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Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 20:01:41 -0400
To: Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.2 Branched
From: list@firehawksystems.com ("Brian J. France")

Could the curl_multi_info_read patch be considered for the 5.2 branch?

Thanks,

Brian

On May 6, 2006, at 6:27 PM, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

> I've just created the PHP 5.2 branch from which future 5.X release  
> will be made, so please update your local trees to this branch. The  
> 5.1 branch is dead to patches except for those fixing security  
> issues or critical regressions, once 5.2.0 is released, the 5.1  
> branch will be discontinued.  Over the last week a list of planned  
> changes for the 5.2 have been compiled on Lukas' wiki (http:// 
> oss.backendmedia.com/PhP52). I've broken down the list into two  
> sections "confirmed" and "pending discussion" the latter being  
> changes I am not certain about and would like to hear everyone's  
> feedback.
>
> Confirmed:
>
> * new functions: ext/date: date_sun_info (derick)
> * Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli (georg)
> * add support for files >2GB (wez)
> * Engine and Language optimizations.
>
> DOM:
>         * Add the registerNodeClass() function currently in HEAD
>         * Add Canonical functionality (still trying to figure out  
> best method signature for this one)
>         * Update IsID? functionality (code currently in HEAD)
>
> PCRE (MFH)
>         * cache hooks
> 	* make it possible to set runtime limits on backtracking and  
> recursion and add preg_last_error()
>
> PDO
>         * Add PDO::defaultFetchMode attribute (partially done,  
> remains only fetch_object) (pierre)
>         * Allow the DSN to be passed as array, proposal phase. An  
> initial proposal was done here (pierre, lukas)
>         * PDO: FETCH_PROPS_LATE
>
> SOAP
>         * SOAP Cache optimizations (Dmitri and Andrei) (technically  
> it is already in)
>
> SPL
>         MFH
>         * SPL: RegExIterator?
>         * SPL: SplFileObject?: read csv, skip empty lines
>         * SPL: ArrayIterator?: overload ArrayAccess? support and  
> array functions
>         NEW
>         * SPL: RegExIterator?: ability to pregsplit the matches
>         * SPL: SplFileObject?: ability to set the CSV separator per  
> object
>         * streams (SPL?): leverage memory/temp streams so that a  
> string can be converted to a stream easily, some registration  
> interface is nec
>
> PDO SQLite
>         * Upgrade bundled SQLite 3 library (Ilia)
>
> XSL:
>         * Add property to perform XInclude during transformation
>
> XMLWriter:
>         * Synch code with HEAD (code is cleaner and shorter in  
> HEAD) contains 2 new methods (fullEndElement? and writeRaw)
>         * Add writeNote([xmlreader obj]), allow to create a push/ 
> pull parser
>
> XMLReader:
>         * Merge functionality from HEAD
>         * xmlReader::readInnerXml?
>         * xmlReader::setSchema
>         * passing libxml options when loading reader
>         * add readInnerXML?, readOuterXML?, readString, setSchema  
> (all require libxml2-2.6.20+)
>         ( use xmlreader const functions (lowers memory usage and  
> runs faster)
>
> Zend Engine and langages:
>         * Zend: __toString()
>         * Zend: interfaces with constructors
>         * Zend: exception functions TSRM signature (compatible with  
> HEAD)
>         * Drop ZE1 compatibility
>         * E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR
>
> * PostgreSQL
>         * MFH pg_field_table() (edin)
>
>
> Pending Discussion:
>
> * Add input filter extension via a symlink from pecl into core as  
> experimental (derick)
> * Add json extension via a symlink from pecl into core as experimental
> * on-the-fly static properties (mike)
> * 'strict class' to disable dynamic member variable addition, see  
> above (marcus)
> * main: spprintf 'v' (maybe the zstr stuff?)
> * Output Buffering rewrite (mike) (uncertain as of yet)
>
>
> As far as the release plan, the hope is to have 5.2 released within  
> 3 months, with major changes completed within the 1st month and the  
> remaining 2 month used to get things stable. The tentative date for  
> RC1 is June 22nd.
>
> Ilia
>
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