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- Core:
  . A flat unkeyed list assignment from an array literal with one value per
    target, such as [$a, $b] = [$b, $a], no longer builds the array when the
    result is unused (GH-23048). (Artem Ukrainskiy)

- Curl:
  . curl_multi_exec() now throws a TypeError when still_running is not an int.
    (arshidkv12)
  . Uploading multiple files with the same field name is now possible by
    passing an array of CURLFile or CURLStringFile objects to
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. (Sjoerd Langkemper)

- FPM:
  . Use recommended TYPE, HELP order for OpenMetrics metadata.
    (Marcel Hernandez)

- Hash:
  . Fixed mhash_keygen_s2k() truncating a $length above INT_MAX instead of
    throwing a ValueError. (Marc Bennewitz)

- Intl:
  . Added IntlRelativeDateTimeFormatter for locale-aware relative date and time
    formatting, with enums for styles, capitalization contexts, and units.
    (Weilin Du)
  . Added Transliterator::toRules() and transliterator_to_rules().
    (Weilin Du, David Carlier)
  . Fixed Collator attribute and strength methods not rejecting an
    unconstructed Collator. (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Added optional $availableLocales argument to Locale::acceptFromHttp()
    (GH-24074). (David Carlier)
  . Fixed a double-free when Calendar::createInstance() or
    IntlCalendar::fromDateTime() fails after adopting a TimeZone.
    (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Added IntlNumberFormatter::createFromSkeleton() (GH-24165). (David Carlier)

- Lexbor:
  . Merge patches lexbor/lexbor@8a14bc0 and lexbor/lexbor@f67ce4b, fixing a
    heap buffer overflow in :lexbor-contains() parsing and buffer overflows
    in malformed decode replay. (alexandre-daubois)
  . Merge patches lexbor/lexbor@859f100, lexbor/lexbor@a36e09a,
    lexbor/lexbor@b0f7412, lexbor/lexbor@1b215a8, lexbor/lexbor@385afff,
    lexbor/lexbor@e6c068f, lexbor/lexbor@327a8b6, lexbor/lexbor@917742f and
    lexbor/lexbor@e89c258, fixing dropped usernames containing an at sign,
    uninitialized memory in IDNA buffer growth, the encoding of a space
    before a query or fragment in an opaque path, a query or fragment lost
    after a dot segment in a path, replacement file drive paths, the output
    encoding used for percent-encoding, the URLSearchParams tail pointer and
    fragment serialization without a query. (alexandre-daubois)

- LibXML:
  . Clear the libxml last error in libxml_use_internal_errors(false).
    (lacatoire)

- MBString:
  . Fixed bug GH-23106 (mb_strpos() reads past the end of a haystack ending in
    a truncated UTF-8 sequence). (Lazizbek Ergashev)
  . Updated Unicode data tables to Unicode 18.0 (Yuya Hamada)
  . Fixed mbstring functions emitting surrogates in UTF-8 output and flagging
    it as valid UTF-8. (Nicolas Grekas)
  . Fixed bug GH-23958 (truncated encoding names resolving to full names). (Kamil Tekiela)

- MySQLi:
  . Fix GH-22854: Fixed failed assertion when accessing mysqli property after
    failed reconnection. (Kamil Tekiela)
  . Fixed memory leak when closing a prepared statement after its connection
    was killed. (Kamil Tekiela)

- MySQLnd:
  . Fixed field_count not resetting on OK packet. (Kamil Tekiela)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed range inference of assignments through typed references.
    (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Fixed bug GH-23693 (Tracing JIT produces wrong results for a guard on a
    loop-invariant addition). (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Fixed OSS-Fuzz #545352966 (default value AST of an SHM-persisted partial).
    (ndossche)

- PDO:
  . Fixed PDOStatement::getColumnMeta() reading out of bounds for an invalid
    column index. (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Fixed PDOStatement::bindColumn() registering a binding for a column name
    that is not in the result set. (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Fixed bug GH-23962 (Destroying a persistent PDO instance rolls back a
    transaction still in use by another instance). (Lazizbek Ergashev)

