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23 Jan 2020, PHP 7.4.2

- Core:
  . Preloading support on Windows has been disabled. (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #79022 (class_exists returns True for classes that are not ready
    to be used). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #78929 (plus signs in cookie values are converted to spaces).
    (Alexey Kachalin)
  . Fixed bug #78973 (Destructor during CV freeing causes segfault if opline
    never saved). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78776 (Abstract method implementation from trait does not check
    "static"). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78999 (Cycle leak when using function result as temporary).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #79008 (General performance regression with PHP 7.4 on Windows).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #79002 (Serializing uninitialized typed properties with __sleep
    makes unserialize throw). (Nikita)

- CURL:
  . Fixed bug #79033 (Curl timeout error with specific url and post). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #79063 (curl openssl does not respect PKG_CONFIG_PATH). (Nikita)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #79015 (undefined-behavior in php_date.c). (cmb)

- DBA:
  . Fixed bug #78808 ([LMDB] MDB_MAP_FULL: Environment mapsize limit reached).
    (cmb)

- Exif:
  . Fixed bug #79046 (NaN to int cast undefined behavior in exif). (Nikita)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #74170 (locale information change after mime_content_type).
    (Sergei Turchanov)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #79067 (gdTransformAffineCopy() may use unitialized values). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #79068 (gdTransformAffineCopy() changes interpolation method).
    (cmb)

- Libxml:
  . Fixed bug #79029 (Use After Free's in XMLReader / XMLWriter). (Laruence)

- Mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #79037 (global buffer-overflow in `mbfl_filt_conv_big5_wchar`).
    (CVE-2020-7060) (Nikita)

- OPcache:
  . Fixed bug #78961 (erroneous optimization of re-assigned $GLOBALS). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78950 (Preloading trait method with static variables). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78903 (Conflict in RTD key for closures results in crash).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78986 (Opcache segfaults when inheriting ctor from immutable
    into mutable class). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #79040 (Warning Opcode handlers are unusable due to ASLR). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #79055 (Typed property become unknown with OPcache file cache).
    (Nikita)

- Pcntl:
  . Fixed bug #78402 (Converting null to string in error message is bad DX).
    (SATŌ Kentarō)

- PDO_PgSQL:
  . Fixed bug #78983 (pdo_pgsql config.w32 cannot find libpq-fe.h). (SATŌ
    Kentarō)
  . Fixed bug #78980 (pgsqlGetNotify() overlooks dead connection). (SATŌ
    Kentarō)
  . Fixed bug #78982 (pdo_pgsql returns dead persistent connection). (SATŌ
    Kentarō)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #79091 (heap use-after-free in session_create_id()). (cmb,
    Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #79031 (Session unserialization problem). (Nikita)

- Shmop:
  . Fixed bug #78538 (shmop memory leak). (cmb)

- Sqlite3:
  . Fixed bug #79056 (sqlite does not respect PKG_CONFIG_PATH during
    compilation). (Nikita)

- Spl:
  . Fixed bug #78976 (SplFileObject::fputcsv returns -1 on failure). (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #79099 (OOB read in php_strip_tags_ex). (CVE-2020-7059). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #79000 (Non-blocking socket stream reports EAGAIN as error).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #54298 (Using empty additional_headers adding extraneous CRLF).
    (cmb)

18 Dec 2019, PHP 7.4.1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #78810 (RW fetches do not throw "uninitialized property"
    exception). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78868 (Calling __autoload() with incorrect EG(fake_scope) value).
    (Antony Dovgal, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78296 (is_file fails to detect file). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78883 (fgets(STDIN) fails on Windows). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78898 (call_user_func(['parent', ...]) fails while other
    succeed). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78904 (Uninitialized property triggers __get()). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78926 (Segmentation fault on Symfony cache:clear). (Nikita)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #78849 (GD build broken with -D SIGNED_COMPARE_SLOW). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78923 (Artifacts when convoluting image with transparency).
    (wilson chen)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #76601 (Partially working php-fpm ater incomplete reload).
    (Maksim Nikulin)
  . Fixed bug #78889 (php-fpm service fails to start). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Fixed bug #78916 (php-fpm 7.4.0 don't send mail via mail()).
    (Jakub Zelenka)

- Intl:
  . Implemented FR #78912 (INTL Support for accounting format). (cmb)

- Mysqlnd:
  . Fixed bug #78823 (ZLIB_LIBS not added to EXTRA_LIBS). (Arjen de Korte)

- OPcache:
  . Fixed $x = (bool)$x; with opcache (should emit undeclared variable notice).
    (Tyson Andre)
  . Fixed bug #78935 (Preloading removes classes that have dependencies).
    (Nikita, Dmitry)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #78853 (preg_match() may return integer > 1). (cmb)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #78895 (Reflection detects abstract non-static class as abstract
    static. IS_IMPLICIT_ABSTRACT is not longer used). (Dmitry)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #77638 (var_export'ing certain class instances segfaults). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78840 (imploding $GLOBALS crashes). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78833 (Integer overflow in pack causes out-of-bound access).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78814 (strip_tags allows / in tag name => whitelist bypass).
    (cmb)

28 Nov 2019, PHP 7.4.0

- Core:
  . Implemented RFC: Deprecate curly brace syntax for accessing array elements
    and string offsets.
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_curly_braces_array_access (Andrey Gromov)
  . Implemented RFC: Deprecations for PHP 7.4.
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_4 (Kalle, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #52752 (Crash when lexing). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #60677 (CGI doesn't properly validate shebang line contains #!).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #71030 (Self-assignment in list() may have inconsistent behavior).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #72530 (Use After Free in GC with Certain Destructors). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #75921 (Inconsistent: No warning in some cases when stdObj is
    created on the fly). (David Walker)
  . Implemented FR #76148 (Add array_key_exists() to the list of specially
    compiled functions). (Majkl578)
  . Fixed bug #76430 (__METHOD__ inconsistent outside of method).
    (Ryan McCullagh, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76451 (Aliases during inheritance type checks affected by
    opcache). (Nikita)
  . Implemented FR #77230 (Support custom CFLAGS and LDFLAGS from environment).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77345 (Stack Overflow caused by circular reference in garbage
    collection). (Alexandru Patranescu, Nikita, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #77812 (Interactive mode does not support PHP 7.3-style heredoc).
    (cmb, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77877 (call_user_func() passes $this to static methods).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78066 (PHP eats the first byte of a program that comes from
    process substitution). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78151 (Segfault caused by indirect expressions in PHP 7.4a1).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78154 (SEND_VAR_NO_REF does not always send reference). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78182 (Segmentation fault during by-reference property
    assignment). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78212 (Segfault in built-in webserver). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78220 (Can't access OneDrive folder). (cmb, ab)
  . Fixed bug #78226 (Unexpected __set behavior with typed properties). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78239 (Deprecation notice during string conversion converted to
    exception hangs). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78335 (Static properties/variables containing cycles report as
    leak). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78340 (Include of stream wrapper not reading whole file).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78344 (Segmentation fault on zend_check_protected). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78356 (Array returned from ArrayAccess is incorrectly unpacked
    as argument). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78379 (Cast to object confuses GC, causes crash). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78386 (fstat mode has unexpected value on PHP 7.4). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78396 (Second file_put_contents in Shutdown hangs script).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78406 (Broken file includes with user-defined stream filters).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78438 (Corruption when __unserializing deeply nested structures).
    (cmb, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78441 (Parse error due to heredoc identifier followed by digit).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78454 (Consecutive numeric separators cause OOM error).
    (Theodore Brown)
  . Fixed bug #78460 (PEAR installation failure). (Peter Kokot, L. Declercq)
  . Fixed bug #78531 (Crash when using undefined variable as object). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78535 (auto_detect_line_endings value not parsed as bool).
    (bugreportuser)
  . Fixed bug #78604 (token_get_all() does not properly tokenize FOO<?php with
    short_open_tag=0). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78614 (Does not compile with DTRACE anymore).
    (tz at FreeBSD dot org)
  . Fixed bug #78620 (Out of memory error). (cmb, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78632 (method_exists() in php74 works differently from php73 in
    checking priv. methods). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78644 (SEGFAULT in ZEND_UNSET_OBJ_SPEC_VAR_CONST_HANDLER).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78658 (Memory corruption using Closure::bindTo). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78656 (Parse errors classified as highest log-level). (Erik
    Lundin)
  . Fixed bug #78662 (stream_write bad error detection). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #78768 (redefinition of typedef zend_property_info). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78788 (./configure generates invalid php_version.h). (max)
  . Fixed incorrect usage of QM_ASSIGN instruction. It must not return IS_VAR.
    As a side effect, this allowed passing left hand list() "by reference",
    instead of compile-time error. (Dmitry)

