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