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- Core:
 . Removed the pdo_odbc.db2_instance_name php.ini directive. (Kalle)
 . Fixed bug #77619 (Wrong reflection on MultipleIterator::__construct).
 (Fabien Villepinte)

- Date:
 . Fixed bug #65547 (Default value for sunrise/sunset zenith still wrong).
 (cmb)
 . Fixed bug #69044 (discrepency between time and microtime). (krakjoe)

- DOM:
 . Add property DOMXPath::$registerNodeNamespaces and constructor argument
 that allow global flag to configure query() or evaluate() calls.

- 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)

- Intl:
 . Removed deprecated INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003. (cmb)

- JIT:
 . Fixed bug #77857 (Wrong result if executed with JIT). (Laruence)

- LDAP:
 . Removed deprecated ldap_sort. (mcmic)

- MBString:
 . 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)

- OpCache:
 . Fixed bug #78654 (Incorrectly computed opcache checksum on files with 
 non-ascii characters). (mhagstrand)

- PCRE:
 . Don't ignore invalid escape sequences. (sjon)

- PDO:
 . 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)

- 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)

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

- SimpleXML:
 . Fixed bug #75245 (Don't set content of elements with only whitespaces).
 (eriklundin)

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

- SQLite3:
 . Added SQLite3::setAuthorizer() and respective class constants. (bohwaz)

- 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)

- 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 XMKWriter objects instead of resources.
 (cmb)

- Zip:
 . Fixed bug #72374 (remove_path strips first char of filename). (tyage)

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