Merge branch 'develop' of git://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter into develop

174 files changed, 4155 insertions, 7559 deletions

diff --git a/system/core/Benchmark.php b/system/core/Benchmark.php
index e420f62a1..b3ac79c62 100644
--- a/system/core/Benchmark.php
+++ b/system/core/Benchmark.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/benchmark.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/benchmark.html
  */
 class CI_Benchmark {
 
diff --git a/system/core/CodeIgniter.php b/system/core/CodeIgniter.php
index ddf322749..8eed52eb7 100644
--- a/system/core/CodeIgniter.php
+++ b/system/core/CodeIgniter.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	CodeIgniter
  * @category	Front-controller
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
  */
 
 /**
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @var	string
  *
  */
-	define('CI_VERSION', '3.0.1-dev');
+	const CI_VERSION = '3.2.0-dev';
 
 /*
  * ------------------------------------------------------
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
 		require_once(APPPATH.'config/'.ENVIRONMENT.'/constants.php');
 	}
 
-	require_once(APPPATH.'config/constants.php');
+	if (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/constants.php'))
+	{
+		require_once(APPPATH.'config/constants.php');
+	}
 
 /*
  * ------------------------------------------------------
@@ -76,57 +79,6 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  */
 	require_once(BASEPATH.'core/Common.php');
 
-
-/*
- * ------------------------------------------------------
- * Security procedures
- * ------------------------------------------------------
- */
-
-if ( ! is_php('5.4'))
-{
-	ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime', 0);
-
-	if ((bool) ini_get('register_globals'))
-	{
-		$_protected = array(
-			'_SERVER',
-			'_GET',
-			'_POST',
-			'_FILES',
-			'_REQUEST',
-			'_SESSION',
-			'_ENV',
-			'_COOKIE',
-			'GLOBALS',
-			'HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA',
-			'system_path',
-			'application_folder',
-			'view_folder',
-			'_protected',
-			'_registered'
-		);
-
-		$_registered = ini_get('variables_order');
-		foreach (array('E' => '_ENV', 'G' => '_GET', 'P' => '_POST', 'C' => '_COOKIE', 'S' => '_SERVER') as $key => $superglobal)
-		{
-			if (strpos($_registered, $key) === FALSE)
-			{
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			foreach (array_keys($$superglobal) as $var)
-			{
-				if (isset($GLOBALS[$var]) && ! in_array($var, $_protected, TRUE))
-				{
-					$GLOBALS[$var] = NULL;
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-
 /*
  * ------------------------------------------------------
  *  Define a custom error handler so we can log PHP errors
@@ -291,14 +243,14 @@ if ( ! is_php('5.4'))
  *  Instantiate the UTF-8 class
  * ------------------------------------------------------
  */
-	$UNI =& load_class('Utf8', 'core');
+	$UNI =& load_class('Utf8', 'core', $charset);
 
 /*
  * ------------------------------------------------------
  *  Instantiate the URI class
  * ------------------------------------------------------
  */
-	$URI =& load_class('URI', 'core');
+	$URI =& load_class('URI', 'core', $CFG);
 
 /*
  * ------------------------------------------------------
@@ -329,14 +281,14 @@ if ( ! is_php('5.4'))
  * Load the security class for xss and csrf support
  * -----------------------------------------------------
  */
-	$SEC =& load_class('Security', 'core');
+	$SEC =& load_class('Security', 'core', $charset);
 
 /*
  * ------------------------------------------------------
  *  Load the Input class and sanitize globals
  * ------------------------------------------------------
  */
-	$IN	=& load_class('Input', 'core');
+	$IN =& load_class('Input', 'core', $SEC);
 
 /*
  * ------------------------------------------------------
@@ -359,7 +311,7 @@ if ( ! is_php('5.4'))
 	 *
 	 * Returns current CI instance object
 	 *
-	 * @return object
+	 * @return CI_Controller
 	 */
 	function &get_instance()
 	{
@@ -416,14 +368,29 @@ if ( ! is_php('5.4'))
 			$params = array($method, array_slice($URI->rsegments, 2));
 			$method = '_remap';
 		}
-		// WARNING: It appears that there are issues with is_callable() even in PHP 5.2!
-		// Furthermore, there are bug reports and feature/change requests related to it
-		// that make it unreliable to use in this context. Please, DO NOT change this
-		// work-around until a better alternative is available.
-		elseif ( ! in_array(strtolower($method), array_map('strtolower', get_class_methods($class)), TRUE))
+		elseif ( ! method_exists($class, $method))
 		{
 			$e404 = TRUE;
 		}
+		/**
+		 * DO NOT CHANGE THIS, NOTHING ELSE WORKS!
+		 *
+		 * - method_exists() returns true for non-public methods, which passes the previous elseif
+		 * - is_callable() returns false for PHP 4-style constructors, even if there's a __construct()
+		 * - method_exists($class, '__construct') won't work because CI_Controller::__construct() is inherited
+		 * - People will only complain if this doesn't work, even though it is documented that it shouldn't.
+		 *
+		 * ReflectionMethod::isConstructor() is the ONLY reliable check,
+		 * knowing which method will be executed as a constructor.
+		 */
+		elseif ( ! is_callable(array($class, $method)) && strcasecmp($class, $method) === 0)
+		{
+			$reflection = new ReflectionMethod($class, $method);
+			if ( ! $reflection->isPublic() OR $reflection->isConstructor())
+			{
+				$e404 = TRUE;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	if ($e404)
diff --git a/system/core/Common.php b/system/core/Common.php
index ce324a1cc..2712df0e4 100644
--- a/system/core/Common.php
+++ b/system/core/Common.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	CodeIgniter
  * @category	Common Functions
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('is_really_writable'))
 	 * Tests for file writability
 	 *
 	 * is_writable() returns TRUE on Windows servers when you really can't write to
-	 * the file, based on the read-only attribute. is_writable() is also unreliable
-	 * on Unix servers if safe_mode is on.
+	 * the file, based on the read-only attribute.
 	 *
 	 * @link	https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54709
 	 * @param	string
@@ -90,8 +89,8 @@ if ( ! function_exists('is_really_writable'))
 	 */
 	function is_really_writable($file)
 	{
-		// If we're on a Unix server with safe_mode off we call is_writable
-		if (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR === '/' && (is_php('5.4') OR ! ini_get('safe_mode')))
+		// If we're on a UNIX-like server, just is_writable()
+		if (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR === '/')
 		{
 			return is_writable($file);
 		}
@@ -355,7 +354,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('is_https'))
 		{
 			return TRUE;
 		}
-		elseif (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] === 'https')
+		elseif (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) === 'https')
 		{
 			return TRUE;
 		}
@@ -544,13 +543,18 @@ if ( ! function_exists('set_status_header'))
 				416	=> 'Requested Range Not Satisfiable',
 				417	=> 'Expectation Failed',
 				422	=> 'Unprocessable Entity',
+				426	=> 'Upgrade Required',
+				428	=> 'Precondition Required',
+				429	=> 'Too Many Requests',
+				431	=> 'Request Header Fields Too Large',
 
 				500	=> 'Internal Server Error',
 				501	=> 'Not Implemented',
 				502	=> 'Bad Gateway',
 				503	=> 'Service Unavailable',
 				504	=> 'Gateway Timeout',
-				505	=> 'HTTP Version Not Supported'
+				505	=> 'HTTP Version Not Supported',
+				511	=> 'Network Authentication Required',
 			);
 
 			if (isset($stati[$code]))
@@ -598,7 +602,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('_error_handler'))
 	 */
 	function _error_handler($severity, $message, $filepath, $line)
 	{
-		$is_error = (((E_ERROR | E_COMPILE_ERROR | E_CORE_ERROR | E_USER_ERROR) & $severity) === $severity);
+		$is_error = (((E_ERROR | E_PARSE | E_COMPILE_ERROR | E_CORE_ERROR | E_USER_ERROR) & $severity) === $severity);
 
 		// When an error occurred, set the status header to '500 Internal Server Error'
 		// to indicate to the client something went wrong.
@@ -656,6 +660,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('_exception_handler'))
 		$_error =& load_class('Exceptions', 'core');
 		$_error->log_exception('error', 'Exception: '.$exception->getMessage(), $exception->getFile(), $exception->getLine());
 
+		is_cli() OR set_status_header(500);
 		// Should we display the error?
 		if (str_ireplace(array('off', 'none', 'no', 'false', 'null'), '', ini_get('display_errors')))
 		{
@@ -677,7 +682,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('_shutdown_handler'))
 	 * of CodeIgniter.php. The main reason we use this is to simulate
 	 * a complete custom exception handler.
 	 *
-	 * E_STRICT is purposivly neglected because such events may have
+	 * E_STRICT is purposively neglected because such events may have
 	 * been caught. Duplication or none? None is preferred for now.
 	 *
 	 * @link	http://insomanic.me.uk/post/229851073/php-trick-catching-fatal-errors-e-error-with-a
@@ -716,8 +721,8 @@ if ( ! function_exists('remove_invisible_characters'))
 		// carriage return (dec 13) and horizontal tab (dec 09)
 		if ($url_encoded)
 		{
-			$non_displayables[] = '/%0[0-8bcef]/';	// url encoded 00-08, 11, 12, 14, 15
-			$non_displayables[] = '/%1[0-9a-f]/';	// url encoded 16-31
+			$non_displayables[] = '/%0[0-8bcef]/i';	// url encoded 00-08, 11, 12, 14, 15
+			$non_displayables[] = '/%1[0-9a-f]/i';	// url encoded 16-31
 		}
 
 		$non_displayables[] = '/[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F]+/S';	// 00-08, 11, 12, 14-31, 127
@@ -752,7 +757,12 @@ if ( ! function_exists('html_escape'))
 
 		if (is_array($var))
 		{
-			return array_map('html_escape', $var, array_fill(0, count($var), $double_encode));
+			foreach (array_keys($var) as $key)
+			{
+				$var[$key] = html_escape($var[$key], $double_encode);
+			}
+
+			return $var;
 		}
 
 		return htmlspecialchars($var, ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'), $double_encode);
@@ -816,7 +826,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('function_usable'))
 	 * terminate script execution if a disabled function is executed.
 	 *
 	 * The above described behavior turned out to be a bug in Suhosin,
-	 * but even though a fix was commited for 0.9.34 on 2012-02-12,
+	 * but even though a fix was committed for 0.9.34 on 2012-02-12,
 	 * that version is yet to be released. This function will therefore
 	 * be just temporary, but would probably be kept for a few years.
 	 *
diff --git a/system/core/Config.php b/system/core/Config.php
index d07000ac9..d7236df1f 100644
--- a/system/core/Config.php
+++ b/system/core/Config.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/config.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/config.html
  */
 class CI_Config {
 
@@ -88,11 +88,18 @@ class CI_Config {
 		// Set the base_url automatically if none was provided
 		if (empty($this->config['base_url']))
 		{
-			// The regular expression is only a basic validation for a valid "Host" header.
-			// It's not exhaustive, only checks for valid characters.
-			if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) && preg_match('/^((\[[0-9a-f:]+\])|(\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3})|[a-z0-9\-\.]+)(:\d+)?$/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))
+			if (isset($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR']))
 			{
-				$base_url = (is_https() ? 'https' : 'http').'://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
+				if (strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'], ':') !== FALSE)
+				{
+					$server_addr = '['.$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'].']';
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					$server_addr = $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];
+				}
+
+				$base_url = (is_https() ? 'https' : 'http').'://'.$server_addr
 					.substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0, strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])));
 			}
 			else
@@ -162,7 +169,7 @@ class CI_Config {
 				$this->is_loaded[] = $file_path;
 				$config = NULL;
 				$loaded = TRUE;
-				log_message('debug', 'Config file loaded: '.$file_path);
+				log_message('info', 'Config file loaded: '.$file_path);
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -238,7 +245,15 @@ class CI_Config {
 
 		if (isset($protocol))
 		{
-			$base_url = $protocol.substr($base_url, strpos($base_url, '://'));
+			// For protocol-relative links
+			if ($protocol === '')
+			{
+				$base_url = substr($base_url, strpos($base_url, '//'));
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$base_url = $protocol.substr($base_url, strpos($base_url, '://'));
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (empty($uri))
@@ -293,10 +308,18 @@ class CI_Config {
 
 		if (isset($protocol))
 		{
-			$base_url = $protocol.substr($base_url, strpos($base_url, '://'));
+			// For protocol-relative links
+			if ($protocol === '')
+			{
+				$base_url = substr($base_url, strpos($base_url, '//'));
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$base_url = $protocol.substr($base_url, strpos($base_url, '://'));
+			}
 		}
 
-		return $base_url.ltrim($this->_uri_string($uri), '/');
+		return $base_url.$this->_uri_string($uri);
 	}
 
 	// -------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -314,11 +337,8 @@ class CI_Config {
 	{
 		if ($this->item('enable_query_strings') === FALSE)
 		{
-			if (is_array($uri))
-			{
-				$uri = implode('/', $uri);
-			}
-			return trim($uri, '/');
+			is_array($uri) && $uri = implode('/', $uri);
+			return ltrim($uri, '/');
 		}
 		elseif (is_array($uri))
 		{
@@ -331,20 +351,6 @@ class CI_Config {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * System URL
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Encourages insecure practices
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function system_url()
-	{
-		$x = explode('/', preg_replace('|/*(.+?)/*$|', '\\1', BASEPATH));
-		return $this->slash_item('base_url').end($x).'/';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Set a config file item
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	$item	Config item key
diff --git a/system/core/Controller.php b/system/core/Controller.php
index a0d97baa2..59a916734 100644
--- a/system/core/Controller.php
+++ b/system/core/Controller.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/controllers.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/controllers.html
  */
 class CI_Controller {
 
diff --git a/system/core/Exceptions.php b/system/core/Exceptions.php
index fc25f57e6..47d153f49 100644
--- a/system/core/Exceptions.php
+++ b/system/core/Exceptions.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Exceptions
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/exceptions.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/exceptions.html
  */
 class CI_Exceptions {
 
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class CI_Exceptions {
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-	public function show_exception(Exception $exception)
+	public function show_exception($exception)
 	{
 		$templates_path = config_item('error_views_path');
 		if (empty($templates_path))
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@ class CI_Exceptions {
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			set_status_header(500);
 			$templates_path .= 'html'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
 		}
 
diff --git a/system/core/Hooks.php b/system/core/Hooks.php
index 3b4fb2250..f2d6f21ca 100644
--- a/system/core/Hooks.php
+++ b/system/core/Hooks.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/hooks.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/hooks.html
  */
 class CI_Hooks {
 
diff --git a/system/core/Input.php b/system/core/Input.php
index e1319be8d..70a3c61ee 100644
--- a/system/core/Input.php
+++ b/system/core/Input.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Input
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/input.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/input.html
  */
 class CI_Input {
 
@@ -58,45 +58,6 @@ class CI_Input {
 	protected $ip_address = FALSE;
 
 	/**
-	 * Allow GET array flag
-	 *
-	 * If set to FALSE, then $_GET will be set to an empty array.
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool
-	 */
-	protected $_allow_get_array = TRUE;
-
-	/**
-	 * Standardize new lines flag
-	 *
-	 * If set to TRUE, then newlines are standardized.
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool
-	 */
-	protected $_standardize_newlines;
-
-	/**
-	 * Enable XSS flag
-	 *
-	 * Determines whether the XSS filter is always active when
-	 * GET, POST or COOKIE data is encountered.
-	 * Set automatically based on config setting.
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool
-	 */
-	protected $_enable_xss = FALSE;
-
-	/**
-	 * Enable CSRF flag
-	 *
-	 * Enables a CSRF cookie token to be set.
-	 * Set automatically based on config setting.
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool
-	 */
-	protected $_enable_csrf = FALSE;
-
-	/**
 	 * List of all HTTP request headers
 	 *
 	 * @var array
@@ -122,8 +83,15 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 */
 	protected $_input_stream;
 
+	/**
+	 * CI_Security instance
+	 *
+	 * Used for the optional $xss_filter parameter that most
+	 * getter methods have here.
+	 *
+	 * @var	CI_Security
+	 */
 	protected $security;
-	protected $uni;
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -135,24 +103,9 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 *
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	public function __construct()
+	public function __construct(CI_Security &$security)
 	{
-		$this->_allow_get_array		= (config_item('allow_get_array') === TRUE);
-		$this->_enable_xss		= (config_item('global_xss_filtering') === TRUE);
-		$this->_enable_csrf		= (config_item('csrf_protection') === TRUE);
-		$this->_standardize_newlines	= (bool) config_item('standardize_newlines');
-
-		$this->security =& load_class('Security', 'core');
-
-		// Do we need the UTF-8 class?
-		if (UTF8_ENABLED === TRUE)
-		{
-			$this->uni =& load_class('Utf8', 'core');
-		}
-
-		// Sanitize global arrays
-		$this->_sanitize_globals();
-
+		$this->security = $security;
 		log_message('info', 'Input Class Initialized');
 	}
 
@@ -168,10 +121,8 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	protected function _fetch_from_array(&$array, $index = NULL, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	protected function _fetch_from_array(&$array, $index = NULL, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
-		is_bool($xss_clean) OR $xss_clean = $this->_enable_xss;
-
 		// If $index is NULL, it means that the whole $array is requested
 		isset($index) OR $index = array_keys($array);
 
@@ -231,7 +182,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	public function get($index = NULL, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	public function get($index = NULL, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		return $this->_fetch_from_array($_GET, $index, $xss_clean);
 	}
@@ -245,7 +196,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	public function post($index = NULL, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	public function post($index = NULL, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		return $this->_fetch_from_array($_POST, $index, $xss_clean);
 	}
@@ -259,7 +210,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	public function post_get($index, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	public function post_get($index, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		return isset($_POST[$index])
 			? $this->post($index, $xss_clean)
@@ -275,7 +226,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	public function get_post($index, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	public function get_post($index, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		return isset($_GET[$index])
 			? $this->get($index, $xss_clean)
@@ -291,7 +242,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	public function cookie($index = NULL, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	public function cookie($index = NULL, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		return $this->_fetch_from_array($_COOKIE, $index, $xss_clean);
 	}
@@ -305,7 +256,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	public function server($index, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	public function server($index, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		return $this->_fetch_from_array($_SERVER, $index, $xss_clean);
 	}
@@ -321,7 +272,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	public function input_stream($index = NULL, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	public function input_stream($index = NULL, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		// Prior to PHP 5.6, the input stream can only be read once,
 		// so we'll need to check if we have already done that first.
@@ -353,7 +304,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 * @param	bool		$httponly	Whether to only makes the cookie accessible via HTTP (no javascript)
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	public function set_cookie($name, $value = '', $expire = '', $domain = '', $path = '/', $prefix = '', $secure = FALSE, $httponly = FALSE)
+	public function set_cookie($name, $value = '', $expire = 0, $domain = '', $path = '/', $prefix = '', $secure = FALSE, $httponly = FALSE)
 	{
 		if (is_array($name))
 		{
@@ -392,9 +343,9 @@ class CI_Input {
 			$httponly = config_item('cookie_httponly');
 		}
 
-		if ( ! is_numeric($expire))
+		if ( ! is_numeric($expire) OR $expire < 0)
 		{
-			$expire = time() - 86500;
+			$expire = 1;
 		}
 		else
 		{
@@ -513,9 +464,9 @@ class CI_Input {
 					if ($separator === ':')
 					{
 						$netaddr = explode(':', str_replace('::', str_repeat(':', 9 - substr_count($netaddr, ':')), $netaddr));
-						for ($i = 0; $i < 8; $i++)
+						for ($j = 0; $j < 8; $j++)
 						{
-							$netaddr[$i] = intval($netaddr[$i], 16);
+							$netaddr[$j] = intval($netaddr[$j], 16);
 						}
 					}
 					else
@@ -575,7 +526,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	 *
 	 * @return	string|null	User Agent string or NULL if it doesn't exist
 	 */
-	public function user_agent($xss_clean = NULL)
+	public function user_agent($xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		return $this->_fetch_from_array($_SERVER, 'HTTP_USER_AGENT', $xss_clean);
 	}
@@ -583,173 +534,6 @@ class CI_Input {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Sanitize Globals
-	 *
-	 * Internal method serving for the following purposes:
-	 *
-	 *	- Unsets $_GET data, if query strings are not enabled
-	 *	- Cleans POST, COOKIE and SERVER data
-	 * 	- Standardizes newline characters to PHP_EOL
-	 *
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _sanitize_globals()
-	{
-		// Is $_GET data allowed? If not we'll set the $_GET to an empty array
-		if ($this->_allow_get_array === FALSE)
-		{
-			$_GET = array();
-		}
-		elseif (is_array($_GET) && count($_GET) > 0)
-		{
-			foreach ($_GET as $key => $val)
-			{
-				$_GET[$this->_clean_input_keys($key)] = $this->_clean_input_data($val);
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Clean $_POST Data
-		if (is_array($_POST) && count($_POST) > 0)
-		{
-			foreach ($_POST as $key => $val)
-			{
-				$_POST[$this->_clean_input_keys($key)] = $this->_clean_input_data($val);
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Clean $_COOKIE Data
-		if (is_array($_COOKIE) && count($_COOKIE) > 0)
-		{
-			// Also get rid of specially treated cookies that might be set by a server
-			// or silly application, that are of no use to a CI application anyway
-			// but that when present will trip our 'Disallowed Key Characters' alarm
-			// http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt
-			// note that the key names below are single quoted strings, and are not PHP variables
-			unset(
-				$_COOKIE['$Version'],
-				$_COOKIE['$Path'],
-				$_COOKIE['$Domain']
-			);
-
-			foreach ($_COOKIE as $key => $val)
-			{
-				if (($cookie_key = $this->_clean_input_keys($key)) !== FALSE)
-				{
-					$_COOKIE[$cookie_key] = $this->_clean_input_data($val);
-				}
-				else
-				{
-					unset($_COOKIE[$key]);
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Sanitize PHP_SELF
-		$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = strip_tags($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
-
-		// CSRF Protection check
-		if ($this->_enable_csrf === TRUE && ! is_cli())
-		{
-			$this->security->csrf_verify();
-		}
-
-		log_message('debug', 'Global POST, GET and COOKIE data sanitized');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Clean Input Data
-	 *
-	 * Internal method that aids in escaping data and
-	 * standardizing newline characters to PHP_EOL.
-	 *
-	 * @param	string|string[]	$str	Input string(s)
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _clean_input_data($str)
-	{
-		if (is_array($str))
-		{
-			$new_array = array();
-			foreach (array_keys($str) as $key)
-			{
-				$new_array[$this->_clean_input_keys($key)] = $this->_clean_input_data($str[$key]);
-			}
-			return $new_array;
-		}
-
-		/* We strip slashes if magic quotes is on to keep things consistent
-
-		   NOTE: In PHP 5.4 get_magic_quotes_gpc() will always return 0 and
-		         it will probably not exist in future versions at all.
-		*/
-		if ( ! is_php('5.4') && get_magic_quotes_gpc())
-		{
-			$str = stripslashes($str);
-		}
-
-		// Clean UTF-8 if supported
-		if (UTF8_ENABLED === TRUE)
-		{
-			$str = $this->uni->clean_string($str);
-		}
-
-		// Remove control characters
-		$str = remove_invisible_characters($str, FALSE);
-
-		// Standardize newlines if needed
-		if ($this->_standardize_newlines === TRUE)
-		{
-			return preg_replace('/(?:\r\n|[\r\n])/', PHP_EOL, $str);
-		}
-
-		return $str;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Clean Keys
-	 *
-	 * Internal method that helps to prevent malicious users
-	 * from trying to exploit keys we make sure that keys are
-	 * only named with alpha-numeric text and a few other items.
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$str	Input string
-	 * @param	bool	$fatal	Whether to terminate script exection
-	 *				or to return FALSE if an invalid
-	 *				key is encountered
-	 * @return	string|bool
-	 */
-	protected function _clean_input_keys($str, $fatal = TRUE)
-	{
-		if ( ! preg_match('/^[a-z0-9:_\/|-]+$/i', $str))
-		{
-			if ($fatal === TRUE)
-			{
-				return FALSE;
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				set_status_header(503);
-				echo 'Disallowed Key Characters.';
-				exit(7); // EXIT_USER_INPUT
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Clean UTF-8 if supported
-		if (UTF8_ENABLED === TRUE)
-		{
-			return $this->uni->clean_string($str);
-		}
-
-		return $str;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Request Headers
 	 *
 	 * @param	bool	$xss_clean	Whether to apply XSS filtering
@@ -760,30 +544,32 @@ class CI_Input {
 		// If header is already defined, return it immediately
 		if ( ! empty($this->headers))
 		{
-			return $this->headers;
+			return $this->_fetch_from_array($this->headers, NULL, $xss_clean);
 		}
 
 		// In Apache, you can simply call apache_request_headers()
 		if (function_exists('apache_request_headers'))
 		{
-			return $this->headers = apache_request_headers();
+			$this->headers = apache_request_headers();
 		}
-
-		$this->headers['Content-Type'] = isset($_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE']) ? $_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'] : @getenv('CONTENT_TYPE');
-
-		foreach ($_SERVER as $key => $val)
+		else
 		{
-			if (sscanf($key, 'HTTP_%s', $header) === 1)
+			isset($_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE']) && $this->headers['Content-Type'] = $_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'];
+
+			foreach ($_SERVER as $key => $val)
 			{
-				// take SOME_HEADER and turn it into Some-Header
-				$header = str_replace('_', ' ', strtolower($header));
-				$header = str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords($header));
+				if (sscanf($key, 'HTTP_%s', $header) === 1)
+				{
+					// take SOME_HEADER and turn it into Some-Header
+					$header = str_replace('_', ' ', strtolower($header));
+					$header = str_replace(' ', '-', ucwords($header));
 
-				$this->headers[$header] = $this->_fetch_from_array($_SERVER, $key, $xss_clean);
+					$this->headers[$header] = $_SERVER[$key];
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
-		return $this->headers;
+		return $this->_fetch_from_array($this->headers, NULL, $xss_clean);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -803,7 +589,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 
 		if ( ! isset($headers))
 		{
-			empty($this->headers) OR $this->request_headers();
+			empty($this->headers) && $this->request_headers();
 			foreach ($this->headers as $key => $value)
 			{
 				$headers[strtolower($key)] = $value;
@@ -839,21 +625,6 @@ class CI_Input {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Is CLI request?
-	 *
-	 * Test to see if a request was made from the command line.
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Use is_cli() instead
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function is_cli_request()
-	{
-		return is_cli();
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Get Request Method
 	 *
 	 * Return the request method
diff --git a/system/core/Lang.php b/system/core/Lang.php
index deb955414..569b02368 100644
--- a/system/core/Lang.php
+++ b/system/core/Lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Language
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/language.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/language.html
  */
 class CI_Lang {
 
diff --git a/system/core/Loader.php b/system/core/Loader.php
index 5de7a9483..7279e8833 100644
--- a/system/core/Loader.php
+++ b/system/core/Loader.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Loader
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/loader.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/loader.html
  */
 class CI_Loader {
 
@@ -285,13 +285,43 @@ class CI_Loader {
 			$this->database($db_conn, FALSE, TRUE);
 		}
 
+		// Note: All of the code under this condition used to be just:
+		//
+		//       load_class('Model', 'core');
+		//
+		//       However, load_class() instantiates classes
+		//       to cache them for later use and that prevents
+		//       MY_Model from being an abstract class and is
+		//       sub-optimal otherwise anyway.
 		if ( ! class_exists('CI_Model', FALSE))
 		{
-			load_class('Model', 'core');
+			$app_path = APPPATH.'core'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
+			if (file_exists($app_path.'Model.php'))
+			{
+				require_once($app_path.'Model.php');
+				if ( ! class_exists('CI_Model', FALSE))
+				{
+					throw new RuntimeException($app_path."Model.php exists, but doesn't declare class CI_Model");
+				}
+			}
+			elseif ( ! class_exists('CI_Model', FALSE))
+			{
+				require_once(BASEPATH.'core'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'Model.php');
+			}
+
+			$class = config_item('subclass_prefix').'Model';
+			if (file_exists($app_path.$class.'.php'))
+			{
+				require_once($app_path.$class.'.php');
+				if ( ! class_exists($class, FALSE))
+				{
+					throw new RuntimeException($app_path.$class.".php exists, but doesn't declare class ".$class);
+				}
+			}
 		}
 
-		$model = ucfirst(strtolower($model));
-		if ( ! class_exists($model))
+		$model = ucfirst($model);
+		if ( ! class_exists($model, FALSE))
 		{
 			foreach ($this->_ci_model_paths as $mod_path)
 			{
@@ -456,7 +486,7 @@ class CI_Loader {
 	 */
 	public function view($view, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE)
 	{
-		return $this->_ci_load(array('_ci_view' => $view, '_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_object_to_array($vars), '_ci_return' => $return));
+		return $this->_ci_load(array('_ci_view' => $view, '_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_prepare_view_vars($vars), '_ci_return' => $return));
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -489,19 +519,13 @@ class CI_Loader {
 	 */
 	public function vars($vars, $val = '')
 	{
-		if (is_string($vars))
-		{
-			$vars = array($vars => $val);
-		}
-
-		$vars = $this->_ci_object_to_array($vars);
+		$vars = is_string($vars)
+			? array($vars => $val)
+			: $this->_ci_prepare_view_vars($vars);
 
-		if (is_array($vars) && count($vars) > 0)
+		foreach ($vars as $key => $val)
 		{
-			foreach ($vars as $key => $val)
-			{
-				$this->_ci_cached_vars[$key] = $val;
-			}
+			$this->_ci_cached_vars[$key] = $val;
 		}
 
 		return $this;
@@ -561,15 +585,21 @@ class CI_Loader {
 	 */
 	public function helper($helpers = array())
 	{
-		foreach ($this->_ci_prep_filename($helpers, '_helper') as $helper)
+		is_array($helpers) OR $helpers = array($helpers);
+		foreach ($helpers as &$helper)
 		{
+			$filename = basename($helper);
+			$filepath = ($filename === $helper) ? '' : substr($helper, 0, strlen($helper) - strlen($filename));
+			$filename = strtolower(preg_replace('#(_helper)?(\.php)?$#i', '', $filename)).'_helper';
+			$helper   = $filepath.$filename;
+
 			if (isset($this->_ci_helpers[$helper]))
 			{
 				continue;
 			}
 
 			// Is this a helper extension request?
-			$ext_helper = config_item('subclass_prefix').$helper;
+			$ext_helper = config_item('subclass_prefix').$filename;
 			$ext_loaded = FALSE;
 			foreach ($this->_ci_helper_paths as $path)
 			{
@@ -688,9 +718,16 @@ class CI_Loader {
 	{
 		if (is_array($library))
 		{
-			foreach ($library as $driver)
+			foreach ($library as $key => $value)
 			{
-				$this->driver($driver);
+				if (is_int($key))
+				{
+					$this->driver($value, $params);
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					$this->driver($key, $params, $value);
+				}
 			}
 
 			return $this;
@@ -897,13 +934,10 @@ class CI_Loader {
 		 * the two types and cache them so that views that are embedded within
 		 * other views can have access to these variables.
 		 */
-		if (is_array($_ci_vars))
-		{
-			$this->_ci_cached_vars = array_merge($this->_ci_cached_vars, $_ci_vars);
-		}
+		empty($_ci_vars) OR $this->_ci_cached_vars = array_merge($this->_ci_cached_vars, $_ci_vars);
 		extract($this->_ci_cached_vars);
 
-		/*
+		/**
 		 * Buffer the output
 		 *
 		 * We buffer the output for two reasons:
@@ -916,18 +950,7 @@ class CI_Loader {
 		 */
 		ob_start();
 
-		// If the PHP installation does not support short tags we'll
-		// do a little string replacement, changing the short tags
-		// to standard PHP echo statements.
-		if ( ! is_php('5.4') && ! ini_get('short_open_tag') && config_item('rewrite_short_tags') === TRUE)
-		{
-			echo eval('?>'.preg_replace('/;*\s*\?>/', '; ?>', str_replace('<?=', '<?php echo ', file_get_contents($_ci_path))));
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			include($_ci_path); // include() vs include_once() allows for multiple views with the same name
-		}
-
+		include($_ci_path); // include() vs include_once() allows for multiple views with the same name
 		log_message('info', 'File loaded: '.$_ci_path);
 
 		// Return the file data if requested
@@ -1061,7 +1084,7 @@ class CI_Loader {
 	 * @used-by	CI_Loader::_ci_load_library()
 	 * @uses	CI_Loader::_ci_init_library()
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	$library	Library name to load
+	 * @param	string	$library_name	Library name to load
 	 * @param	string	$file_path	Path to the library filename, relative to libraries/
 	 * @param	mixed	$params		Optional parameters to pass to the class constructor
 	 * @param	string	$object_name	Optional object name to assign to
@@ -1304,10 +1327,7 @@ class CI_Loader {
 		// Autoload drivers
 		if (isset($autoload['drivers']))
 		{
-			foreach ($autoload['drivers'] as $item)
-			{
-				$this->driver($item);
-			}
+			$this->driver($autoload['drivers']);
 		}
 
 		// Load libraries
@@ -1334,17 +1354,32 @@ class CI_Loader {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * CI Object to Array translator
+	 * Prepare variables for _ci_vars, to be later extract()-ed inside views
 	 *
-	 * Takes an object as input and converts the class variables to
-	 * an associative array with key/value pairs.
+	 * Converts objects to associative arrays and filters-out internal
+	 * variable names (i.e. keys prefixed with '_ci_').
 	 *
-	 * @param	object	$object	Object data to translate
+	 * @param	mixed	$vars
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
-	protected function _ci_object_to_array($object)
+	protected function _ci_prepare_view_vars($vars)
 	{
-		return is_object($object) ? get_object_vars($object) : $object;
+		if ( ! is_array($vars))
+		{
+			$vars = is_object($vars)
+				? get_object_vars($vars)
+				: array();
+		}
+
+		foreach (array_keys($vars) as $key)
+		{
+			if (strncmp($key, '_ci_', 4) === 0)
+			{
+				unset($vars[$key]);
+			}
+		}
+
+		return $vars;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1362,34 +1397,4 @@ class CI_Loader {
 		$CI =& get_instance();
 		return $CI->$component;
 	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Prep filename
-	 *
-	 * This function prepares filenames of various items to
-	 * make their loading more reliable.
-	 *
-	 * @param	string|string[]	$filename	Filename(s)
-	 * @param 	string		$extension	Filename extension
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	protected function _ci_prep_filename($filename, $extension)
-	{
-		if ( ! is_array($filename))
-		{
-			return array(strtolower(str_replace(array($extension, '.php'), '', $filename).$extension));
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			foreach ($filename as $key => $val)
-			{
-				$filename[$key] = strtolower(str_replace(array($extension, '.php'), '', $val).$extension);
-			}
-
-			return $filename;
-		}
-	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/core/Log.php b/system/core/Log.php
index e8cb401f5..5be7baea8 100644
--- a/system/core/Log.php
+++ b/system/core/Log.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Logging
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/errors.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/errors.html
  */
 class CI_Log {
 
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ class CI_Log {
 	 */
 	protected $_levels = array('ERROR' => 1, 'DEBUG' => 2, 'INFO' => 3, 'ALL' => 4);
 
+	/**
+	 * mbstring.func_override flag
+	 *
+	 * @var	bool
+	 */
+	protected static $func_override;
+
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
@@ -115,6 +122,8 @@ class CI_Log {
 	{
 		$config =& get_config();
 
+		isset(self::$func_override) OR self::$func_override = (extension_loaded('mbstring') && ini_get('mbstring.func_override'));
+
 		$this->_log_path = ($config['log_path'] !== '') ? $config['log_path'] : APPPATH.'logs/';
 		$this->_file_ext = (isset($config['log_file_extension']) && $config['log_file_extension'] !== '')
 			? ltrim($config['log_file_extension'], '.') : 'php';
@@ -154,8 +163,8 @@ class CI_Log {
 	 *
 	 * Generally this function will be called using the global log_message() function
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	the error level: 'error', 'debug' or 'info'
-	 * @param	string	the error message
+	 * @param	string	$level 	The error level: 'error', 'debug' or 'info'
+	 * @param	string	$msg 	The error message
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
 	public function write_log($level, $msg)
@@ -191,6 +200,8 @@ class CI_Log {
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
+		flock($fp, LOCK_EX);
+
 		// Instantiating DateTime with microseconds appended to initial date is needed for proper support of this format
 		if (strpos($this->_date_fmt, 'u') !== FALSE)
 		{
@@ -204,13 +215,11 @@ class CI_Log {
 			$date = date($this->_date_fmt);
 		}
 
-		$message .= $level.' - '.$date.' --> '.$msg."\n";
-
-		flock($fp, LOCK_EX);
+		$message .= $this->_format_line($level, $date, $msg);
 
-		for ($written = 0, $length = strlen($message); $written < $length; $written += $result)
+		for ($written = 0, $length = self::strlen($message); $written < $length; $written += $result)
 		{
-			if (($result = fwrite($fp, substr($message, $written))) === FALSE)
+			if (($result = fwrite($fp, self::substr($message, $written))) === FALSE)
 			{
 				break;
 			}
@@ -227,4 +236,58 @@ class CI_Log {
 		return is_int($result);
 	}
 
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Format the log line.
+	 *
+	 * This is for extensibility of log formatting
+	 * If you want to change the log format, extend the CI_Log class and override this method
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$level 	The error level
+	 * @param	string	$date 	Formatted date string
+	 * @param	string	$message 	The log message
+	 * @return	string	Formatted log line with a new line character '\n' at the end
+	 */
+	protected function _format_line($level, $date, $message)
+	{
+		return $level.' - '.$date.' --> '.$message."\n";
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe strlen()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @return	int
+	 */
+	protected static function strlen($str)
+	{
+		return (self::$func_override)
+			? mb_strlen($str, '8bit')
+			: strlen($str);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe substr()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @param	int	$start
+	 * @param	int	$length
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	protected static function substr($str, $start, $length = NULL)
+	{
+		if (self::$func_override)
+		{
+			return mb_substr($str, $start, $length, '8bit');
+		}
+
+		return isset($length)
+			? substr($str, $start, $length)
+			: substr($str, $start);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/system/core/Model.php b/system/core/Model.php
index a0469de11..c809e7b84 100644
--- a/system/core/Model.php
+++ b/system/core/Model.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/config.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/config.html
  */
 class CI_Model {
 
diff --git a/system/core/Output.php b/system/core/Output.php
index 76c1329d2..0887717d9 100644
--- a/system/core/Output.php
+++ b/system/core/Output.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Output
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/output.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/output.html
  */
 class CI_Output {
 
@@ -123,6 +123,13 @@ class CI_Output {
 	public $parse_exec_vars = TRUE;
 
 	/**
+	 * mbstring.func_override flag
+	 *
+	 * @var	bool
+	 */
+	protected static $func_override;
+
+	/**
 	 * Class constructor
 	 *
 	 * Determines whether zLib output compression will be used.
@@ -138,6 +145,8 @@ class CI_Output {
 			&& extension_loaded('zlib')
 		);
 
+		isset(self::$func_override) OR self::$func_override = (extension_loaded('mbstring') && ini_get('mbstring.func_override'));
+
 		// Get mime types for later
 		$this->mimes =& get_mimes();
 
@@ -285,7 +294,7 @@ class CI_Output {
 	/**
 	 * Get Header
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	$header_name
+	 * @param	string	$header
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
 	public function get_header($header)
@@ -302,11 +311,12 @@ class CI_Output {
 			return NULL;
 		}
 
-		for ($i = 0, $c = count($headers); $i < $c; $i++)
+		// Count backwards, in order to get the last matching header
+		for ($c = count($headers) - 1; $c > -1; $c--)
 		{
-			if (strncasecmp($header, $headers[$i], $l = strlen($header)) === 0)
+			if (strncasecmp($header, $headers[$c], $l = self::strlen($header)) === 0)
 			{
-				return trim(substr($headers[$i], $l+1));
+				return trim(self::substr($headers[$c], $l+1));
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -377,7 +387,7 @@ class CI_Output {
 	/**
 	 * Set Cache
 	 *
-	 * @param	int	$time	Cache expiration time in seconds
+	 * @param	int	$time	Cache expiration time in minutes
 	 * @return	CI_Output
 	 */
 	public function cache($time)
@@ -480,19 +490,19 @@ class CI_Output {
 				if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING']) && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'], 'gzip') !== FALSE)
 				{
 					header('Content-Encoding: gzip');
-					header('Content-Length: '.strlen($output));
+					header('Content-Length: '.self::strlen($output));
 				}
 				else
 				{
 					// User agent doesn't support gzip compression,
 					// so we'll have to decompress our cache
-					$output = gzinflate(substr($output, 10, -8));
+					$output = gzinflate(self::substr($output, 10, -8));
 				}
 			}
 
 			echo $output;
 			log_message('info', 'Final output sent to browser');
-			log_message('debug', 'Total execution time: '.$elapsed);
+			log_message('info', 'Total execution time: '.$elapsed);
 			return;
 		}
 
@@ -529,7 +539,7 @@ class CI_Output {
 		}
 
 		log_message('info', 'Final output sent to browser');
-		log_message('debug', 'Total execution time: '.$elapsed);
+		log_message('info', 'Total execution time: '.$elapsed);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -601,9 +611,9 @@ class CI_Output {
 
 			$output = $cache_info.'ENDCI--->'.$output;
 
-			for ($written = 0, $length = strlen($output); $written < $length; $written += $result)
+			for ($written = 0, $length = self::strlen($output); $written < $length; $written += $result)
 			{
-				if (($result = fwrite($fp, substr($output, $written))) === FALSE)
+				if (($result = fwrite($fp, self::substr($output, $written))) === FALSE)
 				{
 					break;
 				}
@@ -711,7 +721,7 @@ class CI_Output {
 		}
 
 		// Display the cache
-		$this->_display(substr($cache, strlen($match[0])));
+		$this->_display(self::substr($cache, self::strlen($match[0])));
 		log_message('debug', 'Cache file is current. Sending it to browser.');
 		return TRUE;
 	}
@@ -797,4 +807,40 @@ class CI_Output {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe strlen()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @return	int
+	 */
+	protected static function strlen($str)
+	{
+		return (self::$func_override)
+			? mb_strlen($str, '8bit')
+			: strlen($str);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe substr()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @param	int	$start
+	 * @param	int	$length
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	protected static function substr($str, $start, $length = NULL)
+	{
+		if (self::$func_override)
+		{
+			return mb_substr($str, $start, $length, '8bit');
+		}
+
+		return isset($length)
+			? substr($str, $start, $length)
+			: substr($str, $start);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/system/core/Router.php b/system/core/Router.php
index 0c793e418..e92a8f540 100644
--- a/system/core/Router.php
+++ b/system/core/Router.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html
  */
 class CI_Router {
 
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ class CI_Router {
 	 *
 	 * Runs the route mapping function.
 	 *
+	 * @param	array	$routing
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
 	public function __construct($routing = NULL)
@@ -153,6 +154,28 @@ class CI_Router {
 	 */
 	protected function _set_routing()
 	{
+		// Load the routes.php file. It would be great if we could
+		// skip this for enable_query_strings = TRUE, but then
+		// default_controller would be empty ...
+		if (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/routes.php'))
+		{
+			include(APPPATH.'config/routes.php');
+		}
+
+		if (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/'.ENVIRONMENT.'/routes.php'))
+		{
+			include(APPPATH.'config/'.ENVIRONMENT.'/routes.php');
+		}
+
+		// Validate & get reserved routes
+		if (isset($route) && is_array($route))
+		{
+			isset($route['default_controller']) && $this->default_controller = $route['default_controller'];
+			isset($route['translate_uri_dashes']) && $this->translate_uri_dashes = $route['translate_uri_dashes'];
+			unset($route['default_controller'], $route['translate_uri_dashes']);
+			$this->routes = $route;
+		}
+
 		// Are query strings enabled in the config file? Normally CI doesn't utilize query strings
 		// since URI segments are more search-engine friendly, but they can optionally be used.
 		// If this feature is enabled, we will gather the directory/class/method a little differently
@@ -199,26 +222,6 @@ class CI_Router {
 			return;
 		}
 
