PHP 8.0.0: Downloads, Changelog, News

BZ2

• Fixed bug #71263 (fread() does not report bzip2.decompress errors).

CLI

• Allow debug server binding to an ephemeral port via -S localhost:0.

COM

• Fixed bug #55847 (DOTNET .NET 4.0 GAC new location).
• Fixed bug #62474 (com_event_sink crashes on certain arguments).

Calendar

• Fixed bug #80007 (Potential type confusion in unixtojd() parameter parsing).

Core

• Fixed bug GH-36365 (scandir duplicates file name at every 65535th file).
• Fixed bug #49555 (Fatal error "Function must be a string" message should be renamed).
• Fixed bug #62294 (register_shutdown_function() does not correctly handle exit code).
• Fixed bug #62609 (Allow implementing Traversable on abstract classes).
• Fixed bug #65274 (Enhance undefined class constant error with class name).
• Fixed bug #65275 (Calling exit() in a shutdown function does not change the exit value in CLI).
• Fixed bug #69084 (Unclear error message when not implementing a renamed abstract trait function).
• Fixed bug #70839 (Converting optional argument to variadic forbidden by LSP checks).
• Fixed bug #74558 (Can't rebind closure returned by Closure::fromCallable()).
• Fixed bug #77561 (Shebang line not stripped for non-primary script).
• Fixed bug #77619 (Wrong reflection on MultipleIterator::__construct).
• Fixed bug #77966 (Cannot alias a method named "namespace").
• Fixed bug #78236 (convert error on receiving variables when duplicate [).
• Fixed bug #78770 (Incorrect callability check inside internal methods).
• Fixed bug #79108 (Referencing argument in a function makes it a reference in the stack trace).
• Fixed bug #79368 ("Unexpected end of file" is not an acceptable error message).
• Fixed bug #79462 (method_exists and property_exists incoherent behavior).
• Fixed bug #79467 (data:// wrappers are writable).
• Fixed bug #79521 (Check __set_state structure).
• Fixed bug #79790 ("Illegal offset type" exception during AST evaluation not handled properly).
• Fixed bug #79791 (Assertion failure when unsetting variable during binary op).
• Fixed bug #79828 (Segfault when trying to access non-existing variable).
• Fixed bug #79841 (Syntax error in configure / unescaped "[]" in php.m4).
• Fixed bug #79852 (count(DOMNodeList) doesn't match count(IteratorIterator(DOMNodeList))).
• Fixed bug #79867 (Promoted untyped properties should get null default value).
• Fixed bug #79897 (Promoted constructor params with attribs cause crash).
• Fixed bug #79927 (Generator doesn't throw exception after multiple yield from iterable).
• Fixed bug #79946 (Build fails due to undeclared UINT32_C).
• Fixed bug #79948 (Exit in auto-prepended file does not abort PHP execution).
• Fixed bug #80045 (memleak after two set_exception_handler calls with __call).
• Fixed bug #80096 (Segmentation fault with named arguments in nested call).
• Fixed bug #80109 (Cannot skip arguments when extended debug is enabled).
• Fixed bug #80225 (broken namespace usage in eval code).
• Fixed bug #80258 (Windows Deduplication Enabled, randon permission errors).
• Fixed bug #80280 (ADD_EXTENSION_DEP() fails for ext/standard and ext/date).
• Fixed bug #80334 (assert() vs named parameters - confusing error).
• Fixed bug #80055 (Abstract trait methods returning "self" cannot be fulfilled by traits).
• Fixed faulty generator cleanup with yield from.
• Implement #[Attr] Attribute syntax as per final vote in RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shorter_attribute_syntax_change
• Implemented FR #47074 (phpinfo() reports "On" as 1 for the some extensions).
• Implemented FR #72089 (require() throws fatal error instead of exception).
• Removed the pdo_odbc.db2_instance_name php.ini directive.
• Use SSE2 instructions do locale independent strtolower.

Curl

• Bumped required libcurl version to 7.29.0.
• Fixed bug #80121 (Null pointer deref if CurlHandle directly instantiated).

DOM

• Add property DOMXPath::$registerNodeNamespaces and constructor argument that allow global flag to configure query() or evaluate() calls.
• Fixed bug #79968 (DOMChildNode API crash on unattached nodes).
• Fixed bug #80268 (loadHTML() truncates at NUL bytes).

Date

• Fixed bug #60302 (DateTime::createFromFormat should new static(), not new self()).
• Fixed bug #65547 (Default value for sunrise/sunset zenith still wrong).
• Fixed bug #69044 (discrepancy between time and microtime).
• Fixed bug #80057 (DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat() does not populate time).
• Implemented FR #79903 (datetime: new format "p", same as "P" but returning "Z" for UTC).