- CLI:
  . The built-in CLI server now reports the request method in log files.
    (Simon Welsh)

- COM:
  . Deprecated registering of case-insensitive constants from typelibs. (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78650 (new COM Crash). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78694 (Appending to a variant array causes segfault). (cmb)

- CURL:
  . Fixed bug #76480 (Use curl_multi_wait() so that timeouts are respected).
    (Pierrick)
  . Implemented FR #77711 (CURLFile should support UNICODE filenames). (cmb)
  . Deprecated CURLPIPE_HTTP1. (cmb)
  . Deprecated $version parameter of curl_version(). (cmb)

- Date:
  . Updated timelib to 2018.02. (Derick)
  . Fixed bug #69044 (discrepency between time and microtime). (krakjoe)
  . Fixed bug #70153 (\DateInterval incorrectly unserialized). (Maksim Iakunin)
  . Fixed bug #75232 (print_r of DateTime creating side-effect). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78383 (Casting a DateTime to array no longer returns its
    properties). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78751 (Serialising DatePeriod converts DateTimeImmutable). (cmb)

- Exif:
  . Fixed bug #78333 (Exif crash (bus error) due to wrong alignment and
    invalid cast). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78256 (heap-buffer-overflow on exif_process_user_comment).
    (CVE-2019-11042) (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #78222 (heap-buffer-overflow on exif_scan_thumbnail).
    (CVE-2019-11041) (Stas)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #78075 (finfo_file treats JSON file as text/plain). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #78183 (finfo_file shows wrong mime-type for .tga file).
   (Anatol)

- Filter:
  . The filter extension no longer has the --with-pcre-dir on Unix builds,
    allowing the extension to be once more compiled as shared using
    ./configure. (Kalle)

- FFI:
  . Added FFI extension. (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78488 (OOB in ZEND_FUNCTION(ffi_trampoline)). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78543 (is_callable() on FFI\CData throws Exception). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78716 (Function name mangling is wrong for some parameter
    types). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78762 (Failing FFI::cast() may leak memory). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78761 (Zend memory heap corruption with preload and casting).
    (cmb)
  . Implement FR #78270 (Support __vectorcall convention with FFI). (cmb)
  . Added missing FFI::isNull(). (Philip Hofstetter)

- FPM:
  . Implemented FR #72510 (systemd service should be hardened). (Craig Andrews)
  . Fixed bug #74083 (master PHP-fpm is stopped on multiple reloads).
    (Maksim Nikulin)
  . Fixed bug #78334 (fpm log prefix message includes wrong stdout/stderr
    notation). (Tsuyoshi Sadakata)
  . Fixed bug #78599 (env_path_info underflow in fpm_main.c can lead to RCE).
    (CVE-2019-11043) (Jakub Zelenka)

- GD:
  . Implemented the scatter filter (IMG_FILTER_SCATTER). (Kalle)
  . The bundled libgd behaves now like system libgd wrt. IMG_CROP_DEFAULT never
    falling back to IMG_CROP_SIDES.
  . The default $mode parameter of imagecropauto() has been changed to
    IMG_CROP_DEFAULT; passing -1 is now deprecated.
  . Added support for aspect ratio preserving scaling to a fixed height for
    imagescale(). (Andreas Treichel)
  . Added TGA read support. (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #73291 (imagecropauto() $threshold differs from external libgd).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76324 (cannot detect recent versions of freetype with
    pkg-config). (Eli Schwartz)
  . Fixed bug #78314 (missing freetype support/functions with external gd).
    (Remi)

- GMP:
  . Fixed bug #78574 (broken shared build). (Remi)

- Hash:
  . The hash extension is now an integral part of PHP and cannot be disabled
    as per RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/permanent_hash_ext. (Kalle)
  . Implemented FR #71890 (crc32c checksum algorithm). (Andrew Brampton)

- Iconv:
  . Fixed bug #78342 (Bus error in configure test for iconv //IGNORE). (Rainer
    Jung)
  . Fixed bug #78642 (Wrong libiconv version displayed). (gedas at martynas,
    cmb).

- Libxml:
  . Fixed bug #78279 (libxml_disable_entity_loader settings is shared between
    requests (cgi-fcgi)). (Nikita)

- InterBase:
  . Unbundled the InterBase extension and moved it to PECL. (Kalle)

- Intl:
  . Raised requirements to ICU ≥ 50.1. (cmb)
  . Changed ResourceBundle to implement Countable. (LeSuisse)
  . Changed default of $variant parameter of idn_to_ascii() and idn_to_utf8().
    (cmb)

- LDAP:
  . Deprecated ldap_control_paged_result_response and ldap_control_paged_result

- LiteSpeed:
  . Updated to LiteSpeed SAPI V7.5 (Fixed clean shutdown). (George Wang)
  . Updated to LiteSpeed SAPI V7.4.3 (increased response header count limit from
    100 to 1000, added crash handler to cleanly shutdown PHP request, added
    CloudLinux mod_lsapi mode). (George Wang)
  . Fixed bug #76058 (After "POST data can't be buffered", using php://input
    makes huge tmp files). (George Wang)

- MBString:
  . Fixed bug #77907 (mb-functions do not respect default_encoding). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78579 (mb_decode_numericentity: args number inconsistency).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78609 (mb_check_encoding() no longer supports stringable
    objects). (cmb)

- MySQLi:
  . Fixed bug #67348 (Reading $dbc->stat modifies $dbc->affected_rows).
    (Derick)
  . Fixed bug #76809 (SSL settings aren't respected when persistent connections
    are used). (fabiomsouto)
  . Fixed bug #78179 (MariaDB server version incorrectly detected). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78213 (Empty row pocket). (cmb)

- MySQLnd:
  . Fixed connect_attr issues and added the _server_host connection attribute.
    (Qianqian Bu)
  . Fixed bug #60594 (mysqlnd exposes 160 lines of stats in phpinfo). (PeeHaa)

- ODBC:
  . Fixed bug #78473 (odbc_close() closes arbitrary resources). (cmb)

- Opcache:
  . Implemented preloading RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/preload. (Dmitry)
  . Add opcache.preload_user INI directive. (Dmitry)
  . Added new INI directive opcache.cache_id (Windows only). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78106 (Path resolution fails if opcache disabled during request).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78175 (Preloading segfaults at preload time and at runtime).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78202 (Opcache stats for cache hits are capped at 32bit NUM).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78271 (Invalid result of if-else). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78341 (Failure to detect smart branch in DFA pass). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78376 (Incorrect preloading of constant static properties).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78429 (opcache_compile_file(__FILE__); segfaults). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78512 (Cannot make preload work). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78514 (Preloading segfaults with inherited typed property).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78654 (Incorrectly computed opcache checksum on files with
    non-ascii characters). (mhagstrand)

- OpenSSL:
  . Added TLS 1.3 support to streams including new tlsv1.3 stream.
    (Codarren Velvindron, Jakub Zelenka)
  . Added openssl_x509_verify function. (Ben Scholzen)
  . openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() now throws in error conditions.
    (Sammy Kaye Powers)
  . Changed the default config path (Windows only). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78231 (Segmentation fault upon stream_socket_accept of exported
    socket-to-stream). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78391 (Assertion failure in openssl_random_pseudo_bytes).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78775 (TLS issues from HTTP request affecting other encrypted
    connections). (Nikita)

