NEWS

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15 Sep 2022, PHP 8.2.0RC2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug GH-9500 (Using dnf type with parentheses after readonly keyword
    results in a parse error). (ilutov)
  . Fixed bug GH-9516 ((A&B)|D as a param should allow AB or D. Not just A).
    (Girgias)

- GMP
  . Fixed bug GH-9308 (GMP throws the wrong error when a GMP object is passed
    to gmp_init()). (Girgias)

- Intl
  . Fixed bug GH-9421 (Incorrect argument number for ValueError in NumberFormatter).
    (Girgias)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug GH-9259 (opcache.interned_strings_buffer setting integer
    overflow). (Arnaud)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug GH-9517 (Compilation error openssl extension related to PR
    GH-9366). (Jakub Zelenka)

- PDO_PGSQL:
  . Fixed bug GH-9411 (PgSQL large object resource is incorrectly closed).
    (Yurunsoft)

- Random:
  . Fixed bug GH-9464 (build on older macOs releases). (David Bohman)

- Standard:
  . Marked crypt()'s $string parameter as #[\SensitiveParameter]. (timwolla)
  . Fixed bug GH-9464 (build on older macOs releases). (David Bohman)
  . Fixed bug GH-9518 (Disabling IPv6 support disables unrelated constants).
    (cmb)

01 Sep 2022, PHP 8.2.0RC1

- CLI:
  . Implement built-in web server responding without body to HEAD request on
    a static resource. (Vedran Miletic, Marin Martuslovic)
  . Implement built-in web server responding with HTTP status 405 to
    DELETE/PUT/PATCH request on a static resource.
    (Vedran Miletic, Marin Martuslovic)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug GH-9323 (Crash in ZEND_RETURN/GC/zend_call_function)
    (Tim Starling)
  . Fixed bug GH-9227 (Trailing dots and spaces in filenames are ignored).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug GH-9285 (Traits cannot be used in readonly classes).
    (kocsismate)
  . Fixed bug GH-9186 (@strict-properties can be bypassed using
    unserialization). (kocsismate)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug GH-9431 (DateTime::getLastErrors() not returning false when no
    errors/warnings). (Derick)

- ODBC:
  . Fixed bug GH-9347 (Current ODBC liveness checks may be inadequate). (Calvin
    Buckley)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug GH-9371 (Crash with JIT on mac arm64)
    (jdp1024/David Carlier)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug GH-9310 (SSL local_cert and local_pk do not respect
    open_basedir). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Implement FR #76935 ("chacha20-poly1305" is an AEAD but does not work like
    AEAD). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Added openssl_cipher_key_length function. (Jakub Zelenka)

- PDO_ODBC:
  . Fixed bug GH-9347 (Current ODBC liveness checks may be inadequate). (Calvin
    Buckley)

- Random:
  . Fixed bug GH-9415 (Randomizer::getInt(0, 2**32 - 1) with Mt19937
    always returns 1). (timwolla)
  . Fixed Randomizer::getInt() consistency for 32-bit engines. (timwolla)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug GH-8932 (ReflectionFunction provides no way to get the called
    class of a Closure). (cmb, Nicolas Grekas)

- Streams:
  . Fixed bug GH-9316 ($http_response_header is wrong for long status line).
    (cmb, timwolla)

- XML:
  . Added libxml_get_external_entity_loader() function. (Tim Starling)

18 Aug 2022, PHP 8.2.0beta3

- Core:
  . Fixed incorrect double to long casting in latest clang. (zeriyoshi)
  . Added support for defining constants in traits. (sj-i)
  . Stop incorrectly emitting false positive deprecation notice alongside
    unsupported syntax fatal error for `"{$g{'h'}}"`. (TysonAndre)
  . Fix unexpected deprecated dynamic property warning, which occurred when
    exit() in finally block after an exception was thrown without catching.
    (Twosee)

- MBString:
  . Fixed bug GH-9248 (Segmentation fault in mb_strimwidth()). (cmb)

