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<h1>PHP 8 ChangeLog</h1>

<a href="#PHP_8_0">8.0</a>

<a name="PHP_8_0"></a>

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<h3>Version 8.0.0</h3>
<b><?php release_date('26-Nov-2020'); ?></b>
<ul><li>BZ2:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(71263); ?> (fread() does not report bzip2.decompress errors).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>CLI:
<ul>
  <li>Allow debug server binding to an ephemeral port via `-S localhost:0`.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>COM:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(55847); ?> (DOTNET .NET 4.0 GAC new location).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(62474); ?> (com_event_sink crashes on certain arguments).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Calendar:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(80007); ?> (Potential type confusion in unixtojd() parameter parsing).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Core:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(36365); ?> (scandir duplicates file name at every 65535th file).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(49555); ?> (Fatal error "Function must be a string" message should be renamed).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(62294); ?> (register_shutdown_function() does not correctly handle exit code).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(62609); ?> (Allow implementing Traversable on abstract classes).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(65274); ?> (Enhance undefined class constant error with class name).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(65275); ?> (Calling exit() in a shutdown function does not change the exit value in CLI).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(69084); ?> (Unclear error message when not implementing a renamed abstract trait function).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(70839); ?> (Converting optional argument to variadic forbidden by LSP checks).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(74558); ?> (Can't rebind closure returned by Closure::fromCallable()).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(77561); ?> (Shebang line not stripped for non-primary script).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(77619); ?> (Wrong reflection on MultipleIterator::__construct).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(77966); ?> (Cannot alias a method named "namespace").</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(78236); ?> (convert error on receiving variables when duplicate [).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(78770); ?> (Incorrect callability check inside internal methods).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79108); ?> (Referencing argument in a function makes it a reference in the stack trace).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79368); ?> ("Unexpected end of file" is not an acceptable error message).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79462); ?> (method_exists and property_exists incoherent behavior).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79467); ?> (data:// wrappers are writable).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79521); ?> (Check __set_state structure).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79790); ?> ("Illegal offset type" exception during AST evaluation not handled properly).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79791); ?> (Assertion failure when unsetting variable during binary op).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79828); ?> (Segfault when trying to access non-existing variable).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79841); ?> (Syntax error in configure / unescaped "[]" in php.m4).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79852); ?> (count(DOMNodeList) doesn't match count(IteratorIterator(DOMNodeList))).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79867); ?> (Promoted untyped properties should get null default value).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79897); ?> (Promoted constructor params with attribs cause crash).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79927); ?> (Generator doesn't throw exception after multiple yield from iterable).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79946); ?> (Build fails due to undeclared UINT32_C).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79948); ?> (Exit in auto-prepended file does not abort PHP execution).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80045); ?> (memleak after two set_exception_handler calls with __call).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80096); ?> (Segmentation fault with named arguments in nested call).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80109); ?> (Cannot skip arguments when extended debug is enabled).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80225); ?> (broken namespace usage in eval code).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80258); ?> (Windows Deduplication Enabled, randon permission errors).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80280); ?> (ADD_EXTENSION_DEP() fails for ext/standard and ext/date).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80334); ?> (assert() vs named parameters - confusing error).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80055); ?> (Abstract trait methods returning "self" cannot be fulfilled by traits).</li>
  <li>Fixed faulty generator cleanup with yield from.</li>
  <li>Implement #[Attr] Attribute syntax as per final vote in RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/shorter_attribute_syntax_change</li>
  <li>Implemented FR <?php bugl(47074); ?> (phpinfo() reports "On" as 1 for the some extensions).</li>
  <li>Implemented FR <?php bugl(72089); ?> (require() throws fatal error instead of exception).</li>
  <li>Removed the pdo_odbc.db2_instance_name php.ini directive.</li>
  <li>Use SSE2 instructions do locale independent strtolower.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Curl:
<ul>
  <li>Bumped required libcurl version to 7.29.0.</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80121); ?> (Null pointer deref if CurlHandle directly instantiated).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>DOM:
<ul>
  <li>Add property DOMXPath::$registerNodeNamespaces and constructor argument that allow global flag to configure query() or evaluate() calls.</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79968); ?> (DOMChildNode API crash on unattached nodes).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80268); ?> (loadHTML() truncates at NUL bytes).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Date:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(60302); ?> (DateTime::createFromFormat should new static(), not new self()).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(65547); ?> (Default value for sunrise/sunset zenith still wrong).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(69044); ?> (discrepancy between time and microtime).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80057); ?> (DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat() does not populate time).</li>
