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PHP Core Roundup #16

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Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is post #16, where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP during the month past by the PHP development team, members of the PHP Foundation, and more.

The PHP Foundation is a collective of PHP contributors, veterans, and companies that collaborate to ensure the long-term sustainability of the PHP programming language. The foundation currently supports six contributors focused on PHP's maintenance, debt reduction, and feature development. These contributors work closely with others on coding, documentation, and discussions.

Started over a year ago, the PHP Core Roundup series offers a summary of the latest developments, discussions, and news about PHP Core, contributed by both PHP Foundation members and other participants. This post is the thirteenth in the PHP Core Roundup series.

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PHP 8.3 Branching Out

PHP 8.3 has reached its feature-freeze, and release managers branched out the PHP-8.3 branch on August 31.

Now that PHP 8.3 is in a separate branch, the master branch will be the development source for PHP 8.4. Bug fixes and other improvements will be cherry-picked for PHP 8.3 (and older branches) as appropriate, but new features that are made to the master branch will not be merged to the PHP 8.3 branch.

Tools that build PHP based on the Git branches will also see a new branch, and the builds from the master branch will be named “PHP 8.4” for the first time.

Releases

The PHP development team released five new versions in August 2023:

PHP 8.2.10 and PHP 8.1.23

These releases include several bug fixes and improvements, notably in areas such as CLI, Date, Core, DOM, FFI, Hash, MySQLnd, Opcache, PCNTL, SPL, and Standard.

PHP 8.2.9, PHP 8.1.22, and PHP 8.0.30

All three include security fixes: GHSA-3qrf-m4j2-pcrr and GHSA-jqcx-ccgc-xwhv.

PHP 8.2.9 and PHP 8.1.22 additionally include several bug fixes and improvements, notably in areas such as Build, CLI, Core, Curl, Date, DOM, Fileinfo, FTP, GD, Intl, MBString, Opcache, PCNTL, PDO, PDO SQLite, Phar, PHPDBG, Session, Standard, Streams, SQLite3, and XMLReader.

Recent RFCs and Mailing List Discussions

Changes and improvements to PHP are discussed, reported, and voted on by the PHP Foundation Team, the PHP development team, and contributors. Bug reports are made to the PHP issue tracker, changes are discussed in mailing lists, minor code changes are proposed as pull requests, and major changes are discussed in detail and voted on as PHP RFCs. Documentation and the php.net website changes are also discussed and improved at their relevant Git repositories on GitHub.


Hundreds of awesome PHP contributors put their efforts into improvements to the PHP code base, documentation, and the php.net website. Here is a summary of some changes made by the people behind PHP. Things marked with 💜 are done by the PHP Foundation team.

RFC Updates

In Voting: Support optional suffix parameter in tempnam by Athos Ribeiro

RFC proposes to add a new optional suffix parameter to the tempnam() function.

A suffix could provide even more semantic value or context for a user inspecting the generated files, and, in specific situations, could even provide more context for software processing such files. Right now, users can only add a prefix.

Merging postponed: PDO driver specific sub-classes by Danack

This RFC proposed to introduce driver-specific \PDO sub-classes so applications can granular declare the specific PDO drivers they support.

This RFC vote was completed and accepted unanimously, but due to the implementation complexity, the changes for this RFC were not finalized before the PHP 8.3.0RC1 release. Because PHP 8.3 is beyond its feature-freeze and now that the first release candidate is released, the consensus seems to be that this RFC will not be implemented in PHP 8.3 but on the next PHP version.


Documentation

While PHP 8.3 has moved to the RC cycle, the documentation available on php.net, requires updating.

Gina P. Banyard 💜 has triaged issues in the docs and marked several of them as "good first time", which are ideal easy picks if you would like to start contributing to PHP docs. You can find the full list on GitHub.

To make it easier to view the results of changes locally, Anna Filina has prepared a Docker Compose set-up. Check it out.


Merged PRs and Commits

Following are some changes that did not go through an RFC process because they are either planned, bug fixes, or progressive enhancements.

Full list of commits since PHP Core Roundup #15

Commits are in the order they were added, grouped by author in alphabetical order.