- Random:
  . Fixed bug GH-9235 (non-existant $sequence parameter in stub for
    PcgOneseq128XslRr64::__construct()). (timwolla)
  . Fixed bug GH-9190, GH-9191 (undefined behavior for MT_RAND_PHP when
    handling large ranges). (timwolla)
  . Fixed bug GH-9249 (Xoshiro256StarStar does not reject the invalid
    all-zero state). (timwolla)
  . Removed redundant RuntimeExceptions from Randomizer methods. The
    exceptions thrown by the engines will be exposed directly. (timwolla)
  . Added extension specific Exceptions/Errors (RandomException, RandomError,
    BrokenRandomEngineError). (timwolla)

- Session:
  . Fixed GH-9200 (setcookie has an obsolete expires date format). (timwolla)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #65489 (glob() basedir check is inconsistent). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Fixed GH-9200 (setcookie has an obsolete expires date format). (Derick)
  . Fixed GH-9244 (Segfault with array_multisort + array_shift). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug GH-9296 (`ksort` behaves incorrectly on arrays with mixed keys).
    (Denis Vaksman)

04 Aug 2022, PHP 8.2.0beta2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug GH-7900 (Arrow function with never return type compile-time
    errors). (ilutov)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug GH-8730 (DateTime::diff miscalculation is same time zone of
    different type). (Derick)
  . Fixed bug GH-8964 (DateTime object comparison after applying delta less
    than 1 second). (Derick)
  . Fixed bug GH-9106: (DateInterval 1.5s added to DateTimeInterface is rounded
    down since PHP 8.1.0). (Derick)
  . Fixed bug #75035 (Datetime fails to unserialize "extreme" dates).
    (Derick)
  . Fixed bug #80483 (DateTime Object with 5-digit year can't unserialized).
    (Derick)
  . Fixed bug #81263 (Wrong result from DateTimeImmutable::diff). (Derick)

- DBA:
  . Fixed LMDB driver memory leak on DB creation failure (Girgias)
  . Fixed GH-8856 (dba: lmdb: allow to override the MDB_NOSUBDIR flag). (Girgias)

- FFI:
  . Fixed bug GH-9090 (Support assigning function pointers in FFI). (Adam
    Saponara)

- Intl:
  . Declared Transliterator::$id as readonly to unlock subclassing it. (Nicolas
    Grekas)

- OPcache:
  . Fixed bug GH-9164 (Segfault in zend_accel_class_hash_copy).
    (Arnaud, Sergei Turchanov)

- PCNTL:
  . Fixed pcntl_(get|set)priority error handling for MacOS. (Juan Morales)

- Random:
  . Fixed bug GH-9067 (random extension is not thread safe). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug GH-9055 (segmentation fault if user engine throws). (timwolla)
  . Fixed bug GH-9066 (signed integer overflow). (zeriyoshi)
  . Fixed bug GH-9083 (undefined behavior during shifting). (timwolla)
  . Fixed bug GH-9088, GH-9056 (incorrect expansion of bytes when
    generating uniform integers within a given range). (timwolla)
  . Fixed bug GH-9089 (Fix memory leak on Randomizer::__construct()
    call twice). (zeriyoshi)
  . Fixed bug GH-9212 (PcgOneseq128XslRr64::jump() should not allow negative
    $advance). (Anton Smirnov)
  . Changed Mt19937 to throw a ValueError instead of InvalidArgumentException
    for invalid $mode. (timwolla)
  . Splitted Random\Randomizer::getInt() (without arguments) to
    Random\Randomizer::nextInt(). (zeriyoshi)

- Sockets:
  . Added SOL_FILTER socket option for Solaris. (David Carlier)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #69181 (READ_CSV|DROP_NEW_LINE drops newlines within fields).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #65069 (GlobIterator incorrect handling of open_basedir check).
    (Jakub Zelenka)

21 Jul 2022, PHP 8.2.0beta1

- CLI:
  . Updated the mime-type table for the builtin-server. (Ayesh Karunaratne)
  . Fixed potential overflow for the builtin server via the
    PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS environment variable. (yiyuaner)
  . Fixed GH-8575 by changing STDOUT, STDERR and STDIN to not close on resource
    destruction. (Jakub Zelenka)

- Core:
  . Reduced the memory footprint of strings returned by var_export(),
    json_encode(), serialize(), iconv_*(), mb_ereg*(), session_create_id(),
    http_build_query(), strstr(), Reflection*::__toString(). (Arnaud)
  . Fixed bug GH-8995 (WeakMap object reference offset causing TypeError).
    (Tobias Bachert)
  . Added error_log_mode ini setting. (Mikhail Galanin)
  . Updated request startup messages. (Eric Norris)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug GH-8750 (Can not create VT_ERROR variant type). (cmb)

