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This version provides a major performance improvement for the ECDSA
algorithm, making it compatible with PHP 7.1+ too. We're also starting
to add deprecation notes and will soon backport things from v4.x to
create an upgrade path.
- Total issues resolved: **7**
- Total pull requests resolved: **8**
- Total contributors: **11**
Improvement
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- [288: Backport ECDSA improvements](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/pull/288) thanks to @lcobucci
- [283: Grammatical exception message fix](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/pull/283) thanks to @zanechua
- [261: Adjust build](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/pull/261) thanks to @lcobucci
- [260: Fixes memory leak in RSA-Signer](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/pull/260) thanks to @Fahrenholz
- [248: Issue #191: Allow leeway to handle clock skew](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/pull/248) thanks to @m777z
- [137: Update PHPECC to remove mcrypt dependency](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/issues/137) thanks to @lcobucci
- [282: There is no support for PHP 7.3](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/issues/282) thanks to @aksafan
- [259: Unable to use ECDSA signer on PHP 7.2 (request to update mdanter/ecc dependency)](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/issues/259) thanks to @shakura
- [246: mdanter_ecc Singer Ecdsa KeyParse Issue](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/issues/246) thanks to @kapil-infobeans
Documentation
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- [278: Corrected typos in `README.md`](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/pull/278) thanks to @msimion
- [258: Add Key typehint for verify()](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/pull/258) thanks to @francislavoie
- [196: Update README.md](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/pull/196) thanks to @jagDanJu
- [133: Add deprecation notes on methods](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/issues/133) thanks to @lcobucci
Bug
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- [191: Validation of iat breaks on systems with a clock skew.](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/issues/191) thanks to @viviivanov