- Pcntl:
  . Fixed bug #77335 (PHP is preventing SIGALRM from specifying SA_RESTART).
    (Nikita)

- PCRE:
  . Implemented FR #77094 (Support flags in preg_replace_callback). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #72685 (Repeated UTF-8 validation of same string in UTF-8 mode).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #73948 (Preg_match_all should return NULLs on trailing optional
    capture groups).
  . Fixed bug #78338 (Array cross-border reading in PCRE). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78349 (Bundled pcre2 library missing LICENCE file). (Peter Kokot)

- PDO:
  . Implemented FR #71885 (Allow escaping question mark placeholders).
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pdo_escape_placeholders (Matteo)
  . Fixed bug #77849 (Disable cloning of PDO handle/connection objects).
    (camporter)
  . Implemented FR #78033 (PDO - support username & password specified in
    DSN). (sjon)

- PDO_Firebird:
  . Implemented FR #65690 (PDO_Firebird should also support dialect 1).
    (Simonov Denis)
  . Implemented FR #77863 (PDO firebird support type Boolean in input
    parameters). (Simonov Denis)

- PDO_MySQL:
  . Fixed bug #41997 (SP call yields additional empty result set). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78623 (Regression caused by "SP call yields additional empty
    result set"). (cmb)

- PDO_OCI:
  . Support Oracle Database tracing attributes ACTION, MODULE,
    CLIENT_INFO, and CLIENT_IDENTIFIER. (Cameron Porter)
  . Implemented FR #76908 (PDO_OCI getColumnMeta() not implemented).
    (Valentin Collet, Chris Jones, Remi)

- PDO_SQLite:
  . Implemented sqlite_stmt_readonly in PDO_SQLite. (BohwaZ)
  . Raised requirements to SQLite 3.5.0. (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78192 (SegFault when reuse statement after schema has changed).
    (Vincent Quatrevieux)
  . Fixed bug #78348 (Remove -lrt from pdo_sqlite.so). (Peter Kokot)

- Phar:
  . Fixed bug #77919 (Potential UAF in Phar RSHUTDOWN). (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)

- Recode:
  . Unbundled the recode extension. (cmb)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #76737 (Unserialized reflection objects are broken, they
    shouldn't be serializable). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78263 (\ReflectionReference::fromArrayElement() returns null
    while item is a reference). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78410 (Cannot "manually" unserialize class that is final and
    extends an internal one). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78697 (ReflectionClass::implementsInterface - inaccurate error
    message with traits). (villfa)
  . Fixed bug #78774 (ReflectionNamedType on Typed Properties Crash). (Nikita)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #78624 (session_gc return value for user defined session
    handlers). (bshaffer)

- SimpleXML:
  . Implemented FR #65215 (SimpleXMLElement could register as implementing
    Countable). (LeSuisse)
  . Fixed bug #75245 (Don't set content of elements with only whitespaces).
    (eriklundin)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #67619 (Validate length on socket_write). (thiagooak)
  . Fixed bug #78665 (Multicasting may leak memory). (cmb)

- sodium:
  . Fixed bug #77646 (sign_detached() strings not terminated). (Frank)
  . Fixed bug #78510 (Partially uninitialized buffer returned by
    sodium_crypto_generichash_init()). (Frank Denis, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78516 (password_hash(): Memory cost is not in allowed range).
    (cmb, Nikita)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #77518 (SeekableIterator::seek() should accept 'int' typehint as
    documented). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78409 (Segfault when creating instance of ArrayIterator without
    constructor). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78436 (Missing addref in SplPriorityQueue EXTR_BOTH mode).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78456 (Segfault when serializing SplDoublyLinkedList). (Nikita)

- SQLite3:
  . Unbundled libsqlite. (cmb)
  . Raised requirements to SQLite 3.7.4. (cmb)
  . Forbid (un)serialization of SQLite3, SQLite3Stmt and SQLite3Result. (cmb)
  . Added support for the SQLite @name notation. (cmb, BohwaZ)
  . Added SQLite3Stmt::getSQL() to retrieve the SQL of the statement. (Bohwaz)
  . Implement FR ##70950 (Make SQLite3 Online Backup API available). (BohwaZ)

- Standard:
  . Implemented password hashing registry RFC:
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/password_registry. (Sara)
  . Implemented RFC where password_hash() has argon2i(d) implementations from
    ext/sodium when PHP is built without libargon:
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/sodium.argon.hash (Sara)
  . Implemented FR #38301 (field enclosure behavior in fputcsv). (cmb)
  . Implemented FR #51496 (fgetcsv should take empty string as an escape). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #73535 (php_sockop_write() returns 0 on error, can be used to
    trigger Denial of Service). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #74764 (Bindto IPv6 works with file_get_contents but fails with
    stream_socket_client). (Ville Hukkamäki)
  . Fixed bug #76859 (stream_get_line skips data if used with data-generating
    filter). (kkopachev)
  . Implemented FR #77377 (No way to handle CTRL+C in Windows). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #77930 (stream_copy_to_stream should use mmap more often).
    (Nikita)
  . Implemented FR #78177 (Make proc_open accept command array). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78208 (password_needs_rehash() with an unknown algo should always
    return true). (Sara)
  . Fixed bug #78241 (touch() does not handle dates after 2038 in PHP 64-bit). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78282 (atime and mtime mismatch). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78326 (improper memory deallocation on stream_get_contents()
    with fixed length buffer). (Albert Casademont)
  . Fixed bug #78346 (strip_tags no longer handling nested php tags). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78506 (Error in a php_user_filter::filter() is not reported).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78549 (Stack overflow due to nested serialized input). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78759 (array_search in $GLOBALS). (Nikita)

- Testing:
  . Fixed bug #78684 (PCRE bug72463_2 test is sending emails on Linux). (cmb)

- Tidy:
  . Added TIDY_TAG_* constants for HTML5 elements. (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76736 (wrong reflection for tidy_get_head, tidy_get_html,
    tidy_get_root, and tidy_getopt) (tandre)

- WDDX:
  . Deprecated and unbundled the WDDX extension. (cmb)

- Zip:
  . Fixed bug #78641 (addGlob can modify given remove_path value). (cmb)

21 Nov 2019, PHP 7.3.12

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #78658 (Memory corruption using Closure::bindTo). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78656 (Parse errors classified as highest log-level). (Erik
    Lundin)
  . Fixed bug #78752 (Segfault if GC triggered while generator stack frame is
    being destroyed). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78689 (Closure::fromCallable() doesn't handle
    [Closure, '__invoke']). (Nikita)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #78694 (Appending to a variant array causes segfault). (cmb)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #70153 (\DateInterval incorrectly unserialized). (Maksim Iakunin)
  . Fixed bug #78751 (Serialising DatePeriod converts DateTimeImmutable). (cmb)

- Iconv:
  . Fixed bug #78642 (Wrong libiconv version displayed). (gedas at martynas,
    cmb).

