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Latest PECL Releases:rdkafka 4.1.1 BREAKING CHANGE: Since version 4.0, the client no longer polls for network events at shutdown (during object destructor). This behaviour didn't give enough control to the user in case of server issue, and could cause the script to hang while terminating. Starting from 4.0, programs MUST call flush() before shutting down, otherwise some messages and callbacks may be lost. Bugfixes Fix windows pecl build (#402, @nick-zh) handlebars 0.9.2 - Fixes for PHP 8 event 3.0.2 - Fixed #65: some methods had wrong argument/return type hints rar 4.2.0 - Support PHP 8. - Merge unrar 6.0.2. - RarArchive implements IteratorAggregate (PHP 8 only). libsodium 2.0.23 - PHP 8.0.x compatibility. memcache 8.0 - Version 8.x support PHP 8.x - Version 4.x supports PHP 7.0-7.4. - Version 4.x is considered to be stable for production usage. - Support for PHP 5.x has been removed, please use memcache extension ver. 3.x - Special thanks to Frantisek Drojak - thesource93 (github) and Zaffy (github) for making this happen couchbase 3.0.5 * PCBC-699: Add support for minimal durability settings for bucket manager * PCBC-718: Deprecate expiry() on GetResult and LookupInResult. expiry() is deprecated in favour to expiryTime() which returns DateTimeInterface * PCBC-715: refactor document expiry duration - allow to specify DateTimeInterface objects as expiry value in mutation options - when expiration is set as long in seconds, treat the value as relative if it is less than 50 years in seconds. In this case take current time and add to the expiration value * PCBC-733: Add missing fields for SearchFacet results * PCBC-720: allow to disable FTS scoring * Support PHP 8. Drop support for PHP older than 7.2 rdkafka 4.1.0 BREAKING CHANGE: Since version 4.0, the client no longer polls for network events at shutdown (during object destructor). This behaviour didn't give enough control to the user in case of server issue, and could cause the script to hang while terminating. Starting from 4.0, programs MUST call flush() before shutting down, otherwise some messages and callbacks may be lost. Features Add transactional producer support (#359, @nick-zh) xdebug 3.0.1 Fri, Dec 4, 2020 - xdebug 3.0.1 = Fixed bugs: Fixed issue #1893: Crash with ext-fiber and xdebug.mode=coverage Fixed issue #1896: Segfault with closures that are not created from user code Fixed issue #1897: Crash when removing a breakpoint Fixed issue #1900: Update README and add run-xdebug-tests.php to package Fixed issue #1901: Stack traces are shown (with a broken time) when Xdebug's mode includes 'debug' but not 'develop' or 'trace' Fixed issue #1902: Compillation failure on AIX Fixed issue #1903: Constants should always be available, regardless of which mode Xdebug is in Fixed issue #1904: Profile and trace files using %t or %u do not get the right names Fixed issue #1905: Debugger does not disable request timeouts gRPC 1.34.0 - gRPC Core 1.34.0 update - Removed PHP 5 support - Added PHP 8 support PDO_IBM 1.4.0 * 2020-12-01: 1.4.0 - Compatibility with PHP 8 - Merge Tony Cairns' fork with IBM i compatibility fixes - Fix compatibility with 64-bit PASE/modern IBM i (sqlcli-dev package, pointer/integer width mismatch, XMLSERVICE location, etc) - Major improvements to test suite (fix broken tests, less hardcoding) - Handle CCSID 65535 on IBM i - Fix warnings ibm_db2 2.1.1 * 2020-12-02: 2.1.1 - Fix build regression on LUW with db2_execute_many sqlsrv 5.9.0beta2 [Added] - Support for PHP 8.0 [Removed] - Dropped support for PHP 7.2 [Fixed] - Pull Request [#1205](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1205) - minimized compilation warnings on Linux and macOS - Pull Request [#1209](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1209) - fixed a bug in fetching varbinary max fields as char or wide chars - Issue [#1210](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1210) - switched from preview to beta terminology to enable Pickle support - Issue [#1213](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1213) - the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET in config files caused linker errors in macOS Big Sur - Pull Request [#1215](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1215) [Limitations] - No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type - No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values - In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work - Always Encrypted requires [MS ODBC Driver 17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server) - Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported - Issue [#716](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/716) - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported - Issue [#1050](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1050) - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns - [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted) [Known Issues] - This preview release requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2 or above. Otherwise, a warning about failing to set an attribute may be suppressed when using an older ODBC driver. - Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.7 - When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS - unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages - due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#pooling) pdo_sqlsrv 5.9.0beta2 [Added] - Support for PHP 8.0 [Removed] - Dropped support for PHP 7.2 [Fixed] - Pull Request [#1205](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1205) - minimized compilation warnings on Linux and macOS - Pull Request [#1209](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1209) - fixed a bug in fetching varbinary max fields as char or wide chars - Issue [#1210](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1210) - switched from preview to beta terminology to enable Pickle support - Issue [#1213](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1213) - the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET in config files caused linker errors in macOS Big Sur - Pull Request [#1215](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1215) [Limitations] - No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type - No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values - In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work - Always Encrypted requires [MS ODBC Driver 17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server) - Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported - Issue [#716](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/716) - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported - Issue [#1050](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1050) - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns - [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted) [Known Issues] - This preview release requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2 or above. Otherwise, a warning about failing to set an attribute may be suppressed when using an older ODBC driver. - Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.7 - When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS - unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages - due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#pooling) event 3.0.1 - Fixed #64: build failed to find arginfo.h when invoked via pecl install event-beta mcrypt 1.0.4 - Make release to advertise PHP 8 support, which it already had.

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