Other changes to extensions
The following extensions can no longer be disabled during build
configuration:
Changes in extension behaviour, and new features:
-
Date and Time
- The TZ environment variable is no longer used to guess the timezone
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cURL
- cURL now supports SSH
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Network
- dns_check_record() now returns an extra "entries"
index, containing the TXT elements.
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Hash
- The SHA-224 and salsa hash algorithms are now supported.
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mbstring
- Now supports CP850 encoding.
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OCI8
- A call to oci_close() on a persistent connection, or a
variable referencing a persistent connection going out of scope, will now
roll back any uncommitted transaction. To avoid unexpected behavior,
explicitly issue a commit or roll back as needed. The old behavior can be
enabled with the INI directive
oci8.old_oci_close_semantics.
Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Fast Application
Notification (FAN) are now supported.
Oracle External Authentication is now supported (except on Windows).
The oci_bind_by_name() function now supports SQLT_AFC
(aka the CHAR datatype).
-
OpenSSL
- OpenSSL digest and cipher functions are now supported. It is also
now possible to access the internal values of DSA, RSA and DH keys.
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Session
- Sessions will no longer store session-files in
"/tmp"
when open_basedir restrictions
apply, unless "/tmp"
is explicitly added to the list of
allowed paths.
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SOAP
Now supports sending user supplied HTTP headers.
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MySQLi
Now supports persistent connections, by prepending the hostname with
"p:"
.
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Image Processing and GD
The "JPG Support" index returned from gd_info() has
been renamed to "JPEG Support".
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