- OpCache:
  . Fixed bug #78654 (Incorrectly computed opcache checksum on files with
    non-ascii characters). (mhagstrand)
  . Fixed bug #78747 (OpCache corrupts custom extension result). (Nikita)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #78775 (TLS issues from HTTP request affecting other encrypted
    connections). (Nikita)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #78697 (ReflectionClass::ImplementsInterface - inaccurate error
    message with traits). (villfa)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #78665 (Multicasting may leak memory). (cmb)

24 Oct 2019, PHP 7.3.11

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #78535 (auto_detect_line_endings value not parsed as bool).
    (bugreportuser)
  . Fixed bug #78620 (Out of memory error). (cmb, Nikita)

- Exif :
  . Fixed bug #78442 ('Illegal component' on exif_read_data since PHP7)
	(Kalle)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #78599 (env_path_info underflow in fpm_main.c can lead to RCE).
    (CVE-2019-11043) (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Fixed bug #78413 (request_terminate_timeout does not take effect after
    fastcgi_finish_request). (Sergei Turchanov)

- MBString:
  . Fixed bug #78633 (Heap buffer overflow (read) in mb_eregi). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78579 (mb_decode_numericentity: args number inconsistency).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78609 (mb_check_encoding() no longer supports stringable
    objects). (cmb)

- MySQLi:
  . Fixed bug #76809 (SSL settings aren't respected when persistent connections
    are used). (fabiomsouto)

- Mysqlnd:
  . Fixed bug #78525 (Memory leak in pdo when reusing native prepared
    statements). (Nikita)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #78272 (calling preg_match() before pcntl_fork() will freeze
    child process). (Nikita)

- PDO_MySQL:
  . Fixed bug #78623 (Regression caused by "SP call yields additional empty
    result set"). (cmb)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #78624 (session_gc return value for user defined session
    handlers). (bshaffer)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #76342 (file_get_contents waits twice specified timeout).
    (Thomas Calvet)
  . Fixed bug #78612 (strtr leaks memory when integer keys are used and the
    subject string shorter). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76859 (stream_get_line skips data if used with data-generating
    filter). (kkopachev)

- Zip:
  . Fixed bug #78641 (addGlob can modify given remove_path value). (cmb)

26 Sep 2019, PHP 7.3.10

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #78220 (Can't access OneDrive folder). (cmb, ab)
  . Fixed bug #77922 (Double release of doc comment on inherited shadow
    property). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78441 (Parse error due to heredoc identifier followed by digit).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77812 (Interactive mode does not support PHP 7.3-style heredoc).
    (cmb, Nikita)

- FastCGI:
  . Fixed bug #78469 (FastCGI on_accept hook is not called when using named
    pipes on Windows). (Sergei Turchanov)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #78334 (fpm log prefix message includes wrong stdout/stderr
    notation). (Tsuyoshi Sadakata)

- Intl:
  . Ensure IDNA2003 rules are used with idn_to_ascii() and idn_to_utf8()
    when requested. (Sara)

- MBString:
  . Fixed bug #78559 (Heap buffer overflow in mb_eregi). (cmb)

- MySQLnd:
  . Fixed connect_attr issues and added the _server_host connection attribute.
    (Qianqian Bu)

- ODBC:
  . Fixed bug #78473 (odbc_close() closes arbitrary resources). (cmb)

- PDO_MySQL:
  . Fixed bug #41997 (SP call yields additional empty result set). (cmb)

- sodium:
  . Fixed bug #78510 (Partially uninitialized buffer returned by
    sodium_crypto_generichash_init()). (Frank Denis, cmb)

29 Aug 2019, PHP 7.3.9

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #78363 (Buffer overflow in zendparse). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78379 (Cast to object confuses GC, causes crash). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #78412 (Generator incorrectly reports non-releasable $this as GC
    child). (Nikita)

- Curl:
  . Fixed bug #77946 (Bad cURL resources returned by curl_multi_info_read()).
    (Abyr Valg)

- Exif:
  . Fixed bug #78333 (Exif crash (bus error) due to wrong alignment and
    invalid cast). (Nikita)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #77185 (Use-after-free in FPM master event handling).
    (Maksim Nikulin)

- Iconv:
  . Fixed bug #78342 (Bus error in configure test for iconv //IGNORE). (Rainer
    Jung)

- LiteSpeed:
  . Updated to LiteSpeed SAPI V7.5 (Fixed clean shutdown). (George Wang)

- MBString:
  . Fixed bug #78380 (Oniguruma 6.9.3 fixes CVEs). (CVE-2019-13224) (Stas)

- MySQLnd:
  . Fixed bug #78179 (MariaDB server version incorrectly detected). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78213 (Empty row pocket). (cmb)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #77191 (Assertion failure in dce_live_ranges() when silencing is
    used). (Nikita)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #69100 (Bus error from stream_copy_to_stream (file -> SSL stream)
    with invalid length). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78282 (atime and mtime mismatch). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78326 (improper memory deallocation on stream_get_contents()
    with fixed length buffer). (Albert Casademont)
  . Fixed bug #78346 (strip_tags no longer handling nested php tags). (cmb)

01 Aug 2019, PHP 7.3.8

- Core:
  . Added syslog.filter=raw option. (Erik Lundin)
  . Fixed bug #78212 (Segfault in built-in webserver). (cmb)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #69044 (discrepency between time and microtime). (krakjoe)
  . Updated timelib to 2018.02. (Derick)

- EXIF:
  . Fixed bug #78256 (heap-buffer-overflow on exif_process_user_comment).
    (CVE-2019-11042) (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #78222 (heap-buffer-overflow on exif_scan_thumbnail).
    (CVE-2019-11041) (Stas)

- FTP:
  . Fixed bug #78039 (FTP with SSL memory leak). (Nikita)

- Libxml:
  . Fixed bug #78279 (libxml_disable_entity_loader settings is shared between
    requests (cgi-fcgi)). (Nikita)

- LiteSpeed:
  . Updated to LiteSpeed SAPI V7.4.3 (increased response header count limit from
    100 to 1000, added crash handler to cleanly shutdown PHP request, added
    CloudLinux mod_lsapi mode). (George Wang)
  . Fixed bug #76058 (After "POST data can't be buffered", using php://input
    makes huge tmp files). (George Wang)

- Openssl:
  . Fixed bug #78231 (Segmentation fault upon stream_socket_accept of exported
    socket-to-stream). (Nikita)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #78189 (file cache strips last character of uname hash). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78202 (Opcache stats for cache hits are capped at 32bit NUM).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78271 (Invalid result of if-else). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78291 (opcache_get_configuration doesn't list all directives).
    (Andrew Collington)
  . Fixed bug #78341 (Failure to detect smart branch in DFA pass). (Nikita)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #78197 (PCRE2 version check in configure fails for "##.##-xxx"
    version strings). (pgnet, Peter Kokot)
  . Fixed bug #78338 (Array cross-border reading in PCRE). (cmb)

- PDO_Sqlite:
  . Fixed bug #78192 (SegFault when reuse statement after schema has changed).
    (Vincent Quatrevieux)

- Phar:
  . Fixed bug #77919 (Potential UAF in Phar RSHUTDOWN). (cmb)

- Phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #78297 (Include unexistent file memory leak). (Nikita)

- SQLite:
  . Upgraded to SQLite 3.28.0. (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #78241 (touch() does not handle dates after 2038 in PHP 64-bit). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #78269 (password_hash uses weak options for argon2). (Remi)

04 Jul 2019, PHP 7.3.7

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76980 (Interface gets skipped if autoloader throws an exception).
    (Nikita)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #78025 (segfault when accessing properties of DOMDocumentType).
    (cmb)

- MySQLi:
  . Fixed bug #77956 (When mysqli.allow_local_infile = Off, use a meaningful
    error message). (Sjon Hortensius)
  . Fixed bug #38546 (bindParam incorrect processing of bool types).
    (camporter)

- MySQLnd:
  . Fixed bug #77955 (Random segmentation fault in mysqlnd from php-fpm).
    (Nikita)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #78015 (Incorrect evaluation of expressions involving partials
    arrays in SCCP). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78106 (Path resolution fails if opcache disabled during request).
    (Nikita)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #78079 (openssl_encrypt_ccm.phpt fails with OpenSSL 1.1.1c).
    (Jakub Zelenka)

- phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #78050 (SegFault phpdbg + opcache on include file twice).
    (Nikita)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #78038 (Socket_select fails when resource array contains
    references). (Nikita)

- Sodium:
  . Fixed bug #78114 (segfault when calling sodium_* functions from eval). (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #77135 (Extract with EXTR_SKIP should skip $this).
    (Craig Duncan, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #77937 (preg_match failed). (cmb, Anatol)

