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Important: #83724 - API and behavior change in request handler classes
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See :issue:`83724`

Description
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In preparation for a better PSR-7 and a new PSR-15 integration the internal request handler classes have been changed:

* All methods gained strict argument type and return type declarations.
* Instead of calling :php:`HttpUtility::redirect()` a :php:`RedirectResponse` is returned.
* Instead of returning :php:`null` a :php:`NullResponse` is returned.

Impact
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Extending one of the core request handlers without adding type declarations (to overloaded methods),
will trigger a PHP fatal error.

Affected Installations
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All 3rd party extensions extending one of the core request handlers.

.. index:: PHP-API, NotScanned
