NEWS + UPGRADING

Author: marc-mabe

NEWS

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   . Fix OSS-Fuzz #429429090 (Failed assertion on unset() with uninitialized
     container). (ilutov)
   . Fixed GH-20564 (Don't call autoloaders with pending exception). (ilutov)
+  . Improved accuracy of microtime() and gettimeofday(), up-to 10ns. (marc-mabe)
 
 - Date:
   . Update timelib to 2022.16. (Derick)

UPGRADING.INTERNALS

@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ PHP 8.6 INTERNALS UPGRADE NOTES
     node.
   . The zend_exception_save() and zend_exception_restore() functions were
     removed.
+  . Introduced a new time-retrieval API zend_time_*. Use this API instead of
+    time(), gettimeofday(), clock_gettime() and timespec_get().
 
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 2. Build system changes
@@ -71,6 +73,9 @@ PHP 8.6 INTERNALS UPGRADE NOTES
   . Removed the XML_GetCurrentByteCount() libxml compatibility wrapper,
     as it was unused and could return the wrong result.
 
+- ext/date
+  . Deprecated php_time(), Use zend_time_real_get() instead.
+
 - ext/mbstring:
   . Added GB18030-2022 to default encoding list for zh-CN.