Stanislav Malyshev (stas)

David Soria Parra (dsp)

1. alpha 1 - June 28 2011 DONE
2. alpha 2 - July 14 2011 DONE
3. alpha 3 - Aug 4 2011 DONE
4. beta - September 15 2011 DONE
5. beta2 - October 20 2011 DONE
6. 5.4.0 - Released on March 1, 2012
7. 5.4.1 - Released on April 26, 2012
8. 5.4.2 RC1 - Planned on May 10, 2012

Original proposal: here

• “scalar type hint”
• Reduce test failures (another list) (all)
• Document new stuff in 5.4
• Finalize reflection support for traits (Johannes / Stefan)
• Cleanup CVS references from README's and other source documentation
• Fix ext/sockets/multicast.c build on UNIX systems (Gustavo)
• Moving out unmaintained SAPIs (Johannes)
• file streams metadata support (Stas, RFC)
• Instance and method call/property access (Felipe)
• Ensure INSTALL and win32/install.txt are current as 5.4 friendly (Philip)
• Function array dereferencing (Felipe)
• Fix for PHP bug #39863
• allow <?= regardless of short_tags (discussion, RFC, and commit) (Rasmus)
• Zend Signals (RFC, Ilia)
• Improved parse errors (RFC, Felipe)
• cli web server (RFC)
• Fix Bug 55111
• Declare PHP (php?) reserved namespace, not to be used in any user code.
• Add E_STRICT to E_ALL
• Disable POST data processing (Gustavo Lopes)
• Binary notation for ints (0b10101) (RFC)
• Drop magic quotes (Kalle, Pierrick)
• Array short syntax (RFC)
• Callback type check in arguments (RFC, Hannes Magnusson)
• Session Handlers class (RFC, Arpad Ray)
• Rebinding behavior of closures (Proposal, Gustavo Lopes)
• update the sqlite documentation as it was sent to Siberia (docbug)

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