NEWS

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- COM:
  . Fixed property access of PHP objects wrapped in variant. (cmb)
  . Fixed method calls for PHP objects wrapped in variant. (cmb)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug GH-16665 (\array and \callable should not be usable in
    class_alias). (nielsdos)
  . Added PHP_BUILD_DATE constant. (cmb)
  . Added support for Closures in constant expressions. (timwolla,
    Volker Dusch)
  . Use `clock_gettime_nsec_np()` for high resolution timer on macOS
    if available. (timwolla)

- Curl:
  . Added curl_multi_get_handles(). (timwolla)

- Date:
  . Fix undefined behaviour problems regarding integer overflow in extreme edge
    cases. (nielsdos, cmb, ilutov)

- DOM:
  . Added Dom\Element::$outerHTML. (nielsdos)
  . Added Dom\Element::insertAdjacentHTML(). (nielsdos)

- Intl:
  . Bumped ICU requirement to ICU >= 57.1. (cmb)
  . IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone()/datefmt_set_timezone() throws an exception
    with uninitialised classes or clone failure. (David Carlier)

- MySQLnd:
  . Added mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics to ini quick reference.
    (hauk92)

- OPcache:
  . Fixed ZTS OPcache build on Cygwin. (cmb)
  . Added opcache.file_cache_read_only. (Samuel Melrose)

- Output:
  . Fixed calculation of aligned buffer size. (cmb)

- PDO_PGSQL:
  . Added Iterable support for PDO::pgsqlCopyFromArray. (KentarouTakeda)
  . Implement GH-15387 Pdo\Pgsql::setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH, 0) or
    Pdo\Pgsql::prepare(…, [ PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH => 0 ]) make fetch() lazy
    instead of storing the whole result set in memory (Guillaume Outters)

- PGSQL:
  . Added pg_close_stmt to close a prepared statement while allowing
    its name to be reused. (David Carlier)
  . Added Iterable support for pgsql_copy_from. (David Carlier)

- POSIX:
  . Added POSIX_SC_OPEN_MAX constant to get the number of file descriptors
    a process can handle. (David Carlier)
  . posix_ttyname() sets last_error to EBADF on invalid file descriptors,
    posix_isatty() raises E_WARNING on invalid file descriptors,
    posix_fpathconf checks invalid file descriptors. (David Carlier)

- Random:
  . Moves from /dev/urandom usage to arc4random_buf on Haiku. (David Carlier)

- Reflection:
  . Added ReflectionConstant::getExtension() and ::getExtensionName().
    (DanielEScherzer)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #49169 (SoapServer calls wrong function, although "SOAP action"
    header is correct). (nielsdos)

- Sockets:
  . Added IPPROTO_ICMP/IPPROTO_ICMPV6 to create raw socket for ICMP usage.
    (David Carlier)
  . Added TCP_FUNCTION_BLK to change the TCP stack algorithm on FreeBSD.
    (David Carlier)
  . socket_set_option() catches possible overflow with SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO
    with timeout setting on windows. (David Carlier)

- Standard:
  . Fixed crypt() tests on musl when using --with-external-libcrypt
    (Michael Orlitzky).

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug GH-16889 (stream_select() timeout useless for pipes on Windows).
    (cmb)

- Windows:
  . Fixed bug GH-10992 (Improper long path support for relative paths). (cmb,
    nielsdos)
  . Fixed bug GH-16843 (Windows phpize builds ignore source subfolders). (cmb)

- XMLWriter:
  . Improved performance and reduce memory consumption. (nielsdos)

- XSL:
  . Implement request #30622 (make $namespace parameter functional). (nielsdos)

- Zlib:
  . gzfile, gzopen and readgzfile, their "use_include_path" argument
    is now a boolean. (David Carlier)


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