Prepare for PHP 8.1

Author: carusogabriel

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -327,7 +327,8 @@ Currently we have the following branches in use:
 
 | Branch    |           |
 | --------- | --------- |
-| master    | Active development branch for PHP 8.0, which is open for backwards incompatible changes and major internal API changes. |
+| master    | Active development branch for PHP 8.1, which is open for new features and minor internal API changes. |
+| PHP-8.0   | Is used to release the PHP 8.0.x series. This is a current stable version and is open for bugfixes only. |
 | PHP-7.4   | Is used to release the PHP 7.4.x series. This is a current stable version and is open for bugfixes only. |
 | PHP-7.3   | Is used to release the PHP 7.3.x series. This is a current stable version and is open for bugfixes only. |
 | PHP-7.2   | Is used to release the PHP 7.2.x series. This is an old stable version and is open for security fixes only. |

NEWS

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-?? ??? ????, PHP 8.0.0beta1
-
-- Core:
-  . Fixed bug #78236 (convert error on receiving variables when duplicate [).
-    (cmb)
-  . Fixed bug #79108 (Referencing argument in a function makes it a reference
-    in the stack trace). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #79897 (Promoted constructor params with attribs cause crash).
-    (Deus Kane)
-
-- Date:
-  . Fixed bug #60302 (DateTime::createFromFormat should new static(), not new
-    self()). (Derick)
-  . Implemented FR #79903 (datetime: new format "p", same as "P" but returning
-    "Z" for UTC). (gharlan)
-
-- JIT:
-  . Fixed bug #79864 (JIT segfault in Symfony OptionsResolver). (Dmitry)
-  . Fixed bug #79888 (Incorrect execution with JIT enabled). (Dmitry)
-
-- LDAP:
-  . Fixed memory leaks. (ptomulik)
-
-- OCI8:
-  . Modernized oci_register_taf_callback() callable argument parsing
-    implementation. (girgias)
-
-23 Jul 2020, PHP 8.0.0alpha3
-
-- Core:
-  . Fixed bug #79790 ("Illegal offset type" exception during AST evaluation
-    not handled properly). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #79791 (Assertion failure when unsetting variable during binary
-    op). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #79841 (Syntax error in configure / unescaped "[]" in php.m4).
-    (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #79828 (Segfault when trying to access non-existing variable).
-    (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #79852 (count(DOMNodeList) doesn't match
-    count(IteratorIterator(DOMNodeList))). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #79867 (Promoted untyped properties should get null default
-    value). (Nikita)
-
-- Standard:
-  . Fixed bug #79868 (Sorting with array_unique gives unwanted result). (Nikita)
-
-09 Jul 2020, PHP 8.0.0alpha2
-
-- FFI:
-  . Fixed bug #79749 (Converting FFI instances to bool fails). (cmb)
-
-- JIT:
-  . Fixed bug #79743 (Fatal error when assigning to array property
-    with JIT enabled). (Laruence)
-
-- PCRE:
-  . Updated to PCRE2 10.35. (cmb)
-
-25 Jun 2020, PHP 8.0.0alpha1
-
-- Core:
-  . Removed the pdo_odbc.db2_instance_name php.ini directive. (Kalle)
-  . Fixed bug #77619 (Wrong reflection on MultipleIterator::__construct).
-    (Fabien Villepinte)
-  . Fixed bug #65274 (Enhance undefined class constant error with class name).
-    (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #49555 (Fatal error "Function must be a string" message should be
-    renamed). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #70839 (Converting optional argument to variadic forbidden by LSP
-    checks). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #69084 (Unclear error message when not implementing a renamed
-    abstract trait function). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #62609 (Allow implementing Traversable on abstract classes).
-    (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #79462 (method_exists and property_exists incoherent behavior).
-    (cmb)
-  . Fixed bug #79368 ("Unexpected end of file" is not an acceptable error
-    message). (Alex Dowad)
-  . Fixed bug #36365 (scandir duplicates file name at every 65535th file).