-		// Load the routes.php file.
-		if (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/routes.php'))
-		{
-			include(APPPATH.'config/routes.php');
-		}
-
-		if (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/'.ENVIRONMENT.'/routes.php'))
-		{
-			include(APPPATH.'config/'.ENVIRONMENT.'/routes.php');
-		}
-
-		// Validate & get reserved routes
-		if (isset($route) && is_array($route))
-		{
-			isset($route['default_controller']) && $this->default_controller = $route['default_controller'];
-			isset($route['translate_uri_dashes']) && $this->translate_uri_dashes = $route['translate_uri_dashes'];
-			unset($route['default_controller'], $route['translate_uri_dashes']);
-			$this->routes = $route;
-		}
-
 		// Is there anything to parse?
 		if ($this->uri->uri_string !== '')
 		{
@@ -372,26 +375,6 @@ class CI_Router {
 		// Get HTTP verb
 		$http_verb = isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) ? strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) : 'cli';
 
-		// Is there a literal match?  If so we're done
-		if (isset($this->routes[$uri]))
-		{
-			// Is it an HTTP verb-based route?
-			if (is_array($this->routes[$uri]))
-			{
-				$route = array_change_key_case($this->routes[$uri], CASE_LOWER);
-				if (isset($route[$http_verb]))
-				{
-					$this->_set_request(explode('/', $route[$http_verb]));
-					return;
-				}
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				$this->_set_request(explode('/', $this->routes[$uri]));
-				return;
-			}
-		}
-
 		// Loop through the route array looking for wildcards
 		foreach ($this->routes as $key => $val)
 		{
@@ -456,19 +439,6 @@ class CI_Router {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Fetch the current class
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Read the 'class' property instead
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function fetch_class()
-	{
-		return $this->class;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Set method name
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	$method	Method name
@@ -482,19 +452,6 @@ class CI_Router {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Fetch the current method
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Read the 'method' property instead
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function fetch_method()
-	{
-		return $this->method;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Set directory name
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	$dir	Directory name
@@ -512,21 +469,4 @@ class CI_Router {
 			$this->directory .= str_replace('.', '', trim($dir, '/')).'/';
 		}
 	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Fetch directory
-	 *
-	 * Feches the sub-directory (if any) that contains the requested
-	 * controller class.
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Read the 'directory' property instead
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function fetch_directory()
-	{
-		return $this->directory;
-	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/core/Security.php b/system/core/Security.php
index 7c5199255..4ad550fff 100644
--- a/system/core/Security.php
+++ b/system/core/Security.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Security
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/security.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/security.html
  */
 class CI_Security {
 
@@ -133,15 +133,16 @@ class CI_Security {
 	 * @var	array
 	 */
 	protected $_never_allowed_str =	array(
-		'document.cookie'	=> '[removed]',
-		'document.write'	=> '[removed]',
-		'.parentNode'		=> '[removed]',
-		'.innerHTML'		=> '[removed]',
-		'-moz-binding'		=> '[removed]',
-		'<!--'				=> '&lt;!--',
-		'-->'				=> '--&gt;',
-		'<![CDATA['			=> '&lt;![CDATA[',
-		'<comment>'			=> '&lt;comment&gt;'
+		'document.cookie' => '[removed]',
+		'document.write'  => '[removed]',
+		'.parentNode'     => '[removed]',
+		'.innerHTML'      => '[removed]',
+		'-moz-binding'    => '[removed]',
+		'<!--'            => '&lt;!--',
+		'-->'             => '--&gt;',
+		'<![CDATA['       => '&lt;![CDATA[',
+		'<comment>'	  => '&lt;comment&gt;',
+		'<%'              => '&lt;&#37;'
 	);
 
 	/**
@@ -166,10 +167,12 @@ class CI_Security {
 	 *
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	public function __construct()
+	public function __construct($charset)
 	{
+		$this->charset = $charset;
+
 		// Is CSRF protection enabled?
-		if (config_item('csrf_protection'))
+		if (config_item('csrf_protection') && ! is_cli())
 		{
 			// CSRF config
 			foreach (array('csrf_expire', 'csrf_token_name', 'csrf_cookie_name') as $key)
@@ -188,10 +191,9 @@ class CI_Security {
 
 			// Set the CSRF hash
 			$this->_csrf_set_hash();
+			$this->csrf_verify();
 		}
 
-		$this->charset = strtoupper(config_item('charset'));
-
 		log_message('info', 'Security Class Initialized');
 	}
 
@@ -223,14 +225,11 @@ class CI_Security {
 			}
 		}
 
-		// Do the tokens exist in both the _POST and _COOKIE arrays?
-		if ( ! isset($_POST[$this->_csrf_token_name], $_COOKIE[$this->_csrf_cookie_name])
-			OR $_POST[$this->_csrf_token_name] !== $_COOKIE[$this->_csrf_cookie_name]) // Do the tokens match?
-		{
-			$this->csrf_show_error();
-		}
+		// Check CSRF token validity, but don't error on mismatch just yet - we'll want to regenerate
+		$valid = isset($_POST[$this->_csrf_token_name], $_COOKIE[$this->_csrf_cookie_name])
+			&& hash_equals($_POST[$this->_csrf_token_name], $_COOKIE[$this->_csrf_cookie_name]);
 
-		// We kill this since we're done and we don't want to polute the _POST array
+		// We kill this since we're done and we don't want to pollute the _POST array
 		unset($_POST[$this->_csrf_token_name]);
 
 		// Regenerate on every submission?
@@ -244,6 +243,11 @@ class CI_Security {
 		$this->_csrf_set_hash();
 		$this->csrf_set_cookie();
 
+		if ($valid !== TRUE)
+		{
+			$this->csrf_show_error();
+		}
+
 		log_message('info', 'CSRF token verified');
 		return $this;
 	}
@@ -371,11 +375,17 @@ class CI_Security {
 		 *
 		 * Note: Use rawurldecode() so it does not remove plus signs
 		 */
-		do
+		if (stripos($str, '%') !== false)
 		{
-			$str = rawurldecode($str);
+			do
+			{
+				$oldstr = $str;
+				$str = rawurldecode($str);
+				$str = preg_replace_callback('#%(?:\s*[0-9a-f]){2,}#i', array($this, '_urldecodespaces'), $str);
+			}
+			while ($oldstr !== $str);
+			unset($oldstr);
 		}
-		while (preg_match('/%[0-9a-f]{2,}/i', $str));
 
 		/*
 		 * Convert character entities to ASCII
@@ -436,7 +446,7 @@ class CI_Security {
 		$words = array(
 			'javascript', 'expression', 'vbscript', 'jscript', 'wscript',
 			'vbs', 'script', 'base64', 'applet', 'alert', 'document',
-			'write', 'cookie', 'window', 'confirm', 'prompt'
+			'write', 'cookie', 'window', 'confirm', 'prompt', 'eval'
 		);
 
 		foreach ($words as $word)
@@ -466,7 +476,7 @@ class CI_Security {
 
 			if (preg_match('/<a/i', $str))
 			{
-				$str = preg_replace_callback('#<a[^a-z0-9>]+([^>]*?)(?:>|$)#si', array($this, '_js_link_removal'), $str);
+				$str = preg_replace_callback('#<a(?:rea)?[^a-z0-9>]+([^>]*?)(?:>|$)#si', array($this, '_js_link_removal'), $str);
 			}
 
 			if (preg_match('/<img/i', $str))
@@ -480,12 +490,8 @@ class CI_Security {
 			}
 		}
 		while ($original !== $str);
-
 		unset($original);
 
-		// Remove evil attributes such as style, onclick and xmlns
-		$str = $this->_remove_evil_attributes($str, $is_image);
-
 		/*
 		 * Sanitize naughty HTML elements
 		 *
@@ -495,8 +501,29 @@ class CI_Security {
 		 * So this: <blink>
 		 * Becomes: &lt;blink&gt;
 		 */
-		$naughty = 'alert|prompt|confirm|applet|audio|basefont|base|behavior|bgsound|blink|body|embed|expression|form|frameset|frame|head|html|ilayer|iframe|input|button|select|isindex|layer|link|meta|keygen|object|plaintext|style|script|textarea|title|math|video|svg|xml|xss';
-		$str = preg_replace_callback('#<(/*\s*)('.$naughty.')([^><]*)([><]*)#is', array($this, '_sanitize_naughty_html'), $str);
+		$pattern = '#'
+			.'<((?<slash>/*\s*)((?<tagName>[a-z0-9]+)(?=[^a-z0-9]|$)|.+)' // tag start and name, followed by a non-tag character
+			.'[^\s\042\047a-z0-9>/=]*' // a valid attribute character immediately after the tag would count as a separator
+			// optional attributes
+			.'(?<attributes>(?:[\s\042\047/=]*' // non-attribute characters, excluding > (tag close) for obvious reasons
+			.'[^\s\042\047>/=]+' // attribute characters
+			// optional attribute-value
+				.'(?:\s*=' // attribute-value separator
+					.'(?:[^\s\042\047=><`]+|\s*\042[^\042]*\042|\s*\047[^\047]*\047|\s*(?U:[^\s\042\047=><`]*))' // single, double or non-quoted value
+				.')?' // end optional attribute-value group
+			.')*)' // end optional attributes group
+			.'[^>]*)(?<closeTag>\>)?#isS';
+
+		// Note: It would be nice to optimize this for speed, BUT
+		//       only matching the naughty elements here results in
+		//       false positives and in turn - vulnerabilities!
+		do
+		{
+			$old_str = $str;
+			$str = preg_replace_callback($pattern, array($this, '_sanitize_naughty_html'), $str);
+		}
+		while ($old_str !== $str);
+		unset($old_str);
 
 		/*
 		 * Sanitize naughty scripting elements
@@ -510,9 +537,11 @@ class CI_Security {
 		 * For example:	eval('some code')
 		 * Becomes:	eval&#40;'some code'&#41;
 		 */
-		$str = preg_replace('#(alert|prompt|confirm|cmd|passthru|eval|exec|expression|system|fopen|fsockopen|file|file_get_contents|readfile|unlink)(\s*)\((.*?)\)#si',
-					'\\1\\2&#40;\\3&#41;',
-					$str);
+		$str = preg_replace(
+			'#(alert|prompt|confirm|cmd|passthru|eval|exec|expression|system|fopen|fsockopen|file|file_get_contents|readfile|unlink)(\s*)\((.*?)\)#si',
+			'\\1\\2&#40;\\3&#41;',
+			$str
+		);
 
 		// Final clean up
 		// This adds a bit of extra precaution in case
@@ -574,6 +603,22 @@ class CI_Security {
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
+		if (function_exists('random_bytes'))
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				// The cast is required to avoid TypeError
+				return random_bytes((int) $length);
+			}
+			catch (Exception $e)
+			{
+				// If random_bytes() can't do the job, we can't either ...
+				// There's no point in using fallbacks.
+				log_message('error', $e->getMessage());
+				return FALSE;
+			}
+		}
+
 		// Unfortunately, none of the following PRNGs is guaranteed to exist ...
 		if (defined('MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM') && ($output = mcrypt_create_iv($length, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM)) !== FALSE)
 		{
@@ -584,7 +629,7 @@ class CI_Security {
 		if (is_readable('/dev/urandom') && ($fp = fopen('/dev/urandom', 'rb')) !== FALSE)
 		{
 			// Try not to waste entropy ...
-			is_php('5.4') && stream_set_chunk_size($fp, $length);
+			stream_set_chunk_size($fp, $length);
 			$output = fread($fp, $length);
 			fclose($fp);
 			if ($output !== FALSE)
@@ -629,10 +674,8 @@ class CI_Security {
 
 		static $_entities;
 
-		isset($charset) OR $charset = $this->charset;
-		$flag = is_php('5.4')
-			? ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML5
-			: ENT_COMPAT;
+		isset($charset)   OR $charset = $this->charset;
+		isset($_entities) OR $_entities = array_map('strtolower', get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML5, $charset));
 
 		do
 		{
@@ -641,27 +684,6 @@ class CI_Security {
 			// Decode standard entities, avoiding false positives
 			if (preg_match_all('/&[a-z]{2,}(?![a-z;])/i', $str, $matches))
 			{
-				if ( ! isset($_entities))
-				{
-					$_entities = array_map(
-						'strtolower',
-						is_php('5.3.4')
-							? get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, $flag, $charset)
-							: get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, $flag)
-					);
-
-					// If we're not on PHP 5.4+, add the possibly dangerous HTML 5
-					// entities to the array manually
-					if ($flag === ENT_COMPAT)
-					{
-						$_entities[':'] = '&colon;';
-						$_entities['('] = '&lpar;';
-						$_entities[')'] = '&rpar;';
-						$_entities["\n"] = '&newline;';
-						$_entities["\t"] = '&tab;';
-					}
-				}
-
 				$replace = array();
 				$matches = array_unique(array_map('strtolower', $matches[0]));
 				foreach ($matches as &$match)
@@ -672,13 +694,13 @@ class CI_Security {
 					}
 				}
 
-				$str = str_ireplace(array_keys($replace), array_values($replace), $str);
+				$str = str_replace(array_keys($replace), array_values($replace), $str);
 			}
 
 			// Decode numeric & UTF16 two byte entities
 			$str = html_entity_decode(
 				preg_replace('/(&#(?:x0*[0-9a-f]{2,5}(?![0-9a-f;])|(?:0*\d{2,4}(?![0-9;]))))/iS', '$1;', $str),
-				$flag,
+				ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML5,
 				$charset
 			);
 		}
@@ -727,7 +749,32 @@ class CI_Security {
 	 */
 	public function strip_image_tags($str)
 	{
-		return preg_replace(array('#<img[\s/]+.*?src\s*=\s*["\'](.+?)["\'].*?\>#', '#<img[\s/]+.*?src\s*=\s*(.+?).*?\>#'), '\\1', $str);
+		return preg_replace(
+			array(
+				'#<img[\s/]+.*?src\s*=\s*(["\'])([^\\1]+?)\\1.*?\>#i',
+				'#<img[\s/]+.*?src\s*=\s*?(([^\s"\'=<>`]+)).*?\>#i'
+			),
+			'\\2',
+			$str
+		);
+	}
+
+	// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * URL-decode taking spaces into account
+	 *
+	 * @see		https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4877
+	 * @param	array	$matches
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	protected function _urldecodespaces($matches)
+	{
+		$input    = $matches[0];
+		$nospaces = preg_replace('#\s+#', '', $input);
+		return ($nospaces === $input)
+			? $input
+			: rawurldecode($nospaces);
 	}
 
 	// ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -750,71 +797,92 @@ class CI_Security {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Remove Evil HTML Attributes (like event handlers and style)
-	 *
-	 * It removes the evil attribute and either:
-	 *
-	 *  - Everything up until a space. For example, everything between the pipes:
-	 *
-	 *	<code>
-	 *		<a |style=document.write('hello');alert('world');| class=link>
-	 *	</code>
-	 *
-	 *  - Everything inside the quotes. For example, everything between the pipes:
+	 * Sanitize Naughty HTML
 	 *
-	 *	<code>
-	 *		<a |style="document.write('hello'); alert('world');"| class="link">
-	 *	</code>
+	 * Callback method for xss_clean() to remove naughty HTML elements.
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	$str		The string to check
-	 * @param	bool	$is_image	Whether the input is an image
-	 * @return	string	The string with the evil attributes removed
+	 * @used-by	CI_Security::xss_clean()
+	 * @param	array	$matches
+	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	protected function _remove_evil_attributes($str, $is_image)
+	protected function _sanitize_naughty_html($matches)
 	{
-		$evil_attributes = array('on\w*', 'style', 'xmlns', 'formaction', 'form', 'xlink:href', 'FSCommand', 'seekSegmentTime');
+		static $naughty_tags    = array(
+			'alert', 'area', 'prompt', 'confirm', 'applet', 'audio', 'basefont', 'base', 'behavior', 'bgsound',
+			'blink', 'body', 'embed', 'expression', 'form', 'frameset', 'frame', 'head', 'html', 'ilayer',
+			'iframe', 'input', 'button', 'select', 'isindex', 'layer', 'link', 'meta', 'keygen', 'object',
+			'plaintext', 'style', 'script', 'textarea', 'title', 'math', 'video', 'svg', 'xml', 'xss'
+		);
 
-		if ($is_image === TRUE)
+		static $evil_attributes = array(
+			'on\w+', 'style', 'xmlns', 'formaction', 'form', 'xlink:href', 'FSCommand', 'seekSegmentTime'
+		);
+
+		// First, escape unclosed tags
+		if (empty($matches['closeTag']))
+		{
+			return '&lt;'.$matches[1];
+		}
+		// Is the element that we caught naughty? If so, escape it
+		elseif (in_array(strtolower($matches['tagName']), $naughty_tags, TRUE))
 		{
-			/*
-			 * Adobe Photoshop puts XML metadata into JFIF images,
-			 * including namespacing, so we have to allow this for images.
-			 */
-			unset($evil_attributes[array_search('xmlns', $evil_attributes)]);
+			return '&lt;'.$matches[1].'&gt;';
 		}
+		// For other tags, see if their attributes are "evil" and strip those
+		elseif (isset($matches['attributes']))
+		{
+			// We'll store the already fitlered attributes here
+			$attributes = array();
 
-		do {
-			$count = $temp_count = 0;
+			// Attribute-catching pattern
+			$attributes_pattern = '#'
+				.'(?<name>[^\s\042\047>/=]+)' // attribute characters
+				// optional attribute-value
+				.'(?:\s*=(?<value>[^\s\042\047=><`]+|\s*\042[^\042]*\042|\s*\047[^\047]*\047|\s*(?U:[^\s\042\047=><`]*)))' // attribute-value separator
+				.'#i';
 
-			// replace occurrences of illegal attribute strings with quotes (042 and 047 are octal quotes)
-			$str = preg_replace('/(<[^>]+)(?<!\w)('.implode('|', $evil_attributes).')\s*=\s*(\042|\047)([^\\2]*?)(\\2)/is', '$1[removed]', $str, -1, $temp_count);
-			$count += $temp_count;
+			// Blacklist pattern for evil attribute names
+			$is_evil_pattern = '#^('.implode('|', $evil_attributes).')$#i';
 
-			// find occurrences of illegal attribute strings without quotes
-			$str = preg_replace('/(<[^>]+)(?<!\w)('.implode('|', $evil_attributes).')\s*=\s*([^\s>]*)/is', '$1[removed]', $str, -1, $temp_count);
-			$count += $temp_count;
-		}
-		while ($count);
+			// Each iteration filters a single attribute
+			do
+			{
+				// Strip any non-alpha characters that may precede an attribute.
+				// Browsers often parse these incorrectly and that has been a
+				// of numerous XSS issues we've had.
+				$matches['attributes'] = preg_replace('#^[^a-z]+#i', '', $matches['attributes']);
 
-		return $str;
-	}
+				if ( ! preg_match($attributes_pattern, $matches['attributes'], $attribute, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
+				{
+					// No (valid) attribute found? Discard everything else inside the tag
+					break;
+				}
 
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+				if (
+					// Is it indeed an "evil" attribute?
+					preg_match($is_evil_pattern, $attribute['name'][0])
+					// Or does it have an equals sign, but no value and not quoted? Strip that too!
+					OR (trim($attribute['value'][0]) === '')
+				)
+				{
+					$attributes[] = 'xss=removed';
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					$attributes[] = $attribute[0][0];
+				}
 
-	/**
-	 * Sanitize Naughty HTML
-	 *
-	 * Callback method for xss_clean() to remove naughty HTML elements.
-	 *
-	 * @used-by	CI_Security::xss_clean()
-	 * @param	array	$matches
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _sanitize_naughty_html($matches)
-	{
-		return '&lt;'.$matches[1].$matches[2].$matches[3] // encode opening brace
-			// encode captured opening or closing brace to prevent recursive vectors:
-			.str_replace(array('>', '<'), array('&gt;', '&lt;'), $matches[4]);
+				$matches['attributes'] = substr($matches['attributes'], $attribute[0][1] + strlen($attribute[0][0]));
+			}
+			while ($matches['attributes'] !== '');
+
+			$attributes = empty($attributes)
+				? ''
+				: ' '.implode(' ', $attributes);
+			return '<'.$matches['slash'].$matches['tagName'].$attributes.'>';
+		}
+
+		return $matches[0];
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -834,12 +902,15 @@ class CI_Security {
 	 */
 	protected function _js_link_removal($match)
 	{
-		return str_replace($match[1],
-					preg_replace('#href=.*?(?:(?:alert|prompt|confirm)(?:\(|&\#40;)|javascript:|livescript:|mocha:|charset=|window\.|document\.|\.cookie|<script|<xss|data\s*:)#si',
-							'',
-							$this->_filter_attributes(str_replace(array('<', '>'), '', $match[1]))
-					),
-					$match[0]);
+		return str_replace(
+			$match[1],
+			preg_replace(
+				'#href=.*?(?:(?:alert|prompt|confirm)(?:\(|&\#40;)|javascript:|livescript:|mocha:|charset=|window\.|document\.|\.cookie|<script|<xss|d\s*a\s*t\s*a\s*:)#si',
+				'',
+				$this->_filter_attributes($match[1])
+			),
+			$match[0]
+		);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -859,12 +930,15 @@ class CI_Security {
 	 */
 	protected function _js_img_removal($match)
 	{
-		return str_replace($match[1],
-					preg_replace('#src=.*?(?:(?:alert|prompt|confirm)(?:\(|&\#40;)|javascript:|livescript:|mocha:|charset=|window\.|document\.|\.cookie|<script|<xss|base64\s*,)#si',
-							'',
-							$this->_filter_attributes(str_replace(array('<', '>'), '', $match[1]))
-					),
-					$match[0]);
+		return str_replace(
+			$match[1],
+			preg_replace(
+				'#src=.*?(?:(?:alert|prompt|confirm|eval)(?:\(|&\#40;)|javascript:|livescript:|mocha:|charset=|window\.|document\.|\.cookie|<script|<xss|base64\s*,)#si',
+				'',
+				$this->_filter_attributes($match[1])
+			),
+			$match[0]
+		);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -980,5 +1054,4 @@ class CI_Security {
 
 		return $this->_csrf_hash;
 	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/core/URI.php b/system/core/URI.php
index 5b658f679..275c07900 100644
--- a/system/core/URI.php
+++ b/system/core/URI.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	URI
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/uri.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/uri.html
  */
 class CI_URI {
 
@@ -96,45 +96,40 @@ class CI_URI {
 	 *
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	public function __construct()
+	public function __construct(CI_Config $config)
 	{
-		$this->config =& load_class('Config', 'core');
+		$this->config = $config;
 
+		// If it's a CLI request, ignore the configuration
+		if (is_cli())
+		{
+			$this->_set_uri_string($this->_parse_argv(), TRUE);
+		}
 		// If query strings are enabled, we don't need to parse any segments.
-		// However, they don't make sense under CLI.
-		if (is_cli() OR $this->config->item('enable_query_strings') !== TRUE)
+		elseif ($this->config->item('enable_query_strings') !== TRUE)
 		{
 			$this->_permitted_uri_chars = $this->config->item('permitted_uri_chars');
+			$protocol = $this->config->item('uri_protocol');
+			empty($protocol) && $protocol = 'REQUEST_URI';
 
-			// If it's a CLI request, ignore the configuration
-			if (is_cli())
+			switch ($protocol)
 			{
-				$uri = $this->_parse_argv();
+				case 'AUTO': // For BC purposes only
+				case 'REQUEST_URI':
+					$uri = $this->_parse_request_uri();
+					break;
+				case 'QUERY_STRING':
+					$uri = $this->_parse_query_string();
+					break;
+				case 'PATH_INFO':
+				default:
+					$uri = isset($_SERVER[$protocol])
+						? $_SERVER[$protocol]
+						: $this->_parse_request_uri();
+					break;
 			}
-			else
-			{
-				$protocol = $this->config->item('uri_protocol');
-				empty($protocol) && $protocol = 'REQUEST_URI';
 
-				switch ($protocol)
-				{
-					case 'AUTO': // For BC purposes only
-					case 'REQUEST_URI':
-						$uri = $this->_parse_request_uri();
-						break;
-					case 'QUERY_STRING':
-						$uri = $this->_parse_query_string();
-						break;
-					case 'PATH_INFO':
-					default:
-						$uri = isset($_SERVER[$protocol])
-							? $_SERVER[$protocol]
-							: $this->_parse_request_uri();
-						break;
-				}
-			}
-
-			$this->_set_uri_string($uri);
+			$this->_set_uri_string($uri, FALSE);
 		}
 
 		log_message('info', 'URI Class Initialized');
@@ -145,43 +140,66 @@ class CI_URI {
 	/**
 	 * Set URI String
 	 *
-	 * @param 	string	$str
+	 * @param 	string	$str	Input URI string
+	 * @param	bool	$is_cli	Whether the input comes from CLI
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	protected function _set_uri_string($str)
+	protected function _set_uri_string($str, $is_cli = FALSE)
 	{
-		// Filter out control characters and trim slashes
-		$this->uri_string = trim(remove_invisible_characters($str, FALSE), '/');
-
-		if ($this->uri_string !== '')
+		// CLI requests have a bit simpler logic
+		if ($is_cli)
 		{
-			// Remove the URL suffix, if present
-			if (($suffix = (string) $this->config->item('url_suffix')) !== '')
+			if (($this->uri_string = trim($str, '/')) === '')
 			{
-				$slen = strlen($suffix);
-
-				if (substr($this->uri_string, -$slen) === $suffix)
-				{
-					$this->uri_string = substr($this->uri_string, 0, -$slen);
-				}
+				return;
 			}
 
 			$this->segments[0] = NULL;
-			// Populate the segments array
-			foreach (explode('/', trim($this->uri_string, '/')) as $val)
+			foreach (explode('/', $this->uri_string) as $segment)
 			{
-				$val = trim($val);
-				// Filter segments for security
-				$this->filter_uri($val);
-
-				if ($val !== '')
+				if (($segment = trim($segment)) !== '')
 				{
-					$this->segments[] = $val;
+					$this->segments[] = $segment;
 				}
 			}
 
 			unset($this->segments[0]);
+			return;
+		}
+
+		// Filter out control characters and trim slashes
+		$this->uri_string = trim(remove_invisible_characters($str, FALSE), '/');
+
+		if ($this->uri_string === '')
+		{
+			return;
 		}
+
+		// Remove the URL suffix, if present
+		if (($suffix = (string) $this->config->item('url_suffix')) !== '')
+		{
+			$slen = strlen($suffix);
+
+			if (substr($this->uri_string, -$slen) === $suffix)
+			{
+				$this->uri_string = substr($this->uri_string, 0, -$slen);
+			}
+		}
+
+		$this->segments[0] = NULL;
+		foreach (explode('/', trim($this->uri_string, '/')) as $segment)
+		{
+			$segment = trim($segment);
+			// Filter segments for security
+			$this->filter_uri($segment);
+
+			if ($segment !== '')
+			{
+				$this->segments[] = $segment;
+			}
+		}
+
+		unset($this->segments[0]);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -294,7 +312,7 @@ class CI_URI {
 	 *
 	 * Do some final cleaning of the URI and return it, currently only used in self::_parse_request_uri()
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	$url
+	 * @param	string	$uri
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
 	protected function _remove_relative_directory($uri)
diff --git a/system/core/Utf8.php b/system/core/Utf8.php
index 9d8ac41e1..1aafbf3a3 100644
--- a/system/core/Utf8.php
+++ b/system/core/Utf8.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	UTF-8
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/utf8.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/utf8.html
  */
 class CI_Utf8 {
 
@@ -57,21 +57,21 @@ class CI_Utf8 {
 	 *
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	public function __construct()
+	public function __construct($charset)
 	{
 		if (
-			defined('PREG_BAD_UTF8_ERROR')				// PCRE must support UTF-8
-			&& (ICONV_ENABLED === TRUE OR MB_ENABLED === TRUE)	// iconv or mbstring must be installed
-			&& strtoupper(config_item('charset')) === 'UTF-8'	// Application charset must be UTF-8
-			)
+			defined('PREG_BAD_UTF8_ERROR')                     // PCRE must support UTF-8
+			&& (ICONV_ENABLED === TRUE OR MB_ENABLED === TRUE) // iconv or mbstring must be installed
+			&& $charset === 'UTF-8'                            // Application charset must be UTF-8
+		)
 		{
 			define('UTF8_ENABLED', TRUE);
-			log_message('debug', 'UTF-8 Support Enabled');
+			log_message('info', 'UTF-8 Support Enabled');
 		}
 		else
 		{
 			define('UTF8_ENABLED', FALSE);
-			log_message('debug', 'UTF-8 Support Disabled');
+			log_message('info', 'UTF-8 Support Disabled');
 		}
 
 		log_message('info', 'Utf8 Class Initialized');
diff --git a/system/core/compat/hash.php b/system/core/compat/hash.php
index 15954559c..c0eab4909 100644
--- a/system/core/compat/hash.php
+++ b/system/core/compat/hash.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	CodeIgniter
  * @category	Compatibility
  * @author		Andrey Andreev
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
  * @link		http://php.net/hash
  */
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('hash_pbkdf2'))
 	 */
 	function hash_pbkdf2($algo, $password, $salt, $iterations, $length = 0, $raw_output = FALSE)
 	{
-		if ( ! in_array($algo, hash_algos(), TRUE))
+		if ( ! in_array(strtolower($algo), hash_algos(), TRUE))
 		{
 			trigger_error('hash_pbkdf2(): Unknown hashing algorithm: '.$algo, E_USER_WARNING);
 			return FALSE;
@@ -203,8 +203,6 @@ if ( ! function_exists('hash_pbkdf2'))
 			'ripemd160' => 64,
 			'ripemd256' => 64,
 			'ripemd320' => 64,
-			'salsa10' => 64,
-			'salsa20' => 64,
 			'sha1' => 64,
 			'sha224' => 64,
 			'sha256' => 64,
diff --git a/system/core/compat/mbstring.php b/system/core/compat/mbstring.php
index e335c85f7..f466e1c34 100644
--- a/system/core/compat/mbstring.php
+++ b/system/core/compat/mbstring.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	CodeIgniter
  * @category	Compatibility
  * @author		Andrey Andreev
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
  * @link		http://php.net/mbstring
  */
 
diff --git a/system/core/compat/password.php b/system/core/compat/password.php
index 7b933aa04..84be66738 100644
--- a/system/core/compat/password.php
+++ b/system/core/compat/password.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	CodeIgniter
  * @category	Compatibility
  * @author		Andrey Andreev
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
  * @link		http://php.net/password
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-if (is_php('5.5') OR ! is_php('5.3.7') OR ! defined('CRYPT_BLOWFISH') OR CRYPT_BLOWFISH !== 1 OR defined('HHVM_VERSION'))
+if (is_php('5.5') OR ! defined('CRYPT_BLOWFISH') OR CRYPT_BLOWFISH !== 1 OR defined('HHVM_VERSION'))
 {
 	return;
 }
@@ -116,13 +116,21 @@ if ( ! function_exists('password_hash'))
 		}
 		elseif ( ! isset($options['salt']))
 		{
-			if (defined('MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM'))
+			if (function_exists('random_bytes'))
 			{
-				$options['salt'] = mcrypt_create_iv(16, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM);
+				try
+				{
+					$options['salt'] = random_bytes(16);
+				}
+				catch (Exception $e)
+				{
+					log_message('error', 'compat/password: Error while trying to use random_bytes(): '.$e->getMessage());
+					return FALSE;
+				}
 			}
-			elseif (function_exists('openssl_random_pseudo_bytes'))
+			elseif (defined('MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM'))
 			{
-				$options['salt'] = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16);
+				$options['salt'] = mcrypt_create_iv(16, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM);
 			}
 			elseif (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR === '/' && (is_readable($dev = '/dev/arandom') OR is_readable($dev = '/dev/urandom')))
 			{
@@ -133,7 +141,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('password_hash'))
 				}
 
 				// Try not to waste entropy ...
-				is_php('5.4') && stream_set_chunk_size($fp, 16);
+				stream_set_chunk_size($fp, 16);
 
 				$options['salt'] = '';
 				for ($read = 0; $read < 16; $read = ($func_override) ? mb_strlen($options['salt'], '8bit') : strlen($options['salt']))
@@ -148,6 +156,16 @@ if ( ! function_exists('password_hash'))
 
 				fclose($fp);
 			}
+			elseif (function_exists('openssl_random_pseudo_bytes'))
+			{
+				$is_secure = NULL;
+				$options['salt'] = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16, $is_secure);
+				if ($is_secure !== TRUE)
+				{
+					log_message('error', 'compat/password: openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() set the $cryto_strong flag to FALSE');
+					return FALSE;
+				}
+			}
 			else
 			{
 				log_message('error', 'compat/password: No CSPRNG available.');
diff --git a/system/core/compat/standard.php b/system/core/compat/standard.php
index 5a428c114..6fd292a26 100644
--- a/system/core/compat/standard.php
+++ b/system/core/compat/standard.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	CodeIgniter
  * @category	Compatibility
  * @author		Andrey Andreev
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('array_column'))
 	 * array_column()
 	 *
 	 * @link	http://php.net/array_column
-	 * @param	string	$array
+	 * @param	array	$array
 	 * @param	mixed	$column_key
 	 * @param	mixed	$index_key
 	 * @return	array
@@ -132,258 +132,3 @@ if ( ! function_exists('array_column'))
 		return $result;
 	}
 }
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if (is_php('5.4'))
-{
-	return;
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('hex2bin'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * hex2bin()
-	 *
-	 * @link	http://php.net/hex2bin
-	 * @param	string	$data
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function hex2bin($data)
-	{
-		if (in_array($type = gettype($data), array('array', 'double', 'object'), TRUE))
-		{
-			if ($type === 'object' && method_exists($data, '__toString'))
-			{
-				$data = (string) $data;
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				trigger_error('hex2bin() expects parameter 1 to be string, '.$type.' given', E_USER_WARNING);
-				return NULL;
-			}
-		}
-
-		if (strlen($data) % 2 !== 0)
-		{
-			trigger_error('Hexadecimal input string must have an even length', E_USER_WARNING);
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-		elseif ( ! preg_match('/^[0-9a-f]*$/i', $data))
-		{
-			trigger_error('Input string must be hexadecimal string', E_USER_WARNING);
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		return pack('H*', $data);
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if (is_php('5.3'))
-{
-	return;
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('array_replace'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * array_replace()
-	 *
-	 * @link	http://php.net/array_replace
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	function array_replace()
-	{
-		$arrays = func_get_args();
-
-		if (($c = count($arrays)) === 0)
-		{
-			trigger_error('array_replace() expects at least 1 parameter, 0 given', E_USER_WARNING);
-			return NULL;
-		}
-		elseif ($c === 1)
-		{
-			if ( ! is_array($arrays[0]))
-			{
-				trigger_error('array_replace(): Argument #1 is not an array', E_USER_WARNING);
-				return NULL;
-			}
-
-			return $arrays[0];
-		}
-
-		$array = array_shift($arrays);
-		$c--;
-
-		for ($i = 0; $i < $c; $i++)
-		{
-			if ( ! is_array($arrays[$i]))
-			{
-				trigger_error('array_replace(): Argument #'.($i + 2).' is not an array', E_USER_WARNING);
-				return NULL;
-			}
-			elseif (empty($arrays[$i]))
-			{
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			foreach (array_keys($arrays[$i]) as $key)
-			{
-				$array[$key] = $arrays[$i][$key];
-			}
-		}
-
-		return $array;
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('array_replace_recursive'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * array_replace_recursive()
-	 *
-	 * @link	http://php.net/array_replace_recursive
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	function array_replace_recursive()
-	{
-		$arrays = func_get_args();
-
-		if (($c = count($arrays)) === 0)
-		{
-			trigger_error('array_replace_recursive() expects at least 1 parameter, 0 given', E_USER_WARNING);
-			return NULL;
-		}
-		elseif ($c === 1)
-		{
-			if ( ! is_array($arrays[0]))
-			{
-				trigger_error('array_replace_recursive(): Argument #1 is not an array', E_USER_WARNING);
-				return NULL;
-			}
-
-			return $arrays[0];
-		}
-
-		$array = array_shift($arrays);
-		$c--;
-
-		for ($i = 0; $i < $c; $i++)
-		{
-			if ( ! is_array($arrays[$i]))
-			{
-				trigger_error('array_replace_recursive(): Argument #'.($i + 2).' is not an array', E_USER_WARNING);
-				return NULL;
-			}
-			elseif (empty($arrays[$i]))
-			{
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			foreach (array_keys($arrays[$i]) as $key)
-			{
-				$array[$key] = (is_array($arrays[$i][$key]) && isset($array[$key]) && is_array($array[$key]))
-					? array_replace_recursive($array[$key], $arrays[$i][$key])
-					: $arrays[$i][$key];
-			}
-		}
-
-		return $array;
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('quoted_printable_encode'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * quoted_printable_encode()
-	 *
-	 * @link	http://php.net/quoted_printable_encode
-	 * @param	string	$str
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function quoted_printable_encode($str)
-	{
-		if (strlen($str) === 0)
-		{
-			return '';
-		}
-		elseif (in_array($type = gettype($str), array('array', 'object'), TRUE))
-		{
-			if ($type === 'object' && method_exists($str, '__toString'))
-			{
-				$str = (string) $str;
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				trigger_error('quoted_printable_encode() expects parameter 1 to be string, '.$type.' given', E_USER_WARNING);
-				return NULL;
-			}
-		}
-
-		if (function_exists('imap_8bit'))
-		{
-			return imap_8bit($str);
-		}
-
-		$i = $lp = 0;
-		$output = '';
-		$hex = '0123456789ABCDEF';
-		$length = (extension_loaded('mbstring') && ini_get('mbstring.func_overload'))
-			? mb_strlen($str, '8bit')
-			: strlen($str);
-
-		while ($length--)
-		{
-			if ((($c = $str[$i++]) === "\015") && isset($str[$i]) && ($str[$i] === "\012") && $length > 0)
-			{
-				$output .= "\015".$str[$i++];
-				$length--;
-				$lp = 0;
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			if (
-				ctype_cntrl($c)
-				OR (ord($c) === 0x7f)
-				OR (ord($c) & 0x80)
-				OR ($c === '=')
-				OR ($c === ' ' && isset($str[$i]) && $str[$i] === "\015")
-			)
-			{
-				if (
-					(($lp += 3) > 75 && ord($c) <= 0x7f)
-					OR (ord($c) > 0x7f && ord($c) <= 0xdf && ($lp + 3) > 75)
-					OR (ord($c) > 0xdf && ord($c) <= 0xef && ($lp + 6) > 75)
-					OR (ord($c) > 0xef && ord($c) <= 0xf4 && ($lp + 9) > 75)
-				)
-				{
-					$output .= "=\015\012";
-					$lp = 3;
-				}
-
-				$output .= '='.$hex[ord($c) >> 4].$hex[ord($c) & 0xf];
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			if ((++$lp) > 75)
-			{
-				$output .= "=\015\012";
-				$lp = 1;
-			}
-
-			$output .= $c;
-		}
-
-		return $output;
-	}
-}
diff --git a/system/database/DB.php b/system/database/DB.php
index 0c7cf54b3..009035032 100644
--- a/system/database/DB.php
+++ b/system/database/DB.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  *
  * @param 	string|string[]	$params
  * @param 	bool		$query_builder_override
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ function &DB($params = '', $query_builder_override = NULL)
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ( ! isset($db) OR count($db) === 0)
+		if (empty($db))
 		{
 			show_error('No database connection settings were found in the database config file.');
 		}
@@ -192,10 +192,13 @@ function &DB($params = '', $query_builder_override = NULL)
 
 	// Load the DB driver
 	$driver_file = BASEPATH.'database/drivers/'.$params['dbdriver'].'/'.$params['dbdriver'].'_driver.php';
-
 	file_exists($driver_file) OR show_error('Invalid DB driver');
 	require_once($driver_file);
 
+	// Load the result classes as well
+	require_once(BASEPATH.'database/DB_result.php');
+	require_once(BASEPATH.'database/drivers/'.$params['dbdriver'].'/'.$params['dbdriver'].'_result.php');
+
 	// Instantiate the DB adapter
 	$driver = 'CI_DB_'.$params['dbdriver'].'_driver';
 	$DB = new $driver($params);
diff --git a/system/database/DB_cache.php b/system/database/DB_cache.php
index 223055f60..b74c31924 100644
--- a/system/database/DB_cache.php
+++ b/system/database/DB_cache.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_Cache {
 
diff --git a/system/database/DB_driver.php b/system/database/DB_driver.php
index e58496de9..161e0e225 100644
--- a/system/database/DB_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/DB_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	/**
 	 * Initialize Database Settings
 	 *
-	 * @return	bool
+	 * @return	void
+	 * @throws	RuntimeException	In case of failure
 	 */
 	public function initialize()
 	{
@@ -392,7 +393,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 		 */
 		if ($this->conn_id)
 		{
-			return TRUE;
+			return;
 		}
 
 		// ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -429,19 +430,9 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 			// We still don't have a connection?
 			if ( ! $this->conn_id)
 			{
-				log_message('error', 'Unable to connect to the database');
-
-				if ($this->db_debug)
-				{
-					$this->display_error('db_unable_to_connect');
-				}
-
-				return FALSE;
+				throw new RuntimeException('Unable to connect to the database.');
 			}
 		}
-
-		// Now we set the character set and that's all
-		return $this->db_set_charset($this->char_set);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -505,26 +496,13 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Set client character set
+	 * Last error
 	 *
-	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	bool
+	 * @return	array
 	 */
-	public function db_set_charset($charset)
+	public function error()
 	{
-		if (method_exists($this, '_db_set_charset') && ! $this->_db_set_charset($charset))
-		{
-			log_message('error', 'Unable to set database connection charset: '.$charset);
-
-			if ($this->db_debug)
-			{
-				$this->display_error('db_unable_to_set_charset', $charset);
-			}
-
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		return TRUE;
+		return array('code' => NULL, 'message' => NULL);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -622,7 +600,6 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 		// cached query if it exists
 		if ($this->cache_on === TRUE && $return_object === TRUE && $this->_cache_init())
 		{
-			$this->load_rdriver();
 			if (FALSE !== ($cache = $this->CACHE->read($sql)))
 			{
 				return $cache;
@@ -647,7 +624,10 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 			}
 
 			// This will trigger a rollback if transactions are being used
-			$this->_trans_status = FALSE;
+			if ($this->_trans_depth !== 0)
+			{
+				$this->_trans_status = FALSE;
+			}
 
 			// Grab the error now, as we might run some additional queries before displaying the error
 			$error = $this->error();
@@ -661,13 +641,15 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 				// if transactions are enabled. If we don't call this here
 				// the error message will trigger an exit, causing the
 				// transactions to remain in limbo.
-				if ($this->_trans_depth !== 0)
+				while ($this->_trans_depth !== 0)
 				{
-					do
+					$trans_depth = $this->_trans_depth;
+					$this->trans_complete();
+					if ($trans_depth === $this->_trans_depth)
 					{
-						$this->trans_complete();
+						log_message('error', 'Database: Failure during an automated transaction commit/rollback!');
+						break;
 					}
-					while ($this->_trans_depth !== 0);
 				}
 
 				// Display errors
@@ -701,9 +683,9 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		// Load and instantiate the result driver
-		$driver		= $this->load_rdriver();
-		$RES		= new $driver($this);
+		// Instantiate the driver-specific result class
+		$driver	= 'CI_DB_'.$this->dbdriver.'_result';
+		$RES    = new $driver($this);
 
