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<h2 class="title">Other changes</h2>
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<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>
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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.
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<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>
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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>.
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<div class="sect2" id="migration72.other-changes.lmdb-support">
<h3 class="title">LMDB support</h3>
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The <a href="book.dba.html" class="link">DBA</a> extension now has support for LMDB.
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<h3 class="title">Changes to the PHP build system</h3>
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Unix: Autoconf 2.64 or greater is now required to build PHP.
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Unix: <em>--with-pdo-oci</em> configure argument no longer needs
the version number of the Oracle Instant Client.
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Unix: <em>--enable-gd-native-ttf</em> configure argument has been
removed. This was not used since PHP 5.5.0.
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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.
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<h3 class="title">Changes to <a href="book.image.html" class="link">GD</a></h3>
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<span class="function"><a href="function.imageantialias.html" class="function">imageantialias()</a></span> is now also available if compiled with
a system libgd.
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<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.
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<div class="sect2" id="migration72.other-changes.mcrypt">
<h3 class="title">Moving <a href="book.mcrypt.html" class="link">MCrypt</a> to PECL</h3>
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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. Instead, either the
<a href="book.openssl.html" class="link">OpenSSL</a> or <a href="book.sodium.html" class="link">Sodium</a>
extension should be used.
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