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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ PHP 4.0                                                                    NEWS
 
 
 ?? ??? 2000, Version 4.0.4
+- Add support for serializing references (Stas)
 - Fixed conflict with OpenLDAP and Oracle 8.1.x (Jani)
 - parse_ini_file() supports a new optional 2nd argument that instructs it
   to divide the directives to arrays according to the sections in which they