 		// Is query caching enabled? If so, we'll serialize the
 		// result object and save it to a cache file.
@@ -733,26 +715,6 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Load the result drivers
-	 *
-	 * @return	string	the name of the result class
-	 */
-	public function load_rdriver()
-	{
-		$driver = 'CI_DB_'.$this->dbdriver.'_result';
-
-		if ( ! class_exists($driver, FALSE))
-		{
-			require_once(BASEPATH.'database/DB_result.php');
-			require_once(BASEPATH.'database/drivers/'.$this->dbdriver.'/'.$this->dbdriver.'_result.php');
-		}
-
-		return $driver;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Simple Query
 	 * This is a simplified version of the query() function. Internally
 	 * we only use it when running transaction commands since they do
@@ -763,11 +725,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	 */
 	public function simple_query($sql)
 	{
-		if ( ! $this->conn_id)
-		{
-			$this->initialize();
-		}
-
+		empty($this->conn_id) && $this->initialize();
 		return $this->_execute($sql);
 	}
 
@@ -788,10 +746,13 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 
 	/**
 	 * Enable/disable Transaction Strict Mode
+	 *
 	 * When strict mode is enabled, if you are running multiple groups of
-	 * transactions, if one group fails all groups will be rolled back.
-	 * If strict mode is disabled, each group is treated autonomously, meaning
-	 * a failure of one group will not affect any others
+	 * transactions, if one group fails all subsequent groups will be
+	 * rolled back.
+	 *
+	 * If strict mode is disabled, each group is treated autonomously,
+	 * meaning a failure of one group will not affect any others
 	 *
 	 * @param	bool	$mode = TRUE
 	 * @return	void
@@ -807,24 +768,16 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	 * Start Transaction
 	 *
 	 * @param	bool	$test_mode = FALSE
-	 * @return	void
+	 * @return	bool
 	 */
 	public function trans_start($test_mode = FALSE)
 	{
 		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled)
 		{
-			return;
-		}
-
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ($this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			$this->_trans_depth += 1;
-			return;
+			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		$this->trans_begin($test_mode);
-		$this->_trans_depth += 1;
+		return $this->trans_begin($test_mode);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -841,25 +794,14 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ($this->_trans_depth > 1)
-		{
-			$this->_trans_depth -= 1;
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			$this->_trans_depth = 0;
-		}
-
 		// The query() function will set this flag to FALSE in the event that a query failed
 		if ($this->_trans_status === FALSE OR $this->_trans_failure === TRUE)
 		{
 			$this->trans_rollback();
 
 			// If we are NOT running in strict mode, we will reset
-			// the _trans_status flag so that subsequent groups of transactions
-			// will be permitted.
+			// the _trans_status flag so that subsequent groups of
+			// transactions will be permitted.
 			if ($this->trans_strict === FALSE)
 			{
 				$this->_trans_status = TRUE;
@@ -869,8 +811,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		$this->trans_commit();
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->trans_commit();
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -888,6 +829,87 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * Begin Transaction
+	 *
+	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	{
+		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled)
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
+		elseif ($this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		{
+			$this->_trans_depth++;
+			return TRUE;
+		}
+
+		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
+		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
+		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
+		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
+
+		if ($this->_trans_begin())
+		{
+			$this->_trans_depth++;
+			return TRUE;
+		}
+
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Commit Transaction
+	 *
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	public function trans_commit()
+	{
+		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth === 0)
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
+		elseif ($this->_trans_depth > 1 OR $this->_trans_commit())
+		{
+			$this->_trans_depth--;
+			return TRUE;
+		}
+
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Rollback Transaction
+	 *
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	public function trans_rollback()
+	{
+		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth === 0)
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
+		elseif ($this->_trans_depth > 1 OR $this->_trans_rollback())
+		{
+			$this->_trans_depth--;
+			return TRUE;
+		}
+
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Compile Bindings
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	the sql statement
@@ -896,7 +918,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	 */
 	public function compile_binds($sql, $binds)
 	{
-		if (empty($binds) OR empty($this->bind_marker) OR strpos($sql, $this->bind_marker) === FALSE)
+		if (empty($this->bind_marker) OR strpos($sql, $this->bind_marker) === FALSE)
 		{
 			return $sql;
 		}
@@ -916,7 +938,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 		$ml = strlen($this->bind_marker);
 
 		// Make sure not to replace a chunk inside a string that happens to match the bind marker
-		if ($c = preg_match_all("/'[^']*'/i", $sql, $matches))
+		if ($c = preg_match_all("/'[^']*'|\"[^\"]*\"/i", $sql, $matches))
 		{
 			$c = preg_match_all('/'.preg_quote($this->bind_marker, '/').'/i',
 				str_replace($matches[0],
@@ -1089,7 +1111,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
@@ -1477,18 +1499,18 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 				? '\s+'.preg_quote(trim(sprintf($this->_like_escape_str, $this->_like_escape_chr)), '/')
 				: '';
 			$_operators = array(
-				'\s*(?:<|>|!)?=\s*',		// =, <=, >=, !=
-				'\s*<>?\s*',			// <, <>
-				'\s*>\s*',			// >
-				'\s+IS NULL',			// IS NULL
-				'\s+IS NOT NULL',		// IS NOT NULL
-				'\s+EXISTS\s*\([^\)]+\)',	// EXISTS(sql)
-				'\s+NOT EXISTS\s*\([^\)]+\)',	// NOT EXISTS(sql)
-				'\s+BETWEEN\s+\S+\s+AND\s+\S+',	// BETWEEN value AND value
-				'\s+IN\s*\([^\)]+\)',		// IN(list)
-				'\s+NOT IN\s*\([^\)]+\)',	// NOT IN (list)
-				'\s+LIKE\s+\S+'.$_les,		// LIKE 'expr'[ ESCAPE '%s']
-				'\s+NOT LIKE\s+\S+'.$_les	// NOT LIKE 'expr'[ ESCAPE '%s']
+				'\s*(?:<|>|!)?=\s*',             // =, <=, >=, !=
+				'\s*<>?\s*',                     // <, <>
+				'\s*>\s*',                       // >
+				'\s+IS NULL',                    // IS NULL
+				'\s+IS NOT NULL',                // IS NOT NULL
+				'\s+EXISTS\s*\(.*\)',        // EXISTS(sql)
+				'\s+NOT EXISTS\s*\(.*\)',    // NOT EXISTS(sql)
+				'\s+BETWEEN\s+',                 // BETWEEN value AND value
+				'\s+IN\s*\(.*\)',            // IN(list)
+				'\s+NOT IN\s*\(.*\)',        // NOT IN (list)
+				'\s+LIKE\s+\S.*('.$_les.')?',    // LIKE 'expr'[ ESCAPE '%s']
+				'\s+NOT LIKE\s+\S.*('.$_les.')?' // NOT LIKE 'expr'[ ESCAPE '%s']
 			);
 
 		}
@@ -1709,7 +1731,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 	 * the table prefix onto it. Some logic is necessary in order to deal with
 	 * column names that include the path. Consider a query like this:
 	 *
-	 * SELECT * FROM hostname.database.table.column AS c FROM hostname.database.table
+	 * SELECT hostname.database.table.column AS c FROM hostname.database.table
 	 *
 	 * Or a query with aliasing:
 	 *
@@ -1757,7 +1779,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 		}
 
 		// Convert tabs or multiple spaces into single spaces
-		$item = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $item);
+		$item = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', trim($item));
 
 		// If the item has an alias declaration we remove it and set it aside.
 		// Note: strripos() is used in order to support spaces in table names
@@ -1785,12 +1807,15 @@ abstract class CI_DB_driver {
 		// with an alias. While we're at it, we will escape the components
 		if (strpos($item, '.') !== FALSE)
 		{
-			$parts	= explode('.', $item);
+			$parts = explode('.', $item);
 
 			// Does the first segment of the exploded item match
 			// one of the aliases previously identified? If so,
 			// we have nothing more to do other than escape the item
-			if (in_array($parts[0], $this->qb_aliased_tables))
+			//
+			// NOTE: The ! empty() condition prevents this method
+			//       from breaking when QB isn't enabled.
+			if ( ! empty($this->qb_aliased_tables) && in_array($parts[0], $this->qb_aliased_tables))
 			{
 				if ($protect_identifiers === TRUE)
 				{
diff --git a/system/database/DB_forge.php b/system/database/DB_forge.php
index dde285598..b52d1fb2b 100644
--- a/system/database/DB_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/DB_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 abstract class CI_DB_forge {
 
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_forge {
 		{
 			return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->db->display_error('db_unsupported_feature') : FALSE;
 		}
-		elseif ( ! $this->db->query(sprintf($this->_create_database, $db_name, $this->db->char_set, $this->db->dbcollat)))
+		elseif ( ! $this->db->query(sprintf($this->_create_database, $this->db->escape_identifiers($db_name), $this->db->char_set, $this->db->dbcollat)))
 		{
 			return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->db->display_error('db_unable_to_drop') : FALSE;
 		}
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_forge {
 		{
 			return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->db->display_error('db_unsupported_feature') : FALSE;
 		}
-		elseif ( ! $this->db->query(sprintf($this->_drop_database, $db_name)))
+		elseif ( ! $this->db->query(sprintf($this->_drop_database, $this->db->escape_identifiers($db_name))))
 		{
 			return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->db->display_error('db_unable_to_drop') : FALSE;
 		}
@@ -239,7 +239,13 @@ abstract class CI_DB_forge {
 	 */
 	public function add_key($key, $primary = FALSE)
 	{
-		if (is_array($key))
+		// DO NOT change this! This condition is only applicable
+		// for PRIMARY keys because you can only have one such,
+		// and therefore all fields you add to it will be included
+		// in the same, composite PRIMARY KEY.
+		//
+		// It's not the same for regular indexes.
+		if ($primary === TRUE && is_array($key))
 		{
 			foreach ($key as $one)
 			{
@@ -342,7 +348,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_forge {
 
 		if (($result = $this->db->query($sql)) !== FALSE)
 		{
-			empty($this->db->data_cache['table_names']) OR $this->db->data_cache['table_names'][] = $table;
+			isset($this->db->data_cache['table_names']) && $this->db->data_cache['table_names'][] = $table;
 
 			// Most databases don't support creating indexes from within the CREATE TABLE statement
 			if ( ! empty($this->keys))
@@ -774,10 +780,6 @@ abstract class CI_DB_forge {
 					case 'ENUM':
 					case 'SET':
 						$attributes['CONSTRAINT'] = $this->db->escape($attributes['CONSTRAINT']);
-						$field['length'] = is_array($attributes['CONSTRAINT'])
-							? "('".implode("','", $attributes['CONSTRAINT'])."')"
-							: '('.$attributes['CONSTRAINT'].')';
-						break;
 					default:
 						$field['length'] = is_array($attributes['CONSTRAINT'])
 							? '('.implode(',', $attributes['CONSTRAINT']).')'
@@ -892,21 +894,33 @@ abstract class CI_DB_forge {
 			return;
 		}
 
-		if (array_key_exists('DEFAULT', $attributes))
+		if ( ! array_key_exists('DEFAULT', $attributes))
 		{
-			if ($attributes['DEFAULT'] === NULL)
-			{
-				$field['default'] = empty($this->_null) ? '' : $this->_default.$this->_null;
+			return;
+		}
 
-				// Override the NULL attribute if that's our default
-				$attributes['NULL'] = TRUE;
-				$field['null'] = empty($this->_null) ? '' : ' '.$this->_null;
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				$field['default'] = $this->_default.$this->db->escape($attributes['DEFAULT']);
-			}
+		if ($attributes['DEFAULT'] === NULL)
+		{
+			$field['default'] = empty($this->_null) ? '' : $this->_default.$this->_null;
+
+			// Override the NULL attribute if that's our default
+			$attributes['NULL'] = TRUE;
+			$field['null'] = empty($this->_null) ? '' : ' '.$this->_null;
+			return;
 		}
+
+		// White-list CURRENT_TIMESTAMP & similar (e.g. Oracle has stuff like SYSTIMESTAMP) defaults for date/time fields
+		if (
+			isset($attributes['TYPE'])
+			&& (stripos($attributes['TYPE'],    'time') !== FALSE OR stripos($attributes['TYPE'],    'date') !== FALSE)
+			&& (stripos($attributes['DEFAULT'], 'time') !== FALSE OR stripos($attributes['DEFAULT'], 'date') !== FALSE)
+		)
+		{
+			$field['default'] = $this->_default.$attributes['DEFAULT'];
+			return;
+		}
+
+		$field['default'] = $this->_default.$this->db->escape($attributes['DEFAULT']);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/database/DB_query_builder.php b/system/database/DB_query_builder.php
index 7f3334763..fe4cf6993 100644
--- a/system/database/DB_query_builder.php
+++ b/system/database/DB_query_builder.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 
 abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
@@ -150,6 +150,13 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	protected $qb_set			= array();
 
 	/**
+	 * QB data set for update_batch()
+	 *
+	 * @var	array
+	 */
+	protected $qb_set_ub			= array();
+
+	/**
 	 * QB aliased tables list
 	 *
 	 * @var	array
@@ -208,6 +215,13 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	protected $qb_cache_join			= array();
 
 	/**
+	 * QB Cache aliased tables list
+	 *
+	 * @var	array
+	 */
+	protected $qb_cache_aliased_tables			= array();
+
+	/**
 	 * QB Cache WHERE data
 	 *
 	 * @var	array
@@ -531,39 +545,46 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 
 		is_bool($escape) OR $escape = $this->_protect_identifiers;
 
-		// Split multiple conditions
-		if ($escape === TRUE && preg_match_all('/\sAND\s|\sOR\s/i', $cond, $m, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
+		if ( ! $this->_has_operator($cond))
 		{
-			$newcond = '';
-			$m[0][] = array('', strlen($cond));
-
-			for ($i = 0, $c = count($m[0]), $s = 0;
-				$i < $c;
-				$s = $m[0][$i][1] + strlen($m[0][$i][0]), $i++)
-			{
-				$temp = substr($cond, $s, ($m[0][$i][1] - $s));
-
-				$newcond .= preg_match("/([\[\]\w\.'-]+)(\s*[^\"\[`'\w]+\s*)(.+)/i", $temp, $match)
-						? $this->protect_identifiers($match[1]).$match[2].$this->protect_identifiers($match[3])
-						: $temp;
-
-				$newcond .= $m[0][$i][0];
-			}
-
-			$cond = ' ON '.$newcond;
-		}
-		// Split apart the condition and protect the identifiers
-		elseif ($escape === TRUE && preg_match("/([\[\]\w\.'-]+)(\s*[^\"\[`'\w]+\s*)(.+)/i", $cond, $match))
-		{
-			$cond = ' ON '.$this->protect_identifiers($match[1]).$match[2].$this->protect_identifiers($match[3]);
+			$cond = ' USING ('.($escape ? $this->escape_identifiers($cond) : $cond).')';
 		}
-		elseif ( ! $this->_has_operator($cond))
+		elseif ($escape === FALSE)
 		{
-			$cond = ' USING ('.($escape ? $this->escape_identifiers($cond) : $cond).')';
+			$cond = ' ON '.$cond;
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			$cond = ' ON '.$cond;
+			// Split multiple conditions
+			if (preg_match_all('/\sAND\s|\sOR\s/i', $cond, $joints, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
+			{
+				$conditions = array();
+				$joints = $joints[0];
+				array_unshift($joints, array('', 0));
+
+				for ($i = count($joints) - 1, $pos = strlen($cond); $i >= 0; $i--)
+				{
+					$joints[$i][1] += strlen($joints[$i][0]); // offset
+					$conditions[$i] = substr($cond, $joints[$i][1], $pos - $joints[$i][1]);
+					$pos = $joints[$i][1] - strlen($joints[$i][0]);
+					$joints[$i] = $joints[$i][0];
+				}
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$conditions = array($cond);
+				$joints = array('');
+			}
+
+			$cond = ' ON ';
+			for ($i = 0, $c = count($conditions); $i < $c; $i++)
+			{
+				$operator = $this->_get_operator($conditions[$i]);
+				$cond .= $joints[$i];
+				$cond .= preg_match("/(\(*)?([\[\]\w\.'-]+)".preg_quote($operator)."(.*)/i", $conditions[$i], $match)
+					? $match[1].$this->protect_identifiers($match[2]).$operator.$this->protect_identifiers($match[3])
+					: $conditions[$i];
+			}
 		}
 
 		// Do we want to escape the table name?
@@ -672,7 +693,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 				// value appears not to have been set, assign the test to IS NULL
 				$k .= ' IS NULL';
 			}
-			elseif (preg_match('/\s*(!?=|<>|IS(?:\s+NOT)?)\s*$/i', $k, $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
+			elseif (preg_match('/\s*(!?=|<>|\sIS(?:\s+NOT)?\s)\s*$/i', $k, $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
 			{
 				$k = substr($k, 0, $match[0][1]).($match[1][0] === '=' ? ' IS NULL' : ' IS NOT NULL');
 			}
@@ -1138,7 +1159,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * @param	string	$key
 	 * @param	string	$value
 	 * @param	bool	$escape
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	CI_DB_query_builder
 	 */
 	public function having($key, $value = NULL, $escape = NULL)
 	{
@@ -1155,7 +1176,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * @param	string	$key
 	 * @param	string	$value
 	 * @param	bool	$escape
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	CI_DB_query_builder
 	 */
 	public function or_having($key, $value = NULL, $escape = NULL)
 	{
@@ -1264,7 +1285,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 */
 	protected function _limit($sql)
 	{
-		return $sql.' LIMIT '.($this->qb_offset ? $this->qb_offset.', ' : '').$this->qb_limit;
+		return $sql.' LIMIT '.($this->qb_offset ? $this->qb_offset.', ' : '').(int) $this->qb_limit;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1339,7 +1360,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * @param	string	the table
 	 * @param	string	the limit clause
 	 * @param	string	the offset clause
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	CI_DB_result
 	 */
 	public function get($table = '', $limit = NULL, $offset = NULL)
 	{
@@ -1379,7 +1400,16 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 			$this->from($table);
 		}
 
-		$result = ($this->qb_distinct === TRUE)
+		// ORDER BY usage is often problematic here (most notably
+		// on Microsoft SQL Server) and ultimately unnecessary
+		// for selecting COUNT(*) ...
+		if ( ! empty($this->qb_orderby))
+		{
+			$orderby = $this->qb_orderby;
+			$this->qb_orderby = NULL;
+		}
+
+		$result = ($this->qb_distinct === TRUE OR ! empty($this->qb_groupby) OR ! empty($this->qb_cache_groupby))
 			? $this->query($this->_count_string.$this->protect_identifiers('numrows')."\nFROM (\n".$this->_compile_select()."\n) CI_count_all_results")
 			: $this->query($this->_compile_select($this->_count_string.$this->protect_identifiers('numrows')));
 
@@ -1387,6 +1417,11 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 		{
 			$this->_reset_select();
 		}
+		// If we've previously reset the qb_orderby values, get them back
+		elseif ( ! isset($this->qb_orderby))
+		{
+			$this->qb_orderby = $orderby;
+		}
 
 		if ($result->num_rows() === 0)
 		{
@@ -1408,7 +1443,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * @param	string	$where
 	 * @param	int	$limit
 	 * @param	int	$offset
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	CI_DB_result
 	 */
 	public function get_where($table = '', $where = NULL, $limit = NULL, $offset = NULL)
 	{
@@ -1444,20 +1479,26 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * @param	bool	$escape	Whether to escape values and identifiers
 	 * @return	int	Number of rows inserted or FALSE on failure
 	 */
-	public function insert_batch($table = '', $set = NULL, $escape = NULL)
+	public function insert_batch($table, $set = NULL, $escape = NULL, $batch_size = 100)
 	{
-		if ($set !== NULL)
+		if ($set === NULL)
 		{
-			$this->set_insert_batch($set, '', $escape);
+			if (empty($this->qb_set))
+			{
+				return ($this->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('db_must_use_set') : FALSE;
+			}
 		}
-
-		if (count($this->qb_set) === 0)
+		else
 		{
-			// No valid data array. Folds in cases where keys and values did not match up
-			return ($this->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('db_must_use_set') : FALSE;
+			if (empty($set))
+			{
+				return ($this->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('insert_batch() called with no data') : FALSE;
+			}
+
+			$this->set_insert_batch($set, '', $escape);
 		}
 
-		if ($table === '')
+		if (strlen($table) === 0)
 		{
 			if ( ! isset($this->qb_from[0]))
 			{
@@ -1469,10 +1510,12 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 
 		// Batch this baby
 		$affected_rows = 0;
-		for ($i = 0, $total = count($this->qb_set); $i < $total; $i += 100)
+		for ($i = 0, $total = count($this->qb_set); $i < $total; $i += $batch_size)
 		{
-			$this->query($this->_insert_batch($this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, $escape, FALSE), $this->qb_keys, array_slice($this->qb_set, $i, 100)));
-			$affected_rows += $this->affected_rows();
+			if ($this->query($this->_insert_batch($this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, $escape, FALSE), $this->qb_keys, array_slice($this->qb_set, $i, $batch_size))))
+			{
+				$affected_rows += $this->affected_rows();
+			}
 		}
 
 		$this->_reset_write();
@@ -1517,7 +1560,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 
 		is_bool($escape) OR $escape = $this->_protect_identifiers;
 
-		$keys = array_keys($this->_object_to_array(current($key)));
+		$keys = array_keys($this->_object_to_array(reset($key)));
 		sort($keys);
 
 		foreach ($key as $row)
@@ -1598,7 +1641,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * @param	string	the table to insert data into
 	 * @param	array	an associative array of insert values
 	 * @param	bool	$escape	Whether to escape values and identifiers
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	bool	TRUE on success, FALSE on failure
 	 */
 	public function insert($table = '', $set = NULL, $escape = NULL)
 	{
@@ -1664,7 +1707,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	the table to replace data into
 	 * @param	array	an associative array of insert values
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	bool	TRUE on success, FALSE on failure
 	 */
 	public function replace($table = '', $set = NULL)
 	{
@@ -1770,7 +1813,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * @param	array	$set	An associative array of update values
 	 * @param	mixed	$where
 	 * @param	int	$limit
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	bool	TRUE on success, FALSE on failure
 	 */
 	public function update($table = '', $set = NULL, $where = NULL, $limit = NULL)
 	{
@@ -1845,7 +1888,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * @param	string	the where key
 	 * @return	int	number of rows affected or FALSE on failure
 	 */
-	public function update_batch($table = '', $set = NULL, $index = NULL)
+	public function update_batch($table, $set = NULL, $index = NULL, $batch_size = 100)
 	{
 		// Combine any cached components with the current statements
 		$this->_merge_cache();
@@ -1855,17 +1898,24 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 			return ($this->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('db_must_use_index') : FALSE;
 		}
 
-		if ($set !== NULL)
+		if ($set === NULL)
 		{
-			$this->set_update_batch($set, $index);
+			if (empty($this->qb_set_ub))
+			{
+				return ($this->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('db_must_use_set') : FALSE;
+			}
 		}
-
-		if (count($this->qb_set) === 0)
+		else
 		{
-			return ($this->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('db_must_use_set') : FALSE;
+			if (empty($set))
+			{
+				return ($this->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('update_batch() called with no data') : FALSE;
+			}
+
+			$this->set_update_batch($set, $index);
 		}
 
-		if ($table === '')
+		if (strlen($table) === 0)
 		{
 			if ( ! isset($this->qb_from[0]))
 			{
@@ -1877,10 +1927,13 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 
 		// Batch this baby
 		$affected_rows = 0;
-		for ($i = 0, $total = count($this->qb_set); $i < $total; $i += 100)
+		for ($i = 0, $total = count($this->qb_set_ub); $i < $total; $i += $batch_size)
 		{
-			$this->query($this->_update_batch($this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, NULL, FALSE), array_slice($this->qb_set, $i, 100), $this->protect_identifiers($index)));
-			$affected_rows += $this->affected_rows();
+			if ($this->query($this->_update_batch($this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, NULL, FALSE), array_slice($this->qb_set_ub, $i, $batch_size), $index)))
+			{
+				$affected_rows += $this->affected_rows();
+			}
+
 			$this->qb_where = array();
 		}
 
@@ -1905,13 +1958,13 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 		$ids = array();
 		foreach ($values as $key => $val)
 		{
-			$ids[] = $val[$index];
+			$ids[] = $val[$index]['value'];
 
 			foreach (array_keys($val) as $field)
 			{
 				if ($field !== $index)
 				{
-					$final[$field][] = 'WHEN '.$index.' = '.$val[$index].' THEN '.$val[$field];
+					$final[$val[$field]['field']][] = 'WHEN '.$val[$index]['field'].' = '.$val[$index]['value'].' THEN '.$val[$field]['value'];
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -1924,7 +1977,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 				.'ELSE '.$k.' END, ';
 		}
 
-		$this->where($index.' IN('.implode(',', $ids).')', NULL, FALSE);
+		$this->where($val[$index]['field'].' IN('.implode(',', $ids).')', NULL, FALSE);
 
 		return 'UPDATE '.$table.' SET '.substr($cases, 0, -2).$this->_compile_wh('qb_where');
 	}
@@ -1961,7 +2014,10 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 					$index_set = TRUE;
 				}
 
-				$clean[$this->protect_identifiers($k2, FALSE, $escape)] = ($escape === FALSE) ? $v2 : $this->escape($v2);
+				$clean[$k2] = array(
+					'field'  => $this->protect_identifiers($k2, FALSE, $escape),
+					'value'  => ($escape === FALSE ? $v2 : $this->escape($v2))
+				);
 			}
 
 			if ($index_set === FALSE)
@@ -1969,7 +2025,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 				return $this->display_error('db_batch_missing_index');
 			}
 
-			$this->qb_set[] = $clean;
+			$this->qb_set_ub[] = $clean;
 		}
 
 		return $this;
@@ -1983,7 +2039,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * Compiles a delete string and runs "DELETE FROM table"
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	the table to empty
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	bool	TRUE on success, FALSE on failure
 	 */
 	public function empty_table($table = '')
 	{
@@ -2016,7 +2072,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 * This function maps to "DELETE FROM table"
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	the table to truncate
-	 * @return	object
+	 * @return	bool	TRUE on success, FALSE on failure
 	 */
 	public function truncate($table = '')
 	{
@@ -2232,9 +2288,14 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 			$table = trim(strrchr($table, ' '));
 
 			// Store the alias, if it doesn't already exist
-			if ( ! in_array($table, $this->qb_aliased_tables))
+			if ( ! in_array($table, $this->qb_aliased_tables, TRUE))
 			{
 				$this->qb_aliased_tables[] = $table;
+				if ($this->qb_caching === TRUE && ! in_array($table, $this->qb_cache_aliased_tables, TRUE))
+				{
+					$this->qb_cache_aliased_tables[] = $table;
+					$this->qb_cache_exists[] = 'aliased_tables';
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -2301,7 +2362,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 			.$this->_compile_order_by(); // ORDER BY
 
 		// LIMIT
-		if ($this->qb_limit)
+		if ($this->qb_limit OR $this->qb_offset)
 		{
 			return $this->_limit($sql."\n");
 		}
@@ -2316,7 +2377,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 *
 	 * Escapes identifiers in WHERE and HAVING statements at execution time.
 	 *
-	 * Required so that aliases are tracked properly, regardless of wether
+	 * Required so that aliases are tracked properly, regardless of whether
 	 * where(), or_where(), having(), or_having are called prior to from(),
 	 * join() and dbprefix is added only if needed.
 	 *
@@ -2342,7 +2403,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 
 				// Split multiple conditions
 				$conditions = preg_split(
-					'/((^|\s+)AND\s+|(^|\s+)OR\s+)/i',
+					'/((?:^|\s+)AND\s+|(?:^|\s+)OR\s+)/i',
 					$this->{$qb_key}[$i]['condition'],
 					-1,
 					PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE | PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY
@@ -2392,7 +2453,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 *
 	 * Escapes identifiers in GROUP BY statements at execution time.
 	 *
-	 * Required so that aliases are tracked properly, regardless of wether
+	 * Required so that aliases are tracked properly, regardless of whether
 	 * group_by() is called prior to from(), join() and dbprefix is added
 	 * only if needed.
 	 *
@@ -2428,7 +2489,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	 *
 	 * Escapes identifiers in ORDER BY statements at execution time.
 	 *
-	 * Required so that aliases are tracked properly, regardless of wether
+	 * Required so that aliases are tracked properly, regardless of whether
 	 * order_by() is called prior to from(), join() and dbprefix is added
 	 * only if needed.
 	 *
@@ -2576,7 +2637,8 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 			'qb_cache_orderby'		=> array(),
 			'qb_cache_set'			=> array(),
 			'qb_cache_exists'		=> array(),
-			'qb_cache_no_escape'	=> array()
+			'qb_cache_no_escape'	=> array(),
+			'qb_cache_aliased_tables'	=> array()
 		));
 
 		return $this;
@@ -2627,13 +2689,6 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 				$this->qb_no_escape = $qb_no_escape;
 			}
 		}
-
-		// If we are "protecting identifiers" we need to examine the "from"
-		// portion of the query to determine if there are any aliases
-		if ($this->_protect_identifiers === TRUE && count($this->qb_cache_from) > 0)
-		{
-			$this->_track_aliases($this->qb_from);
-		}
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -2736,6 +2791,7 @@ abstract class CI_DB_query_builder extends CI_DB_driver {
 	{
 		$this->_reset_run(array(
 			'qb_set'	=> array(),
+			'qb_set_ub'	=> array(),
 			'qb_from'	=> array(),
 			'qb_join'	=> array(),
 			'qb_where'	=> array(),
diff --git a/system/database/DB_result.php b/system/database/DB_result.php
index 746f2a110..98d8876a7 100644
--- a/system/database/DB_result.php
+++ b/system/database/DB_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_result {
 
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ class CI_DB_result {
 	 */
 	protected function _fetch_object($class_name = 'stdClass')
 	{
-		return array();
+		return new $class_name();
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/system/database/DB_utility.php b/system/database/DB_utility.php
index 78398ea83..944d45881 100644
--- a/system/database/DB_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/DB_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 abstract class CI_DB_utility {
 
@@ -235,13 +235,8 @@ abstract class CI_DB_utility {
 	 * @param	string	$enclosure	Enclosure (default: ")
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	public function csv_from_result($query, $delim = ',', $newline = "\n", $enclosure = '"')
+	public function csv_from_result(CI_DB_result $query, $delim = ',', $newline = "\n", $enclosure = '"')
 	{
-		if ( ! is_object($query) OR ! method_exists($query, 'list_fields'))
-		{
-			show_error('You must submit a valid result object');
-		}
-
 		$out = '';
 		// First generate the headings from the table column names
 		foreach ($query->list_fields() as $name)
@@ -254,11 +249,12 @@ abstract class CI_DB_utility {
 		// Next blast through the result array and build out the rows
 		while ($row = $query->unbuffered_row('array'))
 		{
+			$line = array();
 			foreach ($row as $item)
 			{
-				$out .= $enclosure.str_replace($enclosure, $enclosure.$enclosure, $item).$enclosure.$delim;
+				$line[] = $enclosure.str_replace($enclosure, $enclosure.$enclosure, $item).$enclosure;
 			}
-			$out = substr($out, 0, -strlen($delim)).$newline;
+			$out .= implode($delim, $line).$newline;
 		}
 
 		return $out;
@@ -273,13 +269,8 @@ abstract class CI_DB_utility {
 	 * @param	array	$params	Any preferences
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	public function xml_from_result($query, $params = array())
+	public function xml_from_result(CI_DB_result $query, $params = array())
 	{
-		if ( ! is_object($query) OR ! method_exists($query, 'list_fields'))
-		{
-			show_error('You must submit a valid result object');
-		}
-
 		// Set our default values
 		foreach (array('root' => 'root', 'element' => 'element', 'newline' => "\n", 'tab' => "\t") as $key => $val)
 		{
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_driver.php
index f80b4db54..6e8aff7c6 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.1.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		Esen Sagynov
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_cubrid_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -187,25 +187,17 @@ class CI_DB_cubrid_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if (($autocommit = cubrid_get_autocommit($this->conn_id)) === NULL)
 		{
-			return TRUE;
+			return FALSE;
 		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
-		if (cubrid_get_autocommit($this->conn_id))
+		elseif ($autocommit === TRUE)
 		{
-			cubrid_set_autocommit($this->conn_id, CUBRID_AUTOCOMMIT_FALSE);
+			return cubrid_set_autocommit($this->conn_id, CUBRID_AUTOCOMMIT_FALSE);
 		}
 
 		return TRUE;
@@ -218,19 +210,16 @@ class CI_DB_cubrid_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if ( ! cubrid_commit($this->conn_id))
 		{
-			return TRUE;
+			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		cubrid_commit($this->conn_id);
-
 		if ($this->auto_commit && ! cubrid_get_autocommit($this->conn_id))
 		{
-			cubrid_set_autocommit($this->conn_id, CUBRID_AUTOCOMMIT_TRUE);
+			return cubrid_set_autocommit($this->conn_id, CUBRID_AUTOCOMMIT_TRUE);
 		}
 
 		return TRUE;
@@ -243,16 +232,13 @@ class CI_DB_cubrid_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if ( ! cubrid_rollback($this->conn_id))
 		{
-			return TRUE;
+			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		cubrid_rollback($this->conn_id);
-
 		if ($this->auto_commit && ! cubrid_get_autocommit($this->conn_id))
 		{
 			cubrid_set_autocommit($this->conn_id, CUBRID_AUTOCOMMIT_TRUE);
@@ -264,7 +250,7 @@ class CI_DB_cubrid_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
@@ -375,7 +361,7 @@ class CI_DB_cubrid_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_forge.php
index 9484e94e1..27bfc1466 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.1.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		Esen Sagynov
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_cubrid_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ class CI_DB_cubrid_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'INTEGER';
 				$attributes['UNSIGNED'] = FALSE;
 				return;
+			case 'LONGTEXT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'STRING';
+				return;
 			default: return;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_result.php b/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_result.php
index e666bab56..251b70a63 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.1.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		Esen Sagynov
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_cubrid_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_utility.php
index de7d71568..555ae7a91 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/cubrid/cubrid_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.1.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		Esen Sagynov
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_cubrid_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_driver.php
index 529c320cd..fea3bfe52 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_ibase_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class CI_DB_ibase_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	protected function _execute($sql)
 	{
-		return ibase_query($this->conn_id, $sql);
+		return ibase_query(isset($this->_ibase_trans) ? $this->_ibase_trans : $this->conn_id, $sql);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -134,24 +134,16 @@ class CI_DB_ibase_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if (($trans_handle = ibase_trans($this->conn_id)) === FALSE)
 		{
-			return TRUE;
+			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
-		$this->_ibase_trans = ibase_trans($this->conn_id);
-
+		$this->_ibase_trans = $trans_handle;
 		return TRUE;
 	}
 
@@ -162,15 +154,15 @@ class CI_DB_ibase_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans->depth > 0)
+		if (ibase_commit($this->_ibase_trans))
 		{
+			$this->_ibase_trans = NULL;
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		return ibase_commit($this->_ibase_trans);
+		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -180,15 +172,15 @@ class CI_DB_ibase_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if (ibase_rollback($this->_ibase_trans))
 		{
+			$this->_ibase_trans = NULL;
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		return ibase_rollback($this->_ibase_trans);
+		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -302,7 +294,7 @@ class CI_DB_ibase_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
@@ -392,6 +384,23 @@ class CI_DB_ibase_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * Insert batch statement
+	 *
+	 * Generates a platform-specific insert string from the supplied data.
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$table	Table name
+	 * @param	array	$keys	INSERT keys
+	 * @param	array	$values	INSERT values
+	 * @return	string|bool
+	 */
+	protected function _insert_batch($table, $keys, $values)
+	{
+		return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->db->display_error('db_unsupported_feature') : FALSE;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Close DB Connection
 	 *
 	 * @return	void
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_forge.php
index 0e748c710..44bb24e68 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_ibase_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class CI_DB_ibase_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 	 * @param	string	$db_name	(ignored)
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function drop_database($db_name = '')
+	public function drop_database($db_name)
 	{
 		if ( ! ibase_drop_db($this->conn_id))
 		{
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_result.php b/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_result.php
index 991146f45..7d7dd79ac 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_ibase_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_utility.php
index 79d2788e5..3c152101a 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/ibase/ibase_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_ibase_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_driver.php
index 8f15d8d69..a490d206c 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mssql_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ class CI_DB_mssql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	public function db_connect($persistent = FALSE)
 	{
+		ini_set('mssql.charset', $this->char_set);
 		$this->conn_id = ($persistent)
 				? mssql_pconnect($this->hostname, $this->username, $this->password)
 				: mssql_connect($this->hostname, $this->username, $this->password);
@@ -158,6 +159,7 @@ class CI_DB_mssql_driver extends CI_DB {
 		if (mssql_select_db('['.$database.']', $this->conn_id))
 		{
 			$this->database = $database;
+			$this->data_cache = array();
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
@@ -182,22 +184,10 @@ class CI_DB_mssql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
 		return $this->simple_query('BEGIN TRAN');
 	}
 
@@ -208,14 +198,8 @@ class CI_DB_mssql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return $this->simple_query('COMMIT TRAN');
 	}
 
@@ -226,14 +210,8 @@ class CI_DB_mssql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return $this->simple_query('ROLLBACK TRAN');
 	}
 
@@ -272,26 +250,13 @@ class CI_DB_mssql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Set client character set
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$charset
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _db_set_charset($charset)
-	{
-		return (ini_set('mssql.charset', $charset) !== FALSE);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Version number query string
 	 *
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
 	protected function _version()
 	{
-		return 'SELECT @@VERSION AS ver';
+		return "SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion') AS ver";
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -375,15 +340,25 @@ class CI_DB_mssql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
 	public function error()
 	{
-		$query = $this->query('SELECT @@ERROR AS code');
-		$query = $query->row();
-		return array('code' => $query->code, 'message' => mssql_get_last_message());
+		// We need this because the error info is discarded by the
+		// server the first time you request it, and query() already
+		// calls error() once for logging purposes when a query fails.
+		static $error = array('code' => 0, 'message' => NULL);
+
+		$message = mssql_get_last_message();
+		if ( ! empty($message))
+		{
+			$error['code']    = $this->query('SELECT @@ERROR AS code')->row()->code;
+			$error['message'] = $message;
+		}
+
+		return $error;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_forge.php
index 84406a016..6b6109868 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mssql_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ class CI_DB_mssql_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 	 */
 	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
 	{
+		if (isset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']) && strpos($attributes['TYPE'], 'INT') !== FALSE)
+		{
+			unset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']);
+		}
+
 		switch (strtoupper($attributes['TYPE']))
 		{
 			case 'MEDIUMINT':
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_result.php b/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_result.php
index c1c42a486..38a0a0574 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mssql_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_utility.php
index 1040b5e41..95ce88f13 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mssql/mssql_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mssql_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_driver.php
index df0f24920..3a7fc9812 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @var	bool
 	 */
-	public $stricton = FALSE;
+	public $stricton;
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -147,12 +147,41 @@ class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 				: FALSE;
 		}
 
-		if ($this->stricton && is_resource($this->conn_id))
+		if (is_resource($this->conn_id))
 		{
-			$this->simple_query('SET SESSION sql_mode="STRICT_ALL_TABLES"');
+			if ( ! mysql_set_charset($this->char_set, $this->conn_id))
+			{
+				log_message('error', "Database: Unable to set the configured connection charset ('{$this->char_set}').");
+				$this->close();
+				return ($this->db->debug) ? $this->display_error('db_unable_to_set_charset', $this->char_set) : FALSE;
+			}
+
+			if (isset($this->stricton))
+			{
+				if ($this->stricton)
+				{
+					$this->simple_query('SET SESSION sql_mode = CONCAT(@@sql_mode, ",", "STRICT_ALL_TABLES")');
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					$this->simple_query(
+						'SET SESSION sql_mode =
+						REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(
+						@@sql_mode,
+						"STRICT_ALL_TABLES,", ""),
+						",STRICT_ALL_TABLES", ""),
+						"STRICT_ALL_TABLES", ""),
+						"STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,", ""),
+						",STRICT_TRANS_TABLES", ""),
+						"STRICT_TRANS_TABLES", "")'
+					);
+				}
+			}
+
+			return $this->conn_id;
 		}
 
-		return $this->conn_id;
+		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -191,6 +220,7 @@ class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 		if (mysql_select_db($database, $this->conn_id))
 		{
 			$this->database = $database;
+			$this->data_cache = array();
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
@@ -200,19 +230,6 @@ class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Set client character set
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$charset
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _db_set_charset($charset)
-	{
-		return mysql_set_charset($charset, $this->conn_id);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Database version number
 	 *
 	 * @return	string
@@ -272,25 +289,12 @@ class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
 		$this->simple_query('SET AUTOCOMMIT=0');
-		$this->simple_query('START TRANSACTION'); // can also be BEGIN or BEGIN WORK
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->simple_query('START TRANSACTION'); // can also be BEGIN or BEGIN WORK
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -300,17 +304,15 @@ class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if ($this->simple_query('COMMIT'))
 		{
+			$this->simple_query('SET AUTOCOMMIT=1');
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		$this->simple_query('COMMIT');
-		$this->simple_query('SET AUTOCOMMIT=1');
-		return TRUE;
+		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -320,23 +322,21 @@ class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if ($this->simple_query('ROLLBACK'))
 		{
+			$this->simple_query('SET AUTOCOMMIT=1');
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		$this->simple_query('ROLLBACK');
-		$this->simple_query('SET AUTOCOMMIT=1');
-		return TRUE;
+		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ class CI_DB_mysql_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_forge.php
index cb90065f2..7ed8f8d38 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mysql_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_result.php b/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_result.php
index 26aaddd32..7aa265ebb 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mysql_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_utility.php
index 55857ab08..bc01fc58d 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mysql/mysql_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mysql_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_driver.php
index dd3cc77c6..290101153 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @var	bool
 	 */
-	public $stricton = FALSE;
+	public $stricton;
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -98,6 +98,17 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * MySQLi object
+	 *
+	 * Has to be preserved without being assigned to $conn_id.
+	 *
+	 * @var	MySQLi
+	 */
+	protected $_mysqli;
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Database connection
 	 *
 	 * @param	bool	$persistent
@@ -114,21 +125,37 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			// Persistent connection support was added in PHP 5.3.0
-			$hostname = ($persistent === TRUE && is_php('5.3'))
+			$hostname = ($persistent === TRUE)
 				? 'p:'.$this->hostname : $this->hostname;
 			$port = empty($this->port) ? NULL : $this->port;
 			$socket = NULL;
 		}
 
 		$client_flags = ($this->compress === TRUE) ? MYSQLI_CLIENT_COMPRESS : 0;
-		$mysqli = mysqli_init();
+		$this->_mysqli = mysqli_init();
 
-		$mysqli->options(MYSQLI_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 10);
+		$this->_mysqli->options(MYSQLI_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 10);
 
-		if ($this->stricton)
+		if (isset($this->stricton))
 		{
-			$mysqli->options(MYSQLI_INIT_COMMAND, 'SET SESSION sql_mode="STRICT_ALL_TABLES"');
+			if ($this->stricton)
+			{
+				$this->_mysqli->options(MYSQLI_INIT_COMMAND, 'SET SESSION sql_mode = CONCAT(@@sql_mode, ",", "STRICT_ALL_TABLES")');
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$this->_mysqli->options(MYSQLI_INIT_COMMAND,
+					'SET SESSION sql_mode =
+					REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(
+					@@sql_mode,
+					"STRICT_ALL_TABLES,", ""),
+					",STRICT_ALL_TABLES", ""),
+					"STRICT_ALL_TABLES", ""),
+					"STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,", ""),
+					",STRICT_TRANS_TABLES", ""),
+					"STRICT_TRANS_TABLES", "")'
+				);
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (is_array($this->encrypt))
@@ -142,13 +169,26 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 
 			if ( ! empty($ssl))
 			{
-				if ( ! empty($this->encrypt['ssl_verify']) && defined('MYSQLI_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT'))
+				if (isset($this->encrypt['ssl_verify']))
 				{
-					$mysqli->options(MYSQLI_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT, TRUE);
+					if ($this->encrypt['ssl_verify'])
+					{
+						defined('MYSQLI_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT') && $this->_mysqli->options(MYSQLI_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT, TRUE);
+					}
+					// Apparently (when it exists), setting MYSQLI_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT
+					// to FALSE didn't do anything, so PHP 5.6.16 introduced yet another
+					// constant ...
+					//
+					// https://secure.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.16
+					// https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68344
+					elseif (defined('MYSQLI_CLIENT_SSL_DONT_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT'))
+					{
+						$client_flags |= MYSQLI_CLIENT_SSL_DONT_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT;
+					}
 				}
 
