PHP 8.5.0alpha1: Downloads, Changelog, News

BCMath

• Simplify bc_divide() code.
• If the result is 0, n_scale is set to 0.
• If size of BC_VECTOR array is within 64 bytes, stack area is now used.

CLI

• Add --ini=diff to print INI settings changed from the builtin default.
• Drop support for -z CLI/CGI flag.
• Fixed GH-17956 - development server 404 page does not adapt to mobiles.

CURL

• Added CURLFOLLOW_ALL, CURLFOLLOW_OBEYCODE and CURLFOLLOW_FIRSTONLY values for CURLOPT_FOLLOLOCATION curl_easy_setopt option.

COM

• Fixed property access of PHP objects wrapped in variant.
• Fixed method calls for PHP objects wrapped in variant.

Core

• Fixed bug GH-16665 (\array and \callable should not be usable in class_alias).
• Added PHP_BUILD_DATE constant.
• Added support for Closures and first class callables in constant expressions.
• Use clock_gettime_nsec_np() for high resolution timer on macOS if available.
• Implement GH-15680 (Enhance zend_dump_op_array to properly represent non-printable characters in string literals).
• Add support for backtraces for fatal errors.
• Fixed bug GH-17442 (Engine UAF with reference assign and dtor).
• Improved error message of UnhandledMatchError for zend.exception_string_param_max_len=0.
• Fixed bug GH-17959 (Relax missing trait fatal error to error exception).
• Fixed bug GH-18033 (NULL-ptr dereference when using register_tick_function in destructor).
• Fixed bug GH-18026 (Improve "expecting token" error for ampersand).
• Added the #[\NoDiscard] attribute to indicate that a function's return value is important and should be consumed.
• Added the (void) cast to indicate that not using a value is intentional.
• Added get_error_handler(), get_exception_handler() functions.
• Fixed bug GH-15753 and GH-16198 (Bind traits before parent class).
• Added support for casts in constant expressions.
• Fixed bugs GH-17711 and GH-18022 (Infinite recursion on deprecated attribute evaluation) and GH-18464 (Recursion protection for deprecation constants not released on bailout).
• Fixed AST printing for immediately invoked Closure.
• Properly handle __debugInfo() returning an array reference.
• Properly handle reference return value from __toString().
• Added the pipe (|>) operator.
• Added support for final with constructor property promotion.
• Do not use RTLD_DEEPBIND if dlmopen is available.
• Make clone() a function.

Curl

• Added curl_multi_get_handles().
• Added curl_share_init_persistent().
• Added CURLINFO_USED_PROXY, CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_USED, and CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_USED support to curl_getinfo.

Date

• Fix undefined behaviour problems regarding integer overflow in extreme edge cases.

DOM

• Added Dom\Element::$outerHTML.
• Added Dom`Element::insertAdjacentHTML()`.
• Added $children property to ParentNode implementations.

Enchant

• Added enchant_dict_remove_from_session().
• Added enchant_dict_remove().
• Fix missing empty string checks.

EXIF

• Add OffsetTime* Exif tags.

Fileinfo

• Upgrade to file 5.46.
• Change return type of finfo_close() to true.

FPM

• Fixed GH-17645 (FPM with httpd ProxyPass does not decode script path).

GD

• Fixed bug #68629 (Transparent artifacts when using imagerotate).
• Fixed bug #64823 (ZTS GD fails to to find system TrueType font).

Intl

• Bumped ICU requirement to ICU >= 57.1.
• IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone()/datefmt_set_timezone() throws an exception with uninitialised classes or clone failure.
• Added DECIMAL_COMPACT_SHORT/DECIMAL_COMPACT_LONG for NumberFormatter class.
• Added Locale::isRightToLeft to check if a locale is written right to left.
• Added null bytes presence in locale inputs for Locale class.
• Added grapheme_levenshtein() function.
• Added Locale::addLikelySubtags/Locale::minimizeSubtags to handle adding/removing likely subtags to a locale.
• Added IntlListFormatter class to format a list of items with a locale , operands types and units.
• Fixed bug GH-18566 ([intl] Weird numeric sort in Collator).

LDAP

• Allow ldap_get_option to retrieve global option by allowing NULL for connection instance ($ldap).

MySQLi

• Fixed bugs GH-17900 and GH-8084 (calling mysqli::__construct twice).

MySQLnd

• Added mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics to ini quick reference.

Opcache

• Fixed ZTS OPcache build on Cygwin.
• Added opcache.file_cache_read_only.
• Updated default value of opcache.jit_hot_loop.
• Log a warning when opcache lock file permissions could not be changed.

Output

• Fixed calculation of aligned buffer size.

PCNTL

• Extend pcntl_waitid with rusage parameter.

PCRE

• Upgraded to pre2lib from 10.44 to 10.45.
• Remove PCRE2_EXTRA_ALLOW_LOOKAROUND_BSK from pcre compile options.