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Alexandre Daubois

  • Improve ext/pdo_sqlite tests cleanup in GH-11900
  • ext/pdo_pgsql: Improve tests cleanup in GH-11855
  • Improve database naming in ext/pdo_pgsql for better para-tests in GH-11872
  • Fix GH-10964: Improve man page about the built-in server in 997a36750b

Alex Dowad

  • Improve mb_detect_encoding accuracy for text containing vowels with macrons in 81faab9235
  • Print host CPU and installed package info in CI build log on Linux in fd462b1e0f

Arne_

  • Allow easter_date to process years after 2037 on 64bit systems in GH-11862

Athos Ribeiro

  • Fix off-by-one bug when truncating tempnam prefix in cbfd73765a

Ayesh Karunaratne

  • Add class constant types to Phar extension in GH-11826
  • gen_stub: fix regexps with unintentional range due to - character placement in GH-12004
  • [skip-ci] minor typo fixes in UPGRADING and CONTRIBUTING.md in GH-11976
  • Fix DateTime exception hierarchy for DateInvalidTimeZoneException in GH-11970

Bob Weinand

  • Address CR comments in b07a2d4714
  • Track HashTableIterators for copy-on-write copies of HashTables in cd53ce838a

Cristian Rodríguez

  • Use a single version of strnlen in GH-12015
  • Use zend_ast_size consistenly in GH-11955

David CARLIER

  • zend_call_stack_default_size update BSD values. in GH-12051
  • libxml set error structure simplification proposal in GH-12054
  • ci update freebsd image to the 13.2 image in GH-11110
  • ext/iconv: fix build for netbsd in fc8d5c72e5

Derick Rethans 💜

  • Update initialisation check for new PHP-8.3 API in e157da11f3
  • Fix GH-11416: Crash with DatePeriod when uninitialised objects are passed in (PHP 8.2+) in b71d2e16e6
  • Fix GH-11416: Crash with DatePeriod when uninitialised objects are passed in in 4833b84854
  • Fixed bug GH-11854 (DateTime:createFromFormat stopped parsing datetime with extra space) in a8f4171655
  • Import timelib 2022.09 in 851890bd9c

Dmitry Stogov

  • Fixed incorrect tracked malloc deallocation in 4553258df3

Filip Zrůst

  • Remove CPP when invoking dtrace utility in 02b3fb1f6b

Gina Peter Banyard 💜

  • Fix GH-11876: ini_parse_quantity() accepts invalid quantities in d229a480ad
  • Fix various bugs related to DNF types in 02a80c5b82
  • Fix skipif condition on new test in 4cbc66d5e6
  • ext/zend_test: Move object handler test objects to their own file in GH-11852
  • Zend: Fix memory leak in ++/-- when overloading fetch access in fc3df283fb
  • Fix OSS Fuzz #60734: use-after-free visible in ASAN build in 2fbec0974f
  • Fix OSS-fuzz #60709 unseting op via globals in 6ae9cf40d1

HypeMC

  • Add before_needle argument to strrchr() in f25474f7f2

Ilija Tovilo 💜

  • Increase run-tests.php timeout for asan in f4a6a6d096
  • Skip dl() tests on ASAN in fb0f4215de
  • Make unrepeatable tests retriable in f2c16b7ba3
  • Fix variable resource ids in odbc test in d1a38e8b8e
  • Fix missing instantclient in CI in f3bd027b69
  • Fix type macros for C++ in 5ad658bc5e
  • Switch asan build to Ubuntu 23.04 in Docker in c9e5e1fc52
  • Move installation of oracle instant client in GHA in ba07a0b846
  • Make php_cli_server_pdeathsig.phpt SKIPIF more specific in bad5298707
  • Remove redundant condition in dd01c74a6f
  • Fix segfault in format_default_value due to unexpected enum/object in f78d1d0d10
  • Use per-branch matrix for windows nightly in 902d39d57c
  • Fix uouv on oom on object allocation in ee000ea186
  • Remove i386 Linux from push in 248e6b0404
  • Add Windows build to nightly in 90f514cf21
  • Fix EXPECT for bug52820.phpt on newer curl versions in 0e843c5d82
  • Fix curl_basic_009.phpt for newer curl versions in 3af76b2302
  • Move ASAN built to GitHub actions in fc9266a5fc
  • Move opnum_start for goto for clarification in GH-11911
  • Revert "Call cast_object handler from get_properties_for" in efc73f24c3
  • Don't test macOS & i386 without opcache on push in 5cd0208e9f
  • Assert ptr_ptr value of TMP|CONST isn't used in GH-11865
  • Add typed specialization for ZEND_COUNT in GH-11825
  • Synchronize zend_jit_stop_counter_handlers() in b80bebc278
  • Add block size support for tracked_malloc in GH-11856
  • Fix use-of-uninitialized-value in start_fake_frame in ed27d70d9a
  • Unpoison opcache mem buf for file cache checksum calc in 35862641ba
  • Remove opcache.consistency_checks in b2dbf0a2c6
  • Fix zend/test arginfo stub hash in e61dbe54e9

