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 ?? ??? 2000, Version 4.0.3-dev
+- Added support for user defined 'tick' callback functions. This helps
+  emulate background processing. (Andrei)
 - Fixed problem with having $this as the XML parser object. (Andrei)
 - Internal opened_path variable now uses the Zend memory manager so that full
   paths of files won't leak on unclean shutdown (Andi)