- PDO_PGSQL:
  . Improved performance of the SQL parser that handles placeholders.
    (brainexe)
  . Improved performance of fetching integer columns. (brainexe)
  . Fixed bug GH-24490 (pdo_pgsql prepare() hangs on a query containing a NUL
    byte). (dev-null-undefined)

- PGSQL:
  . Fixed pg_lo_write() rejecting data containing null bytes. (Ilia Alshanetsky)

- Posix:
  . Reverted the validity check on the flags argument of posix_access().
    (David Carlier)

- Phar:
  . Fixed bug GH-22556 (OOM DoS via oversized ././@LongLink entry in TAR phar).
    (crystarm)

- Readline:
  . Fixed a heap over-read in the interactive shell prompt when cli.prompt is
    set to an empty string. (Ilia Alshanetsky)

- Session:
  . Fixed session_start() continuing after a failed create_sid() when
    session.use_strict_mode rejects the supplied ID. (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Fixed exceptions from user-defined create_sid() handlers being replaced
    by return-value validation errors. (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Fixed calling SessionHandler::open() twice without an intervening
    close() when re-initializing an active session. (Ilia Alshanetsky)

- SimpleXML:
  . Fixed bug GH-12171 (SimpleXML property-proxy equality ignores element
    names). (Ilia Alshanetsky)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed the SOAP client accepting a response body shorter than its
    Content-Length and reusing the connection. (Ilia Alshanetsky)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug GH-23385 (SplDoublyLinkedList::serialize() use-after-free when
    __serialize() removes an element). (David Carlier)

- SQLite:
  . Fixed a crash when SQLite3::close() is called from a userland callback.
    (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Fixed bug GH-22051 (Inconsistent error reporting in SQLite3Result::reset()
    and SQLite3Result::finalize()). (Ilia Alshanetsky)

- Streams:
  . Applied the so_linger, so_rcvbuf and so_sndbuf context options to unix
    sockets. (David Carlier)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #60110 (fclose(), file_put_contents(), copy() do not return false
    properly). (Jakub Zelenka, Ilija Tovilo)
  . Fixed three Windows-only proc_open() defects: an uninitialized
    PROCESS_INFORMATION, an indeterminate comspec pointer after a failed
    lookup, and an unchecked CreateFileA() failure. (Ilia Alshanetsky)
  . Fix persistent stream context lifetime during shutdown (Levi Morrison)
  . Fixed bug GH-23780 (unserialize('') fails silently). (timwolla)
  . Fixed stream_select() aborting the whole call once any watched stream's
    descriptor exceeded FD_SETSIZE; it no longer imposes that limit, so watching
    many descriptors no longer requires rebuilding with --enable-fd-setsize.
    (Frode Børli)
  . Fixed stream_select() on Windows capping the number of watched sockets at
    FD_SETSIZE; the winsock fd_set now grows on demand. (Frode Børli)
  . Fixed stream_select() on Windows overflowing a fixed 64-entry stack array
    (crashing with a stack buffer overrun) when passed more than 64 pipe or file
    handles; it now fails gracefully instead. (Frode Børli)
  . Improved performance of array_splice() when inserting without removing
    elements. (mehmetcansahin)
  . Enforce max_filter_count: limit the number of filters that can be chained
    in a php://filter URL. (Sjoerd Langkemper)
  . Improved performance of array_chunk() when not preserving keys.
    (mehmetcansahin)
  . Improved performance of resolving the charset of HTML functions,
    especially UTF-8. (Nicolas Grekas)
  . Improved performance of htmlspecialchars() when nothing needs encoding.
    (Nicolas Grekas)

- URI:
  . Fix casing of enum cases in UriHostType and UrlHostType to match the RFC
    and PHP’s naming policy. (timwolla)

- XML:
  . Fixed xml_get_current_byte_index() returning negative values for byte
    indexes beyond 2 GiB on Windows x64. (Marc Bennewitz)

- Zlib:
  . Fixed inflate_init() dropping the preset dictionary for raw streams with
    a non-default window. (Ilia Alshanetsky)

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