Jakub Zelenka 💜

  • Use version of PHP SDK binary tools that uses PHP downloads in GH-12085
  • Remove incorrectly updated dtrace change from NEWS in 760367dd70
  • Fix GH-12077: Check lsof functionality in socket on close test in fe30c5098f
  • Fix FPM UDS test for very long name check by extending its length in ea87501aee
  • Extend workflow matrix and nighly with PHP-8.3 in 300ad65c7c
  • Start PHP 8.4 development cycle in 7deb84b7a6
  • Update API versions and numbers in 2eb21b0b1e
  • Small tyding up of filestat code in 4e7ab1478d
  • Expand file path in file stat only for wrapper path in GH-12068
  • Fix bug #76857: Can read "non-existant" files in 766cac072f
  • Fix bug #52335 (fseek() on memory stream behavior different then file) in ba9650d697
  • Fix flaky file stat tests due to changing nature of atime in e1396a314d
  • Format UPGRADING in 10e16347ef
  • Fix GH-11982: str_getcsv returns null byte for unterminated quoted string in aff46d75e1
  • FPM tester FastCGI client transport in GH-11764
  • Introduce Zend guard recursion protection in 53aa53f42f

Jeremie Courreges-Anglas

  • On riscv64 require libatomic if actually needed in bf3fb4e5c9

Jorg Adam Sowa

  • Fix round() tests for different modes in GH-12049
  • Tests improvement for round() modes in GH-11996
  • BCmath extension code reformatting in GH-11896

jrfnl

  • Remove mysqli.reconnect from php.ini files in GH-11836

ju1ius

  • releases property attributes of internal classes in GH-11980
  • Adds support for DNF types in internal functions and properties in GH-11969

Kamil Tekiela

  • Fix param name in implode() error message in b1ce1d1f21
  • Fix failing test on nightly in ffd398b4fe
  • Fix implicit/explicit port in mysqlnd in c1103a9772
  • mysqli_field_seek return type changed to true in GH-11948
  • Align highlight_string|file with HTML standard and modern browsers in f907a009f9
  • Fix error checking in mysqlnd in 0d922aa595
  • Remove remnant of COM_FIELD_LIST in 788540ef2c
  • Add DROP TABLE to clean up after the test in 66b359e4de
  • Remove unused CLEAN section in ab46d2012c
  • Revert changes to mysqli_get_connection_stats.phpt in 0c288c4098
  • Tidy up new my_mysqli in tests in aab36a774a
  • Improve test for mysqli_result constructor in 1451b9e6f2
  • Remove unnecessary requires in mysqli tests in af4eabd8c9
  • As of 8.2 this SKIP is no longer possible in 548fc6a818
  • Remove unnecessary parentheses around language constructs in mysqli in 73d6869337
  • Remove unnecessary parentheses around language constructs in mysqli in a21edc52aa
  • Convert CRLF to LF in c1a085290a
  • Remove unnecessary parentheses around language constructs in oci8 in a53e56176c

Kévin Dunglas

  • fix: handle the GNU specific version of strerror_r in 96885bc04f

Levi Morrison

  • Add php_version and php_version_id PHPAPI funcs in GH-11875

Michael Orlitzky

  • ext/dba/tests/dba_tcadb.phpt: support pthreadless tokyocabinet in GH-11648

Mikhail Galanin

  • Set CLOEXEC on listened/accepted sockets in the FPM children in 418cdc0bea
  • Add "revalidate" time to opcache scripts list in 958a25e22e