-    (cmb)
-  . Use SSE2 instructions do locale independent strtolower. (Laruence)
-  . Fixed bug #79521 (Check __set_state structure). (carusogabriel)
-  . Fixed bug #79467 (data:// wrappers are writable). (cmb)
-  . Implemented FR #47074 (phpinfo() reports "On" as 1 for the some
-    extensions). (cmb)
-  . Implemented FR #72089 (require() throws fatal error instead of exception).
-    (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #77966 (Cannot alias a method named "namespace"). (Nikita)
-
-- BZ2:
-  . Fixed bug #71263 (fread() does not report bzip2.decompress errors). (cmb)
-
-- CURL:
-  . Bumped required libcurl version to 7.29.0. (cmb)
-
-- Date:
-  . Fixed bug #65547 (Default value for sunrise/sunset zenith still wrong).
-    (cmb)
-  . Fixed bug #69044 (discrepancy between time and microtime). (krakjoe)
-
-- DOM:
-  . Add property DOMXPath::$registerNodeNamespaces and constructor argument
-    that allow global flag to configure query() or evaluate() calls.
-
-- Enchant:
-  . Add LIBENCHANT_VERSION macro.
-  . Deprecate enchant_broker_set_dict_path, enchant_broker_get_dict_path,
-    enchant_dict_add_to_personal and enchant_dict_is_in_session.
-  . Add enchant_dict_add and enchant_dict_is_added functions.
-  . Use libenchant-2 when available.
-
-- FPM:
-  . Fixed bug #64865 (Search for .user.ini files from script dir up to
-    CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT). (Will Bender)
-  . Add pm.status_listen option. (Jakub Zelenka)
-
-- GD:
-  . Fixed bug #55005 (imagepolygon num_points requirement). (cmb)
-  . Replaced gd resources with objects. (Mark Randall)
-  . Made the $num_points parameter of php_imagepolygon optional. (cmb)
-  . Removed deprecated image2wbmp(). (cmb)
-  . Removed deprecated png2wbmp() and jpeg2wbmp(). (cmb)
-  . Added imagegetinterpolation(). (cmb)
-
-- Iconv:
-  . Dropped support for iconv without proper errno setting. (cmb)
-
-- Intl:
-  . Removed deprecated INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003. (cmb)
-
-- JIT:
-  . Fixed bug #79582 (Crash seen when opcache.jit=1235 and
-    opcache.jit_debug=2). (Laruence)
-  . Fixed bug #77857 (Wrong result if executed with JIT). (Laruence)
-  . Fixed bug #79255 (PHP cannot be compiled with enable JIT).
-    (Laruence, Dmitry)
-
-- JSON:
-  . The JSON extension is now an integral part of PHP and cannot be disabled
-    as per RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/always_enable_json (tandre)
-
-- LDAP:
-  . Removed deprecated ldap_sort. (mcmic)
-
-- MBString:
-  . Fixed bug #76999 (mb_regex_set_options() return current options). (cmb)
-  . Removed the unused $is_hex parameter from mb_decode_numericentity(). (cmb)
-
-- MySQLi:
-  . Fixed bug #76809 (SSL settings aren't respected when persistent connections
-    are used). (fabiomsouto)
-
-- mysqlnd:
-  . Fixed #60594 (mysqlnd exposes 160 lines of stats in phpinfo). (PeeHaa)
-
-- OCI8:
-  . Deprecated old OCI8 function aliases. (Jens de Nies)
-  . Removed obsolete no-op function oci_internal_debug(). (Jens de Nies)
-
-- OpCache:
-  . Fixed bug #78654 (Incorrectly computed opcache checksum on files with
-    non-ascii characters). (mhagstrand)
-  . Fixed bug #76535 (Opcache does not replay compile-time warnings). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #79665 (ini_get() and opcache_get_configuration() inconsistency).
-    (cmb)
-
-- OpenSSL:
-  . Added Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) support. (Eliot Lear)
-
-- PCRE:
-  . Don't ignore invalid escape sequences. (sjon)
-
-- PGSQL:
-  . Bumped required libpq version to 9.1. (cmb)
-
-- PDO:
-  . Changed default PDO error mode to exceptions. (AllenJB)
-  . Fixed bug #77849 (Disable cloning of PDO handle/connection objects).
-    (camporter)
-
-- PDO_OCI:
-  . Added support for setting and getting the oracle OCI 18c call timeout.
-    (camporter)
-
-- PDO_PGSQL:
-  . Bumped required libpq version to 9.1. (cmb)
-
-- phpdbg:
-  . Fixed bug #76596 (phpdbg support for display_errors=stderr). (kabel)
-  . Fixed bug #76801 (too many open files). (alekitto)
-  . Fixed bug #77800 (phpdbg segfaults on listing some conditional breakpoints).
-    (krakjoe)
-  . Fixed bug #77805 (phpdbg build fails when readline is shared). (krakjoe)
