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<h2 class="title">Other changes to extensions</h2>
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The following extensions can no longer be disabled during build
configuration:
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<a href="book.pcre.html" class="link">PCRE</a>
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<a href="book.reflection.html" class="link">Reflection</a>
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<a href="book.spl.html" class="link">SPL</a>
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Changes in extension behaviour, and new features:
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<a href="book.datetime.html" class="link">Date and Time</a>
- The TZ environment variable is no longer used to guess the timezone
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<a href="book.curl.html" class="link">cURL</a>
- cURL now supports SSH
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<a href="book.network.html" class="link">Network</a>
- <span class="function"><a href="function.dns-check-record.html" class="function">dns_check_record()</a></span> now returns an extra "entries"
index, containing the TXT elements.
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<a href="book.hash.html" class="link">Hash</a>
- The SHA-224 and salsa hash algorithms are now supported.
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<a href="book.mbstring.html" class="link">mbstring</a>
- Now supports CP850 encoding.
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<a href="book.oci8.html" class="link">OCI8</a>
- A call to <span class="function"><a href="function.oci-close.html" class="function">oci_close()</a></span> on a persistent connection, or a
variable referencing a persistent connection going out of scope, will now
roll back any uncommitted transaction. To avoid unexpected behavior,
explicitly issue a commit or roll back as needed. The old behavior can be
enabled with the INI directive
<a href="oci8.configuration.html#ini.oci8.old-oci-close-semantics" class="link">oci8.old_oci_close_semantics</a>.
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Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Fast Application
Notification (FAN) are now supported.
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Oracle External Authentication is now supported (except on Windows).
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The <span class="function"><a href="function.oci-bind-by-name.html" class="function">oci_bind_by_name()</a></span> function now supports SQLT_AFC
(aka the CHAR datatype).
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<a href="book.openssl.html" class="link">OpenSSL</a>
- OpenSSL digest and cipher functions are now supported. It is also
now possible to access the internal values of DSA, RSA and DH keys.
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<a href="book.session.html" class="link">Session</a>
- Sessions will no longer store session-files in <em>"/tmp"</em>
when <a href="ini.core.html#ini.open-basedir" class="link">open_basedir</a> restrictions
apply, unless <em>"/tmp"</em> is explicitly added to the list of
allowed paths.
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<a href="book.soap.html" class="link">SOAP</a>
Now supports sending user supplied HTTP headers.
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<a href="book.mysqli.html" class="link">MySQLi</a>
Now supports persistent connections, by prepending the hostname with
<em>"p:"</em>.
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<a href="book.image.html" class="link">Image Processing and GD</a>
The "JPG Support" index returned from <span class="function"><a href="function.gd-info.html" class="function">gd_info()</a></span> has
been renamed to "JPEG Support".
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