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26 Nov 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 8

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70947 (INI parser segfault with INI_SCANNER_TYPED). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70914 (zend_throw_or_error() format string vulnerability).
    (Taoguang Chen)
  . Fixed bug #70912 (Null ptr dereference instantiating class with invalid 
    array property). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70895, #70898 (null ptr deref and segfault with crafted calable).
    (Anatol, Laruence)

- OCI8:
  . Fixed memory leak with LOBs. (Senthil)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #70940 (Segfault in soap / type_to_string). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #70900 (SoapClient systematic out of memory error). (Dmitry)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #70959 (ArrayObject unserialize does not restore protected
    fields). (Laruence)

- Standard:
  . Fixed count on symbol tables. (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70963 (Unserialize shows UNKNOWN in result). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70910 (extract() breaks variable references). (Laruence)

12 Nov 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 7

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70249 (Segmentation fault while running PHPUnit tests on
    phpBB 3.2-dev). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70805 (Segmentation faults whilst running Drupal 8 test suite).
    (Dmitry, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70842 (Persistent Stream Segmentation Fault). (Caleb Champlin)
  . Fixed bug #70862 (Several functions do not check return code of
    php_stream_copy_to_mem()). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #70863 (Incorect logic to increment_function for proxy objects).
    (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #70323 (Regression in zend_fetch_debug_backtrace() can cause
    segfaults). (Aharvey, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70873 (Regression on private static properties access).
    (Laruence)

- OCI8:
  . Fixed bug #68298 (OCI int overflow) (Senthil).

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #70656 (require() statement broken after opcache_reset() or a
    few hours of use). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70843 (Segmentation fault on MacOSX with
    opcache.file_cache_only=1). (Laruence)

- PDO:
  . Fix bug #70861 (Segmentation fault in pdo_parse_params() during Drupal 8
    test suite). (Anatol)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #70876 (Segmentation fault when regenerating session id with
    strict mode). (Laruence)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #70875 (Segmentation fault if wsdl has no targetNamespace
    attribute). (Matteo)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #70853 (SplFixedArray throws exception when using ref variable
    as index). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70868 (PCRE JIT and pattern reuse segfault). (Laruence)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #70808 (array_merge_recursive corrupts memory of unset items).
    (Laruence)

- XSL:
  . Fixed bug #70678 (PHP7 returns true when false is expected). (Felipe)

29 Oct 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 6

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70748 (Segfault in ini_lex () at Zend/zend_ini_scanner.l).
   (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70689 (Exception handler does not work as expected). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70430 (Stack buffer overflow in zend_language_parser()). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #70782 (null ptr deref and segfault (zend_get_class_fetch_type)).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #70785 (Infinite loop due to exception during identical
    comparison). (Laruence)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #70724 (Undefined Symbols from opcache.so on Mac OS X 10.10).
    (Laruence)

- PDO_DBlib:
  . Fixed bug #69757 (Segmentation fault on nextRowset).
    (miracle at rpz dot name)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #70715 (Segmentation fault inside soap client). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70709 (SOAP Client generates Segfault). (Laruence)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #70730 (Incorrect ArrayObject serialization if unset is called
    in serialize()). (Laruence)


15 Oct 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 5

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70630 (Closure::call/bind() crash with ReflectionFunction->
    getClosure()). (Dmitry, Bob)
  . Fixed bug #70662 (Duplicate array key via undefined index error handler).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #70681 (Segfault when binding $this of internal instance method
    to null). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #70685 (Segfault for getClosure() internal method rebind with
    invalid $this). (Nikita)

- Mcrypt:
  . Fixed bug #70625 (mcrypt_encrypt() won't return data when no IV was
    specified under RC4). (Nikita)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed compatibility with Windows 10 (see also bug #70652). (Anatol)

- Phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #70614 (incorrect exit code in -rr mode with Exceptions). (Bob)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #70650 (Wrong docblock assignment). (Marcio)
  . Fixed bug #70674 (ReflectionFunction::getClosure() leaks memory when used
    for internal functions). (Dmitry, Bob)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #70667 (strtr() causes invalid writes and a crashes). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #70668 (array_keys() doesn't respect references when $strict is
    true). (Bob, Dmitry)