- Zip:
  . Fixed bug #76345 (zip.h not found). (Michael Maroszek)

30 May 2019, PHP 7.3.6

- cURL:
  . Implemented FR #72189 (Add missing CURL_VERSION_* constants). (Javier
    Spagnoletti)

- Date:
  . Fixed bug #77909 (DatePeriod::__construct() with invalid recurrence count
    value). (Ignace Nyamagana Butera)

- EXIF:
  . Fixed bug #77988 (heap-buffer-overflow on php_jpg_get16).
    (CVE-2019-11040) (Stas)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #77934 (php-fpm kill -USR2 not working). (Jakub Zelenka)
  . Fixed bug #77921 (static.php.net doesn't work anymore). (Peter Kokot)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #77943 (imageantialias($image, false); does not work). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77973 (Uninitialized read in gdImageCreateFromXbm).
    (CVE-2019-11038) (cmb)

- Iconv:
  . Fixed bug #78069 (Out-of-bounds read in iconv.c:_php_iconv_mime_decode()
    due to integer overflow). (CVE-2019-11039). (maris dot adam)

- JSON:
  . Fixed bug #77843 (Use after free with json serializer). (Nikita)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed possible crashes, because of inconsistent PCRE cache and opcache
    SHM reset. (Alexey Kalinin, Dmitry)

- PDO_MySQL:
  . Fixed bug #77944 (Wrong meta pdo_type for bigint on LLP64). (cmb)

- Reflection:
  . Fixed bug #75186 (Inconsistent reflection of Closure:::__invoke()). (Nikita)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #77911 (Wrong warning for session.sid_bits_per_character). (cmb)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #77945 (Segmentation fault when constructing SoapClient with
    WSDL_CACHE_BOTH). (Nikita)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #77024 (SplFileObject::__toString() may return array). (Craig
    Duncan)

- SQLite:
  . Fixed bug #77967 (Bypassing open_basedir restrictions via file uris). (Stas)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #77931 (Warning for array_map mentions wrong type). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #78003 (strip_tags output change since PHP 7.3). (cmb)

02 May 2019, PHP 7.3.5

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #77903 (ArrayIterator stops iterating after offsetSet call).
    (Nikita)

- CLI:
  . Fixed bug #77794 (Incorrect Date header format in built-in server).
    (kelunik)

- EXIF
  . Fixed bug #77950 (Heap-buffer-overflow in _estrndup via exif_process_IFD_TAG).
    (CVE-2019-11036) (Stas)

- Interbase:
  . Fixed bug #72175 (Impossibility of creating multiple connections to
    Interbase with php 7.x). (Nikita)

- Intl:
  . Fixed bug #77895 (IntlDateFormatter::create fails in strict mode if $locale
    = null). (Nikita)

- LDAP:
  . Fixed bug #77869 (Core dump when using server controls) (mcmic)

- Mail
  . Fixed bug #77821 (Potential heap corruption in TSendMail()). (cmb)

- mbstring:
  . Implemented FR #72777 (Implement regex stack limits for mbregex functions).
    (Yasuo Ohgaki, Stas)

- MySQLi:
  . Fixed bug #77773 (Unbuffered queries leak memory - MySQLi / mysqlnd).
    (Nikita)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #77827 (preg_match does not ignore \r in regex flags). (requinix,
    cmb)

- PDO:
  . Fixed bug #77849 (Disable cloning of PDO handle/connection objects).
    (camporter)

- phpdbg:
  . 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 #77772 (ReflectionClass::getMethods(null) doesn't work). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77882 (Different behavior: always calls destructor). (Nikita)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #77793 (Segmentation fault in extract() when overwriting
    reference with itself). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77844 (Crash due to null pointer in parse_ini_string with
    INI_SCANNER_TYPED). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77853 (Inconsistent substr_compare behaviour with empty
    haystack). (Nikita)

04 Apr 2019, PHP 7.3.4

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #77738 (Nullptr deref in zend_compile_expr). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #77660 (Segmentation fault on break 2147483648). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #77652 (Anonymous classes can lose their interface information).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77345 (Stack Overflow caused by circular reference in garbage
    collection). (Alexandru Patranescu, Nikita, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #76956 (Wrong value for 'syslog.filter' documented in php.ini).
    (cmb)

- Apache2Handler:
  . Fixed bug #77648 (BOM in sapi/apache2handler/php_functions.c). (cmb)

- Bcmath:
  . Fixed bug #77742 (bcpow() implementation related to gcc compiler
    optimization). (Nikita)

- CLI Server:
  . Fixed bug #77722 (Incorrect IP set to $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] on the
    localhost). (Nikita)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #77578 (Crash when php unload). (cmb)

- EXIF:
  . Fixed bug #77753 (Heap-buffer-overflow in php_ifd_get32s). (CVE-2019-11034)
    (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77831 (Heap-buffer-overflow in exif_iif_add_value).
    (CVE-2019-11035) (Stas)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #77677 (FPM fails to build on AIX due to missing WCOREDUMP).
    (Kevin Adler)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #77700 (Writing truecolor images as GIF ignores interlace flag).
    (cmb)

- MySQLi:
  . Fixed bug #77597 (mysqli_fetch_field hangs scripts). (Nikita)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #77743 (Incorrect pi node insertion for jmpznz with identical
    successors). (Nikita)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #76127 (preg_split does not raise an error on invalid UTF-8).
    (Nikita)

- Phar:
  . Fixed bug #77697 (Crash on Big_Endian platform). (Laruence)

- phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #77767 (phpdbg break cmd aliases listed in help do not match
    actual aliases). (Miriam Lauter)

- sodium:
  . Fixed bug #77646 (sign_detached() strings not terminated). (Frank)

- SQLite3:
  . Added sqlite3.defensive INI directive. (BohwaZ)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #77664 (Segmentation fault when using undefined constant in
    custom wrapper). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #77669 (Crash in extract() when overwriting extracted array).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76717 (var_export() does not create a parsable value for
    PHP_INT_MIN). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77765 (FTP stream wrapper should set the directory as
    executable). (Vlad Temian)

07 Mar 2019, PHP 7.3.3

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #77589 (Core dump using parse_ini_string with numeric sections).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #77329 (Buffer Overflow via overly long Error Messages).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #77494 (Disabling class causes segfault on member access).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #77498 (Custom extension Segmentation fault when declare static
    property). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77530 (PHP crashes when parsing `(2)::class`). (Ekin)
  . Fixed bug #77546 (iptcembed broken function). (gdegoulet)
  . Fixed bug #77630 (rename() across the device may allow unwanted access
    during processing). (Stas)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #77621 (Already defined constants are not properly reported).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77626 (Persistence confusion in php_com_import_typelib()). (cmb)

- EXIF:
  . Fixed bug #77509 (Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77540 (Invalid Read on exif_process_SOFn). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77563 (Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77659 (Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE). (Stas)

- Mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #77514 (mb_ereg_replace() with trailing backslash adds null byte).
    (Nikita)

- MySQL
  . Disabled LOCAL INFILE by default, can be enabled using php.ini directive
    mysqli.allow_local_infile for mysqli, or PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_LOCAL_INFILE
    attribute for pdo_mysql. (Darek Slusarczyk)

- OpenSSL:
  . Fixed bug #77390 (feof might hang on TLS streams in case of fragmented TLS
    records). (Abyl Valg, Jakub Zelenka)

- PDO_OCI:
  . Support Oracle Database tracing attributes ACTION, MODULE,
    CLIENT_INFO, and CLIENT_IDENTIFIER. (Cameron Porter)

- PHAR:
  . Fixed bug #77396 (Null Pointer Dereference in phar_create_or_parse_filename).
    (bishop)
  . Fixed bug #77586 (phar_tar_writeheaders_int() buffer overflow). (bishop)

