheme_str_split. (youkidearitai) . Added IntlDateFormatter::parseToCalendar. (David Carlier) - LDAP: . Added LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_PROTOCOL_MAX/LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_PROTOCOL_TLS1_3 constants. (StephenWall) - LibXML: . Added LIBXML_RECOVER constant. (nielsdos) . libxml_set_streams_context() now throws immediately on an invalid context instead of at the use-site. (nielsdos) - MBString: . Added mb_trim, mb_ltrim and mb_rtrim. (Yuya Hamada) . Added mb_ucfirst and mb_lcfirst. (Yuya Hamada) . Updated Unicode data tables to Unicode 15.1. (Ayesh Karunaratne) - MySQLnd: . Fixed bug GH-13440 (PDO quote bottleneck). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-10599 (Apache crash on Windows when using a self-referencing anonymous function inside a class with an active mysqli connection). (nielsdos) - Opcache: . Added large shared segments support for FreeBSD. (David Carlier) . If JIT is enabled, PHP will now exit with a fatal error on startup in case of JIT startup initialization issues. (danog) . Increased the maximum value of opcache.interned_strings_buffer to 32767 on 64bit archs. (Arnaud) . Fixed bug GH-13834 (Applying non-zero offset 36 to null pointer in zend_jit.c). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-14361 (Deep recursion in zend_cfg.c causes segfault). (nielsdos) - OpenSSL: . Fixed bug #80269 (OpenSSL sets Subject wrong with extraattribs parameter). (Jakub Zelenka) . Implement request #48520 (openssl_csr_new - allow multiple values in DN). (Jakub Zelenka) . Introduced new serial_hex parameter to openssl_csr_sign. (Jakub Zelenka, Florian Sowade) . Added X509_PURPOSE_OCSP_HELPER and X509_PURPOSE_TIMESTAMP_SIGN constants. (Vincent Jardin) . Bumped minimum required OpenSSL version to 1.1.1. (Ayesh Karunaratne) . Added compile-time option --with-openssl-legacy-provider to enable legacy provider. (Adam Saponara) . Added support for Curve25519 + Curve448 based keys. (Manuel Mausz) . Fixed bug GH-13343 (openssl_x509_parse should not allow omitted seconds in UTCTimes). (Jakub Zelenka) - Output: . Clear output handler status flags during handler initialization. (haszi) . Fixed bug with url_rewriter.hosts not used by output_add_rewrite_var(). (haszi) - PCNTL: . Added pcntl_setns for Linux. (David Carlier) . Added pcntl_getaffinity/pcntl_setaffinity. (David Carlier) . Updated pcntl_get_signal_handler signal id upper limit to be more in line with platforms limits. (David Carlier) . Added pcntl_getcpu for Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/Illumos. (David Carlier) . Added pcntl_getqos_class/pcntl_setqos_class for macOs. (David Carlier) . Added SIGCKPT/SIGCKPTEXIT constants for DragonFlyBSD. (David Carlier) . Added FreeBSD's SIGTRAP handling to pcntl_siginfo_to_zval. (David Carlier) . Added POSIX pcntl_waitid. (Vladimir Vrzić) - PCRE: . Upgrade bundled pcre2lib to version 10.43. (nielsdos) . Add "/r" modifier. (Ayesh) . Upgrade bundled pcre2lib to version 10.44. (Ayesh) - PDO: . Fixed setAttribute and getAttribute. (SakiTakamachi) . Implemented PDO driver-specific subclasses RFC. (danack, kocsismate) . Added support for PDO driver-specific SQL parsers. (Matteo Beccati) - PDO_DBLIB: . Fixed setAttribute and getAttribute. (SakiTakamachi) . Added class Pdo\DbLib. (danack, kocsismate) - PDO_FIREBIRD: . Fixed setAttribute and getAttribute. (SakiTakamachi) . Feature: Add transaction isolation level and mode settings to pdo_firebird. (SakiTakamachi) . Added class Pdo\Firebird. (danack, kocsismate) - PDO_MYSQL: . Fixed setAttribute and getAttribute. (SakiTakamachi) . Added class Pdo\Mysql. (danack, kocsismate) . Added custom SQL parser. (Matteo Beccati) - PDO_ODBC: . Added class Pdo\Odbc. (danack, kocsismate) - PDO_PGSQL: . Fixed GH-12423, DSN credentials being prioritized over the user/password PDO constructor arguments. (SakiTakamachi) . Fixed native float support with pdo_pgsql query results. (Yurunsoft) . Added class Pdo\Pgsql. (danack, kocsismate) . Retrieve the memory usage of the query result resource. (KentarouTakeda) . Added Pdo\Pgsql::setNoticeCallBack method to receive DB notices. (outtersg) . Added custom SQL parser. (Matteo Beccati) - PDO_SQLITE: . Added class Pdo\Sqlite. (danack, kocsismate) . Fixed bug #81227 (PDO::inTransaction reports false when in transaction). (nielsdos) . Added custom SQL parser. (Matteo Beccati) - PGSQL: . Added the possibility to have no conditions for pg_select. (OmarEmaraDev) . Persistent connections support the PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_RENEW flag. (David Carlier) . Added pg_result_memory_size to get the query result memory usage. (KentarouTakeda) . Added pg_change_password to alter an user's password. (David Carlier) . Added pg_put_copy_data/pg_put_copy_end to send COPY commands and signal the end of the COPY. (David Carlier) . Added