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<h2 class="title">Other changes</h2>
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<span class="function"><a href="splfileinfo.getpathinfo.html" class="function">SplFileInfo::getpathinfo()</a></span> now returns information about
the path name.
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<a href="class.splobjectstorage.html" class="classname">SplObjectStorage</a> now has
<a href="class.arrayaccess.html" class="classname">ArrayAccess</a> support. It is now also possible to
store associative information with objects in
<a href="class.splobjectstorage.html" class="classname">SplObjectStorage</a>.
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In the GD extension, there is now pixelation support available through
the <span class="function"><a href="function.imagefilter.html" class="function">imagefilter()</a></span> function.
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<span class="function"><a href="function.var-dump.html" class="function">var_dump()</a></span> output now includes private object properties.
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<span class="function"><a href="function.session-start.html" class="function">session_start()</a></span> now returns <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> when session startup
fails.
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<span class="function"><a href="function.property-exists.html" class="function">property_exists()</a></span> now checks the existence of a property
independent of accessibility (like <span class="function"><a href="function.method-exists.html" class="function">method_exists()</a></span>).
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<a href="wrappers.html" class="link">Stream wrappers</a> can now be used by
<a href="ini.core.html#ini.include-path" class="link">include_path</a>.
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The <em><code class="parameter">initial</code></em> parameter for
<span class="function"><a href="function.array-reduce.html" class="function">array_reduce()</a></span> can now be of any type.
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The <a href="ref.dir.html" class="link">directory functions</a>
<span class="function"><a href="function.opendir.html" class="function">opendir()</a></span>, <span class="function"><a href="function.scandir.html" class="function">scandir()</a></span>, and
<span class="function"><a href="function.dir.html" class="function">dir()</a></span> now use the default stream context if no explicit
context is passed.
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<span class="function"><a href="function.crypt.html" class="function">crypt()</a></span> now has Blowfish and extended DES support, and
<span class="function"><a href="function.crypt.html" class="function">crypt()</a></span> features are now 100% portable. PHP has its own
internal crypt implementation which drops into place when support for
<em>crypt</em> or <em>crypt_r</em> is not found.
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<span class="function"><a href="function.getopt.html" class="function">getopt()</a></span> now accepts "long options" on all platforms.
Optional values and <em>=</em> as a separator for short options
are now supported.
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<span class="function"><a href="function.fopen.html" class="function">fopen()</a></span> has a new mode option (<em>n</em>),
which passes <strong><code>O_NONBLOCK</code></strong> to the underlying
<em>open()</em> system call. Note that this mode is not currently
supported on Windows.
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<span class="function"><a href="function.getimagesize.html" class="function">getimagesize()</a></span> now supports icon files (.ico).
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The mhash extension have moved to PECL, but the
<a href="ref.hash.html" class="link">Hash</a> extension have been modified to support
mhash if PHP is compiled with <em>--with-mhash</em>. Note that the
Hash extension does not require the mhash library to be available whether or
not the mhash emulation is enabled.
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