Johannes Schlüter, Lukas Kahwe Smith

1. July 24th - feature freeze COMPLETED
2. July 31st - alpha1 COMPLETED
3. September 2nd - alpha2 (freeze on August 29th, final packaging on September 1st) COMPLETED
4. December 2nd - alpha3
5. continued beta/RC releases in a 2-3 week interval
6. stable release in Q12009

Please keep the upgrade documentation always current.

1. MFH namespaces Done
   1. some concerns (will not be addressed for now)
2. MFH _ _callStatic Done
3. MFH Object handler get_debug_info Done
4. remove zend.ze1_compatibility mode and throw E_CORE_ERROR when set DONE (dmitry)
5. Add open_filename debug info to streams. Done
6. New error message generation for parameter parsing API. Done
7. Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs DONE
8. Apply the Late Static Binding Patch Done
   1. issues with parent forwarding -> make parent::/self:: forwarding (etienne/dmitry) DONE
9. Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (ext/sqlite isn't possible, ext/sqlite3 from pecl is.) (Scott) DONE
   1. will require minor changes to PDO_SQLite to share the sqlite library DONE
10. Introduce mysqlnd library into core and use it as a backend for PDO and mysql/mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default) (Andrey) DONE
    1. Patch PDO_MYSQL to optionally support mysqlnd library in addition to the MySQL client library, fix assorted PDO_MYSQL bugs, extend PDO test suite (Johannes, Ulf) DONE
11. Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED Done (Lars, Felipe, Marcus)
12. PCRE extension will not be allowed to be disabled Done (Marcus)
13. The new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI “htaccess” style ini file support Done
14. SPL improvements:
    1. Make DirectoryIterator implement SeekableIterator. (Etienne) Done
    2. Implement MultipleIterator in C. (Arnaud, Marcus) DONE
    3. Implement RecursiveTreeIterator in C. (Marcus/Arnaud) Done
15. OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5 (wez) Done
16. merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch (Dmitry, Nuno) Done
17. merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch (matt/dmitry) DONE
18. Merge the [http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~ncpl/php_gcc4_visibility.txt GCC 4 -fvisibility patch] (Dmitry, Nuno) Done
19. Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch. Done
20. Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by default) Done
21. Replace flex scripts with re2c ones in Zend. This will fix the memleak issues of the lexer, make the lexer threadsafe and reentrant and allows to use emalloc on temp blocks automatically (read more here). (Marcus, Nuno, Scott) Done
    1. ZE multi byte support (partly fixed?) DONE
    2. hash# check in new re2c parser breaks code DONE
22. drop ext/hash in favor of an extended ext/mhash with an ext/hash wrapper (Scott) Done
23. Move extensions to PECL (Pierre)
    1. ncurses *Done*
    2. fdf *Done*
    3. sybase *Done*
24. remove E_DEPRECATED on is_a() Done
25. upgrade PCRE (Nuno) Done
26. Update Ming (sync with ming cvs, may be done in the phase between feature freeze and alpha1) (Frank) DONE
27. add fileinfo extension to core (Derick) DONE
28. add support for import by OID into ext/pgsql (Hartmut) DONE
29. closures (Christian/Dmitry) Done
    1. drop _ _toString() from closures (Johannes/Dmitry) DONE
30. deprecate ticks (Felipe) Done
31. add array_replace[_recursive] (diff, phpt) (matt/johannes) DONE
32. unix path separators in spl (Steph/Greg/Marcus) DONE