Máté Kocsis 💜

  • Fix the class synopsis of Throwable in 597aeb1246
  • Improve test for odbc_columns() in 2f9f2928ce
  • Use correct format specifier in 9dcdfa5e3f
  • Fix GH-9967 Add support for generating custom function, class const, and property attributes in stubs in c934e24197
  • Expose PDO_ODBC_TYPE to userland in 462792ee51
  • Improve and fix ext/odbc tests in 8726ae0601
  • Enable ext/odbc and ext/pdo_odbc tests on Linux in GitHub CI in 985511e968
  • Add more test coverage for ext/odbc in 66acaba9db
  • Align the return type of snmp_set_oid_numeric_print() to its aliased funtion in 67ab2b7d87
  • Make the $enable parameter of odbc_autocommit() nullable in GH-11909
  • Fix return type of odbc_data_source() in 77252afaf0

Niels Dossche

  • Fix GH-11440: authentication to a sha256_password account fails over SSL in 94127c53aa
  • Fix GH-11972: RecursiveCallbackFilterIterator regression in 8.1.18 in 1cdcbc05b0
  • Fix GH-11972: RecursiveCallbackFilterIterator regression in 8.1.18 in ffd7018fcd
  • Implement GH-11934: Allow to pass CData into struct and/or union fields in 0b9702c9ed
  • Fix oss-fuzz #61712: assertion failure with error handler during binary op in a3a3964497
  • Remove useless duplicated call to php_stream_parse_fopen_modes in GH-12059
  • Add missing EXTENSIONS section to DOM tests in bffc74474b
  • Improve warning when returning null from the resolver set by libxml_set_external_entity_loader in e1cb721679
  • Update DOM test to work around libxml2 bug in 0fd226c277
  • Fix memory leak when setting an invalid DOMDocument encoding in 20ac42e1b0
  • Remove unnecessary invalidation from processing instructions in 4ff93f779c
  • Add test for SimpleXMLElement::asXML() with a fragment and a filename in 2b61f71046
  • Fix various namespace prefix conflict resolution bugs and namespace shift bugs in d46dc5694c
  • Fix #81992: SplFixedArray::setSize() causes use-after-free in b71c6b2c6c
  • GH-11964: In ext/date/php_date.stub.php, DateRangeError extends itself in 17b3af2958
  • Fix #80927: Removing documentElement after creating attribute node: possible use-after-free in bb092ab4c6
  • Optimize checks for DOMParentNode and DOMChildNode in 620b6220c2
  • Align DOMChildNode parent checks with spec in 23ba4cde53
  • Fix segfault when DOMParentNode::prepend() is called when the child disappears in d19e4da125
  • Fix viable next sibling search for replaceWith in df6e8bd4fd
  • Fix viable next sibling search for replaceWith in 815b5ad501
  • Remove useless hashmap check in 5018dfecdf
  • Fix GH-11830: ParentNode methods should perform their checks upfront in dddd309da4
  • Fix manually calling __construct() on DOM classes in 08c4db7f36
  • Make DOMChildNode::remove() run in O(1) performance in e701b2fee7
  • Remove useless check in 872bf56fed
  • Mark buildFromIterator test as conflicting in dc586b121a
  • Revert the fix for GH-11498 in f7be15dbad
  • Fix missing link variable in test in 162bd2a58a
  • Fix GH-11438: mysqlnd fails to authenticate with sha256_password accounts using passwords longer than 19 characters in 509906b2a5
  • Handle strict error properly in adoptNode failure, and add a test in 6f6fedcb46
  • Deduplicate loading code in 04df77650d
  • Respect strict error setting for adoptNode in fa397e0217
  • Fix json_encode result on DOMDocument in 6e468bbd3b
  • NEWS in d8f2584ebb
  • Disable global state test on Windows in 62228a2568
  • Fix buffer mismanagement in phar_dir_read() in 80316123f3

Peter Kokot

  • Remove unneeded zend_language_parser.h patch in GH-11974
  • Fix configure phpdbg help output in GH-12013
  • Fix passing null to parameter of type string in GH-12014
  • Sync --enable-mysqlnd-compression-support option in GH-12006
  • Add all README.* files to paths-ignore in GH-12003
  • Remove unused call to Makefile.frag in ext/zip in c180e9b48a
  • Remove unused HAVE_GCC_GLOBAL_REGS shell variable in GH-11877

Pierrick Charron

Remi Collet

Yurun

  • Fix MySQL Statement has a empty query result when the response field has changed, also Segmentation fault in ca5d48213a


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