01 Oct 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 4

- Core:
  . Added zend_internal_function.reserved[] fields. (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #70557 (Memleak on return type verifying failed). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70555 (fun_get_arg() on unsetted vars return UNKNOW). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70548 (Redundant information printed in case of uncaught engine
    exception). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70547 (unsetting function variables corrupts backtrace).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70528 (assert() with instanceof adds apostrophes around class
    name). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70481 (Memory leak in auto_global_copy_ctor() in ZTS build).
    (Laruence)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #70558 ("Couldn't fetch" error in 
    DOMDocument::registerNodeClass()). (Laruence) 

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #70538 ("php-fpm -i" crashes). (rainer dot jung at
    kippdata dot de)
  . Fixed bug #70279 (HTTP Authorization Header is sometimes passed to newer
    reqeusts). (Laruence)

- Opcache
  . Attmpt to fix "Unable to reattach to base address" problem. (Matt Ficken)

- OpenSSL
  . Require at least OpenSSL version 0.9.8. (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Fixed bug #68312 (Lookup for openssl.cnf causes a message box). (Anatol)

- Phar:
  . Fixed bug #69720 (Null pointer dereference in phar_get_fp_offset()). (Stas)
  . FIxed bug #70433 (Uninitialized pointer in phar_make_dirstream when zip
    entry filename is "/"). (Stas)

- Phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #70532 (phpdbg must respect set_exception_handler). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #70531 (Run and quit mode (-qrr) should not fallback to
    interactive mode). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #70533 (Help overview (-h) does not rpint anything under Windows).
    (Anatol)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #70529 (Session read causes "String is not zero-terminated" error).
    (Yasuo)

- SQLite3:
  . Fixed bug #70571 (Memory leak in sqlite3_do_callback). (Adam)

-SPL:
  . Fixed bug #70573 (Cloning SplPriorityQueue leads to memory leaks). (Dmitry)

- XMLRPC
  . Fixed bug #70526 (xmlrpc_set_type returns false on success). (Laruence)

- XSL:
  . Fixed bug #70535 (XSLT: free(): invalid pointer). (Laruence)

17 Sep 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 3

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70431 (Memory leak in php_ini.c). (Senthil, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70478 (**= does no longer work). (Bob)

- CLI server:
  . Fixed bug #68291 (404 on urls with '+'). (cmb)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #70001 (Assigning to DOMNode::textContent does additional entity
    encoding). (cmb)

- Intl:
  . Fixed bug #70453 (IntlChar::foldCase() incorrect arguments and missing
    constants). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70454 (IntlChar::forDigit second parameter should be optional).
    (cmb, colinodell)

- Mysqlnd:
  . Fixed bug #70384 (mysqli_real_query():Unknown type 245 sent by the server).
   (Andrey)
  . Fixed bug #70456 (mysqlnd doesn't activate TCP keep-alive when connecting to
    a server). (Sergei Turchanov)
  . Fixed bug #70572 segfault in mysqlnd_connect. (Andrey, Remi)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #70423 (Warning Internal error: wrong size calculation). (Anatol)

- OpenSSL
  . Fixed bug #55259 (openssl extension does not get the DH parameters from
    DH key resource). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Fixed bug #70395 (Missing ARG_INFO for openssl_seal()). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #60632 (openssl_seal fails with AES). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Implemented FR #70438 (Add IV parameter for openssl_seal and openssl_open)
    (Jakub Zelenka)

- Phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #70449 (PHP won't compile on 10.4 and 10.5 because of missing
    constants). (Bob)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #70013 (Reference to $_SESSION is lost after a call to
    session_regenerate_id()). (Yasuo)

- Standard:
  . Implemented the RFC `Random Functions Throwing Exceptions in PHP 7`.
    (Sammy Kaye Powers, Anthony)
  . Fixed bug #70487 (pack('x') produces an error). (Nikita)

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug #70361 (HTTP stream wrapper doesn't close keep-alive connections).
    (Niklas Keller)

- XMLReader:
  . Fixed bug #70309 (XmlReader read generates extra output). (Anatol)

- Zip:
  . Fixed bug #70322 (ZipArchive::close() doesn't indicate errors). (cmb)

03 Sep 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70398 (SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault zend_ast_destroy_ex).
    (Dmitry, Bob, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70332 (Wrong behavior while returning reference on object).
    (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #70300 (Syntactical inconsistency with new group use syntax).
    (marcio dot web2 at gmail dot com)
  . Fixed bug #70321 (Magic getter breaks reference to array property).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70187 (Notice: unserialize(): Unexpected end of serialized
    data). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #70145 (From field incorrectly parsed from headers). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #70370 (Bundled libtool.m4 doesn't handle FreeBSD 10 when
    building extensions). (Adam)
  . Fixed bug causing exception traces with anon classes to be truncated. (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #70397 (Segmentation fault when using Closure::call and yield).
    (Bob)