1. Windows binary releases and snaps: stabilize, review, fix and make it maintainable DONE
   1. make mysqlnd the default mysql lib DONE
   2. remove pdo_oci8 (only keep pdo_oci) DONE
   3. fix libsqlite bundeling and related extensions DONE
2. move ext/ming to PECL (Pierre) DONE
3. Bundle unix man pages for functions, methods and class references (Hannes, Rudy) DROPPED (will be made available as a PEAR installable package)
4. shutdown order issues (Greg/Dmitry) DONE
5. Remove GD1 and Freetype1 support (Scott) DONE
6. fix modification of virtual directories in phar (Greg/Dmitry) DONE
7. some performance concerns over non-code files in phar (Greg/Dmitry) DONE
8. solve issues with ext/soap and errors in the ctor (Dmitry) DONE
9. apply patches to ODBC for bug #43666, bug #43668, bug #43669 (Patrick) DONE
10. drop ereg usage (browser cap, etc.) (Nuno) DONE
11. exception handling, two new functions and a modified one plus a structure change (Marcus) DONE
12. change the error mode to prevent wrong error handling mode for inner call in some cases (Marcus) DONE
13. MFH lightspeed SAPI (Georg) DONE
14. add some tests for fileinfo (Felix/Derick) DONE
15. fork fileinfo lib code to make it more compatible with php (Derick/Ilia/Mikko/Pierre) DONE
16. Add BC function 'mime_content_type()' into fileinfo extension to allow removing ext/mime_magic completely (Derick) DONE
17. move frontbase extension to PECL (Pierre) DONE
18. move dbase extension to PECL (Pierre) DONE
19. solve include path issue (Dmitry) DONE
20. add the const qualifier in several function parameters in Zend/* (Felipe) DONE

1. fix open PHP 5.3 bugs
2. make a PECL package for ext/ming and release a version compatible with libming 0.3 (Frank)
3. make a PECL package for ext/dbase and release current state
4. make a PECL package for ext/fbase and release current state (Frank)
5. more add tests for fileinfo (Felix/Derick)
6. escapeshellcmd() security fix broken (Scott/Ilia)
7. Fix static build of extension when static is the default and --enable-snapshot-build is used
8. Improve the build script to ease the parsing of the output and QA
9. finish the code cleanup of fileinfo (Pierre)
10. add compression support to fileinfo (Pierre)
11. make all extensions use php implementation of getenv (Pierre)
12. Cleanup code to use the new zend_parse_parameters API (Alexey, Felipe, Olivier, David) IN PROGRESS
13. Add all missing arg infos to make Reflection more informative (Felipe) IN PROGRESS
14. Algorithm Optimizations - string search (Scott)
15. additional re2c tweaks (Nuno/Marcus)
16. update to re2c 0.14.0 (Marcus)
17. Merge gd 2.1 to the bundled library (Pierre)
18. Enable all features as long as the minimum GD version is available (2.0.36 for 5.3) (Pierre)
19. htscanner: move the common part out of fcgi and enable it in the other sapis (or move it to the global SAPI) (Jani/Pierre)
20. Openssl: allow signing to work with buffers and add helpers to create signed mails (Pierre)
21. add openssl_parse_csr (Pierre)
22. pat3 "OpenLDAP C API cleanup patch" and pat44 "LDAP control support" #42060(Pierre)
23. finish namespace syntax (Greg, Stas)
24. deprecate define_syslog_variables() DONE (Kalle)

1. write UPGRADING README file

1. Zend Signal Handling (Lucas/Dmitry)
2. Bring versioning in core extensions into line with PECL (Steph)
3. userspace streams filter that acts as a default filter through which require/include read their files (Sebastian, Sara)
4. implement proc_open's 'bypass_shell' option on linux (already works on windows). (Nuno)
5. mail() logging (ilia)
6. XMLWriter Add writeNode([xmlreader obj]), allow to create a push/pull parser
7. SPL: Implement Spl(Array|Index|Member)Reference. (Marcus)
8. Large File Support (wez)
9. Introduce concept of “strict classes” that do not permit dynamic property creation
10. Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli
11. traits
12. taint
13. switch from bison to lemon
14. operator overloading
15. static classes
16. “real” properties with attached getters and setters
17. Backport the output buffering re-write from HEAD as described in bug #42641.
18. add a function that returns tsrm_thread_id() (already covered by zend_thread_id() but only in debug ZTS mode) (Wez)
19. namespaces for internal classes

1. quick polls for 5.3
2. towards a 5.3 release
3. RFC - Starting 5.3
4. Vote results, PhP53VoteResult
5. Current ML Discussion: 5.3 Release Planning
6. NEWS: 5.3