 				$client_flags |= MYSQLI_CLIENT_SSL;
-				$mysqli->ssl_set(
+				$this->_mysqli->ssl_set(
 					isset($ssl['key'])    ? $ssl['key']    : NULL,
 					isset($ssl['cert'])   ? $ssl['cert']   : NULL,
 					isset($ssl['ca'])     ? $ssl['ca']     : NULL,
@@ -158,22 +198,29 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ($mysqli->real_connect($hostname, $this->username, $this->password, $this->database, $port, $socket, $client_flags))
+		if ($this->_mysqli->real_connect($hostname, $this->username, $this->password, $this->database, $port, $socket, $client_flags))
 		{
 			// Prior to version 5.7.3, MySQL silently downgrades to an unencrypted connection if SSL setup fails
 			if (
 				($client_flags & MYSQLI_CLIENT_SSL)
-				&& version_compare($mysqli->client_info, '5.7.3', '<=')
-				&& empty($mysqli->query("SHOW STATUS LIKE 'ssl_cipher'")->fetch_object()->Value)
+				&& version_compare($this->_mysqli->client_info, '5.7.3', '<=')
+				&& empty($this->_mysqli->query("SHOW STATUS LIKE 'ssl_cipher'")->fetch_object()->Value)
 			)
 			{
-				$mysqli->close();
+				$this->_mysqli->close();
 				$message = 'MySQLi was configured for an SSL connection, but got an unencrypted connection instead!';
 				log_message('error', $message);
 				return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->db->display_error($message, '', TRUE) : FALSE;
 			}
 
-			return $mysqli;
+			if ( ! $this->_mysqli->set_charset($this->char_set))
+			{
+				log_message('error', "Database: Unable to set the configured connection charset ('{$this->char_set}').");
+				$this->_mysqli->close();
+				return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('db_unable_to_set_charset', $this->char_set) : FALSE;
+			}
+
+			return $this->_mysqli;
 		}
 
 		return FALSE;
@@ -215,6 +262,7 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 		if ($this->conn_id->select_db($database))
 		{
 			$this->database = $database;
+			$this->data_cache = array();
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
@@ -224,19 +272,6 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Set client character set
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$charset
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _db_set_charset($charset)
-	{
-		return $this->conn_id->set_charset($charset);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Database version number
 	 *
 	 * @return	string
@@ -291,22 +326,10 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
 		$this->conn_id->autocommit(FALSE);
 		return is_php('5.5')
 			? $this->conn_id->begin_transaction()
@@ -320,14 +343,8 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		if ($this->conn_id->commit())
 		{
 			$this->conn_id->autocommit(TRUE);
@@ -344,14 +361,8 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		if ($this->conn_id->rollback())
 		{
 			$this->conn_id->autocommit(TRUE);
@@ -364,7 +375,7 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
@@ -481,11 +492,11 @@ class CI_DB_mysqli_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	public function error()
 	{
-		if ( ! empty($this->conn_id->connect_errno))
+		if ( ! empty($this->_mysqli->connect_errno))
 		{
 			return array(
-				'code' => $this->conn_id->connect_errno,
-				'message' => is_php('5.2.9') ? $this->conn_id->connect_error : mysqli_connect_error()
+				'code'    => $this->_mysqli->connect_errno,
+				'message' => $this->_mysqli->connect_error
 			);
 		}
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_forge.php
index 196afa845..c5b23b6ca 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mysqli_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_result.php b/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_result.php
index d648828bd..929c2b455 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mysqli_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_utility.php
index 04fcd1ded..4a3dad4d1 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/mysqli/mysqli_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_mysqli_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_driver.php
index f2e40da9b..fb2f6b31b 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.4.1
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage  Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 
 /**
@@ -252,12 +252,16 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_driver extends CI_DB {
 			return $this->data_cache['version'];
 		}
 
-		if ( ! $this->conn_id OR ($version = oci_server_version($this->conn_id)) === FALSE)
+		if ( ! $this->conn_id OR ($version_string = oci_server_version($this->conn_id)) === FALSE)
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
+		elseif (preg_match('#Release\s(\d+(?:\.\d+)+)#', $version_string, $match))
+		{
+			return $this->data_cache['version'] = $match[1];
+		}
 
-		return $this->data_cache['version'] = $version;
+		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -378,28 +382,11 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ($this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
-		$this->commit_mode = is_php('5.3.2') ? OCI_NO_AUTO_COMMIT : OCI_DEFAULT;
+		$this->commit_mode = OCI_NO_AUTO_COMMIT;
 		return TRUE;
 	}
 
@@ -410,20 +397,10 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ($this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		$this->commit_mode = OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS;
+
 		return oci_commit($this->conn_id);
 	}
 
@@ -434,14 +411,8 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		$this->commit_mode = OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS;
 		return oci_rollback($this->conn_id);
 	}
@@ -582,29 +553,35 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
 	public function error()
 	{
-		/* oci_error() returns an array that already contains the
-		 * 'code' and 'message' keys, so we can just return it.
-		 */
+		// oci_error() returns an array that already contains
+		// 'code' and 'message' keys, but it can return false
+		// if there was no error ....
 		if (is_resource($this->curs_id))
 		{
-			return oci_error($this->curs_id);
+			$error = oci_error($this->curs_id);
 		}
 		elseif (is_resource($this->stmt_id))
 		{
-			return oci_error($this->stmt_id);
+			$error = oci_error($this->stmt_id);
 		}
 		elseif (is_resource($this->conn_id))
 		{
-			return oci_error($this->conn_id);
+			$error = oci_error($this->conn_id);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			$error = oci_error();
 		}
 
-		return oci_error();
+		return is_array($error)
+			? $error
+			: array('code' => '', 'message' => '');
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -683,6 +660,14 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	protected function _limit($sql)
 	{
+		if (version_compare($this->version(), '12.1', '>='))
+		{
+			// OFFSET-FETCH can be used only with the ORDER BY clause
+			empty($this->qb_orderby) && $sql .= ' ORDER BY 1';
+
+			return $sql.' OFFSET '.(int) $this->qb_offset.' ROWS FETCH NEXT '.$this->qb_limit.' ROWS ONLY';
+		}
+
 		$this->limit_used = TRUE;
 		return 'SELECT * FROM (SELECT inner_query.*, rownum rnum FROM ('.$sql.') inner_query WHERE rownum < '.($this->qb_offset + $this->qb_limit + 1).')'
 			.($this->qb_offset ? ' WHERE rnum >= '.($this->qb_offset + 1) : '');
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_forge.php
index 80100977a..867a94341 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.4.1
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_oci8_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 	protected $_create_database	= FALSE;
 
 	/**
+	 * CREATE TABLE IF statement
+	 *
+	 * @var	string
+	 */
+	protected $_create_table_if	= FALSE;
+
+	/**
 	 * DROP DATABASE statement
 	 *
 	 * @var	string
@@ -119,6 +126,8 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 					$sqls[] = $sql.' RENAME COLUMN '.$this->db->escape_identifiers($field[$i]['name'])
 						.' '.$this->db->escape_identifiers($field[$i]['new_name']);
 				}
+
+				$field[$i] = "\n\t".$field[$i]['_literal'];
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -129,7 +138,7 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
 		// RENAME COLUMN must be executed after MODIFY
 		array_unshift($sqls, $sql);
-		return $sql;
+		return $sqls;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -146,4 +155,33 @@ class CI_DB_oci8_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 		// Not supported - sequences and triggers must be used instead
 	}
 
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Field attribute TYPE
+	 *
+	 * Performs a data type mapping between different databases.
+	 *
+	 * @param	array	&$attributes
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
+	{
+		switch (strtoupper($attributes['TYPE']))
+		{
+			case 'TINYINT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'NUMBER';
+				return;
+			case 'MEDIUMINT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'NUMBER';
+				return;
+			case 'INT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'NUMBER';
+				return;
+			case 'BIGINT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'NUMBER';
+				return;
+			default: return;
+		}
+	}
 }
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_result.php b/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_result.php
index 9ec54cc5c..0c3543333 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.4.1
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_oci8_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_utility.php
index 90022a8c1..ce0dfc5f8 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.4.1
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_oci8_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_driver.php
index f5d77a147..ed44412c1 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
-class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
+class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB_driver {
 
 	/**
 	 * Database driver
@@ -94,6 +94,22 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * ODBC result ID resource returned from odbc_prepare()
+	 *
+	 * @var	resource
+	 */
+	private $odbc_result;
+
+	/**
+	 * Values to use with odbc_execute() for prepared statements
+	 *
+	 * @var	array
+	 */
+	private $binds = array();
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Class constructor
 	 *
 	 * @param	array	$params
@@ -128,6 +144,74 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * Compile Bindings
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$sql	SQL statement
+	 * @param	array	$binds	An array of values to bind
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	public function compile_binds($sql, $binds)
+	{
+		if (empty($binds) OR empty($this->bind_marker) OR strpos($sql, $this->bind_marker) === FALSE)
+		{
+			return $sql;
+		}
+		elseif ( ! is_array($binds))
+		{
+			$binds = array($binds);
+			$bind_count = 1;
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			// Make sure we're using numeric keys
+			$binds = array_values($binds);
+			$bind_count = count($binds);
+		}
+
+		// We'll need the marker length later
+		$ml = strlen($this->bind_marker);
+
+		// Make sure not to replace a chunk inside a string that happens to match the bind marker
+		if ($c = preg_match_all("/'[^']*'|\"[^\"]*\"/i", $sql, $matches))
+		{
+			$c = preg_match_all('/'.preg_quote($this->bind_marker, '/').'/i',
+				str_replace($matches[0],
+					str_replace($this->bind_marker, str_repeat(' ', $ml), $matches[0]),
+					$sql, $c),
+				$matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
+
+			// Bind values' count must match the count of markers in the query
+			if ($bind_count !== $c)
+			{
+				return $sql;
+			}
+		}
+		elseif (($c = preg_match_all('/'.preg_quote($this->bind_marker, '/').'/i', $sql, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE)) !== $bind_count)
+		{
+			return $sql;
+		}
+
+		if ($this->bind_marker !== '?')
+		{
+			do
+			{
+				$c--;
+				$sql = substr_replace($sql, '?', $matches[0][$c][1], $ml);
+			}
+			while ($c !== 0);
+		}
+
+		if (FALSE !== ($this->odbc_result = odbc_prepare($this->conn_id, $sql)))
+		{
+			$this->binds = array_values($binds);
+		}
+
+		return $sql;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Execute the query
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	$sql	an SQL query
@@ -135,7 +219,25 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	protected function _execute($sql)
 	{
-		return odbc_exec($this->conn_id, $sql);
+		if ( ! isset($this->odbc_result))
+		{
+			return odbc_exec($this->conn_id, $sql);
+		}
+		elseif ($this->odbc_result === FALSE)
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+
+		if (TRUE === ($success = odbc_execute($this->odbc_result, $this->binds)))
+		{
+			// For queries that return result sets, return the result_id resource on success
+			$this->is_write_type($sql) OR $success = $this->odbc_result;
+		}
+
+		$this->odbc_result = NULL;
+		$this->binds       = array();
+
+		return $success;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -143,22 +245,10 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
 		return odbc_autocommit($this->conn_id, FALSE);
 	}
 
@@ -169,17 +259,15 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if (odbc_commit($this->conn_id))
 		{
+			odbc_autocommit($this->conn_id, TRUE);
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		$ret = odbc_commit($this->conn_id);
-		odbc_autocommit($this->conn_id, TRUE);
-		return $ret;
+		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -189,30 +277,46 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
+		if (odbc_rollback($this->conn_id))
 		{
+			odbc_autocommit($this->conn_id, TRUE);
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		$ret = odbc_rollback($this->conn_id);
-		odbc_autocommit($this->conn_id, TRUE);
-		return $ret;
+		return FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
+	 * Determines if a query is a "write" type.
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	An SQL query string
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	public function is_write_type($sql)
+	{
+		if (preg_match('#^(INSERT|UPDATE).*RETURNING\s.+(\,\s?.+)*$#is', $sql))
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+
+		return parent::is_write_type($sql);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
 	protected function _escape_str($str)
 	{
-		return remove_invisible_characters($str);
+		$this->db->display_error('db_unsupported_feature');
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -298,7 +402,7 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
@@ -310,58 +414,6 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Update statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific update string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
-	 * @param	array	$values
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _update($table, $values)
-	{
-		$this->qb_limit = FALSE;
-		$this->qb_orderby = array();
-		return parent::_update($table, $values);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Truncate statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific truncate string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * If the database does not support the TRUNCATE statement,
-	 * then this method maps to 'DELETE FROM table'
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _truncate($table)
-	{
-		return 'DELETE FROM '.$table;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Delete statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific delete string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _delete($table)
-	{
-		$this->qb_limit = FALSE;
-		return parent::_delete($table);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Close DB Connection
 	 *
 	 * @return	void
@@ -370,5 +422,4 @@ class CI_DB_odbc_driver extends CI_DB {
 	{
 		odbc_close($this->conn_id);
 	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_forge.php
index 45c5dc108..77b2fdf62 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_odbc_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_result.php b/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_result.php
index 10b93d4fc..845aa9c79 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_odbc_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_utility.php
index 0e6c23328..643f6ec0c 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/odbc/odbc_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_odbc_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_driver.php
index cc77e9568..6afc999c2 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.1.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -126,7 +126,10 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	public function db_connect($persistent = FALSE)
 	{
-		$this->options[PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT] = $persistent;
+		if ($persistent === TRUE)
+		{
+			$this->options[PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT] = TRUE;
+		}
 
 		try
 		{
@@ -186,22 +189,10 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
 		return $this->conn_id->beginTransaction();
 	}
 
@@ -212,14 +203,8 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return $this->conn_id->commit();
 	}
 
@@ -230,21 +215,15 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return $this->conn_id->rollBack();
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
@@ -306,7 +285,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
@@ -332,52 +311,6 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Update_Batch statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific batch update string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table	Table name
-	 * @param	array	$values	Update data
-	 * @param	string	$index	WHERE key
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _update_batch($table, $values, $index)
-	{
-		$ids = array();
-		foreach ($values as $key => $val)
-		{
-			$ids[] = $val[$index];
-
-			foreach (array_keys($val) as $field)
-			{
-				if ($field !== $index)
-				{
-					$final[$field][] = 'WHEN '.$index.' = '.$val[$index].' THEN '.$val[$field];
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		$cases = '';
-		foreach ($final as $k => $v)
-		{
-			$cases .= $k.' = CASE '."\n";
-
-			foreach ($v as $row)
-			{
-				$cases .= $row."\n";
-			}
-
-			$cases .= 'ELSE '.$k.' END, ';
-		}
-
-		$this->where($index.' IN('.implode(',', $ids).')', NULL, FALSE);
-
-		return 'UPDATE '.$table.' SET '.substr($cases, 0, -2).$this->_compile_wh('qb_where');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Truncate statement
 	 *
 	 * Generates a platform-specific truncate string from the supplied data
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_forge.php
index eedd9722d..685b6776d 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.1.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_result.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_result.php
index fe26fea6e..bbc2cdc5a 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.1.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_utility.php
index 72169c3ca..5029cac94 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/pdo_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.1.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_4d_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_4d_driver.php
index 7a767ef40..7eaeaa1fd 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_4d_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_4d_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_4d_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_4d_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_4d_forge.php
index 6b420540c..3f636d3bd 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_4d_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_4d_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_4d_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_cubrid_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_cubrid_driver.php
index 98ac89f3d..fc49e0dd0 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_cubrid_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_cubrid_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_cubrid_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
@@ -171,47 +171,6 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_cubrid_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Update_Batch statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific batch update string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table	Table name
-	 * @param	array	$values	Update data
-	 * @param	string	$index	WHERE key
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _update_batch($table, $values, $index)
-	{
-		$ids = array();
-		foreach ($values as $key => $val)
-		{
-			$ids[] = $val[$index];
-
-			foreach (array_keys($val) as $field)
-			{
-				if ($field !== $index)
-				{
-					$final[$field][] = 'WHEN '.$index.' = '.$val[$index].' THEN '.$val[$field];
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		$cases = '';
-		foreach ($final as $k => $v)
-		{
-			$cases .= $k." = CASE \n"
-				.implode("\n", $v)."\n"
-				.'ELSE '.$k.' END), ';
-		}
-
-		$this->where($index.' IN('.implode(',', $ids).')', NULL, FALSE);
-
-		return 'UPDATE '.$table.' SET '.substr($cases, 0, -2).$this->_compile_wh('qb_where');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Truncate statement
 	 *
 	 * Generates a platform-specific truncate string from the supplied data
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_cubrid_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_cubrid_forge.php
index 15b100d9b..276cbb6bc 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_cubrid_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_cubrid_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_cubrid_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_cubrid_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'INTEGER';
 				$attributes['UNSIGNED'] = FALSE;
 				return;
+			case 'LONGTEXT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'STRING';
+				return;
 			default: return;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_dblib_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_dblib_driver.php
index ae2b9983b..3249a1d7f 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_dblib_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_dblib_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_dblib_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
@@ -126,7 +126,12 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_dblib_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	 */
 	public function db_connect($persistent = FALSE)
 	{
-		$this->conn_id = parent::db_connect($persistent);
+		if ($persistent === TRUE)
+		{
+			log_message('debug', "dblib driver doesn't support persistent connections");
+		}
+
+		$this->conn_id = parent::db_connect(FALSE);
 
 		if ( ! is_object($this->conn_id))
 		{
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_dblib_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_dblib_forge.php
index d3dd9032e..d0cca38dd 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_dblib_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_dblib_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_dblib_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_dblib_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 	 */
 	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
 	{
+		if (isset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']) && strpos($attributes['TYPE'], 'INT') !== FALSE)
+		{
+			unset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']);
+		}
+
 		switch (strtoupper($attributes['TYPE']))
 		{
 			case 'MEDIUMINT':
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_firebird_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_firebird_driver.php
index 0bafde861..aa5e7d6e7 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_firebird_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_firebird_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_firebird_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
@@ -260,4 +260,20 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_firebird_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 		return preg_replace('`SELECT`i', 'SELECT '.$select, $sql);
 	}
 
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Insert batch statement
+	 *
+	 * Generates a platform-specific insert string from the supplied data.
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$table	Table name
+	 * @param	array	$keys	INSERT keys
+	 * @param	array	$values	INSERT values
+	 * @return	string|bool
+	 */
+	protected function _insert_batch($table, $keys, $values)
+	{
+		return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->db->display_error('db_unsupported_feature') : FALSE;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_firebird_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_firebird_forge.php
index ad28a6550..20c5a6897 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_firebird_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_firebird_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_firebird_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_firebird_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 	 * @param	string	$db_name	(ignored)
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function drop_database($db_name = '')
+	public function drop_database($db_name)
 	{
 		if ( ! ibase_drop_db($this->conn_id))
 		{
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_ibm_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_ibm_driver.php
index 5dba26ec9..26b556a78 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_ibm_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_ibm_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_ibm_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_ibm_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_ibm_forge.php
index d1b5f92c9..4238ca082 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_ibm_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_ibm_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_ibm_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_informix_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_informix_driver.php
index 9f8c017a5..050171f64 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_informix_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_informix_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_informix_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_informix_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_informix_forge.php
index 22bdf6104..2ddc2a933 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_informix_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_informix_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_informix_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_mysql_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_mysql_driver.php
index e9d25cebc..66c15dac6 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_mysql_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_mysql_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_mysql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_mysql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	 *
 	 * @var	bool
 	 */
-	public $stricton = FALSE;
+	public $stricton;
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_mysql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 			empty($this->database) OR $this->dsn .= ';dbname='.$this->database;
 			empty($this->char_set) OR $this->dsn .= ';charset='.$this->char_set;
 		}
-		elseif ( ! empty($this->char_set) && strpos($this->dsn, 'charset=', 6) === FALSE && is_php('5.3.6'))
+		elseif ( ! empty($this->char_set) && strpos($this->dsn, 'charset=', 6) === FALSE)
 		{
 			$this->dsn .= ';charset='.$this->char_set;
 		}
@@ -122,26 +122,34 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_mysql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	 */
 	public function db_connect($persistent = FALSE)
 	{
-		/* Prior to PHP 5.3.6, even if the charset was supplied in the DSN
-		 * on connect - it was ignored. This is a work-around for the issue.
-		 *
-		 * Reference: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.connection.php
-		 */
-		if ( ! is_php('5.3.6') && ! empty($this->char_set))
+		if (isset($this->stricton))
 		{
-			$this->options[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND] = 'SET NAMES '.$this->char_set
-				.(empty($this->dbcollat) ? '' : ' COLLATE '.$this->dbcollat);
-		}
-
-		if ($this->stricton)
-		{
-			if (empty($this->options[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND]))
+			if ($this->stricton)
 			{
-				$this->options[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND] = 'SET SESSION sql_mode="STRICT_ALL_TABLES"';
+				$sql = 'CONCAT(@@sql_mode, ",", "STRICT_ALL_TABLES")';
 			}
 			else
 			{
-				$this->options[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND] .= ', @@session.sql_mode = "STRICT_ALL_TABLES"';
+				$sql = 'REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(
+                                        @@sql_mode,
+                                        "STRICT_ALL_TABLES,", ""),
+                                        ",STRICT_ALL_TABLES", ""),
+                                        "STRICT_ALL_TABLES", ""),
+                                        "STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,", ""),
+                                        ",STRICT_TRANS_TABLES", ""),
+                                        "STRICT_TRANS_TABLES", "")';
+			}
+
+			if ( ! empty($sql))
+			{
+				if (empty($this->options[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND]))
+				{
+					$this->options[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND] = 'SET SESSION sql_mode = '.$sql;
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					$this->options[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND] .= ', @@session.sql_mode = '.$sql;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -150,8 +158,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_mysql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 			$this->options[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_COMPRESS] = TRUE;
 		}
 
-		// SSL support was added to PDO_MYSQL in PHP 5.3.7
-		if (is_array($this->encrypt) && is_php('5.3.7'))
+		if (is_array($this->encrypt))
 		{
 			$ssl = array();
 			empty($this->encrypt['ssl_key'])    OR $ssl[PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_KEY]    = $this->encrypt['ssl_key'];
@@ -199,6 +206,56 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_mysql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 		if (FALSE !== $this->simple_query('USE '.$this->escape_identifiers($database)))
 		{
 			$this->database = $database;
+			$this->data_cache = array();
+			return TRUE;
+		}
+
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Begin Transaction
+	 *
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	protected function _trans_begin()
+	{
+		$this->conn_id->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT, FALSE);
+		return $this->conn_id->beginTransaction();
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Commit Transaction
+	 *
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	protected function _trans_commit()
+	{
+		if ($this->conn_id->commit())
+		{
+			$this->conn_id->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT, TRUE);
+			return TRUE;
+		}
+
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Rollback Transaction
+	 *
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
+	{
+		if ($this->conn_id->rollBack())
+		{
+			$this->conn_id->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT, TRUE);
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_mysql_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_mysql_forge.php
index e8e24c6b3..c7a92b826 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_mysql_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_mysql_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_mysql_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_oci_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_oci_driver.php
index d17e311f7..abf9167d6 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_oci_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_oci_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_oci_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
@@ -130,6 +130,29 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_oci_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * Database version number
+	 *
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	public function version()
+	{
+		if (isset($this->data_cache['version']))
+		{
+			return $this->data_cache['version'];
+		}
+
+		$version_string = parent::version();
+		if (preg_match('#Release\s(?<version>\d+(?:\.\d+)+)#', $version_string, $match))
+		{
+			return $this->data_cache['version'] = $match[1];
+		}
+
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Show table query
 	 *
 	 * Generates a platform-specific query string so that the table names can be fetched
@@ -288,6 +311,14 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_oci_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	 */
 	protected function _limit($sql)
 	{
+		if (version_compare($this->version(), '12.1', '>='))
+		{
+			// OFFSET-FETCH can be used only with the ORDER BY clause
+			empty($this->qb_orderby) && $sql .= ' ORDER BY 1';
+
+			return $sql.' OFFSET '.(int) $this->qb_offset.' ROWS FETCH NEXT '.$this->qb_limit.' ROWS ONLY';
+		}
+
 		return 'SELECT * FROM (SELECT inner_query.*, rownum rnum FROM ('.$sql.') inner_query WHERE rownum < '.($this->qb_offset + $this->qb_limit + 1).')'
 			.($this->qb_offset ? ' WHERE rnum >= '.($this->qb_offset + 1): '');
 	}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_oci_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_oci_forge.php
index e2078cf39..c8983ee56 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_oci_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_oci_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_oci_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
@@ -54,18 +54,18 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_oci_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 	protected $_create_database	= FALSE;
 
 	/**
-	 * DROP DATABASE statement
+	 * CREATE TABLE IF statement
 	 *
 	 * @var	string
 	 */
-	protected $_drop_database	= FALSE;
+	protected $_create_table_if	= FALSE;
 
 	/**
-	 * CREATE TABLE IF statement
+	 * DROP DATABASE statement
 	 *
 	 * @var	string
 	 */
-	protected $_create_table_if	= 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS';
+	protected $_drop_database	= FALSE;
 
 	/**
 	 * UNSIGNED support
@@ -146,4 +146,31 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_oci_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 		// Not supported - sequences and triggers must be used instead
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Field attribute TYPE
+	 *
+	 * Performs a data type mapping between different databases.
+	 *
+	 * @param	array	&$attributes
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
+	{
+		switch (strtoupper($attributes['TYPE']))
+		{
+			case 'TINYINT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'NUMBER';
+				return;
+			case 'MEDIUMINT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'NUMBER';
+				return;
+			case 'INT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'NUMBER';
+				return;
+			case 'BIGINT':
+				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'NUMBER';
+				return;
+			default: return;
+		}
+	}
 }
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_odbc_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_odbc_driver.php
index 51c70b630..5a492d881 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_odbc_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_odbc_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_odbc_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
@@ -161,106 +161,69 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_odbc_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Show table query
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific query string so that the table names can be fetched
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$prefix_limit
+	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	protected function _list_tables($prefix_limit = FALSE)
+	protected function _escape_str($str)
 	{
-		$sql = "SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '".$this->schema."'";
-
-		if ($prefix_limit !== FALSE && $this->dbprefix !== '')
-		{
-			return $sql." AND table_name LIKE '".$this->escape_like_str($this->dbprefix)."%' "
-				.sprintf($this->_like_escape_str, $this->_like_escape_chr);
-		}
-
-		return $sql;
+		$this->db->display_error('db_unsupported_feature');
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Show column query
+	 * Determines if a query is a "write" type.
 	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific query string so that the column names can be fetched
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
-	 * @return	string
+	 * @param	string	An SQL query string
+	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	protected function _list_columns($table = '')
+	public function is_write_type($sql)
 	{
-		return 'SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = '.$this->escape($table);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+		if (preg_match('#^(INSERT|UPDATE).*RETURNING\s.+(\,\s?.+)*$#is', $sql))
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
 
-	/**
-	 * Update statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific update string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
-	 * @param	array	$values
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _update($table, $values)
-	{
-		$this->qb_limit = FALSE;
-		$this->qb_orderby = array();
-		return parent::_update($table, $values);
+		return parent::is_write_type($sql);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Truncate statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific truncate string from the supplied data
+	 * Show table query
 	 *
-	 * If the database does not support the TRUNCATE statement,
-	 * then this method maps to 'DELETE FROM table'
+	 * Generates a platform-specific query string so that the table names can be fetched
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
+	 * @param	bool	$prefix_limit
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	protected function _truncate($table)
+	protected function _list_tables($prefix_limit = FALSE)
 	{
-		return 'DELETE FROM '.$table;
-	}
+		$sql = "SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '".$this->schema."'";
 
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+		if ($prefix_limit !== FALSE && $this->dbprefix !== '')
+		{
+			return $sql." AND table_name LIKE '".$this->escape_like_str($this->dbprefix)."%' "
+				.sprintf($this->_like_escape_str, $this->_like_escape_chr);
+		}
 
-	/**
-	 * Delete statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific delete string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	the table name
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _delete($table)
-	{
-		$this->qb_limit = FALSE;
-		return parent::_delete($table);
+		return $sql;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * LIMIT
+	 * Show column query
 	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific LIMIT clause
+	 * Generates a platform-specific query string so that the column names can be fetched
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	$sql	SQL Query
+	 * @param	string	$table
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	protected function _limit($sql)
+	protected function _list_columns($table = '')
 	{
-		return preg_replace('/(^\SELECT (DISTINCT)?)/i','\\1 TOP '.$this->qb_limit.' ', $sql);
+		return 'SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = '.$this->escape($table);
 	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_odbc_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_odbc_forge.php
index 291352982..a2a3bada3 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_odbc_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_odbc_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_odbc_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_pgsql_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_pgsql_driver.php
index 2dd41ca87..9aed3a2fe 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_pgsql_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_pgsql_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_pgsql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
@@ -154,7 +154,12 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_pgsql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	 */
 	public function is_write_type($sql)
 	{
-		return (bool) preg_match('/^\s*"?(SET|INSERT(?![^\)]+\)\s+RETURNING)|UPDATE(?!.*\sRETURNING)|DELETE|CREATE|DROP|TRUNCATE|LOAD|COPY|ALTER|RENAME|GRANT|REVOKE|LOCK|UNLOCK|REINDEX)\s/i', str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r", "\n"), ' ', $sql));
+		if (preg_match('#^(INSERT|UPDATE).*RETURNING\s.+(\,\s?.+)*$#is', $sql))
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+
+		return parent::is_write_type($sql);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -321,13 +326,13 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_pgsql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 		$ids = array();
 		foreach ($values as $key => $val)
 		{
-			$ids[] = $val[$index];
+			$ids[] = $val[$index]['value'];
 
 			foreach (array_keys($val) as $field)
 			{
 				if ($field !== $index)
 				{
-					$final[$field][] = 'WHEN '.$val[$index].' THEN '.$val[$field];
+					$final[$val[$field]['field']][] = 'WHEN '.$val[$index]['value'].' THEN '.$val[$field]['value'];
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -335,12 +340,12 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_pgsql_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 		$cases = '';
 		foreach ($final as $k => $v)
 		{
-			$cases .= $k.' = (CASE '.$index."\n"
+			$cases .= $k.' = (CASE '.$val[$index]['field']."\n"
 				.implode("\n", $v)."\n"
 				.'ELSE '.$k.' END), ';
 		}
 
-		$this->where($index.' IN('.implode(',', $ids).')', NULL, FALSE);
+		$this->where($val[$index]['field'].' IN('.implode(',', $ids).')', NULL, FALSE);
 
 		return 'UPDATE '.$table.' SET '.substr($cases, 0, -2).$this->_compile_wh('qb_where');
 	}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_pgsql_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_pgsql_forge.php
index b4a6160a8..b00af4ad0 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_pgsql_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_pgsql_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_pgsql_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_pgsql_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 	 */
 	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
 	{
-		// Reset field lenghts for data types that don't support it
+		// Reset field lengths for data types that don't support it
 		if (isset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']) && stripos($attributes['TYPE'], 'int') !== FALSE)
 		{
 			$attributes['CONSTRAINT'] = NULL;
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_driver.php
index 409e6501b..9b70f3ea6 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_sqlite_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_sqlite_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 	 *
 	 * @var	array
 	 */
-	protected $_random_keyword = ' RANDOM()';
+	protected $_random_keyword = array('RANDOM()', 'RANDOM()');
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_forge.php
index 15afbdef5..18c475b17 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_sqlite_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_sqlite_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 	 * @param	string	$db_name	(ignored)
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function create_database($db_name = '')
+	public function create_database($db_name)
 	{
 		// In SQLite, a database is created when you connect to the database.
 		// We'll return TRUE so that an error isn't generated
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_sqlite_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 	 * @param	string	$db_name	(ignored)
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function drop_database($db_name = '')
+	public function drop_database($db_name)
 	{
 		// In SQLite, a database is dropped when we delete a file
 		if (file_exists($this->db->database))
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlsrv_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlsrv_driver.php
index f8ae5f6db..1cf6c614d 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlsrv_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlsrv_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB_pdo_driver {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlsrv_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlsrv_forge.php
index 602a1d426..82a0d515d 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlsrv_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlsrv_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_pdo_sqlsrv_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 
@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ class CI_DB_pdo_sqlsrv_forge extends CI_DB_pdo_forge {
 	 */
 	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
 	{
+		if (isset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']) && strpos($attributes['TYPE'], 'INT') !== FALSE)
+		{
+			unset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']);
+		}
+
 		switch (strtoupper($attributes['TYPE']))
 		{
 			case 'MEDIUMINT':
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_driver.php
index 7be07c3bf..75b1d4c37 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -163,6 +163,13 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 				return FALSE;
 			}
 
+			if (pg_set_client_encoding($this->conn_id, $this->char_set) !== 0)
+			{
+				log_message('error', "Database: Unable to set the configured connection charset ('{$this->char_set}').");
+				pg_close($this->conn_id);
+				return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('db_unable_to_set_charset', $this->char_set) : FALSE;
+			}
+
 			empty($this->schema) OR $this->simple_query('SET search_path TO '.$this->schema.',public');
 		}
 
@@ -190,19 +197,6 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Set client character set
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$charset
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _db_set_charset($charset)
-	{
-		return (pg_set_client_encoding($this->conn_id, $charset) === 0);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Database version number
 	 *
 	 * @return	string
@@ -247,22 +241,10 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
 		return (bool) pg_query($this->conn_id, 'BEGIN');
 	}
 
@@ -273,14 +255,8 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return (bool) pg_query($this->conn_id, 'COMMIT');
 	}
 
@@ -291,14 +267,8 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return (bool) pg_query($this->conn_id, 'ROLLBACK');
 	}
 
@@ -312,13 +282,18 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	public function is_write_type($sql)
 	{
-		return (bool) preg_match('/^\s*"?(SET|INSERT(?![^\)]+\)\s+RETURNING)|UPDATE(?!.*\sRETURNING)|DELETE|CREATE|DROP|TRUNCATE|LOAD|COPY|ALTER|RENAME|GRANT|REVOKE|LOCK|UNLOCK|REINDEX)\s/i', str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r", "\n"), ' ', $sql));
+		if (preg_match('#^(INSERT|UPDATE).*RETURNING\s.+(\,\s?.+)*$#is', $sql))
+		{
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+
+		return parent::is_write_type($sql);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
@@ -340,7 +315,7 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	public function escape($str)
 	{
-		if (is_php('5.4.4') && (is_string($str) OR (is_object($str) && method_exists($str, '__toString'))))
+		if (is_string($str) OR (is_object($str) && method_exists($str, '__toString')))
 		{
 			return pg_escape_literal($this->conn_id, $str);
 		}
@@ -490,7 +465,7 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
@@ -569,13 +544,13 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 		$ids = array();
 		foreach ($values as $key => $val)
 		{
-			$ids[] = $val[$index];
+			$ids[] = $val[$index]['value'];
 
 			foreach (array_keys($val) as $field)
 			{
 				if ($field !== $index)
 				{
-					$final[$field][] = 'WHEN '.$val[$index].' THEN '.$val[$field];
+					$final[$val[$field]['field']][] = 'WHEN '.$val[$index]['value'].' THEN '.$val[$field]['value'];
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -583,12 +558,12 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_driver extends CI_DB {
 		$cases = '';
 		foreach ($final as $k => $v)
 		{
-			$cases .= $k.' = (CASE '.$index."\n"
+			$cases .= $k.' = (CASE '.$val[$index]['field']."\n"
 				.implode("\n", $v)."\n"
 				.'ELSE '.$k.' END), ';
 		}
 
-		$this->where($index.' IN('.implode(',', $ids).')', NULL, FALSE);
+		$this->where($val[$index]['field'].' IN('.implode(',', $ids).')', NULL, FALSE);
 
 		return 'UPDATE '.$table.' SET '.substr($cases, 0, -2).$this->_compile_wh('qb_where');
 	}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_forge.php
index d26e84cbc..cdbff4c4b 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_postgre_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class CI_DB_postgre_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 	 */
 	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
 	{
-		// Reset field lenghts for data types that don't support it
+		// Reset field lengths for data types that don't support it
 		if (isset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']) && stripos($attributes['TYPE'], 'int') !== FALSE)
 		{
 			$attributes['CONSTRAINT'] = NULL;
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_result.php b/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_result.php
index a8ad24edf..57864a7f3 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_postgre_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_utility.php
index 7c6c02590..5ca358da5 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/postgre/postgre_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_postgre_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/index.html b/system/database/drivers/sqlite/index.html
deleted file mode 100644
index b702fbc39..000000000
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/index.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html>
-<head>
-	<title>403 Forbidden</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-
-<p>Directory access is forbidden.</p>
-
-</body>
-</html>
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_driver.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d9caa0b4..000000000
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_driver.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,357 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.3.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * SQLite Database Adapter Class
- *
- * Note: _DB is an extender class that the app controller
- * creates dynamically based on whether the query builder
- * class is being used or not.
- *
- * @package		CodeIgniter
- * @subpackage	Drivers
- * @category	Database
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
- */
-class CI_DB_sqlite_driver extends CI_DB {
-
-	/**
-	 * Database driver
-	 *
-	 * @var	string
-	 */
-	public $dbdriver = 'sqlite';
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * ORDER BY random keyword
-	 *
-	 * @var	array
-	 */
-	protected $_random_keyword = array('RANDOM()', 'RANDOM()');
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Non-persistent database connection
-	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$persistent
-	 * @return	resource
-	 */
-	public function db_connect($persistent = FALSE)
-	{
-		$error = NULL;
-		$conn_id = ($persistent === TRUE)
-			? sqlite_popen($this->database, 0666, $error)
-			: sqlite_open($this->database, 0666, $error);
-
-		isset($error) && log_message('error', $error);
-
-		return $conn_id;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Database version number
-	 *
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function version()
-	{
-		return isset($this->data_cache['version'])
-			? $this->data_cache['version']
-			: $this->data_cache['version'] = sqlite_libversion();
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Execute the query
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$sql	an SQL query
-	 * @return	resource
-	 */
-	protected function _execute($sql)
-	{
-		return $this->is_write_type($sql)
-			? sqlite_exec($this->conn_id, $sql)
-			: sqlite_query($this->conn_id, $sql);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Begin Transaction
-	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
-	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
-		$this->simple_query('BEGIN TRANSACTION');
-		return TRUE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Commit Transaction
-	 *
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
-	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		$this->simple_query('COMMIT');
-		return TRUE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Rollback Transaction
-	 *
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
-	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		$this->simple_query('ROLLBACK');
-		return TRUE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
-	 *
-	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _escape_str($str)
-	{
-		return sqlite_escape_string($str);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Affected Rows
-	 *
-	 * @return	int
-	 */
-	public function affected_rows()
-	{
-		return sqlite_changes($this->conn_id);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Insert ID
-	 *
-	 * @return	int
-	 */
-	public function insert_id()
-	{
-		return sqlite_last_insert_rowid($this->conn_id);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * List table query
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific query string so that the table names can be fetched
-	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$prefix_limit
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _list_tables($prefix_limit = FALSE)
-	{
-		$sql = "SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table'";
-
-		if ($prefix_limit !== FALSE && $this->dbprefix != '')
-		{
-			return $sql." AND 'name' LIKE '".$this->escape_like_str($this->dbprefix)."%' ".sprintf($this->_like_escape_str, $this->_like_escape_chr);
-		}
-
-		return $sql;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Show column query
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific query string so that the column names can be fetched
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _list_columns($table = '')
-	{
-		// Not supported
-		return FALSE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Returns an object with field data
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	public function field_data($table)
-	{
-		if (($query = $this->query('PRAGMA TABLE_INFO('.$this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, NULL, FALSE).')')) === FALSE)
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		$query = $query->result_array();
-		if (empty($query))
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		$retval = array();
-		for ($i = 0, $c = count($query); $i < $c; $i++)
-		{
-			$retval[$i]			= new stdClass();
-			$retval[$i]->name		= $query[$i]['name'];
-			$retval[$i]->type		= $query[$i]['type'];
-			$retval[$i]->max_length		= NULL;
-			$retval[$i]->default		= $query[$i]['dflt_value'];
-			$retval[$i]->primary_key	= isset($query[$i]['pk']) ? (int) $query[$i]['pk'] : 0;
-		}
-
-		return $retval;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Error
-	 *
-	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
-	 *
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	public function error()
-	{
-		$error = array('code' => sqlite_last_error($this->conn_id));
-		$error['message'] = sqlite_error_string($error['code']);
-		return $error;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Replace statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific replace string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table	Table name
-	 * @param	array	$keys	INSERT keys
-	 * @param	array	$values	INSERT values
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _replace($table, $keys, $values)
-	{
-		return 'INSERT OR '.parent::_replace($table, $keys, $values);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Truncate statement
-	 *
-	 * Generates a platform-specific truncate string from the supplied data
-	 *
-	 * If the database does not support the TRUNCATE statement,
-	 * then this function maps to 'DELETE FROM table'
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$table
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _truncate($table)
-	{
-		return 'DELETE FROM '.$table;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Close DB Connection
-	 *
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _close()
-	{
-		sqlite_close($this->conn_id);
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_forge.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bba330c0..000000000
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_forge.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,205 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.3.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * SQLite Forge Class
- *
- * @category	Database
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
- */
-class CI_DB_sqlite_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
-
-	/**
-	 * CREATE TABLE IF statement
-	 *
-	 * @var	string
-	 */
-	protected $_create_table_if	= FALSE;
-
-	/**
-	 * UNSIGNED support
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool|array
-	 */
-	protected $_unsigned		= FALSE;
-
-	/**
-	 * NULL value representation in CREATE/ALTER TABLE statements
-	 *
-	 * @var	string
-	 */
-	protected $_null		= 'NULL';
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Create database
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$db_name	(ignored)
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function create_database($db_name = '')
-	{
-		// In SQLite, a database is created when you connect to the database.
-		// We'll return TRUE so that an error isn't generated
-		return TRUE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Drop database
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$db_name	(ignored)
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function drop_database($db_name = '')
-	{
-		if ( ! file_exists($this->db->database) OR ! @unlink($this->db->database))
-		{
-			return ($this->db->db_debug) ? $this->db->display_error('db_unable_to_drop') : FALSE;
-		}
-		elseif ( ! empty($this->db->data_cache['db_names']))
-		{
-			$key = array_search(strtolower($this->db->database), array_map('strtolower', $this->db->data_cache['db_names']), TRUE);
-			if ($key !== FALSE)
-			{
-				unset($this->db->data_cache['db_names'][$key]);
-			}
-		}
-
-		return TRUE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * ALTER TABLE
-	 *
-	 * @todo	implement drop_column(), modify_column()
-	 * @param	string	$alter_type	ALTER type
-	 * @param	string	$table		Table name
-	 * @param	mixed	$field		Column definition
-	 * @return	string|string[]
-	 */
-	protected function _alter_table($alter_type, $table, $field)
-	{
-		if ($alter_type === 'DROP' OR $alter_type === 'CHANGE')
-		{
-			// drop_column():
-			//	BEGIN TRANSACTION;
-			//	CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE t1_backup(a,b);
-			//	INSERT INTO t1_backup SELECT a,b FROM t1;
-			//	DROP TABLE t1;
-			//	CREATE TABLE t1(a,b);
-			//	INSERT INTO t1 SELECT a,b FROM t1_backup;
-			//	DROP TABLE t1_backup;
-			//	COMMIT;
-
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		return parent::_alter_table($alter_type, $table, $field);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Process column
-	 *
-	 * @param	array	$field
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _process_column($field)
-	{
-		return $this->db->escape_identifiers($field['name'])
-			.' '.$field['type']
-			.$field['auto_increment']
-			.$field['null']
-			.$field['unique']
-			.$field['default'];
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Field attribute TYPE
-	 *
-	 * Performs a data type mapping between different databases.
-	 *
-	 * @param	array	&$attributes
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
-	{
-		switch (strtoupper($attributes['TYPE']))
-		{
-			case 'ENUM':
-			case 'SET':
-				$attributes['TYPE'] = 'TEXT';
-				return;
-			default: return;
-		}
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Field attribute AUTO_INCREMENT
-	 *
-	 * @param	array	&$attributes
-	 * @param	array	&$field
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _attr_auto_increment(&$attributes, &$field)
-	{
-		if ( ! empty($attributes['AUTO_INCREMENT']) && $attributes['AUTO_INCREMENT'] === TRUE && stripos($field['type'], 'int') !== FALSE)
-		{
-			$field['type'] = 'INTEGER PRIMARY KEY';
-			$field['default'] = '';
-			$field['null'] = '';
-			$field['unique'] = '';
-			$field['auto_increment'] = ' AUTOINCREMENT';
-
-			$this->primary_keys = array();
-		}
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_result.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_result.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 487d00366..000000000
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_result.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,164 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.3.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * SQLite Result Class
- *
- * This class extends the parent result class: CI_DB_result
- *
- * @category	Database
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
- */
-class CI_DB_sqlite_result extends CI_DB_result {
-
-	/**
-	 * Number of rows in the result set
-	 *
-	 * @return	int
-	 */
-	public function num_rows()
-	{
-		return is_int($this->num_rows)
-			? $this->num_rows
-			: $this->num_rows = @sqlite_num_rows($this->result_id);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Number of fields in the result set
-	 *
-	 * @return	int
-	 */
-	public function num_fields()
-	{
-		return @sqlite_num_fields($this->result_id);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Fetch Field Names
-	 *
-	 * Generates an array of column names
-	 *
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	public function list_fields()
-	{
-		$field_names = array();
-		for ($i = 0, $c = $this->num_fields(); $i < $c; $i++)
-		{
-			$field_names[$i] = sqlite_field_name($this->result_id, $i);
-		}
-
-		return $field_names;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Field data
-	 *
-	 * Generates an array of objects containing field meta-data
-	 *
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	public function field_data()
-	{
-		$retval = array();
-		for ($i = 0, $c = $this->num_fields(); $i < $c; $i++)
-		{
-			$retval[$i]			= new stdClass();
-			$retval[$i]->name		= sqlite_field_name($this->result_id, $i);
-			$retval[$i]->type		= NULL;
-			$retval[$i]->max_length		= NULL;
-		}
-
-		return $retval;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Data Seek
-	 *
-	 * Moves the internal pointer to the desired offset. We call
-	 * this internally before fetching results to make sure the
-	 * result set starts at zero.
-	 *
-	 * @param	int	$n
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function data_seek($n = 0)
-	{
-		return sqlite_seek($this->result_id, $n);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Result - associative array
-	 *
-	 * Returns the result set as an array
-	 *
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	protected function _fetch_assoc()
-	{
-		return sqlite_fetch_array($this->result_id);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Result - object
-	 *
-	 * Returns the result set as an object
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$class_name
-	 * @return	object
-	 */
-	protected function _fetch_object($class_name = 'stdClass')
-	{
-		return sqlite_fetch_object($this->result_id, $class_name);
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_utility.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 9cb454274..000000000
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_utility.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.3.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * SQLite Utility Class
- *
- * @category	Database
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
- */
-class CI_DB_sqlite_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
-
-	/**
-	 * Export
-	 *
-	 * @param	array	$params	Preferences
-	 * @return	mixed
-	 */
-	protected function _backup($params = array())
-	{
-		// Currently unsupported
-		return $this->db->display_error('db_unsupported_feature');
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
index 31e37de91..d131baad7 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		Andrey Andreev
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_sqlite3_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -134,22 +134,10 @@ class CI_DB_sqlite3_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
 		return $this->conn_id->exec('BEGIN TRANSACTION');
 	}
 