- Curl:
  . Fixed bug #70330 (Segmentation Fault with multiple "curl_copy_handle").
    (Laruence)

- EXIF:
  . Fixed bug #70385 (Buffer over-read in exif_read_data with TIFF IFD tag byte
    value of 32 bytes). (Stas)

- GMP:
  . Fixed bug #70284 (Use after free vulnerability in unserialize() with GMP).
    (stas)

- hash:
  . Fixed bug #70312 (HAVAL gives wrong hashes in specific cases). (letsgolee
    at naver dot com)

- Mysqli:
  . Fixed bug #32490 (constructor of mysqli has wrong name). (cmb)

- Pcntl:
  . Fixed bug #70386 (Can't compile on NetBSD because of missing WCONTINUED
    and WIFCONTINUED). (Matteo)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #70232 (Incorrect bump-along behavior with \K and empty string
    match). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70345 (Multiple vulnerabilities related to PCRE functions).
    (Anatol Belski)

- PDO:
  . Fixed bug #70389 (PDO constructor changes unrelated variables). (Laruence)

- PDO_OCI:
  . Fixed bug #70308 (PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH is ignored). (Chris Jones)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #70388 (SOAP serialize_function_call() type confusion / RCE).
    (Stas)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #70303 (Incorrect constructor reflection for ArrayObject). (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #70342 (changing configuration with ignore_user_abort(true) isn't
    working). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70295 (Segmentation fault with setrawcookie). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #67131 (setcookie() conditional for empty values not met). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70365 (Use-after-free vulnerability in unserialize() with
    SplObjectStorage). (taoguangchen at icloud dot com)
  . Fixed bug #70366 (Use-after-free vulnerability in unserialize() with
    SplDoublyLinkedList). (taoguangchen at icloud dot com)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug causing bogus traces for ReflectionGenerator::getTrace(). (Bob)

- XSLT:
  . Fixed bug #69782 (NULL pointer dereference). (Stas)

- ZIP:
  . Fixed bug #70350 (ZipArchive::extractTo allows for directory traversal when
    creating directories). (neal at fb dot com)

20 Aug 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70299 (Memleak while assigning object offsetGet result).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70288 (Apache crash related to ZEND_SEND_REF). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70262 (Accessing array crashes PHP 7.0beta3).
    (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #70258 (Segfault if do_resize fails to allocated memory).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70253 (segfault at _efree () in zend_alloc.c:1389). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70240 (Segfault when doing unset($var());). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70223 (Incrementing value returned by magic getter). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70215 (Segfault when __invoke is static). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #70207 (Finally is broken with opcache). (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #70173 (ZVAL_COPY_VALUE_EX broken for 32bit Solaris Sparc).
    (Laruence, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #69487 (SAPI may truncate POST data). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70198 (Checking liveness does not work as expected).
    (Shafreeck Sea, Anatol Belski)
  . Fixed bug #70241/#70293 (Skipped assertions affect Generator returns). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #70239 (Creating a huge array doesn't result in exhausted,
    but segfault). (Laruence, Anatol)

- CLI server:
  . Fixed bug #66606 (Sets HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE but not CONTENT_TYPE).
    (wusuopu, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70264 (CLI server directory traversal). (cmb)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #70245 (strtotime does not emit warning when 2nd parameter is
    object or string). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70266 (DateInterval::__construct.interval_spec is not supposed to
    be optional). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70277 (new DateTimeZone($foo) is ignoring text after null byte).
    (cmb)

- MCrypt:
  . Fixed bug #69833 (mcrypt fd caching not working). (Anatol)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #70237 (Empty while and do-while segmentation fault with opcode
    on CLI enabled). (Dmitry, Laruence)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #70232 (Incorrect bump-along behavior with \K and empty string
    match). (cmb)

- PDO:
  . Fixed bug #70272 (Segfault in pdo_mysql). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70221 (persistent sqlite connection + custom function
    segfaults). (Laruence)

- Phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #70214 (FASYNC not defined, needs sys/file.h include). (Bob)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #70250 (extract() turns array elements to references).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70211 (php 7 ZEND_HASH_IF_FULL_DO_RESIZE use after free).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70208 (Assert breaking access on objects). (Bob)