  <li>Implemented FR <?php bugl(79903); ?> (datetime: new format "p", same as "P" but returning "Z" for UTC).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Enchant:
<ul>
  <li>Add LIBENCHANT_VERSION macro.</li>
  <li>Add enchant_dict_add and enchant_dict_is_added functions.</li>
  <li>Deprecate enchant_broker_set_dict_path, enchant_broker_get_dict_path, enchant_dict_add_to_personal and enchant_dict_is_in_session.</li>
  <li>Use libenchant-2 when available.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>FFI:
<ul>
  <li>Added FFI\CType::getName() method.</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79177); ?> (FFI doesn't handle well PHP exceptions within callback).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79749); ?> (Converting FFI instances to bool fails).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>FPM:
<ul>
  <li>Add pm.status_listen option.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Fileinfo:
<ul>
  <li>Upgrade to libmagic 5.39.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>GD:
<ul>
  <li>Added imagegetinterpolation().</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(55005); ?> (imagepolygon num_points requirement).</li>
  <li>Made the $num_points parameter of php_imagepolygon optional.</li>
  <li>Removed deprecated image2wbmp().</li>
  <li>Removed deprecated png2wbmp() and jpeg2wbmp().</li>
  <li>Replaced gd resources with objects.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>IMAP:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(64076); ?> (imap_sort() does not return FALSE on failure).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(76618); ?> (segfault on imap_reopen).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80213); ?> (imap_mail_compose() segfaults on certain $bodies).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80215); ?> (imap_mail_compose() may modify by-val parameters).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80216); ?> (imap_mail_compose() does not validate types/encodings).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80220); ?> (imap_mail_compose() may leak memory).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80223); ?> (imap_mail_compose() leaks envelope on malformed bodies).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80226); ?> (imap_sort() leaks sortpgm memory).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80239); ?> (imap_rfc822_write_address() leaks memory).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80242); ?> (imap_mail_compose() segfaults for multipart with rfc822).</li>
  <li>Fixed minor regression caused by fixing bug #80220.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Iconv:
<ul>
  <li>Dropped support for iconv without proper errno setting.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Intl:
<ul>
  <li>Removed deprecated INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>JIT:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(77857); ?> (Wrong result if executed with JIT).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79255); ?> (PHP cannot be compiled with enable JIT).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79582); ?> (Crash seen when opcache.jit=1235 and opcache.jit_debug=2).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79743); ?> (Fatal error when assigning to array property with JIT enabled).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79864); ?> (JIT segfault in Symfony OptionsResolver).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79888); ?> (Incorrect execution with JIT enabled).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>JSON:
<ul>
  <li>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 (tandre)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>LDAP:
<ul>
  <li>Fixed memory leaks.</li>
  <li>Removed deprecated ldap_sort.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>MBString:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(76999); ?> (mb_regex_set_options() return current options).</li>
  <li>Removed the unused $is_hex parameter from mb_decode_numericentity().</li>
</ul></li>
<li>MySQLi:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(76809); ?> (SSL settings aren't respected when persistent connections are used).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Mysqlnd:
<ul>
  <li>Fixed #60594 (mysqlnd exposes 160 lines of stats in phpinfo).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>OCI8:
<ul>
  <li>Deprecated old OCI8 function aliases.</li>
  <li>Modernized oci_register_taf_callback() callable argument parsing implementation.</li>
  <li>Removed obsolete no-op function oci_internal_debug().</li>
</ul></li>
<li>ODBC:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(22986); ?> (odbc_connect() may reuse persistent connection).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(44618); ?> (Fetching may rely on uninitialized data).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Opcache:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(76535); ?> (Opcache does not replay compile-time warnings).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(78654); ?> (Incorrectly computed opcache checksum on files with non-ascii characters).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79665); ?> (ini_get() and opcache_get_configuration() inconsistency).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80030); ?> (Optimizer segfault with isset on static property with undef dynamic class name).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80175); ?> (PHP8 RC1 - JIT Buffer not working).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80184); ?> (Complex expression in while / if statements resolves to false incorrectly).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80255); ?> (Opcache bug (bad condition result) in 8.0.0rc1).</li>
  <li>Fixed run-time binding of preloaded dynamically declared function.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>OpenSSL:
<ul>
  <li>Added Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) support.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>PCRE:
<ul>
  <li>Don't ignore invalid escape sequences.</li>
  <li>Updated to PCRE2 10.35.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>PDO:
<ul>
  <li>Changed default PDO error mode to exceptions.</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(77849); ?> (Disable cloning of PDO handle/connection objects).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>PDO_Firebird:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(64937); ?> (Firebird PDO preprocessing sql).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>PDO_OCI:
<ul>
  <li>Added support for setting and getting the oracle OCI 18c call timeout.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>PDO_PGSQL:
<ul>
  <li>Bumped required libpq version to 9.1.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>PGSQL:
<ul>
