The first beta for PHP 8.4.0 is now available for testing.

Release php-8.4.0beta1

- Core:
. Updated build system scripts config.guess to 2024-07-27 and config.sub to
2024-05-27. (Peter Kokot)
. Fixed bug GH-15240 (Infinite recursion in trait hook). (ilutov)
. Fixed bug GH-15140 (Missing variance check for abstract set with asymmetric
type). (ilutov)
. Fixed bug GH-15181 (Disabled output handler is flushed again). (cmb)
. Passing E_USER_ERROR to trigger_error() is now deprecated. (Girgias)
. Fixed bug GH-15292 (Dynamic AVX detection is broken for MSVC). (nielsdos)
. Using "_" as a class name is now deprecated. (Girgias)

- Curl:
. Added constants CURL_HTTP_VERSION_3 (libcurl 7.66) and CURL_HTTP_VERSION_3ONLY
(libcurl 7.88) as options for CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION (Ayesh Karunaratne)

- Date:
. Constants SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP, SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, and SUNFUNCS_RET_DOUBLE
are now deprecated. (Jorg Sowa)

- DBA:
. Passing null or false to dba_key_split() is deprecated. (Grigias)

- DOM:
. Fixed bug GH-15192 (Segmentation fault in dom extension
(html5_serializer)). (nielsdos)
. Deprecated DOM_PHP_ERR constant. (nielsdos)
. Removed DOMImplementation::getFeature(). (nielsdos)
. Fixed bug GH-15331 (Element::$substitutedNodeValue test failed). (nielsdos)

- Hash:
. Deprecated passing incorrect data types for options to ext/hash functions.
(nielsdos)
. Added SSE2 and SHA-NI implementation of SHA-256. (timwolla, Colin Percival,
Graham Percival)

- Mysqli:
. The mysqli_ping() function and mysqli::ping() method are now deprecated,
as the reconnect feature was removed in PHP 8.2. (Kamil Tekiela)
. The mysqli_kill() function and mysqli::kill() method are now deprecated.
If this functionality is needed a SQL "KILL" command can be used instead.
(Kamil Tekiela)
. The mysqli_refresh() function and mysqli::refresh() method are now deprecated.
If this functionality is needed a SQL "FLUSH" command can be used instead.
(Kamil Tekiela)
. Passing explicitly the $mode parameter to mysqli_store_result() has been
deprecated. As the MYSQLI_STORE_RESULT_COPY_DATA constant was only used in
conjunction with this function it has also been deprecated. (Girgias)

- PDO_Firebird:
. Support proper formatting of time zone types. (sim1984)

- PHPDBG:
. array out of bounds, stack overflow handled for segfault handler on windows.
(David Carlier)

- Random:
. lcg_value() is now deprecated. (timwolla)

- Readline:
. Fixed bug #51558 (Shared readline build fails). (Peter Kokot)

- Session:
. INI settings session.sid_length and session.sid_bits_per_character are now
deprecated. (timwolla)

- SOAP:
. Passing an int to SoapServer::addFunction() is now deprecated.
If all PHP functions need to be provided flatten the array returned by
get_defined_functions(). (Girgias)
. The SOAP_FUNCTIONS_ALL constant is now deprecated. (Girgias)

- Sockets:
. Added IP_PORTRANGE* constants for BSD systems to control ephemeral port
ranges. (David Carlier)
. Added SOCK_NONBLOCK/SOCK_CLOEXEC constants for socket_create and
socket_create_pair to apply O_NONBLOCK/O_CLOEXEC flags to the
newly created sockets. (David Carlier)

- SPL:
. The SplFixedArray::__wakeup() method has been deprecated as it implements
__serialize() and __unserialize() which need to be overwritten instead.
(TysonAndre)
. Passing a non-empty string for the $enclosure parameter of:
- SplFileObject::setCsvControl()
- SplFileObject::fputcsv()
- SplFileObject::fgetcsv()
is now deprecated. (Girgias)

- Standard:
. Unserializing the uppercase 'S' tag is now deprecated. (timwolla)
. Enables crc32 auxiliary detection on OpenBSD. (David Carlier)
. Passing a non-empty string for the $enclosure parameter of:
- fputcsv()
- fgetcsv()
- str_getcsv()
is now deprecated. (Girgias)
. The str_getcsv() function now throws ValueErrors when the $separator and
$enclosure arguments are not one byte long, or if the $escape is not one
byte long or the empty string. This aligns the behaviour to be identical
to that of fputcsv() and fgetcsv(). (Girgias)

- Streams:
. Implemented GH-15155 (Stream context is lost when custom stream wrapper is
being filtered). (Quentin Dreyer)

- XML:
. The xml_set_object() function has been deprecated. (Girgias)
. Passing non-callable strings to the xml_set_*_handler() functions is now
deprecated. (Girgias)

Release php-8.4.0beta1 · php/php-src