06 Aug 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Beta 3

- Core:
  . Fixed "finally" issues. (Nikita, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #70098 (Real memory usage doesn't decrease). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #70159 (__CLASS__ is lost in closures). (Julien)
  . Fixed bug #70156 (Segfault in zend_find_alias_name). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70124 (null ptr deref / seg fault in ZEND_HANDLE_EXCEPTION).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70117 (Unexpected return type error). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70106 (Inheritance by anonymous class). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #69674 (SIGSEGV array.c:953). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70164 (__COMPILER_HALT_OFFSET__ under namespace is not defined).
    (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #70108 (sometimes empty $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #70179 ($this refcount issue). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #69896 ('asm' operand has impossible constraints). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #70183 (null pointer deref (segfault) in zend_eval_const_expr).
    (Hugh Davenport)
  . Fixed bug #70182 (Segfault in ZEND_ASSIGN_DIV_SPEC_CV_UNUSED_HANDLER).
    (Hugh Davenport)
  . Fixed bug #69793 (Remotely triggerable stack exhaustion via recursive
    method calls). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #69892 (Different arrays compare indentical due to integer key
    truncation). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #70121 (unserialize() could lead to unexpected methods execution
    / NULL pointer deref). (Stas)

- Curl:
  . Fixed bug #70163 (curl_setopt_array() type confusion). (Laruence)

- IMAP:
  . Fixed bug #70158 (Building with static imap fails). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #69998 (curl multi leaking memory). (Pierrick)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #70111 (Segfault when a function uses both an explicit return
    type and an explicit cast). (Laruence)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #70014 (openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() is not cryptographically
    secure). (Stas)

- Phar:
  . Improved fix for bug #69441. (Anatol Belski)
  . Fixed bug #70019 (Files extracted from archive may be placed outside of 
    destination directory). (Anatol Belski)

- Phpdbg: 
  . Fixed bug #70138 (Segfault when displaying memory leaks). (Bob)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #70081 (SoapClient info leak / null pointer dereference via
     multiple type confusions). (Stas)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #70068 (Dangling pointer in the unserialization of ArrayObject
    items). (sean.heelan)
  . Fixed bug #70166 (Use After Free Vulnerability in unserialize() with
    SPLArrayObject). (taoguangchen at icloud dot com)
  . Fixed bug #70168 (Use After Free Vulnerability in unserialize() with
    SplObjectStorage). (taoguangchen at icloud dot com)
  . Fixed bug #70169 (Use After Free Vulnerability in unserialize() with
    SplDoublyLinkedList). (taoguangchen at icloud dot com)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #70140 (str_ireplace/php_string_tolower - Arbitrary Code
    Execution). (CVE-2015-6527) (Laruence)
  . Implemented FR #70112 (Allow "dirname" to go up various times). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #36365 (scandir duplicates file name at every 65535th file). (cmb)

23 Jul 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Beta 2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70089 (segfault at ZEND_FETCH_DIM_W_SPEC_VAR_CONST_HANDLER ()).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70057 (Build failure on 32-bit Mac OS X 10.6.8: recursive
    inlining). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70012 (Exception lost with nested finally block). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69996 (Changing the property of a cloned object affects the
    original). (Dmitry, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70083 (Use after free with assign by ref to overloaded objects).
    (Bob)

- Curl:
  . Fixed bug #70065 (curl_getinfo() returns corrupted values). (Anatol)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #53156 (imagerectangle problem with point ordering). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #66387 (Stack overflow with imagefilltoborder). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70102 (imagecreatefromwebm() shifts colors). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #66590 (imagewebp() doesn't pad to even length). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #66882 (imagerotate by -90 degrees truncates image by 1px). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70064 (imagescale(..., IMG_BICUBIC) leaks memory). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #69024 (imagescale segfault with palette based image). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #53154 (Zero-height rectangle has whiskers). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #67447 (imagecrop() add a black line when cropping). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #68714 (copy 'n paste error). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #66339 (PHP segfaults in imagexbm). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70047 (gd_info() doesn't report WebP support). (cmb)
  . Replace libvpx with libwebp for bundled libgd. (cmb, Anatol)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #70058 (Build fails when building for i386). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70022 (Crash with opcache using opcache.file_cache_only=1).
    (Anatol)