pg_socket_poll to poll on the connection. (David Carlier) . Added pg_jit to get infos on server JIT support. (David Carlier) . Added pg_set_chunked_rows_size to fetch results per chunk. (David Carlier) - Phar: . Fixed bug GH-12532 (PharData created from zip has incorrect timestamp). (nielsdos) - POSIX: . Added POSIX_SC_CHILD_MAX and POSIX_SC_CLK_TCK constants. (Jakub Zelenka) . Updated posix_isatty to set the error number on file descriptors. (David Carlier) - PSpell: . Moved to PECL. (Derick Rethans) - Reflection: . Implement GH-12908 (Show attribute name/class in ReflectionAttribute dump). (nielsdos) . Make ReflectionGenerator::getFunction() legal after generator termination. (timwolla) . Added ReflectionGenerator::isClosed(). (timwolla) - SimpleXML: . Fixed bug GH-12192 (SimpleXML infinite loop when getName() is called within foreach). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-12208 (SimpleXML infinite loop when a cast is used inside a foreach). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug #55098 (SimpleXML iteration produces infinite loop). (nielsdos) . Fix signature of simplexml_import_dom(). (nielsdos) - Sockets: . Added multicast group support for ipv4 on FreeBSD. (jonathan@tangential.ca) . Added the TCP_SYNCNT constant for Linux to set number of attempts to send SYN packets from the client. (David Carlier) . Added the SO_EXCLBIND constant for exclusive socket binding on illumos/solaris. (David Carlier) . Updated the socket_create_listen backlog argument default value to SOMAXCONN. (David Carlier) . Added the SO_NOSIGPIPE constant to control the generation of SIGPIPE for macOs and FreeBSD. (David Carlier) . Added SO_LINGER_SEC for macOs, true equivalent of SO_LINGER in other platforms. (David Carlier) . Add close-on-exec on socket created with socket_accept on unixes. (David Carlier) - SNMP: . Removed the deprecated inet_ntoa call support. (David Carlier) - SOAP: . Add support for clark notation for namespaces in class map. (lxShaDoWxl) . Mitigate #51561 (SoapServer with a extented class and using sessions, lost the setPersistence()). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug #49278 (SoapClient::__getLastResponseHeaders returns NULL if wsdl operation !has output). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug #44383 (PHP DateTime not converted to xsd:datetime). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-11941 (soap with session persistence will silently fail when "session" built as a shared object). (nielsdos) - Sockets: . Removed the deprecated inet_ntoa call support. (David Carlier) . Added the SO_EXECLUSIVEADDRUSE windows constant. (David Carlier) . Added the SOCK_CONN_DGRAM/SOCK_DCCP netbsd constants. (David Carlier) - Sodium: . Add support for AEGIS-128L and AEGIS-256. (jedisct1) . Enable AES-GCM on aarch64 with the ARM crypto extensions. (jedisct1) - SPL: . Implement SeekableIterator for SplObjectStorage. (nielsdos) - Standard: . Implement GH-12188 (Indication for the int size in phpinfo()). (timwolla) . Partly fix GH-12143 (Incorrect round() result for 0.49999999999999994). (timwolla) . Fix GH-12252 (round(): Validate the rounding mode). (timwolla) . Increase the default BCrypt cost to 12. (timwolla) . Fixed bug GH-12592 (strcspn() odd behaviour with NUL bytes and empty mask). (nielsdos) . Removed the deprecated inet_ntoa call support. (David Carlier) . Cast large floats that are within int range to int in number_format so the precision is not lost. (Marc Bennewitz) . Add support for 4 new rounding modes to the round() function. (Jorg Sowa) . debug_zval_dump() now indicates whether an array is packed. (Max Semenik) . Fix GH-12143 (Optimize round). (SakiTakamachi) . Changed return type of long2ip to string from string|false. (Jorg Sowa) . Fix GH-12143 (Extend the maximum precision round can handle by one digit). (SakiTakamachi) . Added the http_get_last_response_headers() and http_clear_last_response_headers() that allows retrieving the same content as the magic $http_response_header variable. . Add php_base64_encode_ex() API. (Remi) . Implemented "Raising zero to the power of negative number" RFC. (Jorg Sowa) . Added array_find(), array_find_key(), array_all(), and array_any(). (josh) - XML: . Added XML_OPTION_PARSE_HUGE parser option. (nielsdos) - XMLReader: . Declares class constant types. (Ayesh) . Add XMLReader::fromStream(), XMLReader::fromUri(), XMLReader::fromString(). (nielsdos) - XMLWriter: . Add XMLWriter::toStream(), XMLWriter::toUri(), XMLWriter::toMemory(). (nielsdos) - XSL: . Implement request #64137 (XSLTProcessor::setParameter() should allow both quotes to be used). (nielsdos) . Implemented "Improve callbacks in ext/dom and ext/xsl" RFC. (nielsdos) . Added XSLTProcessor::$maxTemplateDepth and XSLTProcessor::$maxTemplateVars. (nielsdos) <<< NOTE: Insert NEWS from last stable release here prior to actual release! >>>