===== Backlog =====

  - make a PECL package for ext/ming and release a version compatible with libming 0.3 (Frank)
  - make a PECL package for ext/dbase and release current state
  - make a PECL package for ext/fbase and release current state (Frank)
  - finish the code cleanup of fileinfo (Pierre)
  - add compression support to fileinfo (Pierre)
  - [[php-internals@121562493417767|Algorithm Optimizations - string search]] (Scott)
  - [[php-internals@121553589610107|additional re2c tweaks]] (Nuno/Marcus)
  - [[php-internals@121683203120583|update to re2c 0.14.0]] (Marcus)
  - Merge gd 2.1 to the bundled library (Pierre)
  - Enable all features as long as the minimum GD version is available (2.0.36 for 5.3) (Pierre)
  - htscanner: move the common part out of fcgi and enable it in the other sapis (or move it to the global SAPI) (Jani/Pierre)
  - Openssl: allow signing to work with buffers and add helpers to create signed mails (Pierre)
  - add openssl_parse_csr (Pierre)
  - [[php-internals@115635520414869| pat3 "OpenLDAP C API cleanup patch" and pat44 "LDAP control support"]] #42060(Pierre)
  - [[rfc:zendsignals|Zend Signal Handling]] (Lucas/Dmitry)
  - Bring versioning in core extensions into line with PECL (Steph)
  - userspace streams filter that acts as a default filter through which require/include read their files (Sebastian, Sara)
  - implement proc_open's 'bypass_shell' option on linux (already works on windows). (Nuno)
  - XMLWriter Add writeNode([xmlreader obj]), allow to create a push/pull parser
  - SPL: Implement Spl(Array|Index|Member)Reference. (Marcus)
  - [[php-internals@119240004014373|Large File Support]] (Wez/Pierre)
  - Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic property creation
  - Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli
  - [[rfc:nonbreakabletraits|traits]]
  - [[rfc:taint|taint]]
  - [[rfc:static-classes|static classes]]
  - "real" properties with attached getters and setters
  - Backport the output buffering re-write from HEAD as described in [[bugid@42641]].
  - [[http://news.php.net/php.internals/23170|add a function that returns tsrm_thread_id()]] (already covered by zend_thread_id() but only in debug ZTS mode) (Wez)
  - [[rfc:namespaces-for-internal-classes|namespaces for internal classes]]
  - [[php-internals@121875353105996|add __getStatic()]] (Timm, Stas)
  - add support for importing functions into namespaces (Greg)
  - reference mess (once and for all) (derick)
  - Only Unicode and binary string types. (andrei)
    - Unicode-related errors should be exceptions
    - keep user-visible API unified: no separate parse_url() for IDNA
  - hash hook or interface (george)
  - add autoconversion for parameter parsing api (marcus)
  - add a way to get the internal object directly by parameter parsing api (marcus)
  - get rid of *_ex() functions in engine where possible (marcus)
  - provide a a replacement for the GD extension, being maintained and easy to extend (pierre)
  - "ext/pimpmydate", new date/time features, real OO interface (pierre)
  - throwing exceptions in SoapServer and catching them with SoapClient (korving)
  - a non-bankers-round round() variant (korving)
  - being able to use array() when defining constants (korving)
  - regular expression switch-matching (korving)
  - add SRM (amico)
  - add support for dangling commas
  - fix openssl/curl to use stream transports
  - provide a global __call for non existing functions (george)
  - reimplement ext/zlib based on pecl/http code (mike)
  - Make it possible to use objects implementing ArrayObject interface anywhere arrays are used.

===== Dropped Items =====
  - items that have been marked deprecated since the dawn of PHP 4, and various function aliases (rasmus)
  - Support for old type constructors (ezcLogMessage::ezcLogMessage()) (derick)
  - SimpleXML on by default
  - remove ext/mysql (georg)
  - Implement inheritance rules for type hints. (marcus)
  - add named parameters
  - all fatal errors to become exceptions
  - Using an undefined property in a class with defined properties should be a FATAL error, alternatively there could be some flag mechanism to mark files/classes etc as following "strict" fules (derick)
  - add possibility to prevent dynamic class rewriting as in: "if (...) class {...} else class {...}" (marcus)
  - make function names match CS and unify parameter order (derick)
  - add Typehinted properties (marcus)
  - Allow foreach() without as part and/or foreach() with special empty handling "forempty(); foreach();" (marcus)
  - improved garbabe collection for long running scripts (georg)
  - add debugger (georg)
  - add support for <?php="foo" ?>
  - multiple inheritance (korving)
  - a 'finally' block for exception handling (korving)
  - ini run_tests_mode=(on|off) to suppress unicode/string difference in var_dump() for run-tests.php (marcus)
  - Cleanup for {} vs. [] **?????**