The second beta version of PHP 7.4.0 is now available

- Core:
. 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)

- 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)

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

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

- Opcache:
. Fixed bug #78341 (Failure to detect smart branch in DFA pass). (Nikita)
. Fixed bug #78376 (Incorrect preloading of constant static properties).
(Dmitry)

- PCRE:
. Fixed bug #78338 (Array cross-border reading in PCRE). (cmb)

- PDO_Sqlite:
. Fixed bug #78348 (Remove -lrt from pdo_sqlite.so). (Peter Kokot)

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

- Standard:
. 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)

  PHP 7.4.0 Beta 2 released