+* improved: the debugger is displayed using UTF-8, making it more useful to debug any kind of service
+
+* improved: echo all debug messages even when there are characters in them which php deems to be in a wrong encoding;
+ previously those messages would just disappear (this is visible e.g. in the debugger)
+
+* changed: debug info handling
+ - at debug level 1, the rebuilt php objects are not dumped to screen (server-side already did that)
+ - at debug level 1, curl communication info are not dumped to screen
+ - at debug level 1, the tests echo payloads of failures; at debug level 2 all payloads
+
+* improved: makefiles have been replaced with a php_based pakefile
+
+* improved: the source for the manual is stored in asciidoc format, which can be displayed natively by GitHub
+ with nice html formatting. Also the HTML version generated by hand and bundled in tarballs is much nicer
+ to look at than previous versions
+
+* improved: all php code is now formatted according to the PSR-2 standard