Source of: /manual/en/migration53.extensions-other.php
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<div id="migration53.extensions-other" class="section">
<h2 class="title">Other changes to extensions</h2>
<p class="simpara">
The following extensions can no longer be disabled during build
configuration:
</p>
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.pcre.php" class="link">PCRE</a>
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.reflection.php" class="link">Reflection</a>
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.spl.php" class="link">SPL</a>
</span>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="simpara">
Changes in extension behaviour, and new features:
</p>
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.datetime.php" class="link">Date and Time</a>
- The TZ environment variable is no longer used to guess the timezone
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.curl.php" class="link">cURL</a>
- cURL now supports SSH
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.network.php" class="link">Network</a>
- <a href="function.dns-check-record.php" class="function">dns_check_record()</a> now returns an extra "entries"
index, containing the TXT elements.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.hash.php" class="link">Hash</a>
- The SHA-224 and salsa hash algorithms are now supported.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.mbstring.php" class="link">mbstring</a>
- Now supports CP850 encoding.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.oci8.php" class="link">OCI8</a>
- A call to <a href="function.oci-close.php" class="function">oci_close()</a> on a persistent connection, or a
variable referencing a persistent connection going out of scope, will now
roll back any uncommitted transaction. To avoid unexpected behavior,
explicitly issue a commit or roll back as needed. The old behavior can be
enabled with the INI directive
<a href="oci8.configuration.php#ini.oci8.old-oci-close-semantics" class="link">oci8.old_oci_close_semantics</a>.
</span>
<span class="simpara">
Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Fast Application
Notification (FAN) are now supported.
</span>
<span class="simpara">
Oracle External Authentication is now supported (except on Windows).
</span>
<span class="simpara">
The <a href="function.oci-bind-by-name.php" class="function">oci_bind_by_name()</a> function now supports SQLT_AFC
(aka the CHAR datatype).
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.openssl.php" class="link">OpenSSL</a>
- OpenSSL digest and cipher functions are now supported. It is also
now possible to access the internal values of DSA, RSA and DH keys.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.session.php" class="link">Session</a>
- Sessions will no longer store session-files in <i>"/tmp"</i>
when <a href="ini.sect.safe-mode.php#ini.open-basedir" class="link">open_basedir</a> restrictions
apply, unless <i>"/tmp"</i> is explicitly added to the list of
allowed paths.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.soap.php" class="link">SOAP</a>
Now supports sending user supplied HTTP headers.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.mysqli.php" class="link">MySQLi</a>
Now supports persistent connections, by prepending the hostname with
<i>"p:"</i>.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.image.php" class="link">Image Processing and GD</a>
The "JPG Support" index returned from <a href="function.gd-info.php" class="function">gd_info()</a> has
been renamed to "JPEG Support".
</span>
</li>
</ul>
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