- phpdbg:
  . Fixed bug #76596 (phpdbg support for display_errors=stderr). (kabel)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #51068 (DirectoryIterator glob:// don't support current path
    relative queries). (Ahmed Abdou)
  . Fixed bug #77431 (openFile() silently truncates after a null byte). (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #77552 (Unintialized php_stream_statbuf in stat functions).
    (John Stevenson)
  . Fixed bug #77612 (setcookie() sets incorrect SameSite header if all of its
    options filled). (Nikita)

07 Feb 2019, PHP 7.3.2

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #77369 (memcpy with negative length via crafted DNS response). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77387 (Recursion detection broken when printing GLOBALS).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #77376 ("undefined function" message no longer includes
    namespace). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #77357 (base64_encode / base64_decode doest not work on nested
    VM). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77339 (__callStatic may get incorrect arguments). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #77317 (__DIR__, __FILE__, realpath() reveal physical path for
    subst virtual drive). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #77263 (Segfault when using 2 RecursiveFilterIterator). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #77447 (PHP 7.3 built with ASAN crashes in
    zend_cpu_supports_avx2). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77484 (Zend engine crashes when calling realpath in invalid
    working dir). (Anatol)

- Curl:
  . Fixed bug #76675 (Segfault with H2 server push). (Pedro Magalhães)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #77346 (webm files incorrectly detected as
    application/octet-stream). (Anatol)

- FPM:
  . Fixed bug #77430 (php-fpm crashes with Main process exited, code=dumped,
    status=11/SEGV). (Jakub Zelenka)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #73281 (imagescale(…, IMG_BILINEAR_FIXED) can cause black border).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #73614 (gdImageFilledArc() doesn't properly draw pies). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77272 (imagescale() may return image resource on failure). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77391 (1bpp BMPs may fail to be loaded). (Romain Déoux, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77479 (imagewbmp() segfaults with very large images). (cmb)

- ldap:
  . Fixed bug #77440 (ldap_bind using ldaps or ldap_start_tls()=exception in
    libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll). (Anatol)

- Mbstring:
  . Fixed bug #77428 (mb_ereg_replace() doesn't replace a substitution
    variable). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77454 (mb_scrub() silently truncates after a null byte).
    (64796c6e69 at gmail dot com)

- MySQLnd:
  . Fixed bug #77308 (Unbuffered queries memory leak). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #75684 (In mysqlnd_ext_plugin.h the plugin methods family has
      no external visibility). (Anatol)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #77266 (Assertion failed in dce_live_ranges). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #77257 (value of variable assigned in a switch() construct gets
    lost). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77434 (php-fpm workers are segfaulting in zend_gc_addre).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77361 (configure fails on 64-bit AIX when opcache enabled).
    (Kevin Adler)
  . Fixed bug #77287 (Opcache literal compaction is incompatible with EXT
    opcodes). (Nikita)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #77338 (get_browser with empty string). (Nikita)

- PDO:
  . Fixed bug #77273 (array_walk_recursive corrupts value types leading to PDO
    failure). (Nikita)

- PDO MySQL:
  . Fixed bug #77289 (PDO MySQL segfaults with persistent connection).
    (Lauri Kenttä)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #77410 (Segmentation Fault when executing method with an empty
    parameter). (Nikita)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #76839 (socket_recvfrom may return an invalid 'from' address
    on MacOS). (Michael Meyer)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #77298 (segfault occurs when add property to unserialized empty
    ArrayObject). (jhdxr)

- Standard:
  . Fixed bug #77395 (segfault about array_multisort). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #77439 (parse_str segfaults when inserting item into existing
    array). (Nikita)

10 Jan 2019, PHP 7.3.1

- Core:
  . Fixed bug #76654 (Build failure on Mac OS X on 32-bit Intel). (Ryandesign)
  . Fixed bug #71041 (zend_signal_startup() needs ZEND_API).
    (Valentin V. Bartenev)
  . Fixed bug #76046 (PHP generates "FE_FREE" opcode on the wrong line).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77291 (magic methods inherited from a trait may be ignored).
    (cmb)

- CURL:
  . Fixed bug #77264 (curl_getinfo returning microseconds, not seconds).
    (Pierrick)

- COM:
  . Fixed bug #77177 (Serializing or unserializing COM objects crashes). (cmb)

- Exif:
  . Fixed bug #77184 (Unsigned rational numbers are written out as signed
    rationals). (Colin Basnett)

- GD:
  . Fixed bug #77195 (Incorrect error handling of imagecreatefromjpeg()). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77198 (auto cropping has insufficient precision). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77200 (imagecropauto(…, GD_CROP_SIDES) crops left but not right).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77269 (efree() on uninitialized Heap data in imagescale leads to
    use-after-free). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77270 (imagecolormatch Out Of Bounds Write on Heap). (cmb)

- MBString:
  . Fixed bug #77367 (Negative size parameter in mb_split). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77370 (Buffer overflow on mb regex functions - fetch_token).
    (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77371 (heap buffer overflow in mb regex functions
    - compile_string_node). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77381 (heap buffer overflow in multibyte match_at). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77382 (heap buffer overflow due to incorrect length in
    expand_case_fold_string). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77385 (buffer overflow in fetch_token). (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77394 (Buffer overflow in multibyte case folding - unicode).
    (Stas)
  . Fixed bug #77418 (Heap overflow in utf32be_mbc_to_code). (Stas)

- OCI8:
  . Fixed bug #76804 (oci_pconnect with OCI_CRED_EXT not working). (KoenigsKind)
  . Added oci_set_call_timeout() for call timeouts.
  . Added oci_set_db_operation() for the DBOP end-to-end-tracing attribute.

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #77215 (CFG assertion failure on multiple finalizing switch
    frees in one block). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77275 (OPcache optimization problem for ArrayAccess->offsetGet).
    (Nikita)

- PCRE:
  . Fixed bug #77193 (Infinite loop in preg_replace_callback). (Anatol)

- PDO:
  . Handle invalid index passed to PDOStatement::fetchColumn() as error. (Sergei
    Morozov)

- Phar:
  . Fixed bug #77247 (heap buffer overflow in phar_detect_phar_fname_ext). (Stas)

- Soap:
  . Fixed bug #77088 (Segfault when using SoapClient with null options).
    (Laruence)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #77136 (Unsupported IPV6_RECVPKTINFO constants on macOS).
    (Mizunashi Mana)

- Sodium:
  . Fixed bug #77297 (SodiumException segfaults on PHP 7.3). (Nikita, Scott)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #77359 (spl_autoload causes segfault). (Lauri Kenttä)
  . Fixed bug #77360 (class_uses causes segfault). (Lauri Kenttä)

- SQLite3:
  . Fixed bug #77051 (Issue with re-binding on SQLite3). (BohwaZ)

- Xmlrpc:
  . Fixed bug #77242 (heap out of bounds read in xmlrpc_decode()). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77380 (Global out of bounds read in xmlrpc base64 code). (Stas)