- Soap:
  . Fixed bug #70079 (Segmentation fault after more than 100 SoapClient
    calls). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #70032 (make_http_soap_request calls
    zend_hash_get_current_key_ex(,,,NULL). (Laruence)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #70053 (MutlitpleIterator array-keys incompatible change in 
    PHP 7). (Tjerk)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #70096 (Repeated iptcembed() adds superfluous FF bytes). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #70018 (exec does not strip all whitespace). (Laruence)

- Tokenizer:
  . Fixed bug #69430 (token_get_all has new irrecoverable errors). (Nikita)

09 Jul 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #70006 (cli - function with default arg = STDOUT crash output).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69521 (Segfault in gc_collect_cycles()).
    (arjen at react dot com, Laruence)
  . Improved zend_string API (Francois Laupretre)
  . Fixed bug #69955 (Segfault when trying to combine [] and assign-op on
    ArrayAccess object). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69957 (Different ways of handling div/mod/intdiv). (Bob)
  . Fixed bug #69900 (Too long timeout on pipes). (Anatol)

- CLI server:
  . Fixed bug #69655 (php -S changes MKCALENDAR request method to MKCOL). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #64878 (304 responses return Content-Type header). (cmb)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #69939 (Casting object to bool returns false). (Kalle)

- JSON:
  . Fixed bug #62010 (json_decode produces invalid byte-sequences).
    (Jakub Zelenka)

- OCI8:
  . Corrected oci8 hash destructors to prevent segfaults, and a few other fixes.
    (Cameron Porter)

- ODBC:
  . Fixed bug #69975 (PHP segfaults when accessing nvarchar(max) defined
    columns). (cmb)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #69882 (OpenSSL error "key values mismatch" after
    openssl_pkcs12_read with extra cert). (Tomasz Sawicki)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #53823 (preg_replace: * qualifier on unicode replace garbles the
    string). (cmb)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #69952 (Data integrity issues accessing superglobals by
    reference). (Bob)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #69970 (Use-after-free vulnerability in
    spl_recursive_it_move_forward_ex()). (Laruence)
  
- Sqlite3:
  . Fixed bug #69972 (Use-after-free vulnerability in
    sqlite3SafetyCheckSickOrOk()). (Laruence)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #69983 (get_browser fails with user agent of null).
    (Kalle, cmb, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69976 (Unable to parse "all" urls with colon char). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #69768 (escapeshell*() doesn't cater to !). (cmb)

25 Jun 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #69872 (uninitialised value in strtr with array). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69868 (Invalid read of size 1 in zend_compile_short_circuiting).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69849 (Broken output of apache_request_headers). (Kalle)
  . Fixed bug #69840 (iconv_substr() doesn't work with UTF-16BE). (Kalle)
  . Fixed bug #69823 (PHP 7.0.0alpha1 segmentation fault when exactly 33
    extensions are loaded). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69805 (null ptr deref and seg fault in zend_resolve_class_name).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69802 (Reflection on Closure::__invoke borks type hint class
    name). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #69761 (Serialization of anonymous classes should be prevented).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69551 (parse_ini_file() and parse_ini_string() segmentation
    fault). (Christoph M. Becker)
  . Fixed bug #69781 (phpinfo() reports Professional Editions of Windows
    7/8/8.1/10 as "Business"). (Christian Wenz)
  . Fixed bug #69835 (phpinfo() does not report many Windows SKUs).
    (Christian Wenz)
  . Fixed bug #69889 (Null coalesce operator doesn't work for string offsets).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #69891 (Unexpected array comparison result). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #69892 (Different arrays compare indentical due to integer key
    truncation). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #69893 (Strict comparison between integer and empty string keys
    crashes). (Nikita)

- Curl:
  . Fixed bug #69831 (Segmentation fault in curl_getinfo). (im dot denisenko at
    yahoo dot com)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #69846 (Segmenation fault (access violation) when iterating over
    DOMNodeList). (Anatol Belski)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #61221 (imagegammacorrect function loses alpha channel). (cmb)

- JSON:
  . Fixed bug #68546 (json_decode() Fatal error: Cannot access property
    started with '\0'). (Jakub Zelenka)

- mysqlnd:
  . Fixed Bug #69796 (mysqli_stmt::fetch doesn't assign null values to
    bound variables). (Laruence)

