Other changes to extensions

cURL

A number of constants marked obsolete in the cURL library have now been removed:

  • CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY
  • CURLCLOSEPOLICY_CALLBACK
  • CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED
  • CURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_TRAFFIC
  • CURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST
  • CURLCLOSEPOLICY_SLOWEST

OCI8

  • Support for implicit result sets for Oracle Database 12c has been added via the new oci_get_implicit_resultset() function.
  • Using oci_execute($s, OCI_NO_AUTO_COMMIT) for a SELECT no longer unnecessarily initiates an internal ROLLBACK during connection close.
  • Added DTrace probes controlled by the --enable-dtrace configure option.
  • oci_internal_debug() is now a no-op.
  • The phpinfo() output format for OCI8 has changed.

Zip

A --with-libzip configure option has been added to use a system libzip installation. libzip version 0.11 is required, with 0.11.2 or later recommended.

MySQLi

A new mysqli.rollback_on_cached_plink option was added, which controls the rollback behavior of persistent connections.