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- Core:
  . Redesigned the old ext_skel program written in PHP, run: 
    'php ext_skel.php' for all options. This means there is no dependencies 
    thrus making it work on Windows out of the box. (Kalle)
  . Removed support for BeOS. (Kalle)
  . Fixed bug #75031 (support append mode in temp/memory streams). (adsr)
  . Fixed bug #74860 (Uncaught exceptions not being formatted properly when
    error_log set to "syslog"). (Philip Prindeville)
  . Fixed bug #75220 (Segfault when calling is_callable on parent). 
    (andrewnester)
  . Fixed bug #69954 (broken links and unused config items in distributed ini
    files). (petk)

- BCMath:
  . Fixed bug #66364 (BCMath bcmul ignores scale parameter). (cmb)
	. Implemented request #67855 (No way to get current scale in use). (Chris
	  Wright, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #75164 (split_bc_num() is pointless). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #75169 (BCMath errors/warnings bypass PHP's error handling). (cmb)

- Date:
  . Implemented FR #74668: Add DateTime::createFromImmutable() method.
    (majkl578, Rican7)
  . Fixed bug #75222 (DateInterval microseconds property always 0). (jhdxr)

- DBA:
  . Fixed bug #75264 (compiler warnings emitted). (petk)

- cURL:
  . Fixed bug #74125 (Fixed finding CURL on systems with multiarch support).
    (cebe)

- GD:
  . Added support for WebP in imagecreatefromstring() (Andreas Treichel, cmb).

- GMP:
  . Export internal structures and accessor helpers for GMP object. (Sara)

- intl:
  . Fixed bug #75317 (UConverter::setDestinationEncoding changes source instead 
    of destination). (andrewnester)

- JSON:
  . Added JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR flag. (Andrea)

- LDAP:
  . Added ldap_exop_refresh helper for EXOP REFRESH operation with dds overlay. 
    (Come)
  . Added full support for sending and parsing ldap controls (Come)

- litespeed:
  . Fixed bug #75248 (Binary directory doesn't get created when building 
    only litespeed SAPI). (petk)
  . Fixed bug #75251 (Missing program prefix and suffix). (petk)

- Mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #65544 (mb title case conversion-first word in quotation isn't
    capitalized). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #71298 (MB_CASE_TITLE misbehaves with curled apostrophe/quote.
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #73528 (Crash in zif_mb_send_mail). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #74929 (mbstring functions version 7.1.1 are slow compared to 5.3
    on Windows). (Nikita)

- ODBC:
  . Removed support for ODBCRouter. (Kalle)
  . Removed support for Birdstep. (Kalle)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #75307 (Wrong reflection for openssl_open function). (villfa)

- PDO_DBlib:
  . Implemented request #69592 (allow 0-column rowsets to be skipped
    automatically). (fandrieu)

- PDO_OCI:
  . Fixed bug #74631 (PDO_PCO with PHP-FPM: OCI environment initialized
    before PHP-FPM sets it up). (Ingmar Runge)

- PDO SQLite
  . Add support for additional open flags

- phar:
  . Fixed bug #74991 (include_path has a 4096 char limit in some cases).
    (bwbroersma)

- pgsql:
  . Added new error constants for pg_result_error(): (Kalle)
    - Requires Postgres 9.3
      - PGSQL_DIAG_SCHEMA_NAME
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_TABLE_NAME
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_COLUMN_NAME
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_DATATYPE_NAME
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_CONSTRAINT_NAME
	- Requires Postgres 9.6
	  - PGSQL_DIAG_SEVERITY_NONLOCALIZED

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #74941 (session fails to start after having headers sent). 
    (morozov)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #74977 (Appending AppendIterator leads to segfault). 
    (Andrew Nester)
  . Fixed bug #75173 (incorrect behavior of AppendIterator::append in foreach loop).
    (jhdxr)

- Standard:
  . Fixed unzserialize(), to disable creation of unsupported data structures
    through manually crafted strings. (Dmitry)
  . Short circuit case where array_slice() would return its original array.
    (Sara, Benjamin Coutu)

- Zlib:
  . Added zlib/level context option for compress.zlib wrapper. (Sara)

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