PHP Core

• debug_zval_dump() now prints "int" instead of "long", and "float" instead of "double"

• dirname() now optionally takes a second parameter, depth, to get the name of the directory depth levels up from the current directory.

• getrusage() is now supported on Windows.

• mktime() and gmmktime() functions no longer accept is_dst parameter.

• preg_replace() function no longer supports "\e" (PREG_REPLACE_EVAL). preg_replace_callback() should be used instead.

• setlocale() function no longer accepts category passed as string. LC_* constants must be used instead.

• exec(), system() and passthru() functions have NULL byte protection now.

• shmop_open() now returns a resource instead of an int, which has to be passed to shmop_size(), shmop_write(), shmop_read(), shmop_close() and shmop_delete().

• substr() and iconv_substr() now return an empty string, if string is equal to start characters long.

• xml_parser_free() is no longer sufficient to free the parser resource, if it references an object and this object references that parser resource. In this case it is necessary to additionally unset the $parser.