Enchant

• Add LIBENCHANT_VERSION macro.
• Add enchant_dict_add and enchant_dict_is_added functions.
• Deprecate enchant_broker_set_dict_path, enchant_broker_get_dict_path, enchant_dict_add_to_personal and enchant_dict_is_in_session.
• Use libenchant-2 when available.

FFI

• Added FFI`CType::getName()` method.
• Fixed bug #79177 (FFI doesn't handle well PHP exceptions within callback).
• Fixed bug #79749 (Converting FFI instances to bool fails).

FPM

• Add pm.status_listen option.

Fileinfo

• Upgrade to libmagic 5.39.

GD

• Added imagegetinterpolation().
• Fixed bug #55005 (imagepolygon num_points requirement).
• Made the $num_points parameter of php_imagepolygon optional.
• Removed deprecated image2wbmp().
• Removed deprecated png2wbmp() and jpeg2wbmp().
• Replaced gd resources with objects.

IMAP

• Fixed bug #64076 (imap_sort() does not return FALSE on failure).
• Fixed bug #76618 (segfault on imap_reopen).
• Fixed bug #80213 (imap_mail_compose() segfaults on certain $bodies).
• Fixed bug #80215 (imap_mail_compose() may modify by-val parameters).
• Fixed bug #80216 (imap_mail_compose() does not validate types/encodings).
• Fixed bug #80220 (imap_mail_compose() may leak memory).
• Fixed bug #80223 (imap_mail_compose() leaks envelope on malformed bodies).
• Fixed bug #80226 (imap_sort() leaks sortpgm memory).
• Fixed bug #80239 (imap_rfc822_write_address() leaks memory).
• Fixed bug #80242 (imap_mail_compose() segfaults for multipart with rfc822).
• Fixed minor regression caused by fixing bug #80220.

Iconv

• Dropped support for iconv without proper errno setting.

Intl

• Removed deprecated INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003.

JIT

• Fixed bug #77857 (Wrong result if executed with JIT).
• Fixed bug #79255 (PHP cannot be compiled with enable JIT).
• Fixed bug #79582 (Crash seen when opcache.jit=1235 and opcache.jit_debug=2).
• Fixed bug #79743 (Fatal error when assigning to array property with JIT enabled).
• Fixed bug #79864 (JIT segfault in Symfony OptionsResolver).
• Fixed bug #79888 (Incorrect execution with JIT enabled).

JSON

• The JSON extension is now an integral part of PHP and cannot be disabled as per RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/always_enable_json

LDAP

• Fixed memory leaks.
• Removed deprecated ldap_sort.

MBString

• Fixed bug #76999 (mb_regex_set_options() return current options).
• Removed the unused $is_hex parameter from mb_decode_numericentity().

MySQLi

• Fixed bug #76809 (SSL settings aren't respected when persistent connections are used).

Mysqlnd

• Fixed #60594 (mysqlnd exposes 160 lines of stats in phpinfo).

OCI8

• Deprecated old OCI8 function aliases.
• Modernized oci_register_taf_callback() callable argument parsing implementation.
• Removed obsolete no-op function oci_internal_debug().

ODBC

• Fixed bug GH-22986 (odbc_connect() may reuse persistent connection).
• Fixed bug #44618 (Fetching may rely on uninitialized data).

Opcache

• Fixed bug #76535 (Opcache does not replay compile-time warnings).
• Fixed bug #78654 (Incorrectly computed opcache checksum on files with non-ascii characters).
• Fixed bug #79665 (ini_get() and opcache_get_configuration() inconsistency).
• Fixed bug #80030 (Optimizer segfault with isset on static property with undef dynamic class name).
• Fixed bug #80175 (PHP8 RC1 - JIT Buffer not working).
• Fixed bug #80184 (Complex expression in while / if statements resolves to false incorrectly).
• Fixed bug #80255 (Opcache bug (bad condition result) in 8.0.0rc1).
• Fixed run-time binding of preloaded dynamically declared function.

OpenSSL

• Added Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) support.

PCRE

• Don't ignore invalid escape sequences.
• Updated to PCRE2 10.35.

PDO

• Changed default PDO error mode to exceptions.
• Fixed bug #77849 (Disable cloning of PDO handle/connection objects).

PDO_Firebird

• Fixed bug #64937 (Firebird PDO preprocessing sql).

PDO_OCI

• Added support for setting and getting the oracle OCI 18c call timeout.

PDO_PGSQL

• Bumped required libpq version to 9.1.

PGSQL

• Bumped required libpq version to 9.1.

Phpdbg

• Fixed bug #76596 (phpdbg support for display_errors=stderr).
• Fixed bug #76801 (too many open files).
• Fixed bug #77800 (phpdbg segfaults on listing some conditional breakpoints).
• Fixed bug #77805 (phpdbg build fails when readline is shared).

