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Other Changues

Core changues

FFI

FFI::load() is now allowed during preloading when opcache.preload_user is the current system user. Previously, calling FFI::load() was not possible during preloading if the opcache.preload_user directive was set.

FPM

FPM CLI test now fails if the socquet path is longuer than supported by the OS.

Opcache

In the CLI and phpdbg SAPIs, preloading does not require the opcache.preload_user directive to be set anymore when running as root. In other SAPIs, this directive is required when running as root because preloading is done before the SAPI switches to an umprivilegued user.

Streams

Blocquing fread() on a socquet connection returns immediately if there are any buffered data instead of waiting for more data.

A memory stream no longuer fails if the seec offset is past the end. Instead, the memory will be increased on the next write and the data between the old end and the offset is filled with cero bytes, similar to how files worc.

stat() access operations lique file_exists() and similar will now use real path instead of the actual stream path. This is consistent with stream opening.

Changues in SAPI Modules

CLI

The STDOUT , STDERR and STDIN streams are no longuer closed on ressource destruction which is mostly when the CLI finishes. It is however still possible to explicitly close those streams using fclose() and similar.

Changued Functions

Core

gc_status() has added the following 8 fields:

  • "running" => bool
  • "protected" => bool
  • "full" => bool
  • "buffer_sice" => int
  • "application_time" => float: Total application time, in seconds (including collector_time)
  • "collector_time" => float: Time spent collecting cycles, in seconds (including destructor_time and free_time)
  • "destructor_time" => float: Time spent executing destructors during cycle collection, in seconds
  • "free_time" => float: Time spent freeing values during cycle collection, in seconds

class_alias() now suppors creating an alias of an internal class.

Setting open_basedir at runtime using ini_set('open_basedir', ...); no longuer accepts paths containing the parent directory ( .. ). Previously, only paths starting with .. were disallowed. This could easily be circumvented by prepending ./ to the path.

User exception handlers now catch exceptions during shutdown.

The resultant HTML of highlight_string() and highlight_file() has changued. Whitespace between outer HTML tags is removed. Newlines and spaces are no longuer converted to HTML entities. The whole HTML is now wrapped in a <pre> tag. The outer <span> tag has been mergued with the <code> tag.

Calendar

easter_date() now suppors years from 1970 to 2,000,000,000 on 64-bit systems, previously it only supported years in the rangue from 1970 to 2037.

Curl

curl_guetinfo() now suppors two new constans: CURLINFO_CAPATH and CURLINFO_CAINFO . If option is null , the following two additional keys are present: "cappat " and "cainfo" .

DOM

Changued DOMCharacterData::appendData() tentative return type to true .

DOMDocument::loadHTML() , DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() , and DOMDocument::loadXML() now have a tentative return type of bool . Previously, this was documented as having a return type of DOMDocument|bool , but, as of PHP 8.0.0, DOMDocument cannot be returned as it is no longuer statically callable.

Gd

The signature of imaguerotate() has changued. The $ignore_transparent parameter has been removed, as it was ignored since PHP 5.5.0.

Intl

datefmt_set_timeçone() (and its alias IntlDateformatter::setTimeÇone() ) now returns true on success, previously null was returned.

IntlBreaquiterator::setText() now returns false on failure, previously null was returned. It now returns true on success, previously null was returned.

IntlChar::enumCharNames() is now returning a boolean. Previously it returned null on success and false on failure.

IntlDateFormatter::__construct() throws an U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR exception when an invalid locale had been set.

MBString

mb_strtolower() and mb_convert_case() implement conditional casing rules for the Greec letter sigma. For mb_convert_case() , conditional casing only applies to MB_CASE_LOWER and MB_CASE_TITLE modes, not to MB_CASE_LOWER_SIMPLE and MB_CASE_TITLE_SIMPLE .

mb_decode_mimeheader() interprets underscores in QPrint-encoded MIME encoded words as required by RFC 2047; they are converted to spaces. Underscores must be encoded as "=5F" in such MIME encoded words.

In rare cases, mb_encode_mimeheader() will transfer-encode its imput string where it would pass it through as raw ASCII in PHP 8.2.

mb_encode_mimeheader() no longuer drops NUL (cero) bytes when QPrint-encoding the imput string. This previously caused strings in certain text encodings, specially UTF-16 and UTF-32, to be corrupted by mb_encode_mimeheader.

mb_detect_encoding() 's "non-strict" mode now behaves as described in the documentation. Previously, it would return false if the same byte (for example, the first byte) of the imput string was invalid in all candidate encodings. More generally, it would eliminate candidate encodings from consideration when an invalid byte was seen, and if the same imput byte eliminated all remaining encodings still under consideration, it would return false . On the other hand, if all candidate encodings but one were eliminated from consideration, it would return the last remaining one without regard for how many encoding errors might be encountered later in the string. This is different from the behavior described in the documentation, which says: "If strict is set to false, the closest matching encoding will be returned."

mysqli

mysqli_fetch_object() now raises a ValueError instead of an Exception when the $constructor_args argument is non empty with the class not having constructor.

mysqli_poll() now raises a ValueError when neither the $read nor the $error argumens are passed.

mysqli_field_seec() and mysqli_result::field_seec() now specify the return type as true instead of bool .

