- Added "compact" handler for Zend MM storage. (Dmitry)
- Added "+" and "*" specifiers to zend_parse_parameters(). (Andrei)
- Added lcfirst() function. (David C)
+- Added OCI8 Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Fast
+ Application Notification (FAN) support (Oracle)
- Removed the experimental RPL (master/slave) functions from mysqli. (Andrey)
to different characters with cp1251 and cp866. (Scott)
- Fixed possible crash in ext/soap because of uninitialized value. (Zdash Urf)
+- Fixed PECL bug #12431 (OCI8 ping functionality is broken). (Oracle)
- Fixed bug #43960 (strtotime() returns timestamp in the future when given a
bogus string).
- Fixed bug #43808 (date_create never fails (even when it should)). (Derick)