• increased minimum PHP requirement to v7.1
• fixed the PHP 8.4 deprecation notices - #154.
• fixed the infinite loop issue related to the v1.5.4 changes - #146
• modified the TCP write process to avoid possible TCP segmentation with the length prefix.
• added support for microsecond level timeout values by passing a float value to the timeout option instead of a whole integer.
• updated the PEAR package.php file; the last version was missing some new files.