Summary of Changes

The following production dependencies are updated:

• Updating joomla/string (1.3.1) to joomla/string (1.4.0) (Diff)
• Updating joomla/application (1.5.0) to joomla/application (1.5.1) (Diff)
• Updating joomla/event (1.1.1) to joomla/event (1.2.0) (Diff)
• Updating paragonie/random_compat (v1.2.1) to paragonie/random_compat (v1.4.1) (Diff)
• Updating symfony/polyfill-util (v1.0.0) to symfony/polyfill-util (v1.1.1) (Diff)
• Updating symfony/polyfill-php56 (v1.1.0) to symfony/polyfill-php56 (v1.1.1) (Diff)
• Updating symfony/yaml (v2.8.3) to symfony/yaml (v2.8.4) (Diff)

The following development dependencies are updated:

• Updating sebastian/environment (1.3.3) to sebastian/environment (1.3.5)
• Updating phpspec/prophecy (v1.5.0) to phpspec/prophecy (v1.6.0)
• Updating phpunit/phpunit (4.8.23) to phpunit/phpunit (4.8.24)

Additionally, removes the direct import and use of a phputf8 library function from the JApplicationWeb class and uses the StringHelper class to access it (required because the new String package tag instructs Composer to include several files from the library as part of the autoloader configuration).

Testing Instructions

The CMS continues to function normally. Operations affected by these updates include:

• Generation of random values (the secret key in the config or random user passwords)
• Redirects on web requests
• Operation of the JStringInflector class (aliased to Joomla\String\Inflector), specifically correcting internal class references which would have prevented correct operation on a PHP 7 platform

Additionally, two additional methods from the phputf8 library are exposed via the updated StringHelper class. These are utf8 aware alternatives to PHP's ord() and str_pad() functions.