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Adds grapheme_mask() for masking sensitive data safely in multibyte and emoji-heavy strings.

Lets a class declare constructor parameters in its header, lifting property promotion out of __construct().

Adds friend classes that may access another class's protected members.

An official, rolling php-community release that ships experimental features ahead of regular PHP versions.

Prevents instantiating and cloning the internal __PHP_Incomplete_Class.

Adds a readonly modifier for local variables, so reassigning one after its first assignment throws an error.

Deprecates lossy casts like (int) "123abc" ahead of a TypeError in PHP 9, and lets strict mode accept Stringable for string parameters.

Adds a native values() method to backed enums that returns every backing value in declaration order, unless the enum defines its own.

Adds an Encoding namespace with full RFC 4648 Base16, Base32 and Base64 support, plus Base58 and Base85.

Adds (?type) casts that let null pass through and (!type) casts that reject null, both throwing on malformed input like "123abc".