<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Other changes</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="migration72.deprecated.html">Deprecated features in PHP 7.2.x</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="migration71.html">Migrating from PHP 7.0.x to PHP 7.1.x</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="migration72.html">Migrating from PHP 7.1.x to PHP 7.2.x</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="migration72.other-changes" class="sect1"> <h2 class="title">Other changes</h2> <div class="sect2" id="migration72.other-changes.utf8_-functions-to-ext-standard"> <h3 class="title">Moving of <span class="function"><a href="function.utf8-encode.html" class="function">utf8_encode()</a></span> and <span class="function"><a href="function.utf8-decode.html" class="function">utf8_decode()</a></span></h3> <p class="para"> The <span class="function"><a href="function.utf8-encode.html" class="function">utf8_encode()</a></span> and <span class="function"><a href="function.utf8-decode.html" class="function">utf8_decode()</a></span> functions have now been moved to the standard extension as string functions, whereas before the <a href="book.xml.html" class="link">XML</a> extension was required for them to be available. </p> </div> <div class="sect2" id="migration72.other-changes.mail"> <h3 class="title">Changes to <span class="function"><a href="function.mail.html" class="function">mail()</a></span> and <span class="function"><strong>mb_sendmail()</strong></span></h3> <p class="para"> The $additional_headers parameter of <span class="function"><a href="function.mail.html" class="function">mail()</a></span> and <span class="function"><strong>mb_sendmail()</strong></span> now also accepts an <span class="type"><a href="language.types.array.html" class="type array">array</a></span> instead of a <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span>. </p> </div> <div class="sect2" id="migration72.other-changes.lmdb-support"> <h3 class="title">LMDB support</h3> <p class="para"> The <a href="book.dba.html" class="link">DBA</a> extension now has support for LMDB. </p> </div> <div class="sect2" id="migration72.other-changes.build-system"> <h3 class="title">Changes to the PHP build system</h3> <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> Unix: Autoconf 2.64 or greater is now required to build PHP. </span> </li> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> Unix: <em>--with-pdo-oci</em> configure argument no longer needs the version number of the Oracle Instant Client. </span> </li> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> Unix: <em>--enable-gd-native-ttf</em> configure argument has been removed. This was not used since PHP 5.5.0. </span> </li> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> Windows: <em>--with-config-profile</em> configure argument has been added. This can be used to save specific configures, much like the magical <var class="filename">config.nice.bat</var> file. </span> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="sect2" id="migration72.other-changes.image"> <h3 class="title">Changes to <a href="book.image.html" class="link">GD</a></h3> <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imageantialias.html" class="function">imageantialias()</a></span> is now also available if compiled with a system libgd. </span> </li> <li class="listitem"> <span class="simpara"> <span class="function"><a href="function.imagegd.html" class="function">imagegd()</a></span> stores truecolor images as real truecolor images. Formerly, they have been converted to palette. </span> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="sect2" id="migration72.other-changes.mcrypt"> <h3 class="title">Moving <a href="book.mcrypt.html" class="link">MCrypt</a> to PECL</h3> <p class="para"> The <a href="book.mcrypt.html" class="link">MCrypt</a> extension has now been moved out of the core to PECL. Given the mcrypt library has not seen any updates since 2007, its usage is highly discouraged. 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