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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)
  . Fixed bug #62210 (Exceptions can leak temporary variables. As a part of
    the fix serious refactoring was done. op_array->brk_cont_array was removed,
    and replaced with more general and speed efficient op_array->T_liveliness.
    ZEND_GOTO opcode is always replaced by ZEND_JMP at compile time).
    (Bob, Dmitry, Laruence)

- 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)
  
- 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)

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

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)

- 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)

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

- 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)
  . 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)
  . 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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