make a PECL package for ext/ming and release a version compatible with libming 0.3 (Frank)
make a PECL package for ext/dbase and release current state
make a PECL package for ext/fbase and release current state (Frank)
finish the code cleanup of fileinfo (Pierre)
add compression support to fileinfo (Pierre)
Merge gd 2.1 to the bundled library (Pierre)
Enable all features as long as the minimum GD version is available (2.0.36 for 5.3) (Pierre)
htscanner: move the common part out of fcgi and enable it in the other sapis (or move it to the global SAPI) (Jani/Pierre)
Openssl: allow signing to work with buffers and add helpers to create signed mails (Pierre)
add openssl_parse_csr (Pierre)
Bring versioning in core extensions into line with PECL (Steph)
userspace streams filter that acts as a default filter through which require/include read their files (Sebastian, Sara)
implement proc_open's 'bypass_shell' option on linux (already works on windows). (Nuno)
XMLWriter Add writeNode([xmlreader obj]), allow to create a push/pull parser
SPL: Implement Spl(Array|Index|Member)Reference. (Marcus)
Introduce concept of “strict classes” that do not permit dynamic property creation
Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli
“real” properties with attached getters and setters
Backport the output buffering re-write from HEAD as described in
bug #42641.
add support for importing functions into namespaces (Greg)
reference mess (once and for all) (derick)
Only Unicode and binary string types. (andrei)
Unicode-related errors should be exceptions
hash hook or interface (george)
add autoconversion for parameter parsing api (marcus)
add a way to get the internal object directly by parameter parsing api (marcus)
get rid of *_ex() functions in engine where possible (marcus)
provide a a replacement for the GD extension, being maintained and easy to extend (pierre)
“ext/pimpmydate”, new date/time features, real OO interface (pierre)
throwing exceptions in SoapServer and catching them with SoapClient (korving)
a non-bankers-round round() variant (korving)
being able to use array() when defining constants (korving)
regular expression switch-matching (korving)
add SRM (amico)
add support for dangling commas
fix openssl/curl to use stream transports
provide a global __call for non existing functions (george)
reimplement ext/zlib based on pecl/http code (mike)
Make it possible to use objects implementing ArrayObject interface anywhere arrays are used.