- Opcache:
  . Removed opcache.load_comments configuration directive. Now doc comments
    loading costs nothing and always enabled. (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #69838 (Wrong size calculation for function table). (Anatol)
  
- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #69864 (Segfault in preg_replace_callback). (cmb, ab)

- PDO_pgsql:
  . Fixed bug #69752 (PDOStatement::execute() leaks memory with DML
    Statements when closeCuror() is u). (Philip Hofstetter)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #69845 (ArrayObject with ARRAY_AS_PROPS broken). (Dmitry)

- SQLite3:
  . Fixed bug #69897 (segfault when manually constructing SQLite3Result). 
    (Kalle)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #62922 (Truncating entire string should result in string).
    (Nikita)

11 Jun 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #69767 (Default parameter value with wrong type segfaults).
    (cmb, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69756 (Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency
    ? with ===). (Dmitry, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69758 (Item added to array not being removed by array_pop/shift
    ). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #68475 (Add support for $callable() sytnax with 'Class::method').
    (Julien, Aaron Piotrowski)
  . Fixed bug #69485 (Double free on zend_list_dtor). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69427 (Segfault on magic method __call of private method in 
    superclass). (Laruence)
  . Improved __call() and __callStatic() magic method handling. Now they are
    called in a stackless way using ZEND_CALL_TRAMPOLINE opcode, without
    additional stack frame. (Laruence, Dmitry)
  . Optimized strings concatenation. (Dmitry, Laruence)
  . Fixed weird operators behavior. Division by zero now emits warning and 
    returns +/-INF, modulo by zero and intdid() throws an exception, shifts
    by negative offset throw exceptions. Compile-time evaluation of division
    by zero is disabled. (Dmitry, Andrea, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #69371 (Hash table collision leads to inaccessible array keys).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #68933 (Invalid read of size 8 in zend_std_read_property).
    (Laruence, arjen at react dot com)
  . Fixed bug #68252 (segfault in Zend/zend_hash.c in function
    _zend_hash_del_el). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #65598 (Closure executed via static autoload incorrectly marked as
    static). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #66811 (Cannot access static::class in lambda, writen outside of a
    class). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #69568 (call a private function in closure failed). (Nikita)
  . Added PHP_INT_MIN constant. (Andrea)
  . Added Closure::call() method. (Andrea)
  . Fixed bug #67959 (Segfault when calling phpversion('spl')). (Florian)
  . Implemented the RFC `Catchable "Call to a member function bar() on a
    non-object"`. (Timm)
  . Added options parameter for unserialize allowing to specify acceptable
    classes (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #63734 (Garbage collector can free zvals that are still
    referenced). (Dmitry)
  . Removed ZEND_ACC_FINAL_CLASS, promoting ZEND_ACC_FINAL as final class 
    modifier. (Guilherme Blanco)
  . is_long() & is_integer() is now an alias of is_int(). (Kalle)
  . Implemented FR #55467 (phpinfo: PHP Variables with $ and single quotes). (Kalle)
  . Added ?? operator. (Andrea)
  . Added <=> operator. (Andrea)
  . Added \u{xxxxx} Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax. (Andrea)
  . Fixed oversight where define() did not support arrays yet const syntax did.
    (Andrea, Dmitry)
  . Use "integer" and "float" instead of "long" and "double" in ZPP, type hint
    and conversion error messages. (Andrea)
  . Implemented FR #55428 (E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR when output buffering in output
    buffering handler). (Kalle)
  . Removed scoped calls of non-static methods from an incompatible $this
    context. (Nikita)
  . Removed support for #-style comments in ini files. (Nikita)
  . Removed support for assigning the result of new by reference. (Nikita)
  . Invalid octal literals in source code now produce compile errors, fixes
    PHPSadness #31. (Andrea)
  . Removed dl() function on fpm-fcgi. (Nikita)
  . Removed support for hexadecimal numeric strings. (Nikita)
  . Removed obsolete extensions and SAPIs. See the full list in UPGRADING. (Anatol)
  . Added NULL byte protection to exec, system and passthru. (Yasuo)
  . Added error_clear_last() function. (Reeze Xia)
  . Fixed bug #68797 (Number 2.2250738585072012e-308 converted incorrectly).
    (Anatol)
  . Improved zend_qsort(using hybrid sorting algo) for better performance, 
    and also renamed zend_qsort to zend_sort. (Laruence)
  . Added stable sorting algo zend_insert_sort. (Laruence)
  . Improved zend_memnchr(using sunday algo) for better performance. (Laruence)
  . Implemented the RFC `Scalar Type Decalarations v0.5`. (Anthony)
  . Implemented the RFC `Group Use Declarations`. (Marcio)
  . Implemented the RFC `Continue Output Buffering`. (Mike)
  . Implemented the RFC `Constructor behaviour of internal classes`. (Dan, Dmitry)
  . Implemented the RFC `Fix "foreach" behavior`. (Dmitry)
  . Implemented the RFC `Generator Delegation`. (Bob)
  . Implemented the RFC `Anonymous Class Support`. (Joe, Nikita, Dmitry)
  . Implemented the RFC `Context Sensitive Lexer`. (Marcio Almada)
  . Fixed bug #69511 (Off-by-one buffer overflow in php_sys_readlink).
    (Jan Starke, Anatol)