06 Dec 2018, PHP 7.3.0

- Core:
  . Improved PHP GC. (Dmitry, Nikita)
  . Redesigned the old ext_skel program written in PHP, run:
    'php ext_skel.php' for all options. This means there are no dependencies,
    thus making it work on Windows out of the box. (Kalle)
  . Removed support for BeOS. (Kalle)
  . Add PHP_VERSION to phpinfo() <title/>. (github/MattJeevas)
  . Add net_get_interfaces(). (Sara, Joe, Anatol)
  . Added gc_status(). (Benjamin Eberlei)
  . Implemented flexible heredoc and nowdoc syntax, per
    RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes.
    (Thomas Punt)
  . Added support for references in list() and array destructuring, per
    RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_reference_assignment.
    (David Walker)
  . Improved effectiveness of ZEND_SECURE_ZERO for NetBSD and systems
    without native similar feature. (devnexen)
  . Added syslog.facility and syslog.ident INI entries for customizing syslog
    logging. (Philip Prindeville)
  . Fixed bug #75683 (Memory leak in zend_register_functions() in ZTS mode).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #75031 (support append mode in temp/memory streams). (adsr)
  . Fixed bug #74860 (Uncaught exceptions not being formatted properly when
    error_log set to "syslog"). (Philip Prindeville)
  . Fixed bug #75220 (Segfault when calling is_callable on parent).
    (andrewnester)
  . Fixed bug #69954 (broken links and unused config items in distributed ini
    files). (petk)
  . Fixed bug #74922 (Composed class has fatal error with duplicate, equal const
    properties). (pmmaga)
  . Fixed bug #63911 (identical trait methods raise errors during composition).
    (pmmaga)
  . Fixed bug #75677 (Clang ignores fastcall calling convention on variadic
    function). (Li-Wen Hsu)
  . Fixed bug #54043 (Remove inconsitency of internal exceptions and user
    defined exceptions). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #53033 (Mathematical operations convert objects to integers).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #73108 (Internal class cast handler uses integer instead of
    float). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #75765 (Fatal error instead of Error exception when base class is
    not found). (Timur Ibragimov)
  . Fixed bug #76198 (Wording: "iterable" is not a scalar type). (Levi Morrison)
  . Fixed bug #76137 (config.guess/config.sub do not recognize RISC-V). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76427 (Segfault in zend_objects_store_put). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76422 (ftruncate fails on files > 2GB). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76509 (Inherited static properties can be desynchronized from
    their parent by ref). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76439 (Changed behaviour in unclosed HereDoc). (Nikita, tpunt)
  . Fixed bug #63217 (Constant numeric strings become integers when used as
    ArrayAccess offset). (Rudi Theunissen, Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #33502 (Some nullary functions don't check the number of
    arguments). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76392 (Error relocating sapi/cli/php: unsupported relocation
    type 37). (Peter Kokot)
  . The declaration and use of case-insensitive constants has been deprecated.
    (Nikita)
  . Added syslog.filter INI entry for syslog filtering. (Philip Prindeville)
  . Fixed bug #76667 (Segfault with divide-assign op and __get + __set).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76030 (RE2C_FLAGS rarely honoured) (Cristian Rodríguez)
  . Fixed broken zend_read_static_property (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76773 (Traits used on the parent are ignored for child classes).
    (daverandom)
  . Fixed bug #76767 (‘asm’ operand has impossible constraints in zend_operators.h).
    (ondrej)
  . Fixed bug #76752 (Crash in ZEND_COALESCE_SPEC_TMP_HANDLER - assertion in
    _get_zval_ptr_tmp failed). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76820 (Z_COPYABLE invalid definition). (mvdwerve, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76510 (file_exists() stopped working for phar://). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76869 (Incorrect bypassing protected method accessibilty check).
    (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #72635 (Undefined class used by class constant in constexpr
    generates fatal error). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76947 (file_put_contents() blocks the directory of the file
    (__DIR__)). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76979 (define() error message does not mention resources as
    valid values). (Michael Moravec)
  . Fixed bug #76825 (Undefined symbols ___cpuid_count). (Laruence, cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77110 (undefined symbol zend_string_equal_val in C++ build).
    (Remi)

- BCMath:
  . Implemented FR #67855 (No way to get current scale in use). (Chris Wright,
    cmb)
  . Fixed bug #66364 (BCMath bcmul ignores scale parameter). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #75164 (split_bc_num() is pointless). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #75169 (BCMath errors/warnings bypass PHP's error handling). (cmb)

- CLI:
  . Fixed bug #44217 (Output after stdout/stderr closed cause immediate exit
    with status 0). (Robert Lu)
  . Fixed bug #77111 (php-win.exe corrupts unicode symbols from cli
    parameters). (Anatol)

- cURL:
  . Expose curl constants from curl 7.50 to 7.61. (Pierrick)
  . Fixed bug #74125 (Fixed finding CURL on systems with multiarch support).
    (cebe)

- Date:
  . Implemented FR #74668: Add DateTime::createFromImmutable() method.
    (majkl578, Rican7)
  . Fixed bug #75222 (DateInterval microseconds property always 0). (jhdxr)
  . Fixed bug #68406 (calling var_dump on a DateTimeZone object modifies it).
    (jhdxr)
  . Fixed bug #76131 (mismatch arginfo for date_create). (carusogabriel)
  . Updated timelib to 2018.01RC1 to address several bugs:
    . Fixed bug #75577 (DateTime::createFromFormat does not accept 'v' format
      specifier). (Derick)
    . Fixed bug #75642 (Wrap around behaviour for microseconds is not working).
      (Derick)

- DBA:
  . Fixed bug #75264 (compiler warnings emitted). (petk)

- DOM:
  . Fixed bug #76285 (DOMDocument::formatOutput attribute sometimes ignored).
    (Andrew Nester, Laruence, Anatol)

- Fileinfo:
  . Fixed bug #77095 (slowness regression in 7.2/7.3 (compared to 7.1)).
    (Anatol)

- Filter:
  . Added the 'add_slashes' sanitization mode (FILTER_SANITIZE_ADD_SLASHES).
	(Kalle)

- FPM:
  . Added fpm_get_status function. (Till Backhaus)
  . Fixed bug #62596 (getallheaders() missing with PHP-FPM). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #69031 (Long messages into stdout/stderr are truncated
    incorrectly) - added new log related FPM configuration options:
    log_limit, log_buffering and decorate_workers_output. (Jakub Zelenka)

- ftp:
  . Fixed bug #77151 (ftp_close(): SSL_read on shutdown). (Remi)

- GD:
  . Added support for WebP in imagecreatefromstring(). (Andreas Treichel, cmb)

- GMP:
  . Export internal structures and accessor helpers for GMP object. (Sara)
  . Added gmp_binomial(n, k). (Nikita)
  . Added gmp_lcm(a, b). (Nikita)
  . Added gmp_perfect_power(a). (Nikita)
  . Added gmp_kronecker(a, b). (Nikita)

- iconv:
  . Fixed bug #53891 (iconv_mime_encode() fails to Q-encode UTF-8 string). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77147 (Fixing 60494 ignored ICONV_MIME_DECODE_CONTINUE_ON_ERROR).
    (cmb)

- IMAP:
  . Fixed bug #77020 (null pointer dereference in imap_mail). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77153 (imap_open allows to run arbitrary shell commands via
    mailbox parameter). (Stas)

- Interbase:
  . Fixed bug #75453 (Incorrect reflection for ibase_[p]connect). (villfa)
  . Fixed bug #76443 (php+php_interbase.dll crash on module_shutdown). (Kalle)


- intl:
  . Fixed bug #75317 (UConverter::setDestinationEncoding changes source instead
    of destination). (andrewnester)
  . Fixed bug #76829 (Incorrect validation of domain on idn_to_utf8()
    function). (Anatol)

- JSON:
  . Added JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR flag. (Andrea)

- LDAP:
  . Added ldap_exop_refresh helper for EXOP REFRESH operation with dds overlay.
    (Come)
  . Added full support for sending and parsing ldap controls. (Come)
  . Fixed bug #49876 (Fix LDAP path lookup on 64-bit distros). (dzuelke)

- libxml2:
  . Fixed bug #75871 (use pkg-config where available). (pmmaga)

- litespeed:
  . Fixed bug #75248 (Binary directory doesn't get created when building
    only litespeed SAPI). (petk)
  . Fixed bug #75251 (Missing program prefix and suffix). (petk)

- MBstring:
  . Updated to Oniguruma 6.9.0. (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #65544 (mb title case conversion-first word in quotation isn't
    capitalized). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #71298 (MB_CASE_TITLE misbehaves with curled apostrophe/quote).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #73528 (Crash in zif_mb_send_mail). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #74929 (mbstring functions version 7.1.1 are slow compared to 5.3
    on Windows). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76319 (mb_strtolower with invalid UTF-8 causes segmentation
    fault). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76574 (use of undeclared identifiers INT_MAX and LONG_MAX). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76594 (Bus Error due to unaligned access in zend_ini.c
    OnUpdateLong). (cmb, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76706 (mbstring.http_output_conv_mimetypes is ignored). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76958 (Broken UTF7-IMAP conversion). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77025 (mb_strpos throws Unknown encoding or conversion error).
    (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77165 (mb_check_encoding crashes when argument given an empty
    array). (Nikita)