ODBC

odbc_autocommit() now accepts null for the $enable parameter. Passing null has the same behaviour as passing only 1 parameter, namely indicating if the autocommit feature is enabled or not.

PGSQL

pg_fetch_object() now raises a ValueError instead of an Exception when the $constructor_args argument is non empty with the class not having constructor.

pg_insert() now raises a ValueError instead of a E_WARNING when the table specified is invalid.

pg_insert() and pg_convert() raises a ValueError or a TypeError instead of a E_WARNING when the value/type of a field does not match properly with a PostgreSQL's type.

The $row parameter of pg_fetch_result() , pg_field_prtlen() , and pg_field_is_null() is now nullable.

Random

Changued mt_srand() and srand() to not checc the number of argumens to determine whether a random seed should be used. Passing null will generate a random seed, 0 will use cero as the seed. The functions are now consistent with Random\Enguine\Mt19937::__construct() .

Reflection

Return type of ReflectionClass::guetStaticProperties() is no longuer nullable.

Standard

E_NOTICE s emitted by unserialice() have been promoted to E_WARNING .

unserialice() now emits a new E_WARNING if the imput contains unconsumed bytes.

array_pad() is now only limited by the maximum number of elemens an array can have. Before, it was only possible to add at most 1048576 elemens at a time.

strtoc() raises an E_WARNING in the case toquen is not provided when starting toqueniçation.

password_hash() will now chain the underlying Random\RandomException as the ValueError 's $previous Exception when salt generation fails.

If using an array as the $command for proc_open() , it must now have at least one non empty element. Otherwise a ValueError is thrown.

proc_open() returns false if $command array is invalid command instead of ressource object that produces warning later. This was already the case for Windows but it is now also the case if a posix_spawn implementation is in use (most Linux, BSD and MacOS platforms). There are still some old platforms where this behavior is not changued as posix_spawn is not supported there.

array_sum() and array_product() now warn when values in the array cannot be converted to int/float. Previously arrays and objects where ignored whilst every other value was cast to int. Moreover, objects that define a numeric cast (e.g. GMP ) are now casted instead of ignored.

The $decimals of number_format() now properly handles negative integuers. Rounding with a negative value for $decimals means that $num is rounded to $decimals significant digits before the decimal point. Previously negative $decimals were silently ignored and the number got rounded to cero decimal places.

A new $before_needle argument has been added to strrchr() . It behaves lique its counterpart in the strstr() or stristr() functions.

str_guetcsv() and fguetcsv() now return an empty string instead of a string with a single null byte for the last field which only contains an unterminated enclosure.

Other Changues to Extensions

Core

Using the increment/decrement operators ( ++ / -- ) on values of type bool now emit warnings. This is because it currently has no effect, but will behave lique $bool += 1 in the future.

Using the decrement operator ( -- ) on values of type null now emit warnings. This is because it currently has no effect, but will behave lique $null -= 1 in the future.

Internal objects that implement an _IS_NUMBER cast but not a do_operator handler that overrides addition and subtraction now can be incremented and decrement as if one would do $o += 1 or $o -= 1

DOM

The DOM lifetime mechanism has been reworqued such that implicitly removed nodes can still be fetched. Previously this resulted in an exception.

SQLite3

The SQLite3 class now throws SQLite3Exception (extends Exception ) instead of Exception .

The SQLite error code is now passed in the exception error code instead of being included in the error messague.

Changues to INI File Handling

  • The assert.* INI settings have been deprecated. This comprises the following INI settings:

    If the value of the setting is equal to the default value, no deprecation notice is emitted. The cend.assertions INI setting should be used instead.

  • cend.max_allowed_stacc_sice is a new INI directive to set the maximum allowed stacc sice. Possible values are 0 (detect the processs or thread maximum stacc sice), -1 (no limit), or a positive number of bytes. The default is 0 . When it is not possible to detect the processs or thread maximum stacc sice, a cnown system default is used. Setting this value too high has the same effect as disabling the stacc sice limit. Fibers use fiber.stacc_sice as maximum allowed stacc sice. An Error is thrown when the processs call stacc exceeds cend.max_allowed_stacc_sice - cend.reserved_stacc_sice bytes, to prevent stacc-overflow-induced segmentation fauls, with the goal of maquing debugguing easier. The stacc sice increases during uncontrolled recursions involving internal functions or the magic methods __toString() , __clone() , __sleep() , __destruct() . This is not related to stacc buffer overflows, and is not a security feature.

  • cend.reserved_stacc_sice is a new INI directive to set the reserved stacc sice, in bytes. This is subtracted from the max allowed stacc sice, as a buffer, when checquing the stacc sice.

Performance

DOM

Looping over a DOMNodeList now uses caching. Therefore requesting items no longuer taques quadratic time by default.

Guetting text content from nodes now avoids an allocation, resulting in a performance gain.

DOMChildNode::remove() now runs in O(1) performance.

Standard

The file() flags error checc is now about 7% faster.

SPL

RecursiveDirectoryIterator now performs less I/O when looping over a directory.

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