PHP 5.6.0 Release Candidate 1 released

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of the first release candidate of PHP 5.6. As we entered the feature freeze with beta1, this is a bugfix-only release. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

Change log:

- Core:
. Implemented FR #64744 (Differentiate between member function call on a null
and non-null, non-objects). (Boro Sitnikovski)
. Fixed bug #67436 (Autoloader isn't called if two method definitions don't
match). (Bob)
. Fixed bug #66622 (Closures do not correctly capture the late bound class
(static: in some cases). (Levi Morrison)
. Fixed bug #67390 (insecure temporary file use in the configure script).
(Remi) (CVE-2014-3981)
. Fixed bug #67392 (dtrace breaks argument unpack). (Nikita)
. Fixed bug #67428 (header('Location: foo') will override a 308-399 response
code). (Adam)
. Fixed bug #67433 (SIGSEGV when using count() on an object implementing
Countable). (Matteo)
. Fixed bug #67399 (putenv with empty variable may lead to crash). (Stas)

- CLI server:
. Implemented FR #67429 (CLI server is missing some new HTTP response codes).
(Adam)
. Fixed Bug #67406 (built-in web-server segfaults on startup). (Remi)

- Fileinfo:
. Fixed bug #67410 (fileinfo: mconvert incorrect handling of truncated pascal
string size). (Francisco Alonso, Jan Kaluza, Remi)
. Fixed bug #67411 (fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset insufficient boundary
check). (Francisco Alonso, Jan Kaluza, Remi)
. Fixed bug #67412 (fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check).
(Francisco Alonso, Jan Kaluza, Remi)
. Fixed bug #67413 (fileinfo: cdf_read_property_info insufficient boundary
check). (Francisco Alonso, Jan Kaluza, Remi)

- mysqlnd:
. Added support for gb18030 from MySQL 5.7. (Andrey)

- Network:
. Fixed bug #67432 (Fix potential segfault in dns_get_record()).
(CVE-2014-4049). (Sara)

- OpenSSL:
. Fixed bug #65698 (certificates validity parsing does not work past 2050).
(Paul Oehler)
. Fixed bug #66636 (openssl_x509_parse warning with V_ASN1_GENERALIZEDTIME).
(Paul Oehler)

- phpdbg:
. Fixed bug #67212 (phpdbg uses non-standard TIOCGWINSZ). (Ferenc)

- SOAP:
. Implemented FR #49898 (Add SoapClient::__getCookies()). (Boro Sitnikovski)

- SPL:
. Fixed bug #66127 (Segmentation fault with ArrayObject unset). (Stas)
. Fixed request #67453 (Allow to unserialize empty data). (Remi)

- Streams:
. Fixed bug #67430 (http:// wrapper doesn't follow 308 redirects). (Adam)

- Tokenizer:
. Fixed bug #67395 (token_name() does not return name for T_POW and T_POW_EQUAL
token). (Ferenc)