✔ Variadic functions pdo->prepare($query); $stmt->execute($params); return $stmt; } } $q = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?'; $user = $db->query($q, $userID)->fetch();]]> ✔ Argument Unpacking ✔ Constant scalar expressions ✔ Add right-associative power operator ** ✔ Internal operator overloading for internal features like GMP ✔ use function and use const namespace imports ✔ default_charset ini now applies to internal funcs ✔ SSL Peer verification by default ✔ openssl certificate fingerprints ✔ SAN x509 ext matching when verifying host names ✔ automatic DoS prevention of TLS renegotiation attacks ✔ and many more openssl-related options ✔ Asynchronous PostgreSQL database connections ✔ Non-blocking PostgreSQL queries ✔ New phpdbg SAPI ✔ Support for > 2GB file uploads ✔ The php://input stream is now re-usable ✔ Added hash_equals() for timing attack safe string comparison ✔ Added gost-crypto (CryptoPro S-box) hash algorithm ✔ FPM workers can now change their apparmor profile ✔ OCI8 Improvements php.net/migration56