@@ -160,14 +148,8 @@ class CI_DB_sqlite3_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return $this->conn_id->exec('END TRANSACTION');
 	}
 
@@ -178,21 +160,15 @@ class CI_DB_sqlite3_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return $this->conn_id->exec('ROLLBACK');
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Platform-dependant string escape
+	 * Platform-dependent string escape
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
@@ -315,7 +291,7 @@ class CI_DB_sqlite3_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_forge.php
index 24690ba20..5ee6daae3 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author	Andrey Andreev
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_sqlite3_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class CI_DB_sqlite3_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 	 * @param	string	$db_name
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function create_database($db_name = '')
+	public function create_database($db_name)
 	{
 		// In SQLite, a database is created when you connect to the database.
 		// We'll return TRUE so that an error isn't generated
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class CI_DB_sqlite3_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 	 * @param	string	$db_name	(ignored)
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function drop_database($db_name = '')
+	public function drop_database($db_name)
 	{
 		// In SQLite, a database is dropped when we delete a file
 		if (file_exists($this->db->database))
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_result.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_result.php
index 387481b7f..03751f0dc 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		Andrey Andreev
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_sqlite3_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_utility.php
index 336f68754..20d562f96 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author	Andrey Andreev
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_sqlite3_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php
index 16f77fab2..e4f403180 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0.3
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Drivers
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB {
 
@@ -141,13 +141,14 @@ class CI_DB_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB {
 			unset($connection['UID'], $connection['PWD']);
 		}
 
-		$this->conn_id = sqlsrv_connect($this->hostname, $connection);
-
-		// Determine how identifiers are escaped
-		$query = $this->query('SELECT CASE WHEN (@@OPTIONS | 256) = @@OPTIONS THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS qi');
-		$query = $query->row_array();
-		$this->_quoted_identifier = empty($query) ? FALSE : (bool) $query['qi'];
-		$this->_escape_char = ($this->_quoted_identifier) ? '"' : array('[', ']');
+		if (FALSE !== ($this->conn_id = sqlsrv_connect($this->hostname, $connection)))
+		{
+			// Determine how identifiers are escaped
+			$query = $this->query('SELECT CASE WHEN (@@OPTIONS | 256) = @@OPTIONS THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS qi');
+			$query = $query->row_array();
+			$this->_quoted_identifier = empty($query) ? FALSE : (bool) $query['qi'];
+			$this->_escape_char = ($this->_quoted_identifier) ? '"' : array('[', ']');
+		}
 
 		return $this->conn_id;
 	}
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ class CI_DB_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB {
 		if ($this->_execute('USE '.$this->escape_identifiers($database)))
 		{
 			$this->database = $database;
+			$this->data_cache = array();
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
@@ -196,22 +198,10 @@ class CI_DB_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB {
 	/**
 	 * Begin Transaction
 	 *
-	 * @param	bool	$test_mode
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_begin($test_mode = FALSE)
+	protected function _trans_begin()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		// Reset the transaction failure flag.
-		// If the $test_mode flag is set to TRUE transactions will be rolled back
-		// even if the queries produce a successful result.
-		$this->_trans_failure = ($test_mode === TRUE);
-
 		return sqlsrv_begin_transaction($this->conn_id);
 	}
 
@@ -222,14 +212,8 @@ class CI_DB_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_commit()
+	protected function _trans_commit()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return sqlsrv_commit($this->conn_id);
 	}
 
@@ -240,14 +224,8 @@ class CI_DB_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function trans_rollback()
+	protected function _trans_rollback()
 	{
-		// When transactions are nested we only begin/commit/rollback the outermost ones
-		if ( ! $this->trans_enabled OR $this->_trans_depth > 0)
-		{
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
 		return sqlsrv_rollback($this->conn_id);
 	}
 
@@ -274,9 +252,7 @@ class CI_DB_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 */
 	public function insert_id()
 	{
-		$query = $this->query('SELECT @@IDENTITY AS insert_id');
-		$query = $query->row();
-		return $query->insert_id;
+		return $this->query('SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() AS insert_id')->row()->insert_id;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -382,7 +358,7 @@ class CI_DB_sqlsrv_driver extends CI_DB {
 	 * Error
 	 *
 	 * Returns an array containing code and message of the last
-	 * database error that has occured.
+	 * database error that has occurred.
 	 *
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_forge.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_forge.php
index b22b60a4a..aa8490ee4 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_forge.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_forge.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0.3
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_sqlsrv_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 
@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ class CI_DB_sqlsrv_forge extends CI_DB_forge {
 	 */
 	protected function _attr_type(&$attributes)
 	{
+		if (isset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']) && strpos($attributes['TYPE'], 'INT') !== FALSE)
+		{
+			unset($attributes['CONSTRAINT']);
+		}
+
 		switch (strtoupper($attributes['TYPE']))
 		{
 			case 'MEDIUMINT':
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_result.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_result.php
index d2be926aa..f784ebea8 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_result.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_result.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0.3
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_sqlsrv_result extends CI_DB_result {
 
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_utility.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_utility.php
index 77cf0aaf3..19c93d0c6 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_utility.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_utility.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0.3
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  *
  * @category	Database
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/
  */
 class CI_DB_sqlsrv_utility extends CI_DB_utility {
 
diff --git a/system/helpers/array_helper.php b/system/helpers/array_helper.php
index 2ce55b9c4..74c7c15a8 100644
--- a/system/helpers/array_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/array_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/array_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/array_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/helpers/captcha_helper.php b/system/helpers/captcha_helper.php
index 201987ac8..f98d8a4cd 100644
--- a/system/helpers/captcha_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/captcha_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/captcha_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/captcha_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('create_captcha'))
 			'img_url'	=> '',
 			'img_width'	=> '150',
 			'img_height'	=> '30',
+			'img_alt'	=> 'captcha',
 			'font_path'	=> '',
 			'expiration'	=> 7200,
 			'word_length'	=> 8,
@@ -110,7 +111,8 @@ if ( ! function_exists('create_captcha'))
 		$current_dir = @opendir($img_path);
 		while ($filename = @readdir($current_dir))
 		{
-			if (substr($filename, -4) === '.jpg' && (str_replace('.jpg', '', $filename) + $expiration) < $now)
+			if (in_array(substr($filename, -4), array('.jpg', '.png'))
+				&& (str_replace(array('.jpg', '.png'), '', $filename) + $expiration) < $now)
 			{
 				@unlink($img_path.$filename);
 			}
@@ -125,9 +127,96 @@ if ( ! function_exists('create_captcha'))
 		if (empty($word))
 		{
 			$word = '';
-			for ($i = 0, $mt_rand_max = strlen($pool) - 1; $i < $word_length; $i++)
+			$pool_length = strlen($pool);
+			$rand_max = $pool_length - 1;
+
+			// PHP7 or a suitable polyfill
+			if (function_exists('random_int'))
+			{
+				try
+				{
+					for ($i = 0; $i < $word_length; $i++)
+					{
+						$word .= $pool[random_int(0, $rand_max)];
+					}
+				}
+				catch (Exception $e)
+				{
+					// This means fallback to the next possible
+					// alternative to random_int()
+					$word = '';
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		if (empty($word))
+		{
+			// Nobody will have a larger character pool than
+			// 256 characters, but let's handle it just in case ...
+			//
+			// No, I do not care that the fallback to mt_rand() can
+			// handle it; if you trigger this, you're very obviously
+			// trying to break it. -- Narf
+			if ($pool_length > 256)
+			{
+				return FALSE;
+			}
+
+			// We'll try using the operating system's PRNG first,
+			// which we can access through CI_Security::get_random_bytes()
+			$security = get_instance()->security;
+
+			// To avoid numerous get_random_bytes() calls, we'll
+			// just try fetching as much bytes as we need at once.
+			if (($bytes = $security->get_random_bytes($pool_length)) !== FALSE)
+			{
+				$byte_index = $word_index = 0;
+				while ($word_index < $word_length)
+				{
+					// Do we have more random data to use?
+					// It could be exhausted by previous iterations
+					// ignoring bytes higher than $rand_max.
+					if ($byte_index === $pool_length)
+					{
+						// No failures should be possible if the
+						// first get_random_bytes() call didn't
+						// return FALSE, but still ...
+						for ($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++)
+						{
+							if (($bytes = $security->get_random_bytes($pool_length)) === FALSE)
+							{
+								continue;
+							}
+
+							$byte_index = 0;
+							break;
+						}
+
+						if ($bytes === FALSE)
+						{
+							// Sadly, this means fallback to mt_rand()
+							$word = '';
+							break;
+						}
+					}
+
+					list(, $rand_index) = unpack('C', $bytes[$byte_index++]);
+					if ($rand_index > $rand_max)
+					{
+						continue;
+					}
+
+					$word .= $pool[$rand_index];
+					$word_index++;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		if (empty($word))
+		{
+			for ($i = 0; $i < $word_length; $i++)
 			{
-				$word .= $pool[mt_rand(0, $mt_rand_max)];
+				$word .= $pool[mt_rand(0, $rand_max)];
 			}
 		}
 		elseif ( ! is_string($word))
@@ -245,7 +334,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('create_captcha'))
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		$img = '<img '.($img_id === '' ? '' : 'id="'.$img_id.'"').' src="'.$img_url.$img_filename.'" style="width: '.$img_width.'; height: '.$img_height .'; border: 0;" alt=" " />';
+		$img = '<img '.($img_id === '' ? '' : 'id="'.$img_id.'"').' src="'.$img_url.$img_filename.'" style="width: '.$img_width.'; height: '.$img_height .'; border: 0;" alt="'.$img_alt.'" />';
 		ImageDestroy($im);
 
 		return array('word' => $word, 'time' => $now, 'image' => $img, 'filename' => $img_filename);
diff --git a/system/helpers/cookie_helper.php b/system/helpers/cookie_helper.php
index c2dc73a17..d069cdb15 100644
--- a/system/helpers/cookie_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/cookie_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/cookie_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/cookie_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('set_cookie'))
 	 *
 	 * @param	mixed
 	 * @param	string	the value of the cookie
-	 * @param	string	the number of seconds until expiration
+	 * @param	int	the number of seconds until expiration
 	 * @param	string	the cookie domain.  Usually:  .yourdomain.com
 	 * @param	string	the cookie path
 	 * @param	string	the cookie prefix
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('set_cookie'))
 	 * @param	bool	true makes the cookie accessible via http(s) only (no javascript)
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	function set_cookie($name, $value = '', $expire = '', $domain = '', $path = '/', $prefix = '', $secure = FALSE, $httponly = FALSE)
+	function set_cookie($name, $value = '', $expire = 0, $domain = '', $path = '/', $prefix = '', $secure = FALSE, $httponly = FALSE)
 	{
 		// Set the config file options
 		get_instance()->input->set_cookie($name, $value, $expire, $domain, $path, $prefix, $secure, $httponly);
@@ -85,9 +85,8 @@ if ( ! function_exists('get_cookie'))
 	 * @param	bool
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
-	function get_cookie($index, $xss_clean = NULL)
+	function get_cookie($index, $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
-		is_bool($xss_clean) OR $xss_clean = (config_item('global_xss_filtering') === TRUE);
 		$prefix = isset($_COOKIE[$index]) ? '' : config_item('cookie_prefix');
 		return get_instance()->input->cookie($prefix.$index, $xss_clean);
 	}
diff --git a/system/helpers/date_helper.php b/system/helpers/date_helper.php
index c9b71c30f..799c9f6d2 100644
--- a/system/helpers/date_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/date_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/date_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/date_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -122,46 +122,6 @@ if ( ! function_exists('mdate'))
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-if ( ! function_exists('standard_date'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Standard Date
-	 *
-	 * Returns a date formatted according to the submitted standard.
-	 *
-	 * As of PHP 5.2, the DateTime extension provides constants that
-	 * serve for the exact same purpose and are used with date().
-	 *
-	 * @todo	Remove in version 3.1+.
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Use PHP's native date() instead.
-	 * @link	http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php#datetime.constants.types
-	 *
-	 * @example	date(DATE_RFC822, now()); // default
-	 * @example	date(DATE_W3C, $time); // a different format and time
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$fmt = 'DATE_RFC822'	the chosen format
-	 * @param	int	$time = NULL		Unix timestamp
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function standard_date($fmt = 'DATE_RFC822', $time = NULL)
-	{
-		if (empty($time))
-		{
-			$time = now();
-		}
-
-		// Procedural style pre-defined constants from the DateTime extension
-		if (strpos($fmt, 'DATE_') !== 0 OR defined($fmt) === FALSE)
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		return date(constant($fmt), $time);
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 if ( ! function_exists('timespan'))
 {
 	/**
@@ -496,6 +456,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('nice_date'))
 	 * Turns many "reasonably-date-like" strings into something
 	 * that is actually useful. This only works for dates after unix epoch.
 	 *
+	 * @deprecated	3.1.3	Use DateTime::createFromFormat($input_format, $input)->format($output_format);
 	 * @param	string	The terribly formatted date-like string
 	 * @param	string	Date format to return (same as php date function)
 	 * @return	string
@@ -529,9 +490,9 @@ if ( ! function_exists('nice_date'))
 		}
 
 		// Date Like: YYYYMMDD
-		if (preg_match('/^(\d{2})\d{2}(\d{4})$/i', $bad_date, $matches))
+		if (preg_match('/^\d{8}$/i', $bad_date, $matches))
 		{
-			return date($format, strtotime($matches[1].'/01/'.$matches[2]));
+			return DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', $bad_date)->format($format);
 		}
 
 		// Date Like: MM-DD-YYYY __or__ M-D-YYYY (or anything in between)
@@ -707,87 +668,32 @@ if ( ! function_exists('date_range'))
 
 		$range = array();
 
-		/* NOTE: Even though the DateTime object has many useful features, it appears that
-		 *	 it doesn't always handle properly timezones, when timestamps are passed
-		 *	 directly to its constructor. Neither of the following gave proper results:
-		 *
-		 *		new DateTime('<timestamp>')
-		 *		new DateTime('<timestamp>', '<timezone>')
-		 *
-		 *	 --- available in PHP 5.3:
-		 *
-		 *		DateTime::createFromFormat('<format>', '<timestamp>')
-		 *		DateTime::createFromFormat('<format>', '<timestamp>', '<timezone')
-		 *
-		 *	 ... so we'll have to set the timestamp after the object is instantiated.
-		 *	 Furthermore, in PHP 5.3 we can use DateTime::setTimestamp() to do that and
-		 *	 given that we have UNIX timestamps - we should use it.
-		*/
 		$from = new DateTime();
+		$from->setTimestamp($unix_start);
 
-		if (is_php('5.3'))
-		{
-			$from->setTimestamp($unix_start);
-			if ($is_unix)
-			{
-				$arg = new DateTime();
-				$arg->setTimestamp($mixed);
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				$arg = (int) $mixed;
-			}
-
-			$period = new DatePeriod($from, new DateInterval('P1D'), $arg);
-			foreach ($period as $date)
-			{
-				$range[] = $date->format($format);
-			}
-
-			/* If a period end date was passed to the DatePeriod constructor, it might not
-			 * be in our results. Not sure if this is a bug or it's just possible because
-			 * the end date might actually be less than 24 hours away from the previously
-			 * generated DateTime object, but either way - we have to append it manually.
-			 */
-			if ( ! is_int($arg) && $range[count($range) - 1] !== $arg->format($format))
-			{
-				$range[] = $arg->format($format);
-			}
-
-			return $range;
-		}
-
-		$from->setDate(date('Y', $unix_start), date('n', $unix_start), date('j', $unix_start));
-		$from->setTime(date('G', $unix_start), date('i', $unix_start), date('s', $unix_start));
 		if ($is_unix)
 		{
 			$arg = new DateTime();
-			$arg->setDate(date('Y', $mixed), date('n', $mixed), date('j', $mixed));
-			$arg->setTime(date('G', $mixed), date('i', $mixed), date('s', $mixed));
+			$arg->setTimestamp($mixed);
 		}
 		else
 		{
 			$arg = (int) $mixed;
 		}
-		$range[] = $from->format($format);
 
-		if (is_int($arg)) // Day intervals
+		$period = new DatePeriod($from, new DateInterval('P1D'), $arg);
+		foreach ($period as $date)
 		{
-			do
-			{
-				$from->modify('+1 day');
-				$range[] = $from->format($format);
-			}
-			while (--$arg > 0);
+			$range[] = $date->format($format);
 		}
-		else // end date UNIX timestamp
-		{
-			for ($from->modify('+1 day'), $end_check = $arg->format('Ymd'); $from->format('Ymd') < $end_check; $from->modify('+1 day'))
-			{
-				$range[] = $from->format($format);
-			}
 
-			// Our loop only appended dates prior to our end date
+		/* If a period end date was passed to the DatePeriod constructor, it might not
+		 * be in our results. Not sure if this is a bug or it's just possible because
+		 * the end date might actually be less than 24 hours away from the previously
+		 * generated DateTime object, but either way - we have to append it manually.
+		 */
+		if ( ! is_int($arg) && $range[count($range) - 1] !== $arg->format($format))
+		{
 			$range[] = $arg->format($format);
 		}
 
diff --git a/system/helpers/directory_helper.php b/system/helpers/directory_helper.php
index 8f05c5b18..2785241e6 100644
--- a/system/helpers/directory_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/directory_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/directory_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/directory_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/helpers/download_helper.php b/system/helpers/download_helper.php
index 73f6456c4..ea3da1bf4 100644
--- a/system/helpers/download_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/download_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/download_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/download_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('force_download'))
 	 *
 	 * Generates headers that force a download to happen
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	filename
+	 * @param	mixed	filename (or an array of local file path => destination filename)
 	 * @param	mixed	the data to be downloaded
 	 * @param	bool	whether to try and send the actual file MIME type
 	 * @return	void
@@ -69,14 +69,38 @@ if ( ! function_exists('force_download'))
 		}
 		elseif ($data === NULL)
 		{
-			if ( ! @is_file($filename) OR ($filesize = @filesize($filename)) === FALSE)
+			// Is $filename an array as ['local source path' => 'destination filename']?
+			if (is_array($filename))
 			{
-				return;
+				if (count($filename) !== 1)
+				{
+					return;
+				}
+
+				$filepath = key($filename);
+				$filename = current($filename);
+
+				if (is_int($filepath))
+				{
+					return;
+				}
+
+				if ( ! @is_file($filepath) OR ($filesize = @filesize($filepath)) === FALSE)
+				{
+					return;
+				}
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				if ( ! @is_file($filename) OR ($filesize = @filesize($filename)) === FALSE)
+				{
+					return;
+				}
+
+				$filepath = $filename;
+				$filename = explode('/', str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, '/', $filename));
+				$filename = end($filename);
 			}
-
-			$filepath = $filename;
-			$filename = explode('/', str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, '/', $filename));
-			$filename = end($filename);
 		}
 		else
 		{
@@ -121,11 +145,6 @@ if ( ! function_exists('force_download'))
 			$filename = implode('.', $x);
 		}
 
-		if ($data === NULL && ($fp = @fopen($filepath, 'rb')) === FALSE)
-		{
-			return;
-		}
-
 		// Clean output buffer
 		if (ob_get_level() !== 0 && @ob_end_clean() === FALSE)
 		{
@@ -146,13 +165,12 @@ if ( ! function_exists('force_download'))
 			exit($data);
 		}
 
-		// Flush 1MB chunks of data
-		while ( ! feof($fp) && ($data = fread($fp, 1048576)) !== FALSE)
+		// Flush the file
+		if (@readfile($filepath) === FALSE)
 		{
-			echo $data;
+			return;
 		}
 
-		fclose($fp);
 		exit;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/system/helpers/email_helper.php b/system/helpers/email_helper.php
deleted file mode 100644
index c4d705810..000000000
--- a/system/helpers/email_helper.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.0.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * CodeIgniter Email Helpers
- *
- * @package		CodeIgniter
- * @subpackage	Helpers
- * @category	Helpers
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/email_helper.html
- */
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('valid_email'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Validate email address
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Use PHP's filter_var() instead
-	 * @param	string	$email
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	function valid_email($email)
-	{
-		return (bool) filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('send_email'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Send an email
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Use PHP's mail() instead
-	 * @param	string	$recipient
-	 * @param	string	$subject
-	 * @param	string	$message
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	function send_email($recipient, $subject, $message)
-	{
-		return mail($recipient, $subject, $message);
-	}
-}
diff --git a/system/helpers/file_helper.php b/system/helpers/file_helper.php
index cd1c641ec..6af632b07 100644
--- a/system/helpers/file_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/file_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,31 +44,11 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/file_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/file_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-if ( ! function_exists('read_file'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Read File
-	 *
-	 * Opens the file specified in the path and returns it as a string.
-	 *
-	 * @todo	Remove in version 3.1+.
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	It is now just an alias for PHP's native file_get_contents().
-	 * @param	string	$file	Path to file
-	 * @return	string	File contents
-	 */
-	function read_file($file)
-	{
-		return @file_get_contents($file);
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 if ( ! function_exists('write_file'))
 {
 	/**
@@ -138,13 +118,15 @@ if ( ! function_exists('delete_files'))
 		{
 			if ($filename !== '.' && $filename !== '..')
 			{
-				if (is_dir($path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$filename) && $filename[0] !== '.')
+				$filepath = $path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$filename;
+
+				if (is_dir($filepath) && $filename[0] !== '.' && ! is_link($filepath))
 				{
-					delete_files($path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$filename, $del_dir, $htdocs, $_level + 1);
+					delete_files($filepath, $del_dir, $htdocs, $_level + 1);
 				}
 				elseif ($htdocs !== TRUE OR ! preg_match('/^(\.htaccess|index\.(html|htm|php)|web\.config)$/i', $filename))
 				{
-					@unlink($path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$filename);
+					@unlink($filepath);
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -343,7 +325,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('get_mime_by_extension'))
 
 		if ( ! is_array($mimes))
 		{
-			$mimes =& get_mimes();
+			$mimes = get_mimes();
 
 			if (empty($mimes))
 			{
diff --git a/system/helpers/form_helper.php b/system/helpers/form_helper.php
index fd807769a..4a4a7c89f 100644
--- a/system/helpers/form_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/form_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/form_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/form_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -90,18 +90,47 @@ if ( ! function_exists('form_open'))
 
 		$form = '<form action="'.$action.'"'.$attributes.">\n";
 
-		// Add CSRF field if enabled, but leave it out for GET requests and requests to external websites
-		if ($CI->config->item('csrf_protection') === TRUE && strpos($action, $CI->config->base_url()) !== FALSE && ! stripos($form, 'method="get"'))
+		if (is_array($hidden))
 		{
-			$hidden[$CI->security->get_csrf_token_name()] = $CI->security->get_csrf_hash();
+			foreach ($hidden as $name => $value)
+			{
+				$form .= '<input type="hidden" name="'.$name.'" value="'.html_escape($value).'" />'."\n";
+			}
 		}
 
-		if (is_array($hidden))
+		// Add CSRF field if enabled, but leave it out for GET requests and requests to external websites
+		if ($CI->config->item('csrf_protection') === TRUE && strpos($action, $CI->config->base_url()) !== FALSE && ! stripos($form, 'method="get"'))
 		{
-			foreach ($hidden as $name => $value)
+			// Prepend/append random-length "white noise" around the CSRF
+			// token input, as a form of protection against BREACH attacks
+			if (FALSE !== ($noise = $CI->security->get_random_bytes(1)))
 			{
-				$form .= '<input type="hidden" name="'.$name.'" value="'.html_escape($value).'" style="display:none;" />'."\n";
+				list(, $noise) = unpack('c', $noise);
 			}
+			else
+			{
+				$noise = mt_rand(-128, 127);
+			}
+
+			// Prepend if $noise has a negative value, append if positive, do nothing for zero
+			$prepend = $append = '';
+			if ($noise < 0)
+			{
+				$prepend = str_repeat(" ", abs($noise));
+			}
+			elseif ($noise > 0)
+			{
+				$append  = str_repeat(" ", $noise);
+			}
+
+			$form .= sprintf(
+				'%s<input type="hidden" name="%s" value="%s" />%s%s',
+				$prepend,
+				$CI->security->get_csrf_token_name(),
+				$CI->security->get_csrf_hash(),
+				$append,
+				"\n"
+			);
 		}
 
 		return $form;
@@ -244,11 +273,10 @@ if ( ! function_exists('form_upload'))
 	 * Identical to the input function but adds the "file" type
 	 *
 	 * @param	mixed
-	 * @param	string
 	 * @param	mixed
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	function form_upload($data = '', $value = '', $extra = '')
+	function form_upload($data = '', $extra = '')
 	{
 		$defaults = array('type' => 'file', 'name' => '');
 		is_array($data) OR $data = array('name' => $data);
@@ -568,7 +596,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('form_label'))
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	The text to appear onscreen
 	 * @param	string	The id the label applies to
-	 * @param	string	Additional attributes
+	 * @param	array	Additional attributes
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
 	function form_label($label_text = '', $id = '', $attributes = array())
@@ -653,25 +681,6 @@ if ( ! function_exists('form_close'))
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-if ( ! function_exists('form_prep'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Form Prep
-	 *
-	 * Formats text so that it can be safely placed in a form field in the event it has HTML tags.
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	An alias for html_escape()
-	 * @param	string|string[]	$str		Value to escape
-	 * @return	string|string[]	Escaped values
-	 */
-	function form_prep($str)
-	{
-		return html_escape($str, TRUE);
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 if ( ! function_exists('set_value'))
 {
 	/**
@@ -769,12 +778,11 @@ if ( ! function_exists('set_checkbox'))
 		{
 			return $CI->form_validation->set_checkbox($field, $value, $default);
 		}
-		elseif (($input = $CI->input->post($field, FALSE)) === NULL)
-		{
-			return ($default === TRUE) ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
-		}
 
+		// Form inputs are always strings ...
 		$value = (string) $value;
+		$input = $CI->input->post($field, FALSE);
+
 		if (is_array($input))
 		{
 			// Note: in_array('', array(0)) returns TRUE, do not use it
@@ -789,7 +797,13 @@ if ( ! function_exists('set_checkbox'))
 			return '';
 		}
 
-		return ($input === $value) ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
+		// Unchecked checkbox and radio inputs are not even submitted by browsers ...
+		if ($CI->input->method() === 'post')
+		{
+			return ($input === $value) ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
+		}
+
+		return ($default === TRUE) ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
 	}
 }
 
@@ -816,12 +830,32 @@ if ( ! function_exists('set_radio'))
 		{
 			return $CI->form_validation->set_radio($field, $value, $default);
 		}
-		elseif (($input = $CI->input->post($field, FALSE)) === NULL)
+
+		// Form inputs are always strings ...
+		$value = (string) $value;
+		$input = $CI->input->post($field, FALSE);
+
+		if (is_array($input))
+		{
+			// Note: in_array('', array(0)) returns TRUE, do not use it
+			foreach ($input as &$v)
+			{
+				if ($value === $v)
+				{
+					return ' checked="checked"';
+				}
+			}
+
+			return '';
+		}
+
+		// Unchecked checkbox and radio inputs are not even submitted by browsers ...
+		if ($CI->input->method() === 'post')
 		{
-			return ($default === TRUE) ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
+			return ($input === $value) ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
 		}
 
-		return ($input === (string) $value) ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
+		return ($default === TRUE) ? ' checked="checked"' : '';
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/system/helpers/html_helper.php b/system/helpers/html_helper.php
index 28fbe00be..b5e8ed783 100644
--- a/system/helpers/html_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/html_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('doctype'))
 	 * @param	string	type	The doctype to be generated
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	function doctype($type = 'xhtml1-strict')
+	function doctype($type = 'html5')
 	{
 		static $doctypes;
 
@@ -360,51 +360,32 @@ if ( ! function_exists('meta'))
 			$name = array($name);
 		}
 
+		$allowed_types = array('charset', 'http-equiv', 'name', 'property');
 		$str = '';
 		foreach ($name as $meta)
 		{
-			$type		= (isset($meta['type']) && $meta['type'] !== 'name')	? 'http-equiv' : 'name';
-			$name		= isset($meta['name'])					? $meta['name'] : '';
-			$content	= isset($meta['content'])				? $meta['content'] : '';
-			$newline	= isset($meta['newline'])				? $meta['newline'] : "\n";
+			// This is to preserve BC with pre-3.1 versions where only
+			// 'http-equiv' (default) and 'name' were supported.
+			if (isset($meta['type']))
+			{
+				if ($meta['type'] === 'equiv')
+				{
+					$meta['type'] === 'http-equiv';
+				}
+				elseif ( ! in_array($meta['type'], $allowed_types, TRUE))
+				{
+					$meta['type'] = 'name';
+				}
+			}
 
-			$str .= '<meta '.$type.'="'.$name.'" content="'.$content.'" />'.$newline;
+			$type    = isset($meta['type'])    ? $meta['type']    : 'name';
+			$name    = isset($meta['name'])    ? $meta['name']    : '';
+			$content = isset($meta['content']) ? $meta['content'] : '';
+			$newline = isset($meta['newline']) ? $meta['newline'] : "\n";
+
+			$str .= '<meta '.$type.'="'.$name.($type === 'charset' ? '' : '" content="'.$content).'" />'.$newline;
 		}
 
 		return $str;
 	}
 }
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('br'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Generates HTML BR tags based on number supplied
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Use str_repeat() instead
-	 * @param	int	$count	Number of times to repeat the tag
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function br($count = 1)
-	{
-		return str_repeat('<br />', $count);
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('nbs'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Generates non-breaking space entities based on number supplied
-	 *
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Use str_repeat() instead
-	 * @param	int
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function nbs($num = 1)
-	{
-		return str_repeat('&nbsp;', $num);
-	}
-}
diff --git a/system/helpers/inflector_helper.php b/system/helpers/inflector_helper.php
index f2890059f..49e2a53db 100644
--- a/system/helpers/inflector_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/inflector_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/inflector_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/inflector_helper.html
  */
 
 // --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('humanize'))
 	 */
 	function humanize($str, $separator = '_')
 	{
-		return ucwords(preg_replace('/['.$separator.']+/', ' ', trim(MB_ENABLED ? mb_strtolower($str) : strtolower($str))));
+		return ucwords(preg_replace('/['.preg_quote($separator).']+/', ' ', trim(MB_ENABLED ? mb_strtolower($str) : strtolower($str))));
 	}
 }
 
@@ -238,9 +238,77 @@ if ( ! function_exists('is_countable'))
 		return ! in_array(
 			strtolower($word),
 			array(
-				'equipment', 'information', 'rice', 'money',
-				'species', 'series', 'fish', 'meta'
+				'audio',
+				'bison',
+				'chassis',
+				'compensation',
+				'coreopsis',
+				'data',
+				'deer',
+				'education',
+				'emoji',
+				'equipment',
+				'fish',
+				'furniture',
+				'gold',
+				'information',
+				'knowledge',
+				'love',
+				'rain',
+				'money',
+				'moose',
+				'nutrition',
+				'offspring',
+				'plankton',
+				'pokemon',
+				'police',
+				'rice',
+				'series',
+				'sheep',
+				'species',
+				'swine',
+				'traffic',
+				'wheat'
 			)
 		);
 	}
 }
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+if ( ! function_exists('ordinal_format'))
+{
+	/**
+	 * Returns the English ordinal numeral for a given number
+	 *
+	 * @param  int    $number
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	function ordinal_format($number)
+	{
+		if ( ! ctype_digit((string) $number) OR $number < 1)
+		{
+			return $number;
+		}
+
+		$last_digit = array(
+			0 => 'th',
+			1 => 'st',
+			2 => 'nd',
+			3 => 'rd',
+			4 => 'th',
+			5 => 'th',
+			6 => 'th',
+			7 => 'th',
+			8 => 'th',
+			9 => 'th'
+		);
+
+		if (($number % 100) >= 11 && ($number % 100) <= 13)
+		{
+			return $number.'th';
+		}
+
+		return $number.$last_digit[$number % 10];
+	}
+}
diff --git a/system/helpers/language_helper.php b/system/helpers/language_helper.php
index 25ce8abe1..d26cf5b8d 100644
--- a/system/helpers/language_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/language_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/language_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/language_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/helpers/number_helper.php b/system/helpers/number_helper.php
index 3a24259e1..cc8a7760c 100644
--- a/system/helpers/number_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/number_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/number_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/number_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/helpers/path_helper.php b/system/helpers/path_helper.php
index c96d0b8b3..6896cb97b 100644
--- a/system/helpers/path_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/path_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/path_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/path_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('set_realpath'))
 	function set_realpath($path, $check_existance = FALSE)
 	{
 		// Security check to make sure the path is NOT a URL. No remote file inclusion!
-		if (preg_match('#^(http:\/\/|https:\/\/|www\.|ftp)#i', $path) OR filter_var($path, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) === $path )
+		if (preg_match('#^(http:\/\/|https:\/\/|www\.|ftp|php:\/\/)#i', $path) OR filter_var($path, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) === $path)
 		{
 			show_error('The path you submitted must be a local server path, not a URL');
 		}
diff --git a/system/helpers/security_helper.php b/system/helpers/security_helper.php
index adbf136bb..72736fa7d 100644
--- a/system/helpers/security_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/security_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/security_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/security_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -80,30 +80,6 @@ if ( ! function_exists('sanitize_filename'))
 	}
 }
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('do_hash'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Hash encode a string
-	 *
-	 * @todo	Remove in version 3.1+.
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	Use PHP's native hash() instead.
-	 * @param	string	$str
-	 * @param	string	$type = 'sha1'
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function do_hash($str, $type = 'sha1')
-	{
-		if ( ! in_array(strtolower($type), hash_algos()))
-		{
-			$type = 'md5';
-		}
-
-		return hash($type, $str);
-	}
-}
-
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 if ( ! function_exists('strip_image_tags'))
diff --git a/system/helpers/smiley_helper.php b/system/helpers/smiley_helper.php
deleted file mode 100644
index d053dd22c..000000000
--- a/system/helpers/smiley_helper.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,255 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.0.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * CodeIgniter Smiley Helpers
- *
- * @package		CodeIgniter
- * @subpackage	Helpers
- * @category	Helpers
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/smiley_helper.html
- * @deprecated	3.0.0	This helper is too specific for CI.
- */
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('smiley_js'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Smiley Javascript
-	 *
-	 * Returns the javascript required for the smiley insertion.  Optionally takes
-	 * an array of aliases to loosely couple the smiley array to the view.
-	 *
-	 * @param	mixed	alias name or array of alias->field_id pairs
-	 * @param	string	field_id if alias name was passed in
-	 * @param	bool
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	function smiley_js($alias = '', $field_id = '', $inline = TRUE)
-	{
-		static $do_setup = TRUE;
-		$r = '';
-
-		if ($alias !== '' && ! is_array($alias))
-		{
-			$alias = array($alias => $field_id);
-		}
-
-		if ($do_setup === TRUE)
-		{
-			$do_setup = FALSE;
-			$m = array();
-
-			if (is_array($alias))
-			{
-				foreach ($alias as $name => $id)
-				{
-					$m[] = '"'.$name.'" : "'.$id.'"';
-				}
-			}
-
-			$m = '{'.implode(',', $m).'}';
-
-			$r .= <<<EOF
-			var smiley_map = {$m};
-
-			function insert_smiley(smiley, field_id) {
-				var el = document.getElementById(field_id), newStart;
-
-				if ( ! el && smiley_map[field_id]) {
-					el = document.getElementById(smiley_map[field_id]);
-
-					if ( ! el)
-						return false;
-				}
-
-				el.focus();
-				smiley = " " + smiley;
-
-				if ('selectionStart' in el) {
-					newStart = el.selectionStart + smiley.length;
-
-					el.value = el.value.substr(0, el.selectionStart) +
-									smiley +
-									el.value.substr(el.selectionEnd, el.value.length);
-					el.setSelectionRange(newStart, newStart);
-				}
-				else if (document.selection) {
-					document.selection.createRange().text = smiley;
-				}
-			}
-EOF;
-		}
-		elseif (is_array($alias))
-		{
-			foreach ($alias as $name => $id)
-			{
-				$r .= 'smiley_map["'.$name.'"] = "'.$id."\";\n";
-			}
-		}
-
-		return ($inline)
-			? '<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">/*<![CDATA[ */'.$r.'// ]]></script>'
-			: $r;
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('get_clickable_smileys'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Get Clickable Smileys
-	 *
-	 * Returns an array of image tag links that can be clicked to be inserted
-	 * into a form field.
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	the URL to the folder containing the smiley images
-	 * @param	array
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	function get_clickable_smileys($image_url, $alias = '')
-	{
-		// For backward compatibility with js_insert_smiley
-		if (is_array($alias))
-		{
-			$smileys = $alias;
-		}
-		elseif (FALSE === ($smileys = _get_smiley_array()))
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// Add a trailing slash to the file path if needed
-		$image_url = rtrim($image_url, '/').'/';
-
-		$used = array();
-		foreach ($smileys as $key => $val)
-		{
-			// Keep duplicates from being used, which can happen if the
-			// mapping array contains multiple identical replacements. For example:
-			// :-) and :) might be replaced with the same image so both smileys
-			// will be in the array.
-			if (isset($used[$smileys[$key][0]]))
-			{
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			$link[] = '<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="insert_smiley(\''.$key.'\', \''.$alias.'\')"><img src="'.$image_url.$smileys[$key][0].'" alt="'.$smileys[$key][3].'" style="width: '.$smileys[$key][1].'; height: '.$smileys[$key][2].'; border: 0;" /></a>';
-			$used[$smileys[$key][0]] = TRUE;
-		}
-
-		return $link;
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('parse_smileys'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Parse Smileys
-	 *
-	 * Takes a string as input and swaps any contained smileys for the actual image
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	the text to be parsed
-	 * @param	string	the URL to the folder containing the smiley images
-	 * @param	array
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function parse_smileys($str = '', $image_url = '', $smileys = NULL)
-	{
-		if ($image_url === '' OR ( ! is_array($smileys) && FALSE === ($smileys = _get_smiley_array())))
-		{
-			return $str;
-		}
-
-		// Add a trailing slash to the file path if needed
-		$image_url = rtrim($image_url, '/').'/';
-
-		foreach ($smileys as $key => $val)
-		{
-			$str = str_replace($key, '<img src="'.$image_url.$smileys[$key][0].'" alt="'.$smileys[$key][3].'" style="width: '.$smileys[$key][1].'; height: '.$smileys[$key][2].'; border: 0;" />', $str);
-		}
-
-		return $str;
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('_get_smiley_array'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Get Smiley Array
-	 *
-	 * Fetches the config/smiley.php file
-	 *
-	 * @return	mixed
-	 */
-	function _get_smiley_array()
-	{
-		static $_smileys;
-
-		if ( ! is_array($_smileys))
-		{
-			if (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/smileys.php'))
-			{
-				include(APPPATH.'config/smileys.php');
-			}
-
-			if (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/'.ENVIRONMENT.'/smileys.php'))
-			{
-				include(APPPATH.'config/'.ENVIRONMENT.'/smileys.php');
-			}
-
-			if (empty($smileys) OR ! is_array($smileys))
-			{
-				$_smileys = array();
-				return FALSE;
-			}
-
-			$_smileys = $smileys;
-		}
-
-		return $_smileys;
-	}
-}
diff --git a/system/helpers/string_helper.php b/system/helpers/string_helper.php
index 5860e15fb..311f7a420 100644
--- a/system/helpers/string_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/string_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,38 +44,11 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/string_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/string_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-if ( ! function_exists('trim_slashes'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Trim Slashes
-	 *
-	 * Removes any leading/trailing slashes from a string:
-	 *
-	 * /this/that/theother/
-	 *
-	 * becomes:
-	 *
-	 * this/that/theother
-	 *
-	 * @todo	Remove in version 3.1+.
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	This is just an alias for PHP's native trim()
-	 *
-	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function trim_slashes($str)
-	{
-		return trim($str, '/');
-	}
-}
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 if ( ! function_exists('strip_slashes'))
 {
 	/**
@@ -253,7 +226,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('increment_string'))
 	 */
 	function increment_string($str, $separator = '_', $first = 1)
 	{
-		preg_match('/(.+)'.$separator.'([0-9]+)$/', $str, $match);
+		preg_match('/(.+)'.preg_quote($separator, '/').'([0-9]+)$/', $str, $match);
 		return isset($match[2]) ? $match[1].$separator.($match[2] + 1) : $str.$separator.$first;
 	}
 }
@@ -270,7 +243,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('alternator'))
 	 * @param	string (as many parameters as needed)
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	function alternator($args)
+	function alternator()
 	{
 		static $i;
 
