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Updated bundled OpenSSL to version 0.9.8d in the Windows distro.
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Updated Postgresql client libraries to 8.1.4 in the Windows distro.
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Updated PCRE to version 6.7.
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Updated libsqlite in ext/pdo_sqlite to 3.3.7.
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Updated bundled MySQL client library to version 5.0.22 in the Windows distribution.
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Updated timezonedb to version 2006.7.
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Added ability to make SOAP call userspace PHP<->XML converters.
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Added support for character sets in pg_escape_string() for PostgreSQL 8.1.4 and higher.
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Added support for character sets in PDO quote() method for PostgreSQL 8.1.4 and higher.
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Added DSA key generation support to openssl_pkey_new(), FR #38731 (marci at balabit dot hu, Tony)
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Added SoapServer::setObject() method (it is a simplified version of SoapServer::setClass() method).
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Added support for hexadecimal entity in imagettftext() for the bundled GD.
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Added support for httpOnly flag for session extension and cookie setting functions.
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Added version specific registry keys to allow different configurations for different php version.
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Added "PHPINIDir" Apache directive to apache and apache_hooks SAPIs.
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Added an optional boolean parameter to memory_get_usage() and memory_get_peak_usage() to get memory size allocated by emalloc() or real size of memory allocated from system.
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Added Zip Archive extension.
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Added RFC1867 fileupload processing hook.
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Added JSON and Filter extensions.
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Added error messages to disk_free_space() and disk_total_space() functions. FR #37971 (Tony)
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Added PATHINFO_FILENAME option to pathinfo() to get the filename.
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Added array_fill_keys() function.
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Added posix_initgroups() function.
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Added an optional parameter to parse_url() to allow retrieval of distinct URL components.
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Added optional parameter to http_build_query() to allow specification of string separator.
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Added image_type_to_extension() function.
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Added allow_url_include ini directive to complement allow_url_fopen.
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Added automatic module globals management.
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Added RFC2397 (data: stream) support.
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Added new error mode E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR.
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Added support for getenv() input filtering.
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Added support for constructors in interfaces to force constructor signature checks in implementations.
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Added memory_get_peak_usage() function for retrieving peak memory usage of a PHP script.
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Added pg_field_table() function.
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Added SimpleXMLElement::saveXML() as an alias for SimpleXMLElement::asXML().
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Added DOMNode::getNodePath() for getting an XPath for a node.
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Added gmp_nextprime() function.
ants dot aasma at gmail dot com
Tony
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Added error_get_last() function.
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Removed current working directory from the php.ini search path for CLI and re-added it for other SAPIs (restore to pre 5.1.x behavior).