- CLI server:
  . Refactor MIME type handling to use a hash table instead of linear search.
    (Adam)
  . Update the MIME type list from the one shipped by Apache HTTPD. (Adam)
  . Added support for SEARCH WebDav method. (Mats Lindh)

- Curl:
  . Fixed bug #68937 (Segfault in curl_multi_exec). (Laruence)
  . Removed support for unsafe file uploads. (Nikita)

- Date:
  . Fixed day_of_week function as it could sometimes return negative values
    internally. (Derick)
  . Removed $is_dst parameter from mktime() and gmmktime(). (Nikita)
  . Removed date.timezone warning
    (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal). (Bob)
  . Added "v" DateTime format modifier to get the 3-digit version of fraction 
    of seconds. (Mariano Iglesias)
  . Implemented FR #69089: Added DateTime::RFC3339_EXTENDED to output in 
    RFC3339 Extended format which includes fraction of seconds. (Mariano
    Iglesias)

- DBA:
  . Fixed bug #62490 (dba_delete returns true on missing item (inifile)). (Mike)
  . Fixed bug #68711 (useless comparisons). (bugreports at internot dot info)

- DOM:
  . Made DOMNode::textContent writeable. (Tjerk)

- GD:
  . Made fontFetch's path parser thread-safe. (Sara)
  . Removed T1Lib support. (Kalle)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #66242 (libmagic: don't assume char is signed). (ArdB)

- Filter:
  . New FILTER_VALIDATE_DOMAIN and better RFC conformance for FILTER_VALIDATE_URL. (Kevin Dunglas)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #68945 (Unknown admin values segfault pools). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #65933 (Cannot specify config lines longer than 1024 bytes). (Chris Wright)
  . Implement request #67106 (Split main fpm config). (Elan Ruusamäe, Remi)

- FTP:
  . Fixed bug #69082 (FTPS support on Windows). (Anatol) 

- Intl:
  . Removed deprecated aliases datefmt_set_timezone_id() and
    IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZoneID(). (Nikita)

- JSON:
  . Replace non-free JSON parser with a parser from Jsond extension, fixes #63520
    (JSON extension includes a problematic license statement). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Fixed bug #68938 (json_decode() decodes empty string without error).
    (jeremy at bat-country dot us)

- LDAP:
  . Fixed bug #47222 (Implement LDAP_OPT_DIAGNOSTIC_MESSAGE). (Andreas Heigl)

- LiteSpeed:
  . Updated LiteSpeed SAPI code from V5.5 to V6.6. (George Wang)

- libxml:
  . Fixed handling of big lines in error messages with libxml >= 2.9.0.
    (Christoph M. Becker)

- Mcrypt:
  . Fixed possible read after end of buffer and use after free. (Dmitry)
  . Removed mcrypt_generic_end() alias. (Nikita)
  . Removed mcrypt_ecb(), mcrypt_cbc(), mcrypt_cfb(), mcrypt_ofb(). (Nikita)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #69688 (segfault with eval and opcache fast shutdown).
    (Laruence)
  . Added experimental (disabled by default) file based opcode cache.
    (Dmitry, Laruence, Anatol)
  . Fixed bug with try blocks being removed when extended_info opcode
    generation is turned on. (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #68644 (strlen incorrect : mbstring + func_overload=2 +UTF-8
    + Opcache). (Laruence)

- OpenSSL:
  . Added "alpn_protocols" SSL context option allowing encrypted client/server
    streams to negotiate alternative protocols using the ALPN TLS extension when
    built against OpenSSL 1.0.2 or newer. Negotiated protocol information is
    accessible through stream_get_meta_data() output.
  . Removed "CN_match" and "SNI_server_name" SSL context options. Use automatic
    detection or the "peer_name" option instead. (Nikita)

