MySQL-Related
- • mysql_ping()
- • mysql_real_escape_string()
- • mysql_character_set_name()
- • mysql_thread_id()
- • mysql_stat()
- • mysql_list_processes()
- • mysql_info()
- • add support for compression and SSL to mysql_connect()
- • automatic rollback for non committed transactions
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GD-Related
- • Fork and bundle GD2 with PHP
- • Anti-aliased TTF fonts will now work in TrueColor images
New Streams code
- • Allows things like fopen('https://www.domain.com','r')
- • copy() works on URLs now
- • Support for ssl:// and tls:// in fsockopen()
- • User-space streams
- • Most functions that operate on filenames can now take URLs
- • Support for memory streams
Miscellaneous
- • New and improved build system - replaced automake
- • IMAP and string function performance improvements
- • Multibyte string support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean encodings
- • Multibyte string support enabled by default
- • new glob() function
- • new apache_request_headers() function
- • make shuffle() really shuffle
- • new pg_fetch_all() function
- • new debug_backtrace() function