@@ -279,27 +252,8 @@ if ( ! function_exists('alternator'))
 			$i = 0;
 			return '';
 		}
+
 		$args = func_get_args();
 		return $args[($i++ % count($args))];
 	}
 }
-
-// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-if ( ! function_exists('repeater'))
-{
-	/**
-	 * Repeater function
-	 *
-	 * @todo	Remove in version 3.1+.
-	 * @deprecated	3.0.0	This is just an alias for PHP's native str_repeat()
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$data	String to repeat
-	 * @param	int	$num	Number of repeats
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	function repeater($data, $num = 1)
-	{
-		return ($num > 0) ? str_repeat($data, $num) : '';
-	}
-}
diff --git a/system/helpers/text_helper.php b/system/helpers/text_helper.php
index fb47036f2..07c01c3af 100644
--- a/system/helpers/text_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/text_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/text_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/text_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('character_limiter'))
 		}
 
 		// a bit complicated, but faster than preg_replace with \s+
-		$str = preg_replace('/ {2,}/', ' ', str_replace(array("\r", "\n", "\t", "\x0B", "\x0C"), ' ', $str));
+		$str = preg_replace('/ {2,}/', ' ', str_replace(array("\r", "\n", "\t", "\v", "\f"), ' ', $str));
 
 		if (mb_strlen($str) <= $n)
 		{
@@ -275,13 +275,28 @@ if ( ! function_exists('word_censor'))
 
 		foreach ($censored as $badword)
 		{
+			$badword = str_replace('\*', '\w*?', preg_quote($badword, '/'));
 			if ($replacement !== '')
 			{
-				$str = preg_replace("/({$delim})(".str_replace('\*', '\w*?', preg_quote($badword, '/')).")({$delim})/i", "\\1{$replacement}\\3", $str);
+				$str = preg_replace(
+					"/({$delim})(".$badword.")({$delim})/i",
+					"\\1{$replacement}\\3",
+					$str
+				);
 			}
-			else
+			elseif (preg_match_all("/{$delim}(".$badword."){$delim}/i", $str, $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER | PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
 			{
-				$str = preg_replace("/({$delim})(".str_replace('\*', '\w*?', preg_quote($badword, '/')).")({$delim})/ie", "'\\1'.str_repeat('#', strlen('\\2')).'\\3'", $str);
+				$matches = $matches[1];
+				for ($i = count($matches) - 1; $i >= 0; $i--)
+				{
+					$length = strlen($matches[$i][0]);
+					$str = substr_replace(
+						$str,
+						str_repeat('#', $length),
+						$matches[$i][1],
+						$length
+					);
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/system/helpers/typography_helper.php b/system/helpers/typography_helper.php
index 45bb9b1d4..183e117bf 100644
--- a/system/helpers/typography_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/typography_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/typography_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/typography_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/helpers/url_helper.php b/system/helpers/url_helper.php
index d65f92f1b..99e82ef9f 100644
--- a/system/helpers/url_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/url_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('prep_url'))
 	 */
 	function prep_url($str = '')
 	{
-		if ($str === 'http://' OR $str === '')
+		if ($str === '')
 		{
 			return '';
 		}
diff --git a/system/helpers/xml_helper.php b/system/helpers/xml_helper.php
index 55f9c2f66..a12ee25db 100644
--- a/system/helpers/xml_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/xml_helper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Helpers
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/xml_helper.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/xml_helper.html
  */
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/language/english/calendar_lang.php b/system/language/english/calendar_lang.php
index 9d3352868..77911e983 100644
--- a/system/language/english/calendar_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/calendar_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/date_lang.php b/system/language/english/date_lang.php
index c61c9c2ad..bb454edfb 100644
--- a/system/language/english/date_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/date_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/db_lang.php b/system/language/english/db_lang.php
index 5b67da659..b44bda951 100644
--- a/system/language/english/db_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/db_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/email_lang.php b/system/language/english/email_lang.php
index cc6b2fd5a..22dc0fa78 100644
--- a/system/language/english/email_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/email_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/form_validation_lang.php b/system/language/english/form_validation_lang.php
index 75d6e4b82..357f747ce 100644
--- a/system/language/english/form_validation_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/form_validation_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ $lang['form_validation_valid_email']		= 'The {field} field must contain a valid
 $lang['form_validation_valid_emails']		= 'The {field} field must contain all valid email addresses.';
 $lang['form_validation_valid_url']		= 'The {field} field must contain a valid URL.';
 $lang['form_validation_valid_ip']		= 'The {field} field must contain a valid IP.';
+$lang['form_validation_valid_mac']		= 'The {field} field must contain a valid MAC.';
 $lang['form_validation_min_length']		= 'The {field} field must be at least {param} characters in length.';
 $lang['form_validation_max_length']		= 'The {field} field cannot exceed {param} characters in length.';
 $lang['form_validation_exact_length']		= 'The {field} field must be exactly {param} characters in length.';
diff --git a/system/language/english/ftp_lang.php b/system/language/english/ftp_lang.php
index bccc27397..eada3e5d5 100644
--- a/system/language/english/ftp_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/ftp_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/imglib_lang.php b/system/language/english/imglib_lang.php
index 41129cd6e..218874cfe 100644
--- a/system/language/english/imglib_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/imglib_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ $lang['imglib_libpath_invalid'] = 'The path to your image library is not correct
 $lang['imglib_image_process_failed'] = 'Image processing failed. Please verify that your server supports the chosen protocol and that the path to your image library is correct.';
 $lang['imglib_rotation_angle_required'] = 'An angle of rotation is required to rotate the image.';
 $lang['imglib_invalid_path'] = 'The path to the image is not correct.';
+$lang['imglib_invalid_image'] = 'The provided image is not valid.';
 $lang['imglib_copy_failed'] = 'The image copy routine failed.';
 $lang['imglib_missing_font'] = 'Unable to find a font to use.';
 $lang['imglib_save_failed'] = 'Unable to save the image. Please make sure the image and file directory are writable.';
diff --git a/system/language/english/migration_lang.php b/system/language/english/migration_lang.php
index 9e4a7c58c..168496090 100644
--- a/system/language/english/migration_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/migration_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/number_lang.php b/system/language/english/number_lang.php
index db229c5b5..9723ce5ec 100644
--- a/system/language/english/number_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/number_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/pagination_lang.php b/system/language/english/pagination_lang.php
index be133781e..d24dd047b 100644
--- a/system/language/english/pagination_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/pagination_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/profiler_lang.php b/system/language/english/profiler_lang.php
index ba3edba60..20949a20a 100644
--- a/system/language/english/profiler_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/profiler_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/unit_test_lang.php b/system/language/english/unit_test_lang.php
index 639829ed8..a89cb2d93 100644
--- a/system/language/english/unit_test_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/unit_test_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/language/english/upload_lang.php b/system/language/english/upload_lang.php
index a536dda31..ec611f9ac 100644
--- a/system/language/english/upload_lang.php
+++ b/system/language/english/upload_lang.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/libraries/Cache/Cache.php b/system/libraries/Cache/Cache.php
index 0c87a5628..267dffb09 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Cache/Cache.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Cache/Cache.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_apc.php b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_apc.php
index e0d2ffb39..f2b61adb1 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_apc.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_apc.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -49,6 +49,24 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
 class CI_Cache_apc extends CI_Driver {
 
 	/**
+	 * Class constructor
+	 *
+	 * Only present so that an error message is logged
+	 * if APC is not available.
+	 *
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	public function __construct()
+	{
+		if ( ! $this->is_supported())
+		{
+			log_message('error', 'Cache: Failed to initialize APC; extension not loaded/enabled?');
+		}
+	}
+
+	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Get
 	 *
 	 * Look for a value in the cache. If it exists, return the data
@@ -79,7 +97,7 @@ class CI_Cache_apc extends CI_Driver {
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	$id	Cache ID
 	 * @param	mixed	$data	Data to store
-	 * @param	int	$ttol	Length of time (in seconds) to cache the data
+	 * @param	int	$ttl	Length of time (in seconds) to cache the data
 	 * @param	bool	$raw	Whether to store the raw value
 	 * @return	bool	TRUE on success, FALSE on failure
 	 */
@@ -198,13 +216,6 @@ class CI_Cache_apc extends CI_Driver {
 	 */
 	public function is_supported()
 	{
-		if ( ! extension_loaded('apc') OR ! ini_get('apc.enabled'))
-		{
-			log_message('debug', 'The APC PHP extension must be loaded to use APC Cache.');
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		return TRUE;
+		return (extension_loaded('apc') && ini_get('apc.enabled'));
 	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_dummy.php b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_dummy.php
index bf80945a9..c6d9a61f1 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_dummy.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_dummy.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_file.php b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_file.php
index 68bc1ec96..8a36e9d79 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_file.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_file.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ class CI_Cache_file extends CI_Driver {
 	 */
 	public function delete($id)
 	{
-		return file_exists($this->_cache_path.$id) ? unlink($this->_cache_path.$id) : FALSE;
+		return is_file($this->_cache_path.$id) ? unlink($this->_cache_path.$id) : FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ class CI_Cache_file extends CI_Driver {
 	 */
 	public function get_metadata($id)
 	{
-		if ( ! file_exists($this->_cache_path.$id))
+		if ( ! is_file($this->_cache_path.$id))
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
@@ -227,13 +227,13 @@ class CI_Cache_file extends CI_Driver {
 		{
 			$mtime = filemtime($this->_cache_path.$id);
 
-			if ( ! isset($data['ttl']))
+			if ( ! isset($data['ttl'], $data['time']))
 			{
 				return FALSE;
 			}
 
 			return array(
-				'expire' => $mtime + $data['ttl'],
+				'expire' => $data['time'] + $data['ttl'],
 				'mtime'	 => $mtime
 			);
 		}
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ class CI_Cache_file extends CI_Driver {
 	 */
 	protected function _get($id)
 	{
-		if ( ! file_exists($this->_cache_path.$id))
+		if ( ! is_file($this->_cache_path.$id))
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_memcached.php b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_memcached.php
index 111e2109d..4836b6aed 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_memcached.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_memcached.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class CI_Cache_memcached extends CI_Driver {
 	 *
 	 * @var array
 	 */
-	protected $_memcache_conf = array(
+	protected $_config = array(
 		'default' => array(
 			'host'		=> '127.0.0.1',
 			'port'		=> 11211,
@@ -81,19 +81,11 @@ class CI_Cache_memcached extends CI_Driver {
 	{
 		// Try to load memcached server info from the config file.
 		$CI =& get_instance();
-		$defaults = $this->_memcache_conf['default'];
+		$defaults = $this->_config['default'];
 
 		if ($CI->config->load('memcached', TRUE, TRUE))
 		{
-			if (is_array($CI->config->config['memcached']))
-			{
-				$this->_memcache_conf = array();
-
-				foreach ($CI->config->config['memcached'] as $name => $conf)
-				{
-					$this->_memcache_conf[$name] = $conf;
-				}
-			}
+			$this->_config = $CI->config->config['memcached'];
 		}
 
 		if (class_exists('Memcached', FALSE))
@@ -106,18 +98,31 @@ class CI_Cache_memcached extends CI_Driver {
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			throw new RuntimeException('Cache: Failed to create Memcache(d) object; extension not loaded?');
+			log_message('error', 'Cache: Failed to create Memcache(d) object; extension not loaded?');
+			return;
 		}
 
-		foreach ($this->_memcache_conf as $cache_server)
+		foreach ($this->_config as $cache_name => $cache_server)
 		{
-			isset($cache_server['hostname']) OR $cache_server['hostname'] = $defaults['host'];
-			isset($cache_server['port']) OR $cache_server['port'] = $defaults['port'];
+			if ( ! isset($cache_server['hostname']))
+			{
+				log_message('debug', 'Cache: Memcache(d) configuration "'.$cache_name.'" doesn\'t include a hostname; ignoring.');
+				continue;
+			}
+			elseif ($cache_server['hostname'][0] === '/')
+			{
+				$cache_server['port'] = 0;
+			}
+			elseif (empty($cache_server['port']))
+			{
+				$cache_server['port'] = $defaults['port'];
+			}
+
 			isset($cache_server['weight']) OR $cache_server['weight'] = $defaults['weight'];
 
-			if (get_class($this->_memcached) === 'Memcache')
+			if ($this->_memcached instanceof Memcache)
 			{
-				// Third parameter is persistance and defaults to TRUE.
+				// Third parameter is persistence and defaults to TRUE.
 				$this->_memcached->addServer(
 					$cache_server['hostname'],
 					$cache_server['port'],
@@ -125,7 +130,7 @@ class CI_Cache_memcached extends CI_Driver {
 					$cache_server['weight']
 				);
 			}
-			else
+			elseif ($this->_memcached instanceof Memcached)
 			{
 				$this->_memcached->addServer(
 					$cache_server['hostname'],
@@ -169,11 +174,11 @@ class CI_Cache_memcached extends CI_Driver {
 			$data = array($data, time(), $ttl);
 		}
 
-		if (get_class($this->_memcached) === 'Memcached')
+		if ($this->_memcached instanceof Memcached)
 		{
 			return $this->_memcached->set($id, $data, $ttl);
 		}
-		elseif (get_class($this->_memcached) === 'Memcache')
+		elseif ($this->_memcached instanceof Memcache)
 		{
 			return $this->_memcached->set($id, $data, 0, $ttl);
 		}
@@ -186,7 +191,7 @@ class CI_Cache_memcached extends CI_Driver {
 	/**
 	 * Delete from Cache
 	 *
-	 * @param	mixed	key to be deleted.
+	 * @param	mixed	$id	key to be deleted.
 	 * @return	bool	true on success, false on failure
 	 */
 	public function delete($id)
@@ -251,7 +256,7 @@ class CI_Cache_memcached extends CI_Driver {
 	/**
 	 * Get Cache Metadata
 	 *
-	 * @param	mixed	key to get cache metadata on
+	 * @param	mixed	$id	key to get cache metadata on
 	 * @return	mixed	FALSE on failure, array on success.
 	 */
 	public function get_metadata($id)
@@ -284,12 +289,27 @@ class CI_Cache_memcached extends CI_Driver {
 	 */
 	public function is_supported()
 	{
-		if ( ! extension_loaded('memcached') && ! extension_loaded('memcache'))
+		return (extension_loaded('memcached') OR extension_loaded('memcache'));
+	}
+
+	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Class destructor
+	 *
+	 * Closes the connection to Memcache(d) if present.
+	 *
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	public function __destruct()
+	{
+		if ($this->_memcached instanceof Memcache)
 		{
-			log_message('debug', 'The Memcached Extension must be loaded to use Memcached Cache.');
-			return FALSE;
+			$this->_memcached->close();
+		}
+		elseif ($this->_memcached instanceof Memcached && method_exists($this->_memcached, 'quit'))
+		{
+			$this->_memcached->quit();
 		}
-
-		return TRUE;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_redis.php b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_redis.php
index d7dca1973..bb26b3b47 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_redis.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_redis.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	 * @var	array
 	 */
 	protected static $_default_config = array(
-		'socket_type' => 'tcp',
 		'host' => '127.0.0.1',
 		'password' => NULL,
 		'port' => 6379,
-		'timeout' => 0
+		'timeout' => 0,
+		'database' => 0
 	);
 
 	/**
@@ -69,13 +69,6 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	 */
 	protected $_redis;
 
-	/**
-	 * An internal cache for storing keys of serialized values.
-	 *
-	 * @var	array
-	 */
-	protected $_serialized = array();
-
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
@@ -91,46 +84,46 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	 */
 	public function __construct()
 	{
-		$config = array();
+		if ( ! $this->is_supported())
+		{
+			log_message('error', 'Cache: Failed to create Redis object; extension not loaded?');
+			return;
+		}
+
 		$CI =& get_instance();
 
 		if ($CI->config->load('redis', TRUE, TRUE))
 		{
-			$config = $CI->config->item('redis');
+			$config = array_merge(self::$_default_config, $CI->config->item('redis'));
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			$config = self::$_default_config;
 		}
 
-		$config = array_merge(self::$_default_config, $config);
 		$this->_redis = new Redis();
 
 		try
 		{
-			if ($config['socket_type'] === 'unix')
+			if ( ! $this->_redis->connect($config['host'], ($config['host'][0] === '/' ? 0 : $config['port']), $config['timeout']))
 			{
-				$success = $this->_redis->connect($config['socket']);
+				log_message('error', 'Cache: Redis connection failed. Check your configuration.');
 			}
-			else // tcp socket
+
+			if (isset($config['password']) && ! $this->_redis->auth($config['password']))
 			{
-				$success = $this->_redis->connect($config['host'], $config['port'], $config['timeout']);
+				log_message('error', 'Cache: Redis authentication failed.');
 			}
 
-			if ( ! $success)
+			if (isset($config['database']) && $config['database'] > 0 && ! $this->_redis->select($config['database']))
 			{
-				throw new RuntimeException('Cache: Redis connection failed. Check your configuration.');
+				log_message('error', 'Cache: Redis select database failed.');
 			}
 		}
 		catch (RedisException $e)
 		{
-			throw new RuntimeException('Cache: Redis connection refused ('.$e->getMessage().')');
+			log_message('error', 'Cache: Redis connection refused ('.$e->getMessage().')');
 		}
-
-		if (isset($config['password']) && ! $this->_redis->auth($config['password']))
-		{
-			throw new RuntimeException('Cache: Redis authentication failed.');
-		}
-
-		// Initialize the index of serialized values.
-		$serialized = $this->_redis->sMembers('_ci_redis_serialized');
-		empty($serialized) OR $this->_serialized = array_flip($serialized);
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -138,19 +131,35 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	/**
 	 * Get cache
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	Cache ID
+	 * @param	string	$key	Cache ID
 	 * @return	mixed
 	 */
 	public function get($key)
 	{
-		$value = $this->_redis->get($key);
+		$data = $this->_redis->hMGet($key, array('__ci_type', '__ci_value'));
 
-		if ($value !== FALSE && isset($this->_serialized[$key]))
+		if ( ! isset($data['__ci_type'], $data['__ci_value']) OR $data['__ci_value'] === FALSE)
 		{
-			return unserialize($value);
+			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		return $value;
+		switch ($data['__ci_type'])
+		{
+			case 'array':
+			case 'object':
+				return unserialize($data['__ci_value']);
+			case 'boolean':
+			case 'integer':
+			case 'double': // Yes, 'double' is returned and NOT 'float'
+			case 'string':
+			case 'NULL':
+				return settype($data['__ci_value'], $data['__ci_type'])
+					? $data['__ci_value']
+					: FALSE;
+			case 'resource':
+			default:
+				return FALSE;
+		}
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -166,23 +175,33 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	 */
 	public function save($id, $data, $ttl = 60, $raw = FALSE)
 	{
-		if (is_array($data) OR is_object($data))
+		switch ($data_type = gettype($data))
 		{
-			if ( ! $this->_redis->sIsMember('_ci_redis_serialized', $id) && ! $this->_redis->sAdd('_ci_redis_serialized', $id))
-			{
+			case 'array':
+			case 'object':
+				$data = serialize($data);
+				break;
+			case 'boolean':
+			case 'integer':
+			case 'double': // Yes, 'double' is returned and NOT 'float'
+			case 'string':
+			case 'NULL':
+				break;
+			case 'resource':
+			default:
 				return FALSE;
-			}
+		}
 
-			isset($this->_serialized[$id]) OR $this->_serialized[$id] = TRUE;
-			$data = serialize($data);
+		if ( ! $this->_redis->hMSet($id, array('__ci_type' => $data_type, '__ci_value' => $data)))
+		{
+			return FALSE;
 		}
-		elseif (isset($this->_serialized[$id]))
+		elseif ($ttl)
 		{
-			$this->_serialized[$id] = NULL;
-			$this->_redis->sRemove('_ci_redis_serialized', $id);
+			$this->_redis->expireAt($id, time() + $ttl);
 		}
 
-		return $this->_redis->set($id, $data, $ttl);
+		return TRUE;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -190,23 +209,12 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	/**
 	 * Delete from cache
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	Cache key
+	 * @param	string	$key	Cache key
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
 	public function delete($key)
 	{
-		if ($this->_redis->delete($key) !== 1)
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		if (isset($this->_serialized[$key]))
-		{
-			$this->_serialized[$key] = NULL;
-			$this->_redis->sRemove('_ci_redis_serialized', $key);
-		}
-
-		return TRUE;
+		return ($this->_redis->delete($key) === 1);
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -220,7 +228,7 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	 */
 	public function increment($id, $offset = 1)
 	{
-		return $this->_redis->incr($id, $offset);
+		return $this->_redis->hIncrBy($id, 'data', $offset);
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -234,7 +242,7 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	 */
 	public function decrement($id, $offset = 1)
 	{
-		return $this->_redis->decr($id, $offset);
+		return $this->_redis->hIncrBy($id, 'data', -$offset);
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -255,9 +263,9 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	/**
 	 * Get cache driver info
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	Not supported in Redis.
-	 *			Only included in order to offer a
-	 *			consistent cache API.
+	 * @param	string	$type	Not supported in Redis.
+	 *				Only included in order to offer a
+	 *				consistent cache API.
 	 * @return	array
 	 * @see		Redis::info()
 	 */
@@ -271,7 +279,7 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	/**
 	 * Get cache metadata
 	 *
-	 * @param	string	Cache key
+	 * @param	string	$key	Cache key
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
 	public function get_metadata($key)
@@ -298,13 +306,7 @@ class CI_Cache_redis extends CI_Driver
 	 */
 	public function is_supported()
 	{
-		if ( ! extension_loaded('redis'))
-		{
-			log_message('debug', 'The Redis extension must be loaded to use Redis cache.');
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		return TRUE;
+		return extension_loaded('redis');
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_wincache.php b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_wincache.php
index 9cc6ff016..f296a5e26 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_wincache.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Cache/drivers/Cache_wincache.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -52,6 +52,24 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
 class CI_Cache_wincache extends CI_Driver {
 
 	/**
+	 * Class constructor
+	 *
+	 * Only present so that an error message is logged
+	 * if APC is not available.
+	 *
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	public function __construct()
+	{
+		if ( ! $this->is_supported())
+		{
+			log_message('error', 'Cache: Failed to initialize Wincache; extension not loaded/enabled?');
+		}
+	}
+
+	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Get
 	 *
 	 * Look for a value in the cache. If it exists, return the data,
@@ -194,13 +212,6 @@ class CI_Cache_wincache extends CI_Driver {
 	 */
 	public function is_supported()
 	{
-		if ( ! extension_loaded('wincache') OR ! ini_get('wincache.ucenabled'))
-		{
-			log_message('debug', 'The Wincache PHP extension must be loaded to use Wincache Cache.');
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		return TRUE;
+		return (extension_loaded('wincache') && ini_get('wincache.ucenabled'));
 	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/libraries/Calendar.php b/system/libraries/Calendar.php
index f6a0c39c4..edb0fb4d9 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Calendar.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Calendar.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/calendar.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/calendar.html
  */
 class CI_Calendar {
 
diff --git a/system/libraries/Cart.php b/system/libraries/Cart.php
deleted file mode 100644
index bf27c6392..000000000
--- a/system/libraries/Cart.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,567 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.0.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * Shopping Cart Class
- *
- * @package		CodeIgniter
- * @subpackage	Libraries
- * @category	Shopping Cart
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/cart.html
- * @deprecated	3.0.0	This class is too specific for CI.
- */
-class CI_Cart {
-
-	/**
-	 * These are the regular expression rules that we use to validate the product ID and product name
-	 * alpha-numeric, dashes, underscores, or periods
-	 *
-	 * @var string
-	 */
-	public $product_id_rules = '\.a-z0-9_-';
-
-	/**
-	 * These are the regular expression rules that we use to validate the product ID and product name
-	 * alpha-numeric, dashes, underscores, colons or periods
-	 *
-	 * @var string
-	 */
-	public $product_name_rules = '\w \-\.\:';
-
-	/**
-	 * only allow safe product names
-	 *
-	 * @var bool
-	 */
-	public $product_name_safe = TRUE;
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Reference to CodeIgniter instance
-	 *
-	 * @var object
-	 */
-	protected $CI;
-
-	/**
-	 * Contents of the cart
-	 *
-	 * @var array
-	 */
-	protected $_cart_contents = array();
-
-	/**
-	 * Shopping Class Constructor
-	 *
-	 * The constructor loads the Session class, used to store the shopping cart contents.
-	 *
-	 * @param	array
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function __construct($params = array())
-	{
-		// Set the super object to a local variable for use later
-		$this->CI =& get_instance();
-
-		// Are any config settings being passed manually?  If so, set them
-		$config = is_array($params) ? $params : array();
-
-		// Load the Sessions class
-		$this->CI->load->driver('session', $config);
-
-		// Grab the shopping cart array from the session table
-		$this->_cart_contents = $this->CI->session->userdata('cart_contents');
-		if ($this->_cart_contents === NULL)
-		{
-			// No cart exists so we'll set some base values
-			$this->_cart_contents = array('cart_total' => 0, 'total_items' => 0);
-		}
-
-		log_message('info', 'Cart Class Initialized');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Insert items into the cart and save it to the session table
-	 *
-	 * @param	array
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function insert($items = array())
-	{
-		// Was any cart data passed? No? Bah...
-		if ( ! is_array($items) OR count($items) === 0)
-		{
-			log_message('error', 'The insert method must be passed an array containing data.');
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// You can either insert a single product using a one-dimensional array,
-		// or multiple products using a multi-dimensional one. The way we
-		// determine the array type is by looking for a required array key named "id"
-		// at the top level. If it's not found, we will assume it's a multi-dimensional array.
-
-		$save_cart = FALSE;
-		if (isset($items['id']))
-		{
-			if (($rowid = $this->_insert($items)))
-			{
-				$save_cart = TRUE;
-			}
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			foreach ($items as $val)
-			{
-				if (is_array($val) && isset($val['id']))
-				{
-					if ($this->_insert($val))
-					{
-						$save_cart = TRUE;
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Save the cart data if the insert was successful
-		if ($save_cart === TRUE)
-		{
-			$this->_save_cart();
-			return isset($rowid) ? $rowid : TRUE;
-		}
-
-		return FALSE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Insert
-	 *
-	 * @param	array
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _insert($items = array())
-	{
-		// Was any cart data passed? No? Bah...
-		if ( ! is_array($items) OR count($items) === 0)
-		{
-			log_message('error', 'The insert method must be passed an array containing data.');
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-		// Does the $items array contain an id, quantity, price, and name?  These are required
-		if ( ! isset($items['id'], $items['qty'], $items['price'], $items['name']))
-		{
-			log_message('error', 'The cart array must contain a product ID, quantity, price, and name.');
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-		// Prep the quantity. It can only be a number.  Duh... also trim any leading zeros
-		$items['qty'] = (float) $items['qty'];
-
-		// If the quantity is zero or blank there's nothing for us to do
-		if ($items['qty'] == 0)
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-		// Validate the product ID. It can only be alpha-numeric, dashes, underscores or periods
-		// Not totally sure we should impose this rule, but it seems prudent to standardize IDs.
-		// Note: These can be user-specified by setting the $this->product_id_rules variable.
-		if ( ! preg_match('/^['.$this->product_id_rules.']+$/i', $items['id']))
-		{
-			log_message('error', 'Invalid product ID.  The product ID can only contain alpha-numeric characters, dashes, and underscores');
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-		// Validate the product name. It can only be alpha-numeric, dashes, underscores, colons or periods.
-		// Note: These can be user-specified by setting the $this->product_name_rules variable.
-		if ($this->product_name_safe && ! preg_match('/^['.$this->product_name_rules.']+$/i'.(UTF8_ENABLED ? 'u' : ''), $items['name']))
-		{
-			log_message('error', 'An invalid name was submitted as the product name: '.$items['name'].' The name can only contain alpha-numeric characters, dashes, underscores, colons, and spaces');
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-		// Prep the price. Remove leading zeros and anything that isn't a number or decimal point.
-		$items['price'] = (float) $items['price'];
-
-		// We now need to create a unique identifier for the item being inserted into the cart.
-		// Every time something is added to the cart it is stored in the master cart array.
-		// Each row in the cart array, however, must have a unique index that identifies not only
-		// a particular product, but makes it possible to store identical products with different options.
-		// For example, what if someone buys two identical t-shirts (same product ID), but in
-		// different sizes?  The product ID (and other attributes, like the name) will be identical for
-		// both sizes because it's the same shirt. The only difference will be the size.
-		// Internally, we need to treat identical submissions, but with different options, as a unique product.
-		// Our solution is to convert the options array to a string and MD5 it along with the product ID.
-		// This becomes the unique "row ID"
-		if (isset($items['options']) && count($items['options']) > 0)
-		{
-			$rowid = md5($items['id'].serialize($items['options']));
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			// No options were submitted so we simply MD5 the product ID.
-			// Technically, we don't need to MD5 the ID in this case, but it makes
-			// sense to standardize the format of array indexes for both conditions
-			$rowid = md5($items['id']);
-		}
-
-		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-		// Now that we have our unique "row ID", we'll add our cart items to the master array
-		// grab quantity if it's already there and add it on
-		$old_quantity = isset($this->_cart_contents[$rowid]['qty']) ? (int) $this->_cart_contents[$rowid]['qty'] : 0;
-
-		// Re-create the entry, just to make sure our index contains only the data from this submission
-		$items['rowid'] = $rowid;
-		$items['qty'] += $old_quantity;
-		$this->_cart_contents[$rowid] = $items;
-
-		return $rowid;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Update the cart
-	 *
-	 * This function permits the quantity of a given item to be changed.
-	 * Typically it is called from the "view cart" page if a user makes
-	 * changes to the quantity before checkout. That array must contain the
-	 * product ID and quantity for each item.
-	 *
-	 * @param	array
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function update($items = array())
-	{
-		// Was any cart data passed?
-		if ( ! is_array($items) OR count($items) === 0)
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// You can either update a single product using a one-dimensional array,
-		// or multiple products using a multi-dimensional one.  The way we
-		// determine the array type is by looking for a required array key named "rowid".
-		// If it's not found we assume it's a multi-dimensional array
-		$save_cart = FALSE;
-		if (isset($items['rowid']))
-		{
-			if ($this->_update($items) === TRUE)
-			{
-				$save_cart = TRUE;
-			}
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			foreach ($items as $val)
-			{
-				if (is_array($val) && isset($val['rowid']))
-				{
-					if ($this->_update($val) === TRUE)
-					{
-						$save_cart = TRUE;
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Save the cart data if the insert was successful
-		if ($save_cart === TRUE)
-		{
-			$this->_save_cart();
-			return TRUE;
-		}
-
-		return FALSE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Update the cart
-	 *
-	 * This function permits changing item properties.
-	 * Typically it is called from the "view cart" page if a user makes
-	 * changes to the quantity before checkout. That array must contain the
-	 * rowid and quantity for each item.
-	 *
-	 * @param	array
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _update($items = array())
-	{
-		// Without these array indexes there is nothing we can do
-		if ( ! isset($items['rowid'], $this->_cart_contents[$items['rowid']]))
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// Prep the quantity
-		if (isset($items['qty']))
-		{
-			$items['qty'] = (float) $items['qty'];
-			// Is the quantity zero?  If so we will remove the item from the cart.
-			// If the quantity is greater than zero we are updating
-			if ($items['qty'] == 0)
-			{
-				unset($this->_cart_contents[$items['rowid']]);
-				return TRUE;
-			}
-		}
-
-		// find updatable keys
-		$keys = array_intersect(array_keys($this->_cart_contents[$items['rowid']]), array_keys($items));
-		// if a price was passed, make sure it contains valid data
-		if (isset($items['price']))
-		{
-			$items['price'] = (float) $items['price'];
-		}
-
-		// product id & name shouldn't be changed
-		foreach (array_diff($keys, array('id', 'name')) as $key)
-		{
-			$this->_cart_contents[$items['rowid']][$key] = $items[$key];
-		}
-
-		return TRUE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Save the cart array to the session DB
-	 *
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _save_cart()
-	{
-		// Let's add up the individual prices and set the cart sub-total
-		$this->_cart_contents['total_items'] = $this->_cart_contents['cart_total'] = 0;
-		foreach ($this->_cart_contents as $key => $val)
-		{
-			// We make sure the array contains the proper indexes
-			if ( ! is_array($val) OR ! isset($val['price'], $val['qty']))
-			{
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			$this->_cart_contents['cart_total'] += ($val['price'] * $val['qty']);
-			$this->_cart_contents['total_items'] += $val['qty'];
-			$this->_cart_contents[$key]['subtotal'] = ($this->_cart_contents[$key]['price'] * $this->_cart_contents[$key]['qty']);
-		}
-
-		// Is our cart empty? If so we delete it from the session
-		if (count($this->_cart_contents) <= 2)
-		{
-			$this->CI->session->unset_userdata('cart_contents');
-
-			// Nothing more to do... coffee time!
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		// If we made it this far it means that our cart has data.
-		// Let's pass it to the Session class so it can be stored
-		$this->CI->session->set_userdata(array('cart_contents' => $this->_cart_contents));
-
-		// Woot!
-		return TRUE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Cart Total
-	 *
-	 * @return	int
-	 */
-	public function total()
-	{
-		return $this->_cart_contents['cart_total'];
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Remove Item
-	 *
-	 * Removes an item from the cart
-	 *
-	 * @param	int
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	 public function remove($rowid)
-	 {
-		// unset & save
-		unset($this->_cart_contents[$rowid]);
-		$this->_save_cart();
-		return TRUE;
-	 }
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Total Items
-	 *
-	 * Returns the total item count
-	 *
-	 * @return	int
-	 */
-	public function total_items()
-	{
-		return $this->_cart_contents['total_items'];
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Cart Contents
-	 *
-	 * Returns the entire cart array
-	 *
-	 * @param	bool
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	public function contents($newest_first = FALSE)
-	{
-		// do we want the newest first?
-		$cart = ($newest_first) ? array_reverse($this->_cart_contents) : $this->_cart_contents;
-
-		// Remove these so they don't create a problem when showing the cart table
-		unset($cart['total_items']);
-		unset($cart['cart_total']);
-
-		return $cart;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Get cart item
-	 *
-	 * Returns the details of a specific item in the cart
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$row_id
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	public function get_item($row_id)
-	{
-		return (in_array($row_id, array('total_items', 'cart_total'), TRUE) OR ! isset($this->_cart_contents[$row_id]))
-			? FALSE
-			: $this->_cart_contents[$row_id];
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Has options
-	 *
-	 * Returns TRUE if the rowid passed to this function correlates to an item
-	 * that has options associated with it.
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$row_id = ''
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	public function has_options($row_id = '')
-	{
-		return (isset($this->_cart_contents[$row_id]['options']) && count($this->_cart_contents[$row_id]['options']) !== 0);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Product options
-	 *
-	 * Returns the an array of options, for a particular product row ID
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$row_id = ''
-	 * @return	array
-	 */
-	public function product_options($row_id = '')
-	{
-		return isset($this->_cart_contents[$row_id]['options']) ? $this->_cart_contents[$row_id]['options'] : array();
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Format Number
-	 *
-	 * Returns the supplied number with commas and a decimal point.
-	 *
-	 * @param	float
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function format_number($n = '')
-	{
-		return ($n === '') ? '' : number_format( (float) $n, 2, '.', ',');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Destroy the cart
-	 *
-	 * Empties the cart and kills the session
-	 *
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function destroy()
-	{
-		$this->_cart_contents = array('cart_total' => 0, 'total_items' => 0);
-		$this->CI->session->unset_userdata('cart_contents');
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Driver.php b/system/libraries/Driver.php
index da4c548e6..00e8416f9 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Driver.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
diff --git a/system/libraries/Email.php b/system/libraries/Email.php
index 459c8f590..1483f2203 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Email.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Email.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/email.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/email.html
  */
 class CI_Email {
 
@@ -150,13 +150,6 @@ class CI_Email {
 	public $charset		= 'utf-8';
 
 	/**
-	 * Multipart message
-	 *
-	 * @var	string	'mixed' (in the body) or 'related' (separate)
-	 */
-	public $multipart	= 'mixed';		// "mixed" (in the body) or "related" (separate)
-
-	/**
 	 * Alternative message (for HTML messages only)
 	 *
 	 * @var	string
@@ -168,7 +161,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 	 *
 	 * @var	bool
 	 */
-	public $validate	= FALSE;
+	public $validate	= TRUE;
 
 	/**
 	 * X-Priority header value.
@@ -233,13 +226,6 @@ class CI_Email {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Whether PHP is running in safe mode. Initialized by the class constructor.
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool
-	 */
-	protected $_safe_mode		= FALSE;
-
-	/**
 	 * Subject header
 	 *
 	 * @var	string
@@ -261,20 +247,6 @@ class CI_Email {
 	protected $_finalbody		= '';
 
 	/**
-	 * multipart/alternative boundary
-	 *
-	 * @var	string
-	 */
-	protected $_alt_boundary	= '';
-
-	/**
-	 * Attachment boundary
-	 *
-	 * @var	string
-	 */
-	protected $_atc_boundary	= '';
-
-	/**
 	 * Final headers to send
 	 *
 	 * @var	string
@@ -395,6 +367,13 @@ class CI_Email {
 		5 => '5 (Lowest)'
 	);
 
+	/**
+	 * mbstring.func_override flag
+	 *
+	 * @var	bool
+	 */
+	protected static $func_override;
+
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
@@ -408,18 +387,9 @@ class CI_Email {
 	public function __construct(array $config = array())
 	{
 		$this->charset = config_item('charset');
+		$this->initialize($config);
 
-		if (count($config) > 0)
-		{
-			$this->initialize($config);
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			$this->_smtp_auth = ! ($this->smtp_user === '' && $this->smtp_pass === '');
-		}
-
-		$this->_safe_mode = ( ! is_php('5.4') && ini_get('safe_mode'));
-		$this->charset = strtoupper($this->charset);
+		isset(self::$func_override) OR self::$func_override = (extension_loaded('mbstring') && ini_get('mbstring.func_override'));
 
 		log_message('info', 'Email Class Initialized');
 	}
@@ -427,28 +397,15 @@ class CI_Email {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Destructor - Releases Resources
-	 *
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function __destruct()
-	{
-		if (is_resource($this->_smtp_connect))
-		{
-			$this->_send_command('quit');
-		}
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Initialize preferences
 	 *
-	 * @param	array
+	 * @param	array	$config
 	 * @return	CI_Email
 	 */
-	public function initialize($config = array())
+	public function initialize(array $config = array())
 	{
+		$this->clear();
+
 		foreach ($config as $key => $val)
 		{
 			if (isset($this->$key))
@@ -465,9 +422,9 @@ class CI_Email {
 				}
 			}
 		}
-		$this->clear();
 
-		$this->_smtp_auth = ! ($this->smtp_user === '' && $this->smtp_pass === '');
+		$this->charset = strtoupper($this->charset);
+		$this->_smtp_auth = isset($this->smtp_user[0], $this->smtp_pass[0]);
 
 		return $this;
 	}
@@ -493,7 +450,6 @@ class CI_Email {
 		$this->_headers		= array();
 		$this->_debug_msg	= array();
 
-		$this->set_header('User-Agent', $this->useragent);
 		$this->set_header('Date', $this->_set_date());
 
 		if ($clear_attachments !== FALSE)
@@ -574,14 +530,18 @@ class CI_Email {
 			$this->validate_email($this->_str_to_array($replyto));
 		}
 
-		if ($name === '')
-		{
-			$name = $replyto;
-		}
-
-		if (strpos($name, '"') !== 0)
+		if ($name !== '')
 		{
-			$name = '"'.$name.'"';
+			// only use Q encoding if there are characters that would require it
+			if ( ! preg_match('/[\200-\377]/', $name))
+			{
+				// add slashes for non-printing characters, slashes, and double quotes, and surround it in double quotes
+				$name = '"'.addcslashes($name, "\0..\37\177'\"\\").'"';
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$name = $this->_prep_q_encoding($name);
+			}
 		}
 
 		$this->set_header('Reply-To', $name.' <'.$replyto.'>');
@@ -707,18 +667,6 @@ class CI_Email {
 	public function message($body)
 	{
 		$this->_body = rtrim(str_replace("\r", '', $body));
-
-		/* strip slashes only if magic quotes is ON
-		   if we do it with magic quotes OFF, it strips real, user-inputted chars.
-
-		   NOTE: In PHP 5.4 get_magic_quotes_gpc() will always return 0 and
-			 it will probably not exist in future versions at all.
-		*/
-		if ( ! is_php('5.4') && get_magic_quotes_gpc())
-		{
-			$this->_body = stripslashes($this->_body);
-		}
-
 		return $this;
 	}
 
@@ -762,7 +710,8 @@ class CI_Email {
 			'name'		=> array($file, $newname),
 			'disposition'	=> empty($disposition) ? 'attachment' : $disposition,  // Can also be 'inline'  Not sure if it matters
 			'type'		=> $mime,
-			'content'	=> chunk_split(base64_encode($file_content))
+			'content'	=> chunk_split(base64_encode($file_content)),
+			'multipart'	=> 'mixed'
 		);
 
 		return $this;
@@ -780,15 +729,11 @@ class CI_Email {
 	 */
 	public function attachment_cid($filename)
 	{
-		if ($this->multipart !== 'related')
-		{
-			$this->multipart = 'related'; // Thunderbird need this for inline images
-		}
-
 		for ($i = 0, $c = count($this->_attachments); $i < $c; $i++)
 		{
 			if ($this->_attachments[$i]['name'][0] === $filename)
 			{
+				$this->_attachments[$i]['multipart'] = 'related';
 				$this->_attachments[$i]['cid'] = uniqid(basename($this->_attachments[$i]['name'][0]).'@');
 				return $this->_attachments[$i]['cid'];
 			}
@@ -933,19 +878,6 @@ class CI_Email {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Set Message Boundary
-	 *
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _set_boundaries()
-	{
-		$this->_alt_boundary = 'B_ALT_'.uniqid(''); // multipart/alternative
-		$this->_atc_boundary = 'B_ATC_'.uniqid(''); // attachment boundary
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Get the Message ID
 	 *
 	 * @return	string
@@ -1012,9 +944,9 @@ class CI_Email {
 	{
 		if ($this->mailtype === 'html')
 		{
-			return (count($this->_attachments) === 0) ? 'html' : 'html-attach';
+			return empty($this->_attachments) ? 'html' : 'html-attach';
 		}
-		elseif	($this->mailtype === 'text' && count($this->_attachments) > 0)
+		elseif	($this->mailtype === 'text' && ! empty($this->_attachments))
 		{
 			return 'plain-attach';
 		}
@@ -1093,7 +1025,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 	{
 		if (function_exists('idn_to_ascii') && $atpos = strpos($email, '@'))
 		{
-			$email = substr($email, 0, ++$atpos).idn_to_ascii(substr($email, $atpos));
+			$email = self::substr($email, 0, ++$atpos).idn_to_ascii(self::substr($email, $atpos));
 		}
 
 		return (bool) filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
@@ -1210,7 +1142,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 		{
 			// Is the line within the allowed character count?
 			// If so we'll join it to the output and continue
-			if (mb_strlen($line) <= $charlim)
+			if (self::strlen($line) <= $charlim)
 			{
 				$output .= $line.$this->newline;
 				continue;
@@ -1226,10 +1158,10 @@ class CI_Email {
 				}
 
 				// Trim the word down
-				$temp .= mb_substr($line, 0, $charlim - 1);
-				$line = mb_substr($line, $charlim - 1);
+				$temp .= self::substr($line, 0, $charlim - 1);
+				$line = self::substr($line, $charlim - 1);
 			}
-			while (mb_strlen($line) > $charlim);
+			while (self::strlen($line) > $charlim);
 