  <li>Bumped required libpq version to 9.1.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Phpdbg:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(76596); ?> (phpdbg support for display_errors=stderr).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(76801); ?> (too many open files).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(77800); ?> (phpdbg segfaults on listing some conditional breakpoints).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(77805); ?> (phpdbg build fails when readline is shared).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Reflection:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(64592); ?> (ReflectionClass::getMethods() returns methods out of scope).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(69180); ?> (Reflection does not honor trait conflict resolution / method aliasing).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(74939); ?> (Nested traits' aliased methods are lowercased).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(77325); ?> (ReflectionClassConstant::$class returns wrong class when extending).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(78697); ?> (ReflectionClass::implementsInterface - inaccurate error message with traits).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80190); ?> (ReflectionMethod::getReturnType() does not handle static as part of union type).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80299); ?> (ReflectionFunction-&gt;invokeArgs confused in arguments).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80370); ?> (getAttributes segfault on dynamic properties).</li>
  <li>Implement #79628 (Add $filter parameter for ReflectionClass::getConstants and ReflectionClass::getReflectionConstants) (carusogabriel)</li>
  <li>Implement ReflectionProperty::hasDefaultValue and Reflection::getDefaultValue (beberlei)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>SNMP:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(70461); ?> (disable md5 code when it is not supported in net-snmp).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>SPL:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(65006); ?> (spl_autoload_register fails with multiple callables using self, same method).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(65387); ?> (Circular references in SPL iterators are not garbage collected).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(71236); ?> (Second call of spl_autoload_register() does nothing if it has no arguments).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79987); ?> (Memory leak in SplFileInfo because of missing zend_restore_error_handling()).</li>
  <li>SplFixedArray is now IteratorAggregate rather than Iterator.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>SQLite3:
<ul>
  <li>Added SQLite3::setAuthorizer() and respective class constants.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Session:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(73529); ?> (session_decode() silently fails on wrong input).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(78624); ?> (session_gc return value for user defined session handlers).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Shmop:
<ul>
  <li>Converted shmop resources to objects.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>SimpleXML:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(63575); ?> (Root elements are not properly cloned).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(75245); ?> (Don't set content of elements with only whitespaces).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Sodium:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(77646); ?> (sign_detached() strings not terminated).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Standard:
<ul>
  <li>Don't force rebuild of symbol table, when populating $http_response_header variable by the HTTP stream wrapper.</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(47983); ?> (mixed LF and CRLF line endings in mail()).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(64060); ?> (lstat_stat_variation7.phpt fails on certain file systems).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(75902); ?> (str_replace should warn when misused with nested arrays).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(76859); ?> (stream_get_line skips data if used with data-generating filter).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(77204); ?> (getimagesize(): Read error! should mention file path).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(78385); ?> (parse_url() does not include 'query' when question mark is the last char).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(79868); ?> (Sorting with array_unique gives unwanted result).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80256); ?> (file_get_contents strip first line with chunked encoding redirect).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80266); ?> (parse_url silently drops port number 0).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(80290); ?> (Double free when ASSERT_CALLBACK is used with a dynamic message).</li>
  <li>Implemented FR <?php bugl(78638); ?> (__PHP_Incomplete_Class should be final).</li>
  <li>Made quoting of cmd execution functions consistent.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Tidy:
<ul>
  <li>Removed the unused $use_include_path parameter from tidy_repair_string().</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Tokenizer:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(80328); ?> (PhpToken::getAll() confusing name).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>XML:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(76874); ?> (xml_parser_free() should never leak memory).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>XMLWriter:
<ul>
  <li>Changed functions to accept/return XMLWriter objects instead of resources.</li>
  <li>Implemented FR <?php bugl(79344); ?> (xmlwriter_write_attribute_ns: $prefix should be nullable).</li>
  <li>Removed return types from XMLWriter stubs.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Zip:
<ul>
  <li>Add "flags" options to ZipArchive::addGlob and addPattern methods keeping previous behavior having FL_OVERWRITE by default.</li>
  <li>Add ZipArchive::EM_UNKNOWN and ZipArchive::EM_TRAD_PKWARE constants.</li>
  <li>Add ZipArchive::isCompressionMethodSupported() and ZipArchive::isEncryptionMethodSupported() method (libzip 1.7.0).</li>
  <li>Add ZipArchive::replaceFile() method.</li>
  <li>Add ZipArchive::setCancelCallback method (since libzip 1.6.0).</li>
  <li>Add ZipArchive::setMtimeName and ZipArchive::setMtimeIndex methods.</li>
  <li>Add ZipArchive::setProgressCallback method (since libzip 1.3.0).</li>
  <li>Add lastId property to ZipArchive.</li>
  <li>Add optional "flags" parameter to ZipArchive::addEmptyDir, addFile and addFromString methods.</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(50678); ?> (files extracted by ZipArchive class lost their original modified time).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(72374); ?> (remove_path strips first char of filename).</li>
  <li>Implemented FR <?php bugl(77960); ?> (add compression / encryption options for ZipArchive::addGlob and ZipArchive::addPattern).</li>
  <li>ZipArchive::status and ZipArchive::statusSys properties and ZipArchive::getStatusString() method stay valid after the archive is closed.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Zlib:
<ul>
  <li><?php bugfix(71417); ?> (fread() does not report zlib.inflate errors).</li>
  <li><?php bugfix(78792); ?> (zlib.output_compression disabled by Content-Type: image/).</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
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