- Filter:
  . Added FILTER_FLAG_GLOBAL_RANGE to filter Global IPs. (vnsavage)

- FPM:
  . Added listen.setfib pool option to set route FIB on FreeBSD. (David Carlier)
  . Added access.suppress_path pool option to filter access log entries.
    (Mark Gallagher)
  . Fixed on fpm scoreboard occasional warning on acquisition failure.
    (Felix Wiedemann)

- Opcache:
  . Added initial support for JIT performance profiling generation
    for macOs Instrument. (David Carlier)
  . Fixed bug GH-8030 (Segfault with JIT and large match/switch statements).
    (Arnaud)
  . Added JIT support improvement for macOs for segments and executable permission
    bit handling. (David Carlier)
  . Added JIT buffer allocation near the .text section on FreeNSD. (David Carlier)

- PCRE:
  . Updated bundled libpcre to 10.40. (cmb)

- PDO_Firebird:
  . Fixed bug GH-8576 (Bad interpretation of length when char is UTF-8). (cmb)

- Random:
  . Added new random extension. (Go Kudo)

- SPL:
  . Widen iterator_to_array() and iterator_count()'s $iterator parameter to
    iterable. (timwolla)

- Standard:
  . Implemented FR GH-8924 (str_split should return empty array for empty
    string). (Michael Vorisek)
  . Added ini_parse_quantity function to convert ini quantities shorthand
    notation to int. (Dennis Snell)
  . Enable arc4random_buf for Linux glibc 2.36 and onwards
    for the random_bytes. (Cristian Rodriguez)
  . Uses CCRandomGenerateBytes instead of arc4random_buf on macOs. (David Carlier).

- Windows:
  . Added preliminary support for (cross-)building for ARM64. (Yun Dou)

07 Jul 2022, PHP 8.2.0alpha3

- Core:
  . Uses safe_perealloc instead of perealloc for the
    ZEND_PTR_STACK_RESIZE_IF_NEEDED to avoid possible overflows. (David Carlier)

- DBA:
  . Fixed LMDB driver hanging when attempting to delete a non-existing key
    (Girgias)

- Intl:
  . Fixed build for ICU 69.x and onwards. (David Carlier)

- Opcache:
  . Allocate JIT buffer close to PHP .text segemnt to allow using direct
    IP-relative calls and jumps.
    (Su Tao, Wang Xue, Chen Hu, Lizhen Lizhen, Dmitry)

- Sockets:
  . Added TCP_CONGESTION socket option. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_ZEROCOPY/MSG_ZEROCOPY options. (David Carlier)

- SPL:
  . Uses safe_erealloc instead of erealloc to handle heap growth
    for the SplHeap::insert method to avoid possible overflows. (David Carlier)

- Standard:
  . Fixed the crypt_sha256/512 api build with clang > 12. (David Carlier)
  . Uses safe_erealloc instead of erealloc to handle options in getopt
    to avoid possible overflows. (David Carlier)

- Zip:

  . Implement fseek for zip stream when possible with libzip 1.9.1. (Remi)

23 Jun 2022, PHP 8.2.0alpha2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug GH-8655 (Casting an object to array does not unwrap refcount=1
    references). (Nicolas Grekas)
  . Fixed bug GH-8661 (Nullsafe in coalesce triggers undefined variable
    warning). (ilutov)
  . Fixed bug GH-7821 and GH-8418 (Allow arbitrary const expressions in backed
    enums). (ilutov)
  . Fixed bug GH-8810 (Incorrect lineno in backtrace of multi-line function
    calls). (ilutov)
  . Optimised code path for newly created file with the stream plain wrapper. (Max Kellermann)

- Curl:
  . Added new constants from cURL 7.62 to 7.80. (Pierrick)
  . New function curl_upkeep(). (Pierrick)

- OpenSSL:
  . Discard poll calls on socket when no timeout/non blocking/MSG_DONTWAIT. (Max Kellermann)

- PCRE:
  . Implemented FR #77726 (Allow null character in regex patterns). (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Deprecated utf8_encode() and utf8_decode(). (Rowan Tommins)