-
-- Reflection:
-  . Fixed bug #78697 (ReflectionClass::implementsInterface - inaccurate error
-    message with traits). (villfa)
-  . Implement ReflectionProperty::hasDefaultValue and
-    Reflection::getDefaultValue (beberlei)
-  . Fixed bug #64592 (ReflectionClass::getMethods() returns methods out of
-    scope). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #77325 (ReflectionClassConstant::$class returns wrong class when
-    extending). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #69180 (Reflection does not honor trait conflict resolution /
-    method aliasing). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #74939 (Nested traits' aliased methods are lowercased). (Nikita)
-  . Implement #79628 (Add $filter parameter for ReflectionClass::getConstants
-    and ReflectionClass::getReflectionConstants) (carusogabriel)
-
-- Session:
-  . Fixed bug #78624 (session_gc return value for user defined session
-    handlers). (bshaffer)
-  . Fixed bug #73529 (session_decode() silently fails on wrong input). (cmb)
-
-- Shmop:
-  . Converted shmop resources to objects. (cmb)
-
-- SimpleXML:
-  . Fixed bug #75245 (Don't set content of elements with only whitespaces).
-    (eriklundin)
-  . Fixed bug #63575 (Root elements are not properly cloned). (cmb)
-
-- sodium:
-  . Fixed bug #77646 (sign_detached() strings not terminated). (Frank)
-
-- SQLite3:
-  . Added SQLite3::setAuthorizer() and respective class constants. (bohwaz)
-
-- SPL:
-  . Fixed bug #71236 (Second call of spl_autoload_register() does nothing if it
-    has no arguments). (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #65006 (spl_autoload_register fails with multiple callables using
-    self, same method). (Nikita)
-
-- Standard:
-  . Implemented FR #78638 (__PHP_Incomplete_Class should be final). (Laruence)
-  . Fixed bug #77204 (getimagesize(): Read error! should mention file path).
-    (peter279k)
-  . Fixed bug #76859 (stream_get_line skips data if used with data-generating
-    filter). (kkopachev)
-  . Fixed bug #78385 (parse_url() does not include 'query' when question mark
-    is the last char). (Islam Israfilov)
-  . Fixed bug #75902 (str_replace should warn when misused with nested arrays).
-    (Nikita)
-  . Fixed bug #47983 (mixed LF and CRLF line endings in mail()). (cmb)
-  . Made quoting of cmd execution functions consistent. (cmb)
-
-- tidy:
-  . Removed the unused $use_include_path parameter from tidy_repair_string().
-    (cmb)
-
-- XML:
-  . Fixed bug #76874 (xml_parser_free() should never leak memory). (Nikita)
-
-- XMLWriter:
-  . Changed functions to accept/return XMLWriter objects instead of resources.
-    (cmb)
-  . Implemented FR #79344 (xmlwriter_write_attribute_ns: $prefix should be
-    nullable). (cmb)
-
-- Zip:
-  . Fixed bug #72374 (remove_path strips first char of filename). (tyage, Remi)
-  . Add ZipArchive::setMtimeName and ZipArchive::setMtimeIndex methods. (Remi)
-  . Add ZipArchive::setProgressCallback method (since libzip 1.3.0). (Remi)
-  . Add ZipArchive::setCancelCallback method (since libzip 1.6.0). (Remi)
-  . Add optional "flags" parameter to ZipArchive::addEmptyDir, addFile and
-    addFromString methods. (Remi)
-  . Add "flags" options to ZipArchive::addGlob and addPattern methods
-    keeping previous behavior having FL_OVERWRITE by default. (Remi)
-  . Add ZipArchive::replaceFile() method. (Remi)
-  . Add lastId property to ZipArchive. (Remi)
-  . ZipArchive::status and ZipArchive::statusSys properties and
-    ZipArchive::getStatusString() method stay valid after the archive
-    is closed. (Remi)
-  . Fixed bug #50678 (files extracted by ZipArchive class lost their
-    original modified time). (Remi)
-  . Implemented FR #77960 (add compression / encryption options for
-    ZipArchive::addGlob and ZipArchive::addPattern). (Remi)
-  . Add ZipArchive::EM_UNKNOWN and ZipArchive::EM_TRAD_PKWARE constants. (Remi)
-  . Add ZipArchive::isCompressionMethodSupported() and
-    ZipArchive::isEncryptionMethodSupported() method (libzip 1.7.0). (Remi)
-
-- Zlib:
-  . Fixed bug #71417 (fread() does not report zlib.inflate errors). (cmb)
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