• Julien Pauli (jpauli@php.net)
• Ferenc Kovacs (tyrael@php.net)

• Internal operator overloading and GMP improvements
  Add support for operator overloading in internal classes and improve GMP using it
• Remove calls from incompatible context
  Calls from incompatible context deprecated in 5.6 (will be removed in next version).
• Dedicated syntax for variadic functions
  This RFC introduces a dedicated syntax for variadic functions.
• Crypt() function salt
  This RFC proposes changing crypt() function's salt parameter treatment.

Feature freeze happens starting from 1st beta (early 2014)

Update README.RELEASE_PROCESS to add the experience from 5.5 (JulienPauli)

Engine changes should be reported to Zend team for OPCache patching if needed (ping dmitry/laruence).

• Update to latest sqlite3 (3.8.0.2+)