Miscellaneous


New Output API (internal code cleanup)


Session entropy from /dev/urandom by default


<?= is now always available


default charset is UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1


Multibyte support is now configurable at runtime


Better support for asian chars in htmlspecialchars/htmlentities


INI directive to disable POST data processing


XSLT writes are disabled by default now


Added AES support to OpenSSL


debug_backtrace() now takes optional arg to limit number of stack frames returned


mysqlnd used by default unless overridden by ./configure


file upload progress support in Session extension


TZ env var is ignored - UTC if not otherwise set


REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT has microsecond precision and is a double now


proper readline support for php -a


Add E_STRICT to E_ALL


crypt() in Blowfish mode now supports hashes marked $2a$, $2x$, $2y$ and $2z$


Added support for SORT_NATURAL and SORT_FLAG_CASE in all array sort functions