Reflection

• Fixed bug #64592 (ReflectionClass::getMethods() returns methods out of scope).
• Fixed bug #69180 (Reflection does not honor trait conflict resolution / method aliasing).
• Fixed bug #74939 (Nested traits' aliased methods are lowercased).
• Fixed bug #77325 (ReflectionClassConstant::$class returns wrong class when extending).
• Fixed bug #78697 (ReflectionClass::implementsInterface - inaccurate error message with traits).
• Fixed bug #80190 (ReflectionMethod::getReturnType() does not handle static as part of union type).
• Fixed bug #80299 (ReflectionFunction->invokeArgs confused in arguments).
• Fixed bug #80370 (getAttributes segfault on dynamic properties).
• Implement #79628 (Add $filter parameter for ReflectionClass::getConstants and ReflectionClass::getReflectionConstants)
• Implement ReflectionProperty::hasDefaultValue and Reflection::getDefaultValue

SNMP

• Fixed bug #70461 (disable md5 code when it is not supported in net-snmp).

SPL

• Fixed bug #65006 (spl_autoload_register fails with multiple callables using self, same method).
• Fixed bug #65387 (Circular references in SPL iterators are not garbage collected).
• Fixed bug #71236 (Second call of spl_autoload_register() does nothing if it has no arguments).
• Fixed bug #79987 (Memory leak in SplFileInfo because of missing zend_restore_error_handling()).
• SplFixedArray is now IteratorAggregate rather than Iterator.

SQLite3

• Added SQLite3::setAuthorizer() and respective class constants.

Session

• Fixed bug #73529 (session_decode() silently fails on wrong input).
• Fixed bug #78624 (session_gc return value for user defined session handlers).

Shmop

• Converted shmop resources to objects.

SimpleXML

• Fixed bug #63575 (Root elements are not properly cloned).
• Fixed bug #75245 (Don't set content of elements with only whitespaces).

Sodium

• Fixed bug #77646 (sign_detached() strings not terminated).

Standard

• Don't force rebuild of symbol table, when populating $http_response_header variable by the HTTP stream wrapper.
• Fixed bug #47983 (mixed LF and CRLF line endings in mail()).
• Fixed bug #64060 (lstat_stat_variation7.phpt fails on certain file systems).
• Fixed bug #75902 (str_replace should warn when misused with nested arrays).
• Fixed bug #76859 (stream_get_line skips data if used with data-generating filter).
• Fixed bug #77204 (getimagesize(): Read error! should mention file path).
• Fixed bug #78385 (parse_url() does not include 'query' when question mark is the last char).
• Fixed bug #79868 (Sorting with array_unique gives unwanted result).
• Fixed bug #80256 (file_get_contents strip first line with chunked encoding redirect).
• Fixed bug #80266 (parse_url silently drops port number 0).
• Fixed bug #80290 (Double free when ASSERT_CALLBACK is used with a dynamic message).
• Implemented FR #78638 (__PHP_Incomplete_Class should be final).
• Made quoting of cmd execution functions consistent.

Tidy

• Removed the unused $use_include_path parameter from tidy_repair_string().

Tokenizer

• Fixed bug #80328 (PhpToken::getAll() confusing name).

XML

• Fixed bug #76874 (xml_parser_free() should never leak memory).

XMLWriter

• Changed functions to accept/return XMLWriter objects instead of resources.
• Implemented FR #79344 (xmlwriter_write_attribute_ns: $prefix should be nullable).
• Removed return types from XMLWriter stubs.

Zip

• Add "flags" options to ZipArchive::addGlob and addPattern methods keeping previous behavior having FL_OVERWRITE by default.
• Add ZipArchive::EM_UNKNOWN and ZipArchive::EM_TRAD_PKWARE constants.
• Add ZipArchive::isCompressionMethodSupported() and ZipArchive::isEncryptionMethodSupported() method (libzip 1.7.0).
• Add ZipArchive::replaceFile() method.
• Add ZipArchive::setCancelCallback method (since libzip 1.6.0).
• Add ZipArchive::setMtimeName and ZipArchive::setMtimeIndex methods.
• Add ZipArchive::setProgressCallback method (since libzip 1.3.0).
• Add lastId property to ZipArchive.
• Add optional "flags" parameter to ZipArchive::addEmptyDir, addFile and addFromString methods.
• Fixed bug #50678 (files extracted by ZipArchive class lost their original modified time).
• Fixed bug #72374 (remove_path strips first char of filename).
• Implemented FR #77960 (add compression / encryption options for ZipArchive::addGlob and ZipArchive::addPattern).
• ZipArchive::status and ZipArchive::statusSys properties and ZipArchive::getStatusString() method stay valid after the archive is closed.

Zlib

• Fixed bug #71417 (fread() does not report zlib.inflate errors).
• Fixed bug #78792 (zlib.output_compression disabled by Content-Type: image/).