PDO_PGSQL

• Added Iterable support for PDO::pgsqlCopyFromArray.
• 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

PDO_SQLITE

• throw on null bytes / resolve GH-13952
• Implement GH-17321: Add setAuthorizer to Pdo\Sqlite.
• PDO::sqliteCreateCollation now throws a TypeError if the callback has a wrong return type.
• Added Pdo_Sqlite::ATTR_BUSY_STATEMENT constant to check if a statement is currently executing.
• Added Pdo_Sqlite::ATTR_EXPLAIN_STATEMENT constant to set a statement in either EXPLAIN_MODE_PREPARED, EXPLAIN_MODE_EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN_MODE_EXPLAIN_QUERY_PLAN modes.

PGSQL

• Added pg_close_stmt to close a prepared statement while allowing its name to be reused.
• Added Iterable support for pgsql_copy_from.
• pg_connect checks if connection_string contains any null byte, pg_close_stmt check if the statement contains any null byte.
• Added pg_service to get the connection current service identifier.

POSIX

• Added POSIX_SC_OPEN_MAX constant to get the number of file descriptors a process can handle.
• 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.

Random

• Moves from /dev/urandom usage to arc4random_buf on Haiku.

Reflection

• Added ReflectionConstant::getExtension() and ::getExtensionName().
• Fixed bug GH-12856 (ReflectionClass::getStaticPropertyValue() returns UNDEF zval for uninitialized typed properties).
• Fixed bug GH-15766 (ReflectionClass::toString() should have better output for enums).

Session

• session_start() throws a ValueError on option argument if not a hashmap or a TypeError if read_and_close value is not compatible with int.

SimpleXML

• Fixed bug GH-12231 (SimpleXML xpath should warn when returning other return types than node lists).

SNMP

• snmpget, snmpset, snmp_get2, snmp_set2, snmp_get3, snmp_set3 and SNMP::__construct() throw an exception on invalid hostname, community timeout and retries arguments.

SOAP

• Fixed bug #49169 (SoapServer calls wrong function, although "SOAP action" header is correct).
• Fix namespace handling of WSDL and XML schema in SOAP, fixing at least GH-16320 and bug #68576.
• Fixed bug #70951 (Segmentation fault on invalid WSDL cache).
• Implement request #55503 (Extend __getTypes to support enumerations).
• Implement request #61105 (Support Soap 1.2 SoapFault Reason Text lang attribute).

Sockets

• Added IPPROTO_ICMP/IPPROTO_ICMPV6 to create raw socket for ICMP usage.
• Added TCP_FUNCTION_BLK to change the TCP stack algorithm on FreeBSD.
• socket_set_option() catches possible overflow with SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO with timeout setting on windows.
• Added TCP_FUNCTION_ALIAS, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA_NODOM, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_CURDOM, TCP_BBR_ALGORITHM constants.
• socket_create_listen() throws an exception on invalid port value.
• socket_bind() throws an exception on invalid port value.
• socket_sendto() throws an exception on invalid port value.
• socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception on invalid hints value types.
• socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception if any of the hints value overflows.
• socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception if one or more hints entries has an index as numeric.
• socket_set_option with the options MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP/MCAST_LEAVE_SOURCE_GROUP will throw an exception if its value is not a valid array/object.
• socket_getsockname/socket_create/socket_bind handled AF_PACKET family socket.
• Added IP_BINDANY for a socket to bind to any address.
• Added SO_BUSY_POOL to reduce packets poll latency.
• Added UDP_SEGMENT support to optimise multiple large datagrams over UDP if the kernel and hardware supports it.
• Added SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR and SHUT_RDWR constants for socket_shutdown().

Sodium

• Fix overall theorical overflows on zend_string buffer allocations. (David Carlier/nielsdos)

Sqlite

• Added Sqlite3Stmt::busy to check if a statement is still being executed.
• Added Sqlite3Stmt::explain to produce a explain query plan from the statement.
• Added Sqlite3Result::fetchAll to returns all results at once from a query.

Standard

• Fixed crypt() tests on musl when using --with-external-libcrypt
• Fixed bug GH-18062 (is_callable(func(...), callable_name: $name) for first class callables returns wrong name).
• Added array_first() and array_last().
• Fixed bug GH-18823 (setlocale's 2nd and 3rd argument ignores strict_types).
• Fixed exit code handling of sendmail cmd and added warnings.
• Fixed bug GH-18897 (printf: empty precision is interpreted as precision 6, not as precision 0).

Streams

• Fixed bug GH-16889 (stream_select() timeout useless for pipes on Windows).

Tests

• Allow to shuffle tests even in non-parallell mode.

Tidy

• tidy::__construct/parseFile/parseString methods throw an exception if the configuration argument is invalid.

Windows

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

XMLWriter

• Improved performance and reduce memory consumption.

XSL

• Implement request GH-30622 (make $namespace parameter functional).

Zlib

• gzfile, gzopen and readgzfile, their "use_include_path" argument is now a boolean.
• Fixed bug GH-16883 (gzopen() does not use the default stream context when opening HTTP URLs).
• Implemented GH-17668 (zlib streams should support locking).