NEWS/UPGRADING for php#21490

Author: TimWolla

NEWS

@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
     recursive array references). (alexandre-daubois)
   . Fixed bug GH-21223; mb_guess_encoding no longer crashes when passed huge
     list of candidate encodings (with 200,000+ entries). (Jordi Kroon)
+  . mbregex has been deprecated. (youkidearitai)
 
 - Mysqli:
   . Added mysqli_quote_string() and mysqli::quote_string(). (Kamil Tekiela)

UPGRADING

@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ PHP 8.6 UPGRADE NOTES
 4. Deprecated Functionality
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+- Mbstring:
+  . Mbregex has been deprecated, because the underlying Oniguruma library
+    is no longer maintained.
+    RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/eol-oniguruma
+
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 5. Changed Functions
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