- pcntl:
  . Fixed bug #60509 (pcntl_signal doesn't decrease ref-count of old handler
    when setting SIG_DFL). (Julien)
  . Request #68505 (Added wifcontinued and wcontinued). (xilon-jul)
  . Added rusage support to pcntl_wait() and pcntl_waitpid(). (Anton Stepanenko,
    Tony)

- PCRE:
  . Removed support for the /e (PREG_REPLACE_EVAL) modifier. (Nikita)

- PDO:
  . Fixed bug #59450 (./configure fails with "Cannot find php_pdo_driver.h").
    (maxime dot besson at smile dot fr)

- PDO_mysql:
  . Fixed bug #68424 (Add new PDO mysql connection attr to control multi
    statements option). (peter dot wolanin at acquia dot com)

- PDO_pgsql:
  . Removed PGSQL_ATTR_DISABLE_NATIVE_PREPARED_STATEMENT attribute in favor of
    ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES). (Nikita)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed inheritance chain of Reflector interface. (Tjerk)
  . Added ReflectionGenerator class. (Bob)
  . Added reflection support for return types and type declarations. (Sara,
    Matteo)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #67694 (Regression in session_regenerate_id()). (Tjerk)
  . Fixed bug #68941 (mod_files.sh is a bash-script). (bugzilla at ii.nl, Yasuo)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #68361 (Segmentation fault on SoapClient::__getTypes). (Laruence)

- SPL:
  . Changed ArrayIterator implementation using zend_hash_iterator_... API.
    Allowed modification of iterated ArrayObject using the same behavior
    as proposed in `Fix "foreach" behavior`. Removed "Array was modified
    outside object and internal position is no longer valid" hack. (Dmitry)
  . Implemented #67886 (SplPriorityQueue/SplHeap doesn't expose extractFlags
    nor curruption state). (Julien)
  . Fixed bug #66405 (RecursiveDirectoryIterator::CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME
    breaks the RecursiveIterator). (Paul Garvin)

- SQLite3:
  . Fixed bug #68260 (SQLite3Result::fetchArray declares wrong
    required_num_args). (Julien)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #69723 (Passing parameters by reference and array_column).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #69523 (Cookie name cannot be empty). (Christoph M. Becker)
  . Fixed bug #69325 (php_copy_file_ex does not pass the argument).
    (imbolk at gmail dot com)
  . Fixed bug #69299 (Regression in array_filter's $flag argument in PHP 7).
    (Laruence)
  . Removed call_user_method() and call_user_method_array() functions. (Kalle)
  . Fixed user session handlers (See rfc:session.user.return-value). (Sara)
  . Added intdiv() function. (Andrea)
  . Improved precision of log() function for base 2 and 10. (Marc Bennewitz)
  . Remove string category support in setlocale(). (Nikita)
  . Remove set_magic_quotes_runtime() and its alias magic_quotes_runtime().
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #65272 (flock() out parameter not set correctly in windows).
    (Daniel Lowrey)
  . Added preg_replace_callback_array function. (Wei Dai)
  . Deprecated salt option to password_hash. (Anthony)
  . Fixed bug #69686 (password_verify reports back error on PHP7 will null
    string). (Anthony)
  . Added Windows support for getrusage(). (Kalle)
  . Removed hardcoded limit on number of pipes in proc_open(). (Tony)

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug #68532 (convert.base64-encode omits padding bytes).
    (blaesius at krumedia dot de)
  . Removed set_socket_blocking() in favor of its alias stream_set_blocking().
    (Nikita)

- XSL:
  . Fixed bug #64776 (The XSLT extension is not thread safe). (Mike)
  . Removed xsl.security_prefs ini option. (Nikita)

- Zlib:
  . Added deflate_init(), deflate_add(), inflate_init(), inflate_add()
    functions allowing incremental/streaming compression/decompression.
    (Daniel Lowrey & Bob Weinand)

- Zip:
  . Added ZipArchive::setCompressionName and ZipArchive::setCompressionIndex
    methods. (Remi, Cedric Delmas)
  . Update bundled libzip to 1.0.1. (Remi, Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #67161 (ZipArchive::getStream() returns NULL for certain file).
    (Christoph M. Becker)

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