- Streams:
  . Discard poll calls on socket when no timeout/non blocking/MSG_DONTWAIT. (Max Kellermann)

09 Jun 2022, PHP 8.2.0alpha1

- CLI:
  . Fixed bug #81496 (Server logs incorrect request method). (lauri)

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #81380 (Observer may not be initialized properly). (krakjoe)
  . Fixed bug GH-7771 (Fix filename/lineno of constant expressions). (ilutov)
  . Fixed bug GH-7792 (Improve class type in error messages). (ilutov)
  . Support huge pages on MacOS. (David CARLIER)

- Curl:
  . Added support for CURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION. (David Carlier)
  . Added support for CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE_LARGE. (David Carlier)

- Date:
  . Fixed GH-8458 (DateInterval::createFromDateString does not throw if
    non-relative items are present). (Derick)
  . Fixed bug #52015 (Allow including end date in DatePeriod iterations)
    (Daniel Egeberg, Derick)
  . idate() now accepts format specifiers "N" (ISO Day-of-Week) and "o" (ISO
    Year). (Pavel Djundik)

- FPM:
  . Emit error for invalid port setting. (David Carlier)
  . Added extra check for FPM proc dumpable on SELinux based systems.
    (David Carlier)
  . Added support for listening queue on macOS. (David Carlier)
  . Changed default for listen.backlog on Linux to -1. (Cristian Rodríguez)

- FTP:
  . Fix datetime format string to follow POSIX spec in ftp_mdtm(). (Jihwan Kim)

- Intl:
  . Update all grandfathered language tags with preferred values
  . Fixed GH-7939 (Cannot unserialize IntlTimeZone objects). (cmb)

- OCI8:
  . Added oci8.prefetch_lob_size directive to tune LOB query performance
  . Support for building against Oracle Client libraries 10.1 and 10.2 has been
    dropped. Oracle Client libraries 11.2 or newer are now required.

- ODBC:
  . Fixed bug GH-8300 (User input not escaped when building connection string).
    (Calvin Buckley)

- PDO_ODBC:
  . Fixed bug #80909 (crash with persistent connections in PDO_ODBC). (Calvin
    Buckley)
  . Fixed bug GH-8300 (User input not escaped when building connection string).
    (Calvin Buckley)

- Reflection:
  . Added ReflectionFunction::isAnonymous(). (Nicolas Grekas)
  . Added ReflectionMethod::hasPrototype(). (Ollie Read)
  . Narrow ReflectionEnum::getBackingType() return type to ReflectionNamedType.
    (SamMousa)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug GH-7787 (Improve session write failure message for user error
    handlers). (ilutov)

- Sockets:
  . Added TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_MEMINFO socket option. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_RTABLE socket option (OpenBSD), equivalent of SO_MARK (Linux).
    (David Carlier)
  . Added TCP_KEEPALIVE, TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPINTVL, TCP_KEEPCNT socket
    options. (David Carlier)
  . Added ancillary data support for FreeBSD. (David Carlier)
  . Added ancillary data support for NetBSD. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS socket option. (David Carlier)
  . Added SO_SETFIB socket option. (David Carlier)

- Sodium:
  . Added sodium_crypto_stream_xchacha20_xor_ic(). (Scott)

- SQLite3:
  . Changed sqlite3.defensive from PHP_INI_SYSTEM to PHP_INI_USER. (bohwaz)

- Standard:
  . net_get_interfaces() also reports wireless network interfaces on Windows.
    (Yurun)
  . Finished AVIF support in getimagesize(). (Yannis Guyon)
  . Fixed bug GH-7847 (stripos with large haystack has bad performance).
    (ilutov)
  . New function memory_reset_peak_usage(). (Patrick Allaert)
  . Fixed parse_url(): can not recognize port without scheme. (pandaLIU)

- Streams:
  . Set IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT if available when connecting to remote host.
    (Cristian Rodríguez)
  . Fixed bug GH-8548 (stream_wrapper_unregister() leaks memory). (ilutov)

- Zip:
  . add ZipArchive::clearError() method
  . add ZipArchive::getStreamName() method
  . add ZipArchive::getStreamIndex() method
  . On Windows, the Zip extension is now built as shared library (DLL) by
    default. (cmb)

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