- Mysqlnd:
  . Fixed bug #76386 (Prepared Statement formatter truncates fractional seconds
    from date/time column). (Victor Csiky)

- ODBC:
  . Removed support for ODBCRouter. (Kalle)
  . Removed support for Birdstep. (Kalle)
  . Fixed bug #77079 (odbc_fetch_object has incorrect type signature).
    (Jon Allen)

- Opcache:
  . Fixed bug #76466 (Loop variable confusion). (Dmitry, Laruence, Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76463 (var has array key type but not value type). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76446 (zend_variables.c:73: zend_string_destroy: Assertion
    `!(zval_gc_flags((str)->gc)). (Nikita, Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76711 (OPcache enabled triggers false-positive "Illegal string
    offset"). (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #77058 (Type inference in opcache causes side effects). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #77092 (array_diff_key() - segmentation fault). (Nikita)

- OpenSSL:
  . Added openssl_pkey_derive function. (Jim Zubov)
  . Add min_proto_version and max_proto_version ssl stream options as well as
    related constants for possible TLS protocol values. (Jakub Zelenka)

- PCRE:
  . Implemented https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pcre2-migration. (Anatol, Dmitry)
  . Upgrade PCRE2 to 10.32. (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #75355 (preg_quote() does not quote # control character).
    (Michael Moravec)
  . Fixed bug #76512 (\w no longer includes unicode characters). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #76514 (Regression in preg_match makes it fail with
    PREG_JIT_STACKLIMIT_ERROR). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76909 (preg_match difference between 7.3 and < 7.3). (Anatol)

- PDO_DBlib:
  . Implemented FR #69592 (allow 0-column rowsets to be skipped automatically).
    (fandrieu)
  . Expose TDS version as \PDO::DBLIB_ATTR_TDS_VERSION attribute on \PDO
    instance. (fandrieu)
  . Treat DATETIME2 columns like DATETIME. (fandrieu)
  . Fixed bug #74243 (allow locales.conf to drive datetime format). (fandrieu)

- PDO_Firebird:
  . Fixed bug #74462 (PDO_Firebird returns only NULLs for results with boolean
    for FIREBIRD >= 3.0). (Dorin Marcoci)

- PDO_OCI:
  . Fixed bug #74631 (PDO_PCO with PHP-FPM: OCI environment initialized
    before PHP-FPM sets it up). (Ingmar Runge)

- PDO SQLite
  . Add support for additional open flags

- pgsql:
  . Added new error constants for pg_result_error(): PGSQL_DIAG_SCHEMA_NAME,
    PGSQL_DIAG_TABLE_NAME, PGSQL_DIAG_COLUMN_NAME, PGSQL_DIAG_DATATYPE_NAME,
    PGSQL_DIAG_CONSTRAINT_NAME and PGSQL_DIAG_SEVERITY_NONLOCALIZED. (Kalle)
  . Fixed bug #77047 (pg_convert has a broken regex for the 'TIME WITHOUT
    TIMEZONE' data type). (Andy Gajetzki)

- phar:
  . Fixed bug #74991 (include_path has a 4096 char limit in some cases).
    (bwbroersma)
  . Fixed bug #65414 (deal with leading slash when adding files correctly).
    (bishopb)

- readline:
  . Added completion_append_character and completion_suppress_append options
    to readline_info() if linked against libreadline. (krageon)

- Session:
  . Fixed bug #74941 (session fails to start after having headers sent).
    (morozov)

- SimpleXML:
  . Fixed bug #54973 (SimpleXML casts integers wrong). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76712 (Assignment of empty string creates extraneous text node).
    (cmb)

- Sockets:
  . Fixed bug #67619 (Validate length on socket_write). (thiagooak)

- SOAP:
  . Fixed bug #75464 (Wrong reflection on SoapClient::__setSoapHeaders).
    (villfa)
  . Fixed bug #70469 (SoapClient generates E_ERROR even if exceptions=1 is
    used). (Anton Artamonov)
  . Fixed bug #50675 (SoapClient can't handle object references correctly).
    (Cameron Porter)
  . Fixed bug #76348 (WSDL_CACHE_MEMORY causes Segmentation fault). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #77141 (Signedness issue in SOAP when precision=-1). (cmb)

- SPL:
  . Fixed bug #74977 (Appending AppendIterator leads to segfault).
    (Andrew Nester)
  . Fixed bug #75173 (incorrect behavior of AppendIterator::append in foreach
    loop). (jhdxr)
  . Fixed bug #74372 (autoloading file with syntax error uses next autoloader,
    may hide parse error). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #75878 (RecursiveTreeIterator::setPostfix has wrong signature).
    (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #74519 (strange behavior of AppendIterator). (jhdxr)
  . Fixed bug #76131 (mismatch arginfo for splarray constructor).
    (carusogabriel)

- SQLite3:
  . Updated bundled libsqlite to 3.24.0. (cmb)

- Standard:
  . Added is_countable() function. (Gabriel Caruso)
  . Added support for the SameSite cookie directive, including an alternative
    signature for setcookie(), setrawcookie() and session_set_cookie_params().
    (Frederik Bosch, pmmaga)
  . Remove superfluous warnings from inet_ntop()/inet_pton(). (daverandom)
  . Fixed bug #75916 (DNS_CAA record results contain garbage). (Mike,
    Philip Sharp)
  . Fixed unserialize(), to disable creation of unsupported data structures
    through manually crafted strings. (Dmitry)
  . Fixed bug #75409 (accept EFAULT in addition to ENOSYS as indicator
    that getrandom() is missing). (sarciszewski)
  . Fixed bug #74719 (fopen() should accept NULL as context). (Alexander Holman)
  . Fixed bug #69948 (path/domain are not sanitized in setcookie). (cmb)
  . Fixed bug #75996 (incorrect url in header for mt_rand). (tatarbj)
  . Added hrtime() function, to get high resolution time. (welting)
  . Fixed bug #48016 (stdClass::__setState is not defined although var_export()
    uses it). (Andrea)
  . Fixed bug #76136 (stream_socket_get_name should enclose IPv6 in brackets).
    (seliver)
  . Fixed bug #76688 (Disallow excessive parameters after options array).
    (pmmaga)
  . Fixed bug #76713 (Segmentation fault caused by property corruption).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76755 (setcookie does not accept "double" type for expire time).
    (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #76674 (improve array_* failure messages exposing what was passed
    instead of an array). (carusogabriel)
  . Fixed bug #76803 (ftruncate changes file pointer). (Anatol)
  . Fixed bug #76818 (Memory corruption and segfault). (Remi)
  . Fixed bug #77081 (ftruncate() changes seek pointer in c mode). (cmb, Anatol)

- Testing:
  . Implemented FR #62055 (Make run-tests.php support --CGI-- sections). (cmb)

- Tidy:
  . Support using tidyp instead of tidy. (devnexen)
  . Fixed bug #74707 (Tidy has incorrect ReflectionFunction param counts for
    functions taking tidy). (Gabriel Caruso)
  . Fixed arginfo for tidy::__construct(). (Tyson Andre)

- Tokenizer:
  . Fixed bug #76437 (token_get_all with TOKEN_PARSE flag fails to recognise
    close tag). (Laruence)
  . Fixed bug #75218 (Change remaining uncatchable fatal errors for parsing
    into ParseError). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76538 (token_get_all with TOKEN_PARSE flag fails to recognise
    close tag with newline). (Nikita)
  . Fixed bug #76991 (Incorrect tokenization of multiple invalid flexible
    heredoc strings). (Nikita)

- XML:
  . Fixed bug #71592 (External entity processing never fails). (cmb)

- Zlib:
  . Added zlib/level context option for compress.zlib wrapper. (Sara)
