- Core:
. Added T_POW (**) operator
(RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pow-operator). (Tjerk Meesters)
+ . Implemented unified default encoding
+ (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/default_encoding). (Yasuo Ohgaki)
- mysqli
. Added new function mysqli_get_links_stats() as well as new INI variable
- Added T_POW (**) operator.
(https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pow-operator)
+- Added unified default encoding. default_charset=UTF-8 and functions/extensions
+ use encoding settings honor default_charset.
+ (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/default_encoding)
+
- The php://input stream is now re-usable and can be used concurrently with
enable_post_data_reading=0.