 			// If $temp contains data it means we had to split up an over-length
 			// word into smaller chunks so we'll add it back to our current line
@@ -1258,10 +1190,11 @@ class CI_Email {
 	/**
 	 * Build final headers
 	 *
-	 * @return	string
+	 * @return	void
 	 */
 	protected function _build_headers()
 	{
+		$this->set_header('User-Agent', $this->useragent);
 		$this->set_header('X-Sender', $this->clean_email($this->_headers['From']));
 		$this->set_header('X-Mailer', $this->useragent);
 		$this->set_header('X-Priority', $this->_priorities[$this->priority]);
@@ -1320,7 +1253,6 @@ class CI_Email {
 			$this->_body = $this->word_wrap($this->_body);
 		}
 
-		$this->_set_boundaries();
 		$this->_write_headers();
 
 		$hdr = ($this->_get_protocol() === 'mail') ? $this->newline : '';
@@ -1328,7 +1260,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 		switch ($this->_get_content_type())
 		{
-			case 'plain' :
+			case 'plain':
 
 				$hdr .= 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset='.$this->charset.$this->newline
 					.'Content-Transfer-Encoding: '.$this->_get_encoding();
@@ -1345,7 +1277,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 				return;
 
-			case 'html' :
+			case 'html':
 
 				if ($this->send_multipart === FALSE)
 				{
@@ -1354,14 +1286,16 @@ class CI_Email {
 				}
 				else
 				{
-					$hdr .= 'Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="'.$this->_alt_boundary.'"';
+					$boundary = uniqid('B_ALT_');
+					$hdr .= 'Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="'.$boundary.'"';
 
 					$body .= $this->_get_mime_message().$this->newline.$this->newline
-						.'--'.$this->_alt_boundary.$this->newline
+						.'--'.$boundary.$this->newline
 
 						.'Content-Type: text/plain; charset='.$this->charset.$this->newline
 						.'Content-Transfer-Encoding: '.$this->_get_encoding().$this->newline.$this->newline
-						.$this->_get_alt_message().$this->newline.$this->newline.'--'.$this->_alt_boundary.$this->newline
+						.$this->_get_alt_message().$this->newline.$this->newline
+						.'--'.$boundary.$this->newline
 
 						.'Content-Type: text/html; charset='.$this->charset.$this->newline
 						.'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable'.$this->newline.$this->newline;
@@ -1380,14 +1314,15 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 				if ($this->send_multipart !== FALSE)
 				{
-					$this->_finalbody .= '--'.$this->_alt_boundary.'--';
+					$this->_finalbody .= '--'.$boundary.'--';
 				}
 
 				return;
 
-			case 'plain-attach' :
+			case 'plain-attach':
 
-				$hdr .= 'Content-Type: multipart/'.$this->multipart.'; boundary="'.$this->_atc_boundary.'"';
+				$boundary = uniqid('B_ATC_');
+				$hdr .= 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="'.$boundary.'"';
 
 				if ($this->_get_protocol() === 'mail')
 				{
@@ -1396,59 +1331,83 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 				$body .= $this->_get_mime_message().$this->newline
 					.$this->newline
-					.'--'.$this->_atc_boundary.$this->newline
+					.'--'.$boundary.$this->newline
 					.'Content-Type: text/plain; charset='.$this->charset.$this->newline
 					.'Content-Transfer-Encoding: '.$this->_get_encoding().$this->newline
 					.$this->newline
 					.$this->_body.$this->newline.$this->newline;
 
-			break;
-			case 'html-attach' :
+				$this->_append_attachments($body, $boundary);
+
+				break;
+			case 'html-attach':
 
-				$hdr .= 'Content-Type: multipart/'.$this->multipart.'; boundary="'.$this->_atc_boundary.'"';
+				$alt_boundary = uniqid('B_ALT_');
+				$last_boundary = NULL;
+
+				if ($this->_attachments_have_multipart('mixed'))
+				{
+					$atc_boundary = uniqid('B_ATC_');
+					$hdr .= 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="'.$atc_boundary.'"';
+					$last_boundary = $atc_boundary;
+				}
+
+				if ($this->_attachments_have_multipart('related'))
+				{
+					$rel_boundary = uniqid('B_REL_');
+					$rel_boundary_header = 'Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="'.$rel_boundary.'"';
+
+					if (isset($last_boundary))
+					{
+						$body .= '--'.$last_boundary.$this->newline.$rel_boundary_header;
+					}
+					else
+					{
+						$hdr .= $rel_boundary_header;
+					}
+
+					$last_boundary = $rel_boundary;
+				}
 
 				if ($this->_get_protocol() === 'mail')
 				{
 					$this->_header_str .= $hdr;
 				}
 
+				self::strlen($body) && $body .= $this->newline.$this->newline;
 				$body .= $this->_get_mime_message().$this->newline.$this->newline
-					.'--'.$this->_atc_boundary.$this->newline
+					.'--'.$last_boundary.$this->newline
 
-					.'Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="'.$this->_alt_boundary.'"'.$this->newline.$this->newline
-					.'--'.$this->_alt_boundary.$this->newline
+					.'Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="'.$alt_boundary.'"'.$this->newline.$this->newline
+					.'--'.$alt_boundary.$this->newline
 
 					.'Content-Type: text/plain; charset='.$this->charset.$this->newline
 					.'Content-Transfer-Encoding: '.$this->_get_encoding().$this->newline.$this->newline
-					.$this->_get_alt_message().$this->newline.$this->newline.'--'.$this->_alt_boundary.$this->newline
+					.$this->_get_alt_message().$this->newline.$this->newline
+					.'--'.$alt_boundary.$this->newline
 
 					.'Content-Type: text/html; charset='.$this->charset.$this->newline
 					.'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable'.$this->newline.$this->newline
 
 					.$this->_prep_quoted_printable($this->_body).$this->newline.$this->newline
-					.'--'.$this->_alt_boundary.'--'.$this->newline.$this->newline;
-
-			break;
-		}
+					.'--'.$alt_boundary.'--'.$this->newline.$this->newline;
 
-		$attachment = array();
-		for ($i = 0, $c = count($this->_attachments), $z = 0; $i < $c; $i++)
-		{
-			$filename = $this->_attachments[$i]['name'][0];
-			$basename = ($this->_attachments[$i]['name'][1] === NULL)
-				? basename($filename) : $this->_attachments[$i]['name'][1];
+				if ( ! empty($rel_boundary))
+				{
+					$body .= $this->newline.$this->newline;
+					$this->_append_attachments($body, $rel_boundary, 'related');
+				}
 
-			$attachment[$z++] = '--'.$this->_atc_boundary.$this->newline
-				.'Content-type: '.$this->_attachments[$i]['type'].'; '
-				.'name="'.$basename.'"'.$this->newline
-				.'Content-Disposition: '.$this->_attachments[$i]['disposition'].';'.$this->newline
-				.'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'.$this->newline
-				.(empty($this->_attachments[$i]['cid']) ? '' : 'Content-ID: <'.$this->_attachments[$i]['cid'].'>'.$this->newline);
+				// multipart/mixed attachments
+				if ( ! empty($atc_boundary))
+				{
+					$body .= $this->newline.$this->newline;
+					$this->_append_attachments($body, $atc_boundary, 'mixed');
+				}
 
-			$attachment[$z++] = $this->_attachments[$i]['content'];
+				break;
 		}
 
-		$body .= implode($this->newline, $attachment).$this->newline.'--'.$this->_atc_boundary.'--';
 		$this->_finalbody = ($this->_get_protocol() === 'mail')
 			? $body
 			: $hdr.$this->newline.$this->newline.$body;
@@ -1458,6 +1417,58 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+	protected function _attachments_have_multipart($type)
+	{
+		foreach ($this->_attachments as &$attachment)
+		{
+			if ($attachment['multipart'] === $type)
+			{
+				return TRUE;
+			}
+		}
+
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Prepares attachment string
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$body		Message body to append to
+	 * @param	string	$boundary	Multipart boundary
+	 * @param	string	$multipart	When provided, only attachments of this type will be processed
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	protected function _append_attachments(&$body, $boundary, $multipart = null)
+	{
+		for ($i = 0, $c = count($this->_attachments); $i < $c; $i++)
+		{
+			if (isset($multipart) && $this->_attachments[$i]['multipart'] !== $multipart)
+			{
+				continue;
+			}
+
+			$name = isset($this->_attachments[$i]['name'][1])
+				? $this->_attachments[$i]['name'][1]
+				: basename($this->_attachments[$i]['name'][0]);
+
+			$body .= '--'.$boundary.$this->newline
+				.'Content-Type: '.$this->_attachments[$i]['type'].'; name="'.$name.'"'.$this->newline
+				.'Content-Disposition: '.$this->_attachments[$i]['disposition'].';'.$this->newline
+				.'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'.$this->newline
+				.(empty($this->_attachments[$i]['cid']) ? '' : 'Content-ID: <'.$this->_attachments[$i]['cid'].'>'.$this->newline)
+				.$this->newline
+				.$this->_attachments[$i]['content'].$this->newline;
+		}
+
+		// $name won't be set if no attachments were appended,
+		// and therefore a boundary wouldn't be necessary
+		empty($name) OR $body .= '--'.$boundary.'--';
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 	/**
 	 * Prep Quoted Printable
 	 *
@@ -1469,6 +1480,20 @@ class CI_Email {
 	 */
 	protected function _prep_quoted_printable($str)
 	{
+		// ASCII code numbers for "safe" characters that can always be
+		// used literally, without encoding, as described in RFC 2049.
+		// http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2049.txt
+		static $ascii_safe_chars = array(
+			// ' (  )   +   ,   -   .   /   :   =   ?
+			39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 58, 61, 63,
+			// numbers
+			48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,
+			// upper-case letters
+			65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90,
+			// lower-case letters
+			97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122
+		);
+
 		// We are intentionally wrapping so mail servers will encode characters
 		// properly and MUAs will behave, so {unwrap} must go!
 		$str = str_replace(array('{unwrap}', '{/unwrap}'), '', $str);
@@ -1479,14 +1504,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 		// which only works with "\n".
 		if ($this->crlf === "\r\n")
 		{
-			if (is_php('5.3'))
-			{
-				return quoted_printable_encode($str);
-			}
-			elseif (function_exists('imap_8bit'))
-			{
-				return imap_8bit($str);
-			}
+			return quoted_printable_encode($str);
 		}
 
 		// Reduce multiple spaces & remove nulls
@@ -1503,7 +1521,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 		foreach (explode("\n", $str) as $line)
 		{
-			$length = strlen($line);
+			$length = self::strlen($line);
 			$temp = '';
 
 			// Loop through each character in the line to add soft-wrap
@@ -1516,18 +1534,29 @@ class CI_Email {
 				$ascii = ord($char);
 
 				// Convert spaces and tabs but only if it's the end of the line
-				if ($i === ($length - 1) && ($ascii === 32 OR $ascii === 9))
+				if ($ascii === 32 OR $ascii === 9)
 				{
-					$char = $escape.sprintf('%02s', dechex($ascii));
+					if ($i === ($length - 1))
+					{
+						$char = $escape.sprintf('%02s', dechex($ascii));
+					}
 				}
-				elseif ($ascii === 61) // encode = signs
+				// DO NOT move this below the $ascii_safe_chars line!
+				//
+				// = (equals) signs are allowed by RFC2049, but must be encoded
+				// as they are the encoding delimiter!
+				elseif ($ascii === 61)
 				{
 					$char = $escape.strtoupper(sprintf('%02s', dechex($ascii)));  // =3D
 				}
+				elseif ( ! in_array($ascii, $ascii_safe_chars, TRUE))
+				{
+					$char = $escape.strtoupper(sprintf('%02s', dechex($ascii)));
+				}
 
 				// If we're at the character limit, add the line to the output,
 				// reset our temp variable, and keep on chuggin'
-				if ((strlen($temp) + strlen($char)) >= 76)
+				if ((self::strlen($temp) + self::strlen($char)) >= 76)
 				{
 					$output .= $temp.$escape.$this->crlf;
 					$temp = '';
@@ -1542,7 +1571,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 		}
 
 		// get rid of extra CRLF tacked onto the end
-		return substr($output, 0, strlen($this->crlf) * -1);
+		return self::substr($output, 0, self::strlen($this->crlf) * -1);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1563,11 +1592,10 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 		if ($this->charset === 'UTF-8')
 		{
-			if (MB_ENABLED === TRUE)
-			{
-				return mb_encode_mimeheader($str, $this->charset, 'Q', $this->crlf);
-			}
-			elseif (ICONV_ENABLED === TRUE)
+			// Note: We used to have mb_encode_mimeheader() as the first choice
+			//       here, but it turned out to be buggy and unreliable. DO NOT
+			//       re-add it! -- Narf
+			if (ICONV_ENABLED === TRUE)
 			{
 				$output = @iconv_mime_encode('', $str,
 					array(
@@ -1585,18 +1613,22 @@ class CI_Email {
 					// iconv_mime_encode() will always put a header field name.
 					// We've passed it an empty one, but it still prepends our
 					// encoded string with ': ', so we need to strip it.
-					return substr($output, 2);
+					return self::substr($output, 2);
 				}
 
 				$chars = iconv_strlen($str, 'UTF-8');
 			}
+			elseif (MB_ENABLED === TRUE)
+			{
+				$chars = mb_strlen($str, 'UTF-8');
+			}
 		}
 
 		// We might already have this set for UTF-8
-		isset($chars) OR $chars = strlen($str);
+		isset($chars) OR $chars = self::strlen($str);
 
 		$output = '=?'.$this->charset.'?Q?';
-		for ($i = 0, $length = strlen($output); $i < $chars; $i++)
+		for ($i = 0, $length = self::strlen($output); $i < $chars; $i++)
 		{
 			$chr = ($this->charset === 'UTF-8' && ICONV_ENABLED === TRUE)
 				? '='.implode('=', str_split(strtoupper(bin2hex(iconv_substr($str, $i, 1, $this->charset))), 2))
@@ -1604,11 +1636,11 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 			// RFC 2045 sets a limit of 76 characters per line.
 			// We'll append ?= to the end of each line though.
-			if ($length + ($l = strlen($chr)) > 74)
+			if ($length + ($l = self::strlen($chr)) > 74)
 			{
 				$output .= '?='.$this->crlf // EOL
 					.' =?'.$this->charset.'?Q?'.$chr; // New line
-				$length = 6 + strlen($this->charset) + $l; // Reset the length for the new line
+				$length = 6 + self::strlen($this->charset) + $l; // Reset the length for the new line
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -1701,14 +1733,14 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 			if ($i === $float)
 			{
-				$chunk[] = substr($set, 1);
+				$chunk[] = self::substr($set, 1);
 				$float += $this->bcc_batch_size;
 				$set = '';
 			}
 
 			if ($i === $c-1)
 			{
-				$chunk[] = substr($set, 1);
+				$chunk[] = self::substr($set, 1);
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -1791,6 +1823,33 @@ class CI_Email {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * Validate email for shell
+	 *
+	 * Applies stricter, shell-safe validation to email addresses.
+	 * Introduced to prevent RCE via sendmail's -f option.
+	 *
+	 * @see	https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4963
+	 * @see	https://gist.github.com/Zenexer/40d02da5e07f151adeaeeaa11af9ab36
+	 * @license	https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/	CC0 1.0, Public Domain
+	 *
+	 * Credits for the base concept go to Paul Buonopane <paul@namepros.com>
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$email
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	protected function _validate_email_for_shell(&$email)
+	{
+		if (function_exists('idn_to_ascii') && $atpos = strpos($email, '@'))
+		{
+			$email = self::substr($email, 0, ++$atpos).idn_to_ascii(self::substr($email, $atpos));
+		}
+
+		return (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === $email && preg_match('#\A[a-z0-9._+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}\z#i', $email));
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Send using mail()
 	 *
 	 * @return	bool
@@ -1802,16 +1861,18 @@ class CI_Email {
 			$this->_recipients = implode(', ', $this->_recipients);
 		}
 
-		if ($this->_safe_mode === TRUE)
+		// _validate_email_for_shell() below accepts by reference,
+		// so this needs to be assigned to a variable
+		$from = $this->clean_email($this->_headers['Return-Path']);
+
+		if ( ! $this->_validate_email_for_shell($from))
 		{
 			return mail($this->_recipients, $this->_subject, $this->_finalbody, $this->_header_str);
 		}
-		else
-		{
-			// most documentation of sendmail using the "-f" flag lacks a space after it, however
-			// we've encountered servers that seem to require it to be in place.
-			return mail($this->_recipients, $this->_subject, $this->_finalbody, $this->_header_str, '-f '.$this->clean_email($this->_headers['Return-Path']));
-		}
+
+		// most documentation of sendmail using the "-f" flag lacks a space after it, however
+		// we've encountered servers that seem to require it to be in place.
+		return mail($this->_recipients, $this->_subject, $this->_finalbody, $this->_header_str, '-f '.$from);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1823,14 +1884,22 @@ class CI_Email {
 	 */
 	protected function _send_with_sendmail()
 	{
+		// _validate_email_for_shell() below accepts by reference,
+		// so this needs to be assigned to a variable
+		$from = $this->clean_email($this->_headers['From']);
+		if ($this->_validate_email_for_shell($from))
+		{
+			$from = '-f '.$from;
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			$from = '';
+		}
+
 		// is popen() enabled?
-		if ( ! function_usable('popen')
-			OR FALSE === ($fp = @popen(
-						$this->mailpath.' -oi -f '.$this->clean_email($this->_headers['From'])
-							.' -t -r '.$this->clean_email($this->_headers['Return-Path'])
-						, 'w'))
-		) // server probably has popen disabled, so nothing we can do to get a verbose error.
+		if ( ! function_usable('popen')	OR FALSE === ($fp = @popen($this->mailpath.' -oi '.$from.' -t', 'w')))
 		{
+			// server probably has popen disabled, so nothing we can do to get a verbose error.
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
@@ -1869,20 +1938,29 @@ class CI_Email {
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		$this->_send_command('from', $this->clean_email($this->_headers['From']));
+		if ( ! $this->_send_command('from', $this->clean_email($this->_headers['From'])))
+		{
+			$this->_smtp_end();
+			return FALSE;
+		}
 
 		foreach ($this->_recipients as $val)
 		{
-			$this->_send_command('to', $val);
+			if ( ! $this->_send_command('to', $val))
+			{
+				$this->_smtp_end();
+				return FALSE;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (count($this->_cc_array) > 0)
 		{
 			foreach ($this->_cc_array as $val)
 			{
-				if ($val !== '')
+				if ($val !== '' && ! $this->_send_command('to', $val))
 				{
-					$this->_send_command('to', $val);
+					$this->_smtp_end();
+					return FALSE;
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -1891,14 +1969,19 @@ class CI_Email {
 		{
 			foreach ($this->_bcc_array as $val)
 			{
-				if ($val !== '')
+				if ($val !== '' && ! $this->_send_command('to', $val))
 				{
-					$this->_send_command('to', $val);
+					$this->_smtp_end();
+					return FALSE;
 				}
 			}
 		}
 
-		$this->_send_command('data');
+		if ( ! $this->_send_command('data'))
+		{
+			$this->_smtp_end();
+			return FALSE;
+		}
 
 		// perform dot transformation on any lines that begin with a dot
 		$this->_send_data($this->_header_str.preg_replace('/^\./m', '..$1', $this->_finalbody));
@@ -1906,30 +1989,38 @@ class CI_Email {
 		$this->_send_data('.');
 
 		$reply = $this->_get_smtp_data();
-
 		$this->_set_error_message($reply);
 
+		$this->_smtp_end();
+
 		if (strpos($reply, '250') !== 0)
 		{
 			$this->_set_error_message('lang:email_smtp_error', $reply);
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		if ($this->smtp_keepalive)
-		{
-			$this->_send_command('reset');
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			$this->_send_command('quit');
-		}
-
 		return TRUE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * SMTP End
+	 *
+	 * Shortcut to send RSET or QUIT depending on keep-alive
+	 *
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	protected function _smtp_end()
+	{
+		($this->smtp_keepalive)
+			? $this->_send_command('reset')
+			: $this->_send_command('quit');
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * SMTP Connect
 	 *
 	 * @return	string
@@ -1982,7 +2073,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	string
+	 * @return	bool
 	 */
 	protected function _send_command($cmd, $data = '')
 	{
@@ -2045,7 +2136,7 @@ class CI_Email {
 
 		$this->_debug_msg[] = '<pre>'.$cmd.': '.$reply.'</pre>';
 
-		if ((int) substr($reply, 0, 3) !== $resp)
+		if ((int) self::substr($reply, 0, 3) !== $resp)
 		{
 			$this->_set_error_message('lang:email_smtp_error', $reply);
 			return FALSE;
@@ -2113,6 +2204,11 @@ class CI_Email {
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
+		if ($this->smtp_keepalive)
+		{
+			$this->_smtp_auth = FALSE;
+		}
+
 		return TRUE;
 	}
 
@@ -2127,9 +2223,9 @@ class CI_Email {
 	protected function _send_data($data)
 	{
 		$data .= $this->newline;
-		for ($written = $timestamp = 0, $length = strlen($data); $written < $length; $written += $result)
+		for ($written = $timestamp = 0, $length = self::strlen($data); $written < $length; $written += $result)
 		{
-			if (($result = fwrite($this->_smtp_connect, substr($data, $written))) === FALSE)
+			if (($result = fwrite($this->_smtp_connect, self::substr($data, $written))) === FALSE)
 			{
 				break;
 			}
@@ -2302,4 +2398,52 @@ class CI_Email {
 		return 'application/x-unknown-content-type';
 	}
 
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Destructor
+	 *
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	public function __destruct()
+	{
+		is_resource($this->_smtp_connect) && $this->_send_command('quit');
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe strlen()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @return	int
+	 */
+	protected static function strlen($str)
+	{
+		return (self::$func_override)
+			? mb_strlen($str, '8bit')
+			: strlen($str);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe substr()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @param	int	$start
+	 * @param	int	$length
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	protected static function substr($str, $start, $length = NULL)
+	{
+		if (self::$func_override)
+		{
+			return mb_substr($str, $start, $length, '8bit');
+		}
+
+		return isset($length)
+			? substr($str, $start, $length)
+			: substr($str, $start);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/system/libraries/Encrypt.php b/system/libraries/Encrypt.php
index a46d4f462..46f374726 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Encrypt.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Encrypt.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/encryption.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/encryption.html
  */
 class CI_Encrypt {
 
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ class CI_Encrypt {
 	 * This allows for backwards compatibility and a method to transition to the
 	 * new encryption algorithms.
 	 *
-	 * For more details, see http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/installation/upgrade_200.html#encryption
+	 * For more details, see https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/installation/upgrade_200.html#encryption
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @param	int		(mcrypt mode constant)
diff --git a/system/libraries/Encryption.php b/system/libraries/Encryption.php
index f3e039881..6799d0fef 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Encryption.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Encryption.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		Andrey Andreev
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/encryption.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/encryption.html
  */
 class CI_Encryption {
 
@@ -152,10 +152,8 @@ class CI_Encryption {
 	public function __construct(array $params = array())
 	{
 		$this->_drivers = array(
-			'mcrypt' => defined('MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM'),
-			// While OpenSSL is available for PHP 5.3.0, an IV parameter
-			// for the encrypt/decrypt functions is only available since 5.3.3
-			'openssl' => (is_php('5.3.3') && extension_loaded('openssl'))
+			'mcrypt'  => defined('MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM'),
+			'openssl' => extension_loaded('openssl')
 		);
 
 		if ( ! $this->_drivers['mcrypt'] && ! $this->_drivers['openssl'])
@@ -337,9 +335,28 @@ class CI_Encryption {
 	 */
 	public function create_key($length)
 	{
-		return ($this->_driver === 'mcrypt')
-			? mcrypt_create_iv($length, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM)
-			: openssl_random_pseudo_bytes($length);
+		if (function_exists('random_bytes'))
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				return random_bytes((int) $length);
+			}
+			catch (Exception $e)
+			{
+				log_message('error', $e->getMessage());
+				return FALSE;
+			}
+		}
+		elseif (defined('MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM'))
+		{
+			return mcrypt_create_iv($length, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM);
+		}
+
+		$is_secure = NULL;
+		$key = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes($length, $is_secure);
+		return ($is_secure === TRUE)
+			? $key
+			: FALSE;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -395,7 +412,7 @@ class CI_Encryption {
 		// The greater-than-1 comparison is mostly a work-around for a bug,
 		// where 1 is returned for ARCFour instead of 0.
 		$iv = (($iv_size = mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($params['handle'])) > 1)
-			? mcrypt_create_iv($iv_size, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM)
+			? $this->create_key($iv_size)
 			: NULL;
 
 		if (mcrypt_generic_init($params['handle'], $params['key'], $iv) < 0)
@@ -458,14 +475,14 @@ class CI_Encryption {
 		}
 
 		$iv = ($iv_size = openssl_cipher_iv_length($params['handle']))
-			? openssl_random_pseudo_bytes($iv_size)
+			? $this->create_key($iv_size)
 			: NULL;
 
 		$data = openssl_encrypt(
 			$data,
 			$params['handle'],
 			$params['key'],
-			1, // DO NOT TOUCH!
+			OPENSSL_RAW_DATA,
 			$iv
 		);
 
@@ -624,7 +641,7 @@ class CI_Encryption {
 				$data,
 				$params['handle'],
 				$params['key'],
-				1, // DO NOT TOUCH!
+				OPENSSL_RAW_DATA,
 				$iv
 			);
 	}
@@ -890,7 +907,7 @@ class CI_Encryption {
 	 * Byte-safe strlen()
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	$str
-	 * @return	integer
+	 * @return	int
 	 */
 	protected static function strlen($str)
 	{
@@ -913,9 +930,6 @@ class CI_Encryption {
 	{
 		if (self::$func_override)
 		{
-			// mb_substr($str, $start, null, '8bit') returns an empty
-			// string on PHP 5.3
-			isset($length) OR $length = ($start >= 0 ? self::strlen($str) - $start : -$start);
 			return mb_substr($str, $start, $length, '8bit');
 		}
 
diff --git a/system/libraries/Form_validation.php b/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
index d9ecc45f9..7be0b949d 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Validation
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/form_validation.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/form_validation.html
  */
 class CI_Form_validation {
 
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	 * @param	array	$errors
 	 * @return	CI_Form_validation
 	 */
-	public function set_rules($field, $label = '', $rules = array(), $errors = array())
+	public function set_rules($field, $label = null, $rules = null, $errors = array())
 	{
 		// No reason to set rules if we have no POST data
 		// or a validation array has not been specified
@@ -197,6 +197,10 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 
 			return $this;
 		}
+		elseif ( ! isset($rules))
+		{
+			throw new BadMethodCallException('Form_validation: set_rules() called without a $rules parameter');
+		}
 
 		// No fields or no rules? Nothing to do...
 		if ( ! is_string($field) OR $field === '' OR empty($rules))
@@ -211,7 +215,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 				return $this;
 			}
 
-			$rules = explode('|', $rules);
+			$rules = preg_split('/\|(?![^\[]*\])/', $rules);
 		}
 
 		// If the field label wasn't passed we use the field name
@@ -415,12 +419,9 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	 */
 	public function run($group = '')
 	{
-		// Do we even have any data to process?  Mm?
-		$validation_array = empty($this->validation_data) ? $_POST : $this->validation_data;
-		if (count($validation_array) === 0)
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
+		$validation_array = empty($this->validation_data)
+			? $_POST
+			: $this->validation_data;
 
 		// Does the _field_data array containing the validation rules exist?
 		// If not, we look to see if they were assigned via a config file
@@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 		$this->CI->lang->load('form_validation');
 
 		// Cycle through the rules for each field and match the corresponding $validation_data item
-		foreach ($this->_field_data as $field => $row)
+		foreach ($this->_field_data as $field => &$row)
 		{
 			// Fetch the data from the validation_data array item and cache it in the _field_data array.
 			// Depending on whether the field name is an array or a string will determine where we get it from.
@@ -470,7 +471,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 		// Execute validation rules
 		// Note: A second foreach (for now) is required in order to avoid false-positives
 		//	 for rules like 'matches', which correlate to other validation fields.
-		foreach ($this->_field_data as $field => $row)
+		foreach ($this->_field_data as $field => &$row)
 		{
 			// Don't try to validate if we have no rules set
 			if (empty($row['rules']))
@@ -478,7 +479,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 				continue;
 			}
 
-			$this->_execute($row, $row['rules'], $this->_field_data[$field]['postdata']);
+			$this->_execute($row, $row['rules'], $row['postdata']);
 		}
 
 		// Did we end up with any errors?
@@ -489,7 +490,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 		}
 
 		// Now we need to re-set the POST data with the new, processed data
-		$this->_reset_post_array();
+		empty($this->validation_data) && $this->_reset_post_array();
 
 		return ($total_errors === 0);
 	}
@@ -497,6 +498,63 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * Prepare rules
+	 *
+	 * Re-orders the provided rules in order of importance, so that
+	 * they can easily be executed later without weird checks ...
+	 *
+	 * "Callbacks" are given the highest priority (always called),
+	 * followed by 'required' (called if callbacks didn't fail),
+	 * and then every next rule depends on the previous one passing.
+	 *
+	 * @param	array	$rules
+	 * @return	array
+	 */
+	protected function _prepare_rules($rules)
+	{
+		$new_rules = array();
+		$callbacks = array();
+
+		foreach ($rules as &$rule)
+		{
+			// Let 'required' always be the first (non-callback) rule
+			if ($rule === 'required')
+			{
+				array_unshift($new_rules, 'required');
+			}
+			// 'isset' is a kind of a weird alias for 'required' ...
+			elseif ($rule === 'isset' && (empty($new_rules) OR $new_rules[0] !== 'required'))
+			{
+				array_unshift($new_rules, 'isset');
+			}
+			// The old/classic 'callback_'-prefixed rules
+			elseif (is_string($rule) && strncmp('callback_', $rule, 9) === 0)
+			{
+				$callbacks[] = $rule;
+			}
+			// Proper callables
+			elseif (is_callable($rule))
+			{
+				$callbacks[] = $rule;
+			}
+			// "Named" callables; i.e. array('name' => $callable)
+			elseif (is_array($rule) && isset($rule[0], $rule[1]) && is_callable($rule[1]))
+			{
+				$callbacks[] = $rule;
+			}
+			// Everything else goes at the end of the queue
+			else
+			{
+				$new_rules[] = $rule;
+			}
+		}
+
+		return array_merge($callbacks, $new_rules);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Traverse a multidimensional $_POST array index until the data is found
 	 *
 	 * @param	array
@@ -530,10 +588,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 			{
 				if ($row['is_array'] === FALSE)
 				{
-					if (isset($_POST[$row['field']]))
-					{
-						$_POST[$row['field']] = $row['postdata'];
-					}
+					isset($_POST[$field]) && $_POST[$field] = $row['postdata'];
 				}
 				else
 				{
@@ -553,20 +608,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 						}
 					}
 
-					if (is_array($row['postdata']))
-					{
-						$array = array();
-						foreach ($row['postdata'] as $k => $v)
-						{
-							$array[$k] = $v;
-						}
-
-						$post_ref = $array;
-					}
-					else
-					{
-						$post_ref = $row['postdata'];
-					}
+					$post_ref = $row['postdata'];
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -586,7 +628,10 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	protected function _execute($row, $rules, $postdata = NULL, $cycles = 0)
 	{
 		// If the $_POST data is an array we will run a recursive call
-		if (is_array($postdata))
+		//
+		// Note: We MUST check if the array is empty or not!
+		//       Otherwise empty arrays will always pass validation.
+		if (is_array($postdata) && ! empty($postdata))
 		{
 			foreach ($postdata as $key => $val)
 			{
@@ -596,84 +641,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 			return;
 		}
 
-		// If the field is blank, but NOT required, no further tests are necessary
-		$callback = FALSE;
-		if ( ! in_array('required', $rules) && ($postdata === NULL OR $postdata === ''))
-		{
-			// Before we bail out, does the rule contain a callback?
-			foreach ($rules as &$rule)
-			{
-				if (is_string($rule))
-				{
-					if (strncmp($rule, 'callback_', 9) === 0)
-					{
-						$callback = TRUE;
-						$rules = array(1 => $rule);
-						break;
-					}
-				}
-				elseif (is_callable($rule))
-				{
-					$callback = TRUE;
-					$rules = array(1 => $rule);
-					break;
-				}
-				elseif (is_array($rule) && isset($rule[0], $rule[1]) && is_callable($rule[1]))
-				{
-					$callback = TRUE;
-					$rules = array(array($rule[0], $rule[1]));
-					break;
-				}
-			}
-
-			if ( ! $callback)
-			{
-				return;
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Isset Test. Typically this rule will only apply to checkboxes.
-		if (($postdata === NULL OR $postdata === '') && ! $callback)
-		{
-			if (in_array('isset', $rules, TRUE) OR in_array('required', $rules))
-			{
-				// Set the message type
-				$type = in_array('required', $rules) ? 'required' : 'isset';
-
-				// Check if a custom message is defined
-				if (isset($this->_field_data[$row['field']]['errors'][$type]))
-				{
-					$line = $this->_field_data[$row['field']]['errors'][$type];
-				}
-				elseif (isset($this->_error_messages[$type]))
-				{
-					$line = $this->_error_messages[$type];
-				}
-				elseif (FALSE === ($line = $this->CI->lang->line('form_validation_'.$type))
-					// DEPRECATED support for non-prefixed keys
-					&& FALSE === ($line = $this->CI->lang->line($type, FALSE)))
-				{
-					$line = 'The field was not set';
-				}
-
-				// Build the error message
-				$message = $this->_build_error_msg($line, $this->_translate_fieldname($row['label']));
-
-				// Save the error message
-				$this->_field_data[$row['field']]['error'] = $message;
-
-				if ( ! isset($this->_error_array[$row['field']]))
-				{
-					$this->_error_array[$row['field']] = $message;
-				}
-			}
-
-			return;
-		}
-
-		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-		// Cycle through each rule and run it
+		$rules = $this->_prepare_rules($rules);
 		foreach ($rules as $rule)
 		{
 			$_in_array = FALSE;
@@ -732,6 +700,17 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 				$param = $match[2];
 			}
 
+			// Ignore empty, non-required inputs with a few exceptions ...
+			if (
+				($postdata === NULL OR $postdata === '')
+				&& $callback === FALSE
+				&& $callable === FALSE
+				&& ! in_array($rule, array('required', 'isset', 'matches'), TRUE)
+			)
+			{
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			// Call the function that corresponds to the rule
 			if ($callback OR $callable !== FALSE)
 			{
@@ -770,12 +749,6 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 				{
 					$this->_field_data[$row['field']]['postdata'] = is_bool($result) ? $postdata : $result;
 				}
-
-				// If the field isn't required and we just processed a callback we'll move on...
-				if ( ! in_array('required', $rules, TRUE) && $result !== FALSE)
-				{
-					continue;
-				}
 			}
 			elseif ( ! method_exists($this, $rule))
 			{
@@ -823,23 +796,9 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 				{
 					$line = $this->CI->lang->line('form_validation_error_message_not_set').'(Anonymous function)';
 				}
-				// Check if a custom message is defined
-				elseif (isset($this->_field_data[$row['field']]['errors'][$rule]))
-				{
-					$line = $this->_field_data[$row['field']]['errors'][$rule];
-				}
-				elseif ( ! isset($this->_error_messages[$rule]))
-				{
-					if (FALSE === ($line = $this->CI->lang->line('form_validation_'.$rule))
-						// DEPRECATED support for non-prefixed keys
-						&& FALSE === ($line = $this->CI->lang->line($rule, FALSE)))
-					{
-						$line = $this->CI->lang->line('form_validation_error_message_not_set').'('.$rule.')';
-					}
-				}
 				else
 				{
-					$line = $this->_error_messages[$rule];
+					$line = $this->_get_error_message($rule, $row['field']);
 				}
 
 				// Is the parameter we are inserting into the error message the name
@@ -868,6 +827,40 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * Get the error message for the rule
+	 *
+	 * @param 	string $rule 	The rule name
+	 * @param 	string $field	The field name
+	 * @return 	string
+	 */
+	protected function _get_error_message($rule, $field)
+	{
+		// check if a custom message is defined through validation config row.
+		if (isset($this->_field_data[$field]['errors'][$rule]))
+		{
+			return $this->_field_data[$field]['errors'][$rule];
+		}
+		// check if a custom message has been set using the set_message() function
+		elseif (isset($this->_error_messages[$rule]))
+		{
+			return $this->_error_messages[$rule];
+		}
+		elseif (FALSE !== ($line = $this->CI->lang->line('form_validation_'.$rule)))
+		{
+			return $line;
+		}
+		// DEPRECATED support for non-prefixed keys, lang file again
+		elseif (FALSE !== ($line = $this->CI->lang->line($rule, FALSE)))
+		{
+			return $line;
+		}
+
+		return $this->CI->lang->line('form_validation_error_message_not_set').'('.$rule.')';
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Translate a field name
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	the field name
@@ -1065,7 +1058,9 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	 */
 	public function required($str)
 	{
-		return is_array($str) ? (bool) count($str) : (trim($str) !== '');
+		return is_array($str)
+			? (empty($str) === FALSE)
+			: (trim($str) !== '');
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1209,7 +1204,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 			{
 				return FALSE;
 			}
-			elseif ( ! in_array($matches[1], array('http', 'https'), TRUE))
+			elseif ( ! in_array(strtolower($matches[1]), array('http', 'https'), TRUE))
 			{
 				return FALSE;
 			}
@@ -1217,18 +1212,15 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 			$str = $matches[2];
 		}
 
-		$str = 'http://'.$str;
-
-		// There's a bug affecting PHP 5.2.13, 5.3.2 that considers the
-		// underscore to be a valid hostname character instead of a dash.
-		// Reference: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51192
-		if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.2.13', '==') OR version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.2', '=='))
+		// PHP 7 accepts IPv6 addresses within square brackets as hostnames,
+		// but it appears that the PR that came in with https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68039
+		// was never merged into a PHP 5 branch ... https://3v4l.org/8PsSN
+		if (preg_match('/^\[([^\]]+)\]/', $str, $matches) && ! is_php('7') && filter_var($matches[1], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV6) !== FALSE)
 		{
-			sscanf($str, 'http://%[^/]', $host);
-			$str = substr_replace($str, strtr($host, array('_' => '-', '-' => '_')), 7, strlen($host));
+			$str = 'ipv6.host'.substr($str, strlen($matches[1]) + 2);
 		}
 
-		return (filter_var($str, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) !== FALSE);
+		return (filter_var('http://'.$str, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) !== FALSE);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1241,9 +1233,9 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	 */
 	public function valid_email($str)
 	{
-		if (function_exists('idn_to_ascii') && $atpos = strpos($str, '@'))
+		if (function_exists('idn_to_ascii') && sscanf($str, '%[^@]@%s', $name, $domain) === 2)
 		{
-			$str = substr($str, 0, ++$atpos).idn_to_ascii(substr($str, $atpos));
+			$str = $name.'@'.idn_to_ascii($domain);
 		}
 
 		return (bool) filter_var($str, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
@@ -1292,6 +1284,31 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * Validate MAC address
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$mac
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	public function valid_mac($mac)
+	{
+		if ( ! is_php('5.5'))
+		{
+			// Most common format, with either dash or colon delimiters
+			if (preg_match('#\A[0-9a-f]{2}(?<delimiter>[:-])([0-9a-f]{2}(?P=delimiter)){4}[0-9a-f]{2}\z#i', $mac))
+			{
+				return TRUE;
+			}
+
+			// The less common format; e.g. 0123.4567.89ab
+			return (bool) preg_match('#((\A|\.)[0-9a-f]{4}){3}\z#i', $mac);
+		}
+
+		return (bool) filter_var($mac, FILTER_VALIDATE_MAC);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * Alpha
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
@@ -1496,37 +1513,6 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
-	 * Prep data for form
-	 *
-	 * This function allows HTML to be safely shown in a form.
-	 * Special characters are converted.
-	 *
-	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function prep_for_form($data = '')
-	{
-		if ($this->_safe_form_data === FALSE OR empty($data))
-		{
-			return $data;
-		}
-
-		if (is_array($data))
-		{
-			foreach ($data as $key => $val)
-			{
-				$data[$key] = $this->prep_for_form($val);
-			}
-
-			return $data;
-		}
-
-		return str_replace(array("'", '"', '<', '>'), array('&#39;', '&quot;', '&lt;', '&gt;'), stripslashes($data));
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
 	 * Prep URL
 	 *
 	 * @param	string
@@ -1534,12 +1520,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	 */
 	public function prep_url($str = '')
 	{
-		if ($str === 'http://' OR $str === '')
-		{
-			return '';
-		}
-
-		if (strpos($str, 'http://') !== 0 && strpos($str, 'https://') !== 0)
+		if ($str !== '' && stripos($str, 'http://') !== 0 && stripos($str, 'https://') !== 0)
 		{
 			return 'http://'.$str;
 		}
@@ -1586,7 +1567,6 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	public function reset_validation()
 	{
 		$this->_field_data = array();
-		$this->_config_rules = array();
 		$this->_error_array = array();
 		$this->_error_messages = array();
 		$this->error_string = '';
diff --git a/system/libraries/Ftp.php b/system/libraries/Ftp.php
index 2d345c294..86e5b8f33 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Ftp.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Ftp.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/ftp.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/ftp.html
  */
 class CI_FTP {
 
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ class CI_FTP {
 		{
 			for ($i = 0, $c = count($list); $i < $c; $i++)
 			{
-				// If we can't delete the item it's probaly a directory,
+				// If we can't delete the item it's probably a directory,
 				// so we'll recursively call delete_dir()
 				if ( ! preg_match('#/\.\.?$#', $list[$i]) && ! @ftp_delete($this->conn_id, $list[$i]))
 				{
diff --git a/system/libraries/Image_lib.php b/system/libraries/Image_lib.php
index e813efd89..8b5a1adb0 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Image_lib.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Image_lib.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Image_lib
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/image_lib.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/image_lib.html
  */
 class CI_Image_lib {
 
@@ -392,6 +392,16 @@ class CI_Image_lib {
 			$this->initialize($props);
 		}
 
+		/**
+		 * A work-around for some improperly formatted, but
+		 * usable JPEGs; known to be produced by Samsung
+		 * smartphones' front-facing cameras.
+		 *
+		 * @see	https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4967
+		 * @see	https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72404
+		 */
+		ini_set('gd.jpeg_ignore_warning', 1);
+
 		log_message('info', 'Image Lib Class Initialized');
 	}
 
@@ -456,7 +466,7 @@ class CI_Image_lib {
 			{
 				if (property_exists($this, $key))
 				{
-					if (in_array($key, array('wm_font_color', 'wm_shadow_color')))
+					if (in_array($key, array('wm_font_color', 'wm_shadow_color'), TRUE))
 					{
 						if (preg_match('/^#?([0-9a-f]{3}|[0-9a-f]{6})$/i', $val, $matches))
 						{
@@ -478,6 +488,10 @@ class CI_Image_lib {
 							continue;
 						}
 					}
+					elseif (in_array($key, array('width', 'height'), TRUE) && ! ctype_digit((string) $val))
+					{
+						continue;
+					}
 
 					$this->$key = $val;
 				}
@@ -540,37 +554,30 @@ class CI_Image_lib {
 		 */
 		if ($this->new_image === '')
 		{
-			$this->dest_image = $this->source_image;
+			$this->dest_image  = $this->source_image;
 			$this->dest_folder = $this->source_folder;
 		}
-		elseif (strpos($this->new_image, '/') === FALSE)
+		elseif (strpos($this->new_image, '/') === FALSE && strpos($this->new_image, '\\') === FALSE)
 		{
+			$this->dest_image  = $this->new_image;
 			$this->dest_folder = $this->source_folder;
-			$this->dest_image = $this->new_image;
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			if (strpos($this->new_image, '/') === FALSE && strpos($this->new_image, '\\') === FALSE)
-			{
-				$full_dest_path = str_replace('\\', '/', realpath($this->new_image));
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				$full_dest_path = $this->new_image;
-			}
-
 			// Is there a file name?
-			if ( ! preg_match('#\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$#i', $full_dest_path))
+			if ( ! preg_match('#\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$#i', $this->new_image))
 			{
-				$this->dest_folder = $full_dest_path.'/';
-				$this->dest_image = $this->source_image;
+				$this->dest_image  = $this->source_image;
+				$this->dest_folder = $this->new_image;
 			}
 			else
 			{
-				$x = explode('/', $full_dest_path);
-				$this->dest_image = end($x);
-				$this->dest_folder = str_replace($this->dest_image, '', $full_dest_path);
+				$x = explode('/', str_replace('\\', '/', $this->new_image));
+				$this->dest_image  = end($x);
+				$this->dest_folder = str_replace($this->dest_image, '', $this->new_image);
 			}
+
+			$this->dest_folder = realpath($this->dest_folder).'/';
 		}
 
 		/* Compile the finalized filenames/paths
@@ -862,27 +869,28 @@ class CI_Image_lib {
 
 		if ($action === 'crop')
 		{
-			$cmd .= ' -crop '.$this->width.'x'.$this->height.'+'.$this->x_axis.'+'.$this->y_axis.' "'.$this->full_src_path.'" "'.$this->full_dst_path .'" 2>&1';
+			$cmd .= ' -crop '.$this->width.'x'.$this->height.'+'.$this->x_axis.'+'.$this->y_axis;
 		}
 		elseif ($action === 'rotate')
 		{
-			$angle = ($this->rotation_angle === 'hor' OR $this->rotation_angle === 'vrt')
-					? '-flop' : '-rotate '.$this->rotation_angle;
-
-			$cmd .= ' '.$angle.' "'.$this->full_src_path.'" "'.$this->full_dst_path.'" 2>&1';
+			$cmd .= ($this->rotation_angle === 'hor' OR $this->rotation_angle === 'vrt')
+					? ' -flop'
+					: ' -rotate '.$this->rotation_angle;
 		}
 		else // Resize
 		{
 			if($this->maintain_ratio === TRUE)
 			{
-				$cmd .= ' -resize '.$this->width.'x'.$this->height.' "'.$this->full_src_path.'" "'.$this->full_dst_path.'" 2>&1';
+				$cmd .= ' -resize '.$this->width.'x'.$this->height;
 			}
 			else
 			{
-				$cmd .= ' -resize '.$this->width.'x'.$this->height.'\! "'.$this->full_src_path.'" "'.$this->full_dst_path.'" 2>&1';
+				$cmd .= ' -resize '.$this->width.'x'.$this->height.'\!';
 			}
 		}
 
+		$cmd .= ' '.escapeshellarg($this->full_src_path).' '.escapeshellarg($this->full_dst_path).' 2>&1';
+
 		$retval = 1;
 		// exec() might be disabled
 		if (function_usable('exec'))
@@ -1196,7 +1204,7 @@ class CI_Image_lib {
 		}
 
 		// Build the finalized image
-		if ($wm_img_type === 3 && function_exists('imagealphablending'))
+		if ($wm_img_type === 3)
 		{
 			@imagealphablending($src_img, TRUE);
 		}
@@ -1641,25 +1649,31 @@ class CI_Image_lib {
 		}
 
 		$vals = getimagesize($path);
+		if ($vals === FALSE)
+		{
+			$this->set_error('imglib_invalid_image');
+			return FALSE;
+		}
+
 		$types = array(1 => 'gif', 2 => 'jpeg', 3 => 'png');
-		$mime = (isset($types[$vals[2]])) ? 'image/'.$types[$vals[2]] : 'image/jpg';
+		$mime = isset($types[$vals[2]]) ? 'image/'.$types[$vals[2]] : 'image/jpg';
 
 		if ($return === TRUE)
 		{
 			return array(
-					'width' =>	$vals[0],
-					'height' =>	$vals[1],
-					'image_type' =>	$vals[2],
-					'size_str' =>	$vals[3],
-					'mime_type' =>	$mime
-				);
-		}
-
-		$this->orig_width	= $vals[0];
-		$this->orig_height	= $vals[1];
-		$this->image_type	= $vals[2];
-		$this->size_str		= $vals[3];
-		$this->mime_type	= $mime;
+				'width'      => $vals[0],
+				'height'     => $vals[1],
+				'image_type' => $vals[2],
+				'size_str'   => $vals[3],
+				'mime_type'  => $mime
+			);
+		}
+
+		$this->orig_width  = $vals[0];
+		$this->orig_height = $vals[1];
+		$this->image_type  = $vals[2];
+		$this->size_str    = $vals[3];
+		$this->mime_type   = $mime;
 
 		return TRUE;
 	}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Javascript.php b/system/libraries/Javascript.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 4cc628692..000000000
--- a/system/libraries/Javascript.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,856 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.0.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * Javascript Class
- *
- * @package		CodeIgniter
- * @subpackage	Libraries
- * @category	Javascript
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/javascript.html
- * @deprecated	3.0.0	This was never a good idea in the first place.
- */
-class CI_Javascript {
-
-	/**
-	 * JavaScript location
-	 *
-	 * @var	string
-	 */
-	protected $_javascript_location = 'js';
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Constructor
-	 *
-	 * @param	array	$params
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function __construct($params = array())
-	{
-		$defaults = array('js_library_driver' => 'jquery', 'autoload' => TRUE);
-
-		foreach ($defaults as $key => $val)
-		{
-			if (isset($params[$key]) && $params[$key] !== '')
-			{
-				$defaults[$key] = $params[$key];
-			}
-		}
-
-		extract($defaults);
-
-		$this->CI =& get_instance();
-
-		// load the requested js library
-		$this->CI->load->library('Javascript/'.$js_library_driver, array('autoload' => $autoload));
-		// make js to refer to current library
-		$this->js =& $this->CI->$js_library_driver;
-
-		log_message('info', 'Javascript Class Initialized and loaded. Driver used: '.$js_library_driver);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-	// Event Code
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Blur
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library blur event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function blur($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_blur($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Change
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library change event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function change($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_change($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Click
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library click event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @param	bool	whether or not to return false
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function click($element = 'this', $js = '', $ret_false = TRUE)
-	{
-		return $this->js->_click($element, $js, $ret_false);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Double Click
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library dblclick event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function dblclick($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_dblclick($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Error
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library error event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function error($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_error($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Focus
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library focus event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function focus($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_focus($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Hover
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library hover event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript code for mouse over
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript code for mouse out
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function hover($element = 'this', $over = '', $out = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_hover($element, $over, $out);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Keydown
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library keydown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function keydown($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_keydown($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Keyup
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library keydown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function keyup($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_keyup($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Load
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library load event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function load($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_load($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Mousedown
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library mousedown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function mousedown($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_mousedown($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Mouse Out
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library mouseout event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function mouseout($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_mouseout($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Mouse Over
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library mouseover event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function mouseover($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_mouseover($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Mouseup
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library mouseup event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function mouseup($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_mouseup($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Output
-	 *
-	 * Outputs the called javascript to the screen
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The code to output
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function output($js)
-	{
-		return $this->js->_output($js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Ready
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library mouseup event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$js	Code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function ready($js)
-	{
-		return $this->js->_document_ready($js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Resize
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library resize event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function resize($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_resize($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Scroll
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library scroll event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function scroll($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_scroll($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Unload
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library unload event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function unload($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_unload($element, $js);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-	// Effects
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Add Class
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library addClass event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- Class to add
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function addClass($element = 'this', $class = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_addClass($element, $class);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Animate
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library animate event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$element = 'this'
-	 * @param	array	$params = array()
-	 * @param	mixed	$speed			'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	$extra
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function animate($element = 'this', $params = array(), $speed = '', $extra = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_animate($element, $params, $speed, $extra);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Fade In
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library hide event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function fadeIn($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_fadeIn($element, $speed, $callback);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Fade Out
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library hide event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function fadeOut($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_fadeOut($element, $speed, $callback);
-	}
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Slide Up
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library slideUp event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function slideUp($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_slideUp($element, $speed, $callback);
-
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Remove Class
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library removeClass event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- Class to add
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function removeClass($element = 'this', $class = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_removeClass($element, $class);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Slide Down
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library slideDown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function slideDown($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_slideDown($element, $speed, $callback);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Slide Toggle
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library slideToggle event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function slideToggle($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_slideToggle($element, $speed, $callback);
-
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Hide
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library hide action
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function hide($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_hide($element, $speed, $callback);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Toggle
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library toggle event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function toggle($element = 'this')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_toggle($element);
-
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Toggle Class
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library toggle class event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$element = 'this'
-	 * @param	string	$class = ''
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function toggleClass($element = 'this', $class = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_toggleClass($element, $class);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Show
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library show event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function show($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_show($element, $speed, $callback);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Compile
-	 *
-	 * gather together all script needing to be output
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$view_var
-	 * @param	bool	$script_tags
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function compile($view_var = 'script_foot', $script_tags = TRUE)
-	{
-		$this->js->_compile($view_var, $script_tags);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Clear Compile
-	 *
-	 * Clears any previous javascript collected for output
-	 *
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function clear_compile()
-	{
-		$this->js->_clear_compile();
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * External
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a <script> tag with the source as an external js file
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$external_file
-	 * @param	bool	$relative
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function external($external_file = '', $relative = FALSE)
-	{
-		if ($external_file !== '')
-		{
-			$this->_javascript_location = $external_file;
-		}
-		elseif ($this->CI->config->item('javascript_location') !== '')
-		{
-			$this->_javascript_location = $this->CI->config->item('javascript_location');
-		}
-
-		if ($relative === TRUE OR strpos($external_file, 'http://') === 0 OR strpos($external_file, 'https://') === 0)
-		{
-			$str = $this->_open_script($external_file);
-		}
-		elseif (strpos($this->_javascript_location, 'http://') !== FALSE)
-		{
-			$str = $this->_open_script($this->_javascript_location.$external_file);
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			$str = $this->_open_script($this->CI->config->slash_item('base_url').$this->_javascript_location.$external_file);
-		}
-
-		return $str.$this->_close_script();
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Inline
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a <script> tag
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	bool	If a CDATA section should be added
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function inline($script, $cdata = TRUE)
-	{
-		return $this->_open_script()
-			. ($cdata ? "\n// <![CDATA[\n".$script."\n// ]]>\n" : "\n".$script."\n")
-			. $this->_close_script();
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Open Script
-	 *
-	 * Outputs an opening <script>
-	 *
-	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _open_script($src = '')
-	{
-		return '<script type="text/javascript" charset="'.strtolower($this->CI->config->item('charset')).'"'
-			.($src === '' ? '>' : ' src="'.$src.'">');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Close Script
-	 *
-	 * Outputs an closing </script>
-	 *
-	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _close_script($extra = "\n")
-	{
-		return '</script>'.$extra;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-	// AJAX-Y STUFF - still a testbed
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Update
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a javascript library slideDown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function update($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		return $this->js->_updater($element, $speed, $callback);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Generate JSON
-	 *
-	 * Can be passed a database result or associative array and returns a JSON formatted string
-	 *
-	 * @param	mixed	result set or array
-	 * @param	bool	match array types (defaults to objects)
-	 * @return	string	a json formatted string
-	 */
-	public function generate_json($result = NULL, $match_array_type = FALSE)
-	{
-		// JSON data can optionally be passed to this function
-		// either as a database result object or an array, or a user supplied array
-		if ($result !== NULL)
-		{
-			if (is_object($result))
-			{
-				$json_result = is_callable(array($result, 'result_array')) ? $result->result_array() : (array) $result;
-			}
-			elseif (is_array($result))
-			{
-				$json_result = $result;
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				return $this->_prep_args($result);
-			}
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			return 'null';
-		}
-
-		$json = array();
-		$_is_assoc = TRUE;
-
-		if ( ! is_array($json_result) && empty($json_result))
-		{
-			show_error('Generate JSON Failed - Illegal key, value pair.');
-		}
-		elseif ($match_array_type)
-		{
-			$_is_assoc = $this->_is_associative_array($json_result);
-		}
-
-		foreach ($json_result as $k => $v)
-		{
-			if ($_is_assoc)
-			{
-				$json[] = $this->_prep_args($k, TRUE).':'.$this->generate_json($v, $match_array_type);
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				$json[] = $this->generate_json($v, $match_array_type);
-			}
-		}
-
-		$json = implode(',', $json);
-
-		return $_is_assoc ? '{'.$json.'}' : '['.$json.']';
-
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Is associative array
-	 *
-	 * Checks for an associative array
-	 *
-	 * @param	array
-	 * @return	bool
-	 */
-	protected function _is_associative_array($arr)
-	{
-		foreach (array_keys($arr) as $key => $val)
-		{
-			if ($key !== $val)
-			{
-				return TRUE;
-			}
-		}
-
-		return FALSE;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Prep Args
-	 *
-	 * Ensures a standard json value and escapes values
-	 *
-	 * @param	mixed	$result
-	 * @param	bool	$is_key = FALSE
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _prep_args($result, $is_key = FALSE)
-	{
-		if ($result === NULL)
-		{
-			return 'null';
-		}
-		elseif (is_bool($result))
-		{
-			return ($result === TRUE) ? 'true' : 'false';
-		}
-		elseif (is_string($result) OR $is_key)
-		{
-			return '"'.str_replace(array('\\', "\t", "\n", "\r", '"', '/'), array('\\\\', '\\t', '\\n', "\\r", '\"', '\/'), $result).'"';
-		}
-		elseif (is_scalar($result))
-		{
-			return $result;
-		}
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Javascript/Jquery.php b/system/libraries/Javascript/Jquery.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 11f2d2361..000000000
--- a/system/libraries/Javascript/Jquery.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1076 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 1.0.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * Jquery Class
- *
- * @package		CodeIgniter
- * @subpackage	Libraries
- * @category	Loader
- * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/javascript.html
- */
-class CI_Jquery extends CI_Javascript {
-
-	/**
-	 * JavaScript directory location
-	 *
-	 * @var	string
-	 */
-	protected $_javascript_folder = 'js';
-
-	/**
-	 * JQuery code for load
-	 *
-	 * @var	array
-	 */
-	public $jquery_code_for_load = array();
-
-	/**
-	 * JQuery code for compile
-	 *
-	 * @var	array
-	 */
-	public $jquery_code_for_compile = array();
-
-	/**
-	 * JQuery corner active flag
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool
-	 */
-	public $jquery_corner_active = FALSE;
-
-	/**
-	 * JQuery table sorter active flag
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool
-	 */
-	public $jquery_table_sorter_active = FALSE;
-
-	/**
-	 * JQuery table sorter pager active
-	 *
-	 * @var	bool
-	 */
-	public $jquery_table_sorter_pager_active = FALSE;
-
-	/**
-	 * JQuery AJAX image
-	 *
-	 * @var	string
-	 */
-	public $jquery_ajax_img = '';
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Constructor
-	 *
-	 * @param	array	$params
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function __construct($params)
-	{
-		$this->CI =& get_instance();
-		extract($params);
-
-		if ($autoload === TRUE)
-		{
-			$this->script();
-		}
-
-		log_message('info', 'Jquery Class Initialized');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-	// Event Code
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Blur
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery blur event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _blur($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'blur');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Change
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery change event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _change($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'change');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Click
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery click event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @param	bool	whether or not to return false
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _click($element = 'this', $js = '', $ret_false = TRUE)
-	{
-		is_array($js) OR $js = array($js);
-
-		if ($ret_false)
-		{
-			$js[] = 'return false;';
-		}
-
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'click');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Double Click
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery dblclick event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _dblclick($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'dblclick');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Error
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery error event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _error($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'error');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Focus
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery focus event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _focus($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'focus');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Hover
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery hover event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript code for mouse over
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript code for mouse out
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _hover($element = 'this', $over = '', $out = '')
-	{
-		$event = "\n\t$(".$this->_prep_element($element).").hover(\n\t\tfunction()\n\t\t{\n\t\t\t{$over}\n\t\t}, \n\t\tfunction()\n\t\t{\n\t\t\t{$out}\n\t\t});\n";
-
-		$this->jquery_code_for_compile[] = $event;
-
-		return $event;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Keydown
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery keydown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _keydown($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'keydown');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Keyup
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery keydown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _keyup($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'keyup');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Load
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery load event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _load($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'load');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Mousedown
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery mousedown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _mousedown($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'mousedown');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Mouse Out
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery mouseout event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _mouseout($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'mouseout');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Mouse Over
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery mouseover event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _mouseover($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'mouseover');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Mouseup
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery mouseup event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _mouseup($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'mouseup');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Output
-	 *
-	 * Outputs script directly
-	 *
-	 * @param	array	$array_js = array()
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _output($array_js = array())
-	{
-		if ( ! is_array($array_js))
-		{
-			$array_js = array($array_js);
-		}
-
-		foreach ($array_js as $js)
-		{
-			$this->jquery_code_for_compile[] = "\t".$js."\n";
-		}
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Resize
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery resize event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _resize($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'resize');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Scroll
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery scroll event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _scroll($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'scroll');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Unload
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery unload event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _unload($element = 'this', $js = '')
-	{
-		return $this->_add_event($element, $js, 'unload');
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-	// Effects
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Add Class
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery addClass event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$element
-	 * @param	string	$class
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _addClass($element = 'this', $class = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		return '$('.$element.').addClass("'.$class.'");';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Animate
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery animate event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$element
-	 * @param	array	$params
-	 * @param	string	$speed	'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	$extra
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _animate($element = 'this', $params = array(), $speed = '', $extra = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		$speed = $this->_validate_speed($speed);
-
-		$animations = "\t\t\t";
-
-		foreach ($params as $param => $value)
-		{
-			$animations .= $param.": '".$value."', ";
-		}
-
-		$animations = substr($animations, 0, -2); // remove the last ", "
-
-		if ($speed !== '')
-		{
-			$speed = ', '.$speed;
-		}
-
-		if ($extra !== '')
-		{
-			$extra = ', '.$extra;
-		}
-
-		return "$({$element}).animate({\n$animations\n\t\t}".$speed.$extra.');';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Fade In
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery hide event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _fadeIn($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		$speed = $this->_validate_speed($speed);
-
-		if ($callback !== '')
-		{
-			$callback = ", function(){\n{$callback}\n}";
-		}
-
-		return "$({$element}).fadeIn({$speed}{$callback});";
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Fade Out
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery hide event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _fadeOut($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		$speed = $this->_validate_speed($speed);
-
-		if ($callback !== '')
-		{
-			$callback = ", function(){\n{$callback}\n}";
-		}
-
-		return '$('.$element.').fadeOut('.$speed.$callback.');';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Hide
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery hide action
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _hide($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		$speed = $this->_validate_speed($speed);
-
-		if ($callback !== '')
-		{
-			$callback = ", function(){\n{$callback}\n}";
-		}
-
-		return "$({$element}).hide({$speed}{$callback});";
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Remove Class
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery remove class event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$element
-	 * @param	string	$class
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _removeClass($element = 'this', $class = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		return '$('.$element.').removeClass("'.$class.'");';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Slide Up
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery slideUp event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _slideUp($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		$speed = $this->_validate_speed($speed);
-
-		if ($callback !== '')
-		{
-			$callback = ", function(){\n{$callback}\n}";
-		}
-
-		return '$('.$element.').slideUp('.$speed.$callback.');';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Slide Down
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery slideDown event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _slideDown($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		$speed = $this->_validate_speed($speed);
-
-		if ($callback !== '')
-		{
-			$callback = ", function(){\n{$callback}\n}";
-		}
-
-		return '$('.$element.').slideDown('.$speed.$callback.');';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Slide Toggle
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery slideToggle event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _slideToggle($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		$speed = $this->_validate_speed($speed);
-
-		if ($callback !== '')
-		{
-			$callback = ", function(){\n{$callback}\n}";
-		}
-
-		return '$('.$element.').slideToggle('.$speed.$callback.');';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Toggle
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery toggle event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _toggle($element = 'this')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		return '$('.$element.').toggle();';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Toggle Class
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery toggle class event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$element
-	 * @param	string	$class
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _toggleClass($element = 'this', $class = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		return '$('.$element.').toggleClass("'.$class.'");';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Show
-	 *
-	 * Outputs a jQuery show event
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	- element
-	 * @param	string	- One of 'slow', 'normal', 'fast', or time in milliseconds
-	 * @param	string	- Javascript callback function
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _show($element = 'this', $speed = '', $callback = '')
-	{
-		$element = $this->_prep_element($element);
-		$speed = $this->_validate_speed($speed);
-
-		if ($callback !== '')
-		{
-			$callback = ", function(){\n{$callback}\n}";
-		}
-
-		return '$('.$element.').show('.$speed.$callback.');';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Updater
-	 *
-	 * An Ajax call that populates the designated DOM node with
-	 * returned content
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	the controller to run the call against
-	 * @param	string	optional parameters
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-
-	protected function _updater($container = 'this', $controller = '', $options = '')
-	{
-		$container = $this->_prep_element($container);
-		$controller = (strpos('://', $controller) === FALSE) ? $controller : $this->CI->config->site_url($controller);
-
-		// ajaxStart and ajaxStop are better choices here... but this is a stop gap
-		if ($this->CI->config->item('javascript_ajax_img') === '')
-		{
-			$loading_notifier = 'Loading...';
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			$loading_notifier = '<img src="'.$this->CI->config->slash_item('base_url').$this->CI->config->item('javascript_ajax_img').'" alt="Loading" />';
-		}
-
-		$updater = '$('.$container.").empty();\n" // anything that was in... get it out
-			."\t\t$(".$container.').prepend("'.$loading_notifier."\");\n"; // to replace with an image
-
-		$request_options = '';
-		if ($options !== '')
-		{
-			$request_options .= ', {'
-					.(is_array($options) ? "'".implode("', '", $options)."'" : "'".str_replace(':', "':'", $options)."'")
-					.'}';
-		}
-
-		return $updater."\t\t$($container).load('$controller'$request_options);";
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-	// Pre-written handy stuff
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Zebra tables
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$class
-	 * @param	string	$odd
-	 * @param	string	$hover
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _zebraTables($class = '', $odd = 'odd', $hover = '')
-	{
-		$class = ($class !== '') ? '.'.$class : '';
-		$zebra = "\t\$(\"table{$class} tbody tr:nth-child(even)\").addClass(\"{$odd}\");";
-
-		$this->jquery_code_for_compile[] = $zebra;
-
-		if ($hover !== '')
-		{
-			$hover = $this->hover("table{$class} tbody tr", "$(this).addClass('hover');", "$(this).removeClass('hover');");
-		}
-
-		return $zebra;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-	// Plugins
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Corner Plugin
-	 *
-	 * @link	http://www.malsup.com/jquery/corner/
-	 * @param	string	$element
-	 * @param	string	$corner_style
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function corner($element = '', $corner_style = '')
-	{
-		// may want to make this configurable down the road
-		$corner_location = '/plugins/jquery.corner.js';
-
-		if ($corner_style !== '')
-		{
-			$corner_style = '"'.$corner_style.'"';
-		}
-
-		return '$('.$this->_prep_element($element).').corner('.$corner_style.');';
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Modal window
-	 *
-	 * Load a thickbox modal window
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$src
-	 * @param	bool	$relative
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function modal($src, $relative = FALSE)
-	{
-		$this->jquery_code_for_load[] = $this->external($src, $relative);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Effect
-	 *
-	 * Load an Effect library
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$src
-	 * @param	bool	$relative
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function effect($src, $relative = FALSE)
-	{
-		$this->jquery_code_for_load[] = $this->external($src, $relative);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Plugin
-	 *
-	 * Load a plugin library
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$src
-	 * @param	bool	$relative
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function plugin($src, $relative = FALSE)
-	{
-		$this->jquery_code_for_load[] = $this->external($src, $relative);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * UI
-	 *
-	 * Load a user interface library
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$src
-	 * @param	bool	$relative
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	public function ui($src, $relative = FALSE)
-	{
-		$this->jquery_code_for_load[] = $this->external($src, $relative);
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Sortable
-	 *
-	 * Creates a jQuery sortable
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$element
-	 * @param	array	$options
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function sortable($element, $options = array())
-	{
-		if (count($options) > 0)
-		{
-			$sort_options = array();
-			foreach ($options as $k=>$v)
-			{
-				$sort_options[] = "\n\t\t".$k.': '.$v;
-			}
-			$sort_options = implode(',', $sort_options);
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			$sort_options = '';
-		}
-
-		return '$('.$this->_prep_element($element).').sortable({'.$sort_options."\n\t});";
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Table Sorter Plugin
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	table name
-	 * @param	string	plugin location
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function tablesorter($table = '', $options = '')
-	{
-		$this->jquery_code_for_compile[] = "\t$(".$this->_prep_element($table).').tablesorter('.$options.");\n";
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-	// Class functions
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Add Event
-	 *
-	 * Constructs the syntax for an event, and adds to into the array for compilation
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	The element to attach the event to
-	 * @param	string	The code to execute
-	 * @param	string	The event to pass
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _add_event($element, $js, $event)
-	{
-		if (is_array($js))
-		{
-			$js = implode("\n\t\t", $js);
-		}
-
-		$event = "\n\t$(".$this->_prep_element($element).').'.$event."(function(){\n\t\t{$js}\n\t});\n";
-		$this->jquery_code_for_compile[] = $event;
-		return $event;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Compile
-	 *
-	 * As events are specified, they are stored in an array
-	 * This function compiles them all for output on a page
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$view_var
-	 * @param	bool	$script_tags
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _compile($view_var = 'script_foot', $script_tags = TRUE)
-	{
-		// External references
-		$external_scripts = implode('', $this->jquery_code_for_load);
-		$this->CI->load->vars(array('library_src' => $external_scripts));
-
-		if (count($this->jquery_code_for_compile) === 0)
-		{
-			// no inline references, let's just return
-			return;
-		}
-
-		// Inline references
-		$script = '$(document).ready(function() {'."\n"
-			.implode('', $this->jquery_code_for_compile)
-			.'});';
-
-		$output = ($script_tags === FALSE) ? $script : $this->inline($script);
-
-		$this->CI->load->vars(array($view_var => $output));
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Clear Compile
-	 *
-	 * Clears the array of script events collected for output
-	 *
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _clear_compile()
-	{
-		$this->jquery_code_for_compile = array();
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Document Ready
-	 *
-	 * A wrapper for writing document.ready()
-	 *
-	 * @param	array	$js
-	 * @return	void
-	 */
-	protected function _document_ready($js)
-	{
-		is_array($js) OR $js = array($js);
-
-		foreach ($js as $script)
-		{
-			$this->jquery_code_for_compile[] = $script;
-		}
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Script Tag
-	 *
-	 * Outputs the script tag that loads the jquery.js file into an HTML document
-	 *
-	 * @param	string	$library_src
-	 * @param	bool	$relative
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	public function script($library_src = '', $relative = FALSE)
-	{
-		$library_src = $this->external($library_src, $relative);
-		$this->jquery_code_for_load[] = $library_src;
-		return $library_src;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Prep Element
-	 *
-	 * Puts HTML element in quotes for use in jQuery code
-	 * unless the supplied element is the Javascript 'this'
-	 * object, in which case no quotes are added
-	 *
-	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _prep_element($element)
-	{
-		if ($element !== 'this')
-		{
-			$element = '"'.$element.'"';
-		}
-
-		return $element;
-	}
-
-	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-	/**
-	 * Validate Speed
-	 *
-	 * Ensures the speed parameter is valid for jQuery
-	 *
-	 * @param	string
-	 * @return	string
-	 */
-	protected function _validate_speed($speed)
-	{
-		if (in_array($speed, array('slow', 'normal', 'fast')))
-		{
-			return '"'.$speed.'"';
-		}
-		elseif (preg_match('/[^0-9]/', $speed))
-		{
-			return '';
-		}
-
-		return $speed;
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Javascript/index.html b/system/libraries/Javascript/index.html
deleted file mode 100644
index b702fbc39..000000000
--- a/system/libraries/Javascript/index.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html>
-<head>
-	<title>403 Forbidden</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-
-<p>Directory access is forbidden.</p>
-
-</body>
-</html>
diff --git a/system/libraries/Migration.php b/system/libraries/Migration.php
index 45a3cbbce..2a87d9d7c 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Migration.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Migration.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ class CI_Migration {
 	/**
 	 * Migration basename regex
 	 *
-	 * @var bool
+	 * @var string
 	 */
-	protected $_migration_regex = NULL;
+	protected $_migration_regex;
 
 	/**
 	 * Error message
@@ -217,31 +217,66 @@ class CI_Migration {
 
 		if ($target_version > $current_version)
 		{
-			// Moving Up
 			$method = 'up';
 		}
-		else
+		elseif ($target_version < $current_version)
 		{
-			// Moving Down, apply in reverse order
 			$method = 'down';
+			// We need this so that migrations are applied in reverse order
 			krsort($migrations);
 		}
-
-		if (empty($migrations))
+		else
 		{
+			// Well, there's nothing to migrate then ...
 			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		$previous = FALSE;
-
-		// Validate all available migrations, and run the ones within our target range
+		// Validate all available migrations within our target range.
+		//
+		// Unfortunately, we'll have to use another loop to run them
+		// in order to avoid leaving the procedure in a broken state.
+		//
+		// See https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4539
+		$pending = array();
 		foreach ($migrations as $number => $file)
 		{
+			// Ignore versions out of our range.
+			//
+			// Because we've previously sorted the $migrations array depending on the direction,
+			// we can safely break the loop once we reach $target_version ...
+			if ($method === 'up')
+			{
+				if ($number <= $current_version)
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				elseif ($number > $target_version)
+				{
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				if ($number > $current_version)
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				elseif ($number <= $target_version)
+				{
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+
 			// Check for sequence gaps
-			if ($this->_migration_type === 'sequential' && $previous !== FALSE && abs($number - $previous) > 1)
+			if ($this->_migration_type === 'sequential')
 			{
-				$this->_error_string = sprintf($this->lang->line('migration_sequence_gap'), $number);
-				return FALSE;
+				if (isset($previous) && abs($number - $previous) > 1)
+				{
+					$this->_error_string = sprintf($this->lang->line('migration_sequence_gap'), $number);
+					return FALSE;
+				}
+
+				$previous = $number;
 			}
 
 			include_once($file);
@@ -253,27 +288,24 @@ class CI_Migration {
 				$this->_error_string = sprintf($this->lang->line('migration_class_doesnt_exist'), $class);
 				return FALSE;
 			}
+			elseif ( ! is_callable(array($class, $method)))
+			{
+				$this->_error_string = sprintf($this->lang->line('migration_missing_'.$method.'_method'), $class);
+				return FALSE;
+			}
 
-			$previous = $number;
+			$pending[$number] = array($class, $method);
+		}
 
-			// Run migrations that are inside the target range
-			if (
-				($method === 'up'   && $number > $current_version && $number <= $target_version) OR
-				($method === 'down' && $number <= $current_version && $number > $target_version)
-			)
-			{
-				$instance = new $class();
-				if ( ! is_callable(array($instance, $method)))
-				{
-					$this->_error_string = sprintf($this->lang->line('migration_missing_'.$method.'_method'), $class);
-					return FALSE;
-				}
+		// Now just run the necessary migrations
+		foreach ($pending as $number => $migration)
+		{
+			log_message('debug', 'Migrating '.$method.' from version '.$current_version.' to version '.$number);
 
-				log_message('debug', 'Migrating '.$method.' from version '.$current_version.' to version '.$number);
-				call_user_func(array($instance, $method));
-				$current_version = $number;
-				$this->_update_version($current_version);
-			}
+			$migration[0] = new $migration[0];
+			call_user_func($migration);
+			$current_version = $number;
+			$this->_update_version($current_version);
 		}
 
 		// This is necessary when moving down, since the the last migration applied
@@ -285,7 +317,6 @@ class CI_Migration {
 		}
 
 		log_message('debug', 'Finished migrating to '.$current_version);
-
 		return $current_version;
 	}
 
diff --git a/system/libraries/Pagination.php b/system/libraries/Pagination.php
index 5b3aa01f4..f26f8a4ed 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Pagination.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Pagination.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Pagination
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/pagination.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/pagination.html
  */
 class CI_Pagination {
 
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ class CI_Pagination {
 		{
 			$get = $this->CI->input->get();
 
-			// Unset the controll, method, old-school routing options
+			// Unset the control, method, old-school routing options
 			unset($get['c'], $get['m'], $get[$this->query_string_segment]);
 		}
 		else
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ class CI_Pagination {
 		{
 			$this->cur_page = $this->CI->input->get($this->query_string_segment);
 		}
-		else
+		elseif (empty($this->cur_page))
 		{
 			// Default to the last segment number if one hasn't been defined.
 			if ($this->uri_segment === 0)
@@ -513,6 +513,10 @@ class CI_Pagination {
 				$this->cur_page = str_replace(array($this->prefix, $this->suffix), '', $this->cur_page);
 			}
 		}
+		else
+		{
+			$this->cur_page = (string) $this->cur_page;
+		}
 
 		// If something isn't quite right, back to the default base page.
 		if ( ! ctype_digit($this->cur_page) OR ($this->use_page_numbers && (int) $this->cur_page === 0))
@@ -571,7 +575,7 @@ class CI_Pagination {
 		{
 			$i = ($this->use_page_numbers) ? $uri_page_number - 1 : $uri_page_number - $this->per_page;
 
-			$attributes = sprintf('%s %s="%d"', $this->_attributes, $this->data_page_attr, (int) $i);
+			$attributes = sprintf('%s %s="%d"', $this->_attributes, $this->data_page_attr, ($this->cur_page - 1));
 
 			if ($i === $base_page)
 			{
@@ -592,11 +596,11 @@ class CI_Pagination {
 		if ($this->display_pages !== FALSE)
 		{
 			// Write the digit links
-			for ($loop = $start -1; $loop <= $end; $loop++)
+			for ($loop = $start - 1; $loop <= $end; $loop++)
 			{
 				$i = ($this->use_page_numbers) ? $loop : ($loop * $this->per_page) - $this->per_page;
 
-				$attributes = sprintf('%s %s="%d"', $this->_attributes, $this->data_page_attr, (int) $i);
+				$attributes = sprintf('%s %s="%d"', $this->_attributes, $this->data_page_attr, $loop);
 
 				if ($i >= $base_page)
 				{
@@ -614,7 +618,7 @@ class CI_Pagination {
 					else
 					{
 						$append = $this->prefix.$i.$this->suffix;
-						$output .= $this->num_tag_open.'<a href="'.$base_url.$append.'"'.$attributes.$this->_attr_rel('start').'>'
+						$output .= $this->num_tag_open.'<a href="'.$base_url.$append.'"'.$attributes.'>'
 							.$loop.'</a>'.$this->num_tag_close;
 					}
 				}
@@ -626,7 +630,7 @@ class CI_Pagination {
 		{
 			$i = ($this->use_page_numbers) ? $this->cur_page + 1 : $this->cur_page * $this->per_page;
 
-			$attributes = sprintf('%s %s="%d"', $this->_attributes, $this->data_page_attr, (int) $i);
+			$attributes = sprintf('%s %s="%d"', $this->_attributes, $this->data_page_attr, $this->cur_page + 1);
 
 			$output .= $this->next_tag_open.'<a href="'.$base_url.$this->prefix.$i.$this->suffix.'"'.$attributes
 				.$this->_attr_rel('next').'>'.$this->next_link.'</a>'.$this->next_tag_close;
@@ -637,7 +641,7 @@ class CI_Pagination {
 		{
 			$i = ($this->use_page_numbers) ? $num_pages : ($num_pages * $this->per_page) - $this->per_page;
 
-			$attributes = sprintf('%s %s="%d"', $this->_attributes, $this->data_page_attr, (int) $i);
+			$attributes = sprintf('%s %s="%d"', $this->_attributes, $this->data_page_attr, $num_pages);
 
 			$output .= $this->last_tag_open.'<a href="'.$base_url.$this->prefix.$i.$this->suffix.'"'.$attributes.'>'
 				.$this->last_link.'</a>'.$this->last_tag_close;
diff --git a/system/libraries/Parser.php b/system/libraries/Parser.php
index 57981af95..fdd958b22 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Parser.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Parser.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Parser
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/parser.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/parser.html
  */
 class CI_Parser {
 
diff --git a/system/libraries/Profiler.php b/system/libraries/Profiler.php
index 1e464d8b0..e9e03cfe0 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Profiler.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Profiler.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Libraries
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/profiling.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/profiling.html
  */
 class CI_Profiler {
 
@@ -314,12 +314,14 @@ class CI_Profiler {
 
 			foreach ($_GET as $key => $val)
 			{
-				is_int($key) OR $key = "'".$key."'";
+				is_int($key) OR $key = "'".htmlspecialchars($key, ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'))."'";
+				$val = (is_array($val) OR is_object($val))
+					? '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars(print_r($val, TRUE), ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'))
+					: htmlspecialchars($val, ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'));
 
 				$output .= '<tr><td style="width:50%;color:#000;background-color:#ddd;padding:5px;">&#36;_GET['
 					.$key.']&nbsp;&nbsp; </td><td style="width:50%;padding:5px;color:#cd6e00;font-weight:normal;background-color:#ddd;">'
-					.((is_array($val) OR is_object($val)) ? '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(print_r($val, TRUE))).'</pre>' : htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($val)))
-					."</td></tr>\n";
+					.$val."</td></tr>\n";
 			}
 
 			$output .= "</table>\n";
@@ -352,36 +354,26 @@ class CI_Profiler {
 
 			foreach ($_POST as $key => $val)
 			{
-				is_int($key) OR $key = "'".$key."'";
+				is_int($key) OR $key = "'".htmlspecialchars($key, ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'))."'";
+				$val = (is_array($val) OR is_object($val))
+					? '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars(print_r($val, TRUE), ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'))
+					: htmlspecialchars($val, ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'));
 
 				$output .= '<tr><td style="width:50%;padding:5px;color:#000;background-color:#ddd;">&#36;_POST['
-					.$key.']&nbsp;&nbsp; </td><td style="width:50%;padding:5px;color:#009900;font-weight:normal;background-color:#ddd;">';
-
-				if (is_array($val) OR is_object($val))
-				{
-					$output .= '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(print_r($val, TRUE))).'</pre>';
-				}
-				else
-				{
-					$output .= htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($val));
-				}
-
-				$output .= "</td></tr>\n";
+					.$key.']&nbsp;&nbsp; </td><td style="width:50%;padding:5px;color:#009900;font-weight:normal;background-color:#ddd;">'
+					.$val."</td></tr>\n";
 			}
 
 			foreach ($_FILES as $key => $val)
 			{
-				is_int($key) OR $key = "'".$key."'";
+				is_int($key) OR $key = "'".htmlspecialchars($key, ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'))."'";
+				$val = (is_array($val) OR is_object($val))
+					? '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars(print_r($val, TRUE), ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'))
+					: htmlspecialchars($val, ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset'));
 
 				$output .= '<tr><td style="width:50%;padding:5px;color:#000;background-color:#ddd;">&#36;_FILES['
-					.$key.']&nbsp;&nbsp; </td><td style="width:50%;padding:5px;color:#009900;font-weight:normal;background-color:#ddd;">';
-
-				if (is_array($val) OR is_object($val))
-				{
-					$output .= '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(print_r($val, TRUE))).'</pre>';
-				}
-
-				$output .= "</td></tr>\n";
+					.$key.']&nbsp;&nbsp; </td><td style="width:50%;padding:5px;color:#009900;font-weight:normal;background-color:#ddd;">'
+					.$val."</td></tr>\n";
 			}
 
 			$output .= "</table>\n";
@@ -465,7 +457,7 @@ class CI_Profiler {
 
 		foreach (array('HTTP_ACCEPT', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'HTTP_CONNECTION', 'SERVER_PORT', 'SERVER_NAME', 'REMOTE_ADDR', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE', 'SCRIPT_NAME', 'REQUEST_METHOD',' HTTP_HOST', 'REMOTE_HOST', 'CONTENT_TYPE', 'SERVER_PROTOCOL', 'QUERY_STRING', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_DNT') as $header)
 		{
-			$val = isset($_SERVER[$header]) ? $_SERVER[$header] : '';
+			$val = isset($_SERVER[$header]) ? htmlspecialchars($_SERVER[$header], ENT_QUOTES, config_item('charset')) : '';
 			$output .= '<tr><td style="vertical-align:top;width:50%;padding:5px;color:#900;background-color:#ddd;">'
 				.$header.'&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td style="width:50%;padding:5px;color:#000;background-color:#ddd;">'.$val."</td></tr>\n";
 		}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/Session.php b/system/libraries/Session/Session.php
index 05a470d86..3e4865cd1 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Session/Session.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Session/Session.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 2.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Sessions
  * @author		Andrey Andreev
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
  */
 class CI_Session {
 
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ class CI_Session {
 
 	protected $_driver = 'files';
 	protected $_config;
+	protected $_sid_regexp;
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ class CI_Session {
 		// Note: BC workaround
 		elseif (config_item('sess_use_database'))
 		{
+			log_message('debug', 'Session: "sess_driver" is empty; using BC fallback to "sess_use_database".');
 			$this->_driver = 'database';
 		}
 
@@ -98,27 +100,12 @@ class CI_Session {
 
 		// Configuration ...
 		$this->_configure($params);
+		$this->_config['_sid_regexp'] = $this->_sid_regexp;
 
 		$class = new $class($this->_config);
 		if ($class instanceof SessionHandlerInterface)
 		{
-			if (is_php('5.4'))
-			{
-				session_set_save_handler($class, TRUE);
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				session_set_save_handler(
-					array($class, 'open'),
-					array($class, 'close'),
-					array($class, 'read'),
-					array($class, 'write'),
-					array($class, 'destroy'),
-					array($class, 'gc')
-				);
-
-				register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');
-			}
+			session_set_save_handler($class, TRUE);
 		}
 		else
 		{
@@ -130,7 +117,7 @@ class CI_Session {
 		if (isset($_COOKIE[$this->_config['cookie_name']])
 			&& (
 				! is_string($_COOKIE[$this->_config['cookie_name']])
-				OR ! preg_match('/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/', $_COOKIE[$this->_config['cookie_name']])
+				OR ! preg_match('#\A'.$this->_sid_regexp.'\z#', $_COOKIE[$this->_config['cookie_name']])
 			)
 		)
 		{
@@ -187,9 +174,6 @@ class CI_Session {
 	 */
 	protected function _ci_load_classes($driver)
 	{
-		// PHP 5.4 compatibility
-		interface_exists('SessionHandlerInterface', FALSE) OR require_once(BASEPATH.'libraries/Session/SessionHandlerInterface.php');
-
 		$prefix = config_item('subclass_prefix');
 
 		if ( ! class_exists('CI_Session_driver', FALSE))
@@ -231,7 +215,7 @@ class CI_Session {
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ( ! class_exists($prefix.$class) && file_exists($file_path = APPPATH.'libraries/Session/drivers/'.$prefix.$class.'.php'))
+		if ( ! class_exists($prefix.$class, FALSE) && file_exists($file_path = APPPATH.'libraries/Session/drivers/'.$prefix.$class.'.php'))
 		{
 			require_once($file_path);
 			if (class_exists($prefix.$class, FALSE))
@@ -314,8 +298,82 @@ class CI_Session {
 		ini_set('session.use_strict_mode', 1);
 		ini_set('session.use_cookies', 1);
 		ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', 1);
-		ini_set('session.hash_function', 1);
-		ini_set('session.hash_bits_per_character', 4);
+
+		$this->_configure_sid_length();
+	}
+
+	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Configure session ID length
+	 *
+	 * To make life easier, we used to force SHA-1 and 4 bits per
+	 * character on everyone. And of course, someone was unhappy.
+	 *
+	 * Then PHP 7.1 broke backwards-compatibility because ext/session
+	 * is such a mess that nobody wants to touch it with a pole stick,
+	 * and the one guy who does, nobody has the energy to argue with.
+	 *
+	 * So we were forced to make changes, and OF COURSE something was
+	 * going to break and now we have this pile of shit. -- Narf
+	 *
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	protected function _configure_sid_length()
+	{
+		if (PHP_VERSION_ID < 70100)
+		{
+			$hash_function = ini_get('session.hash_function');
+			if (ctype_digit($hash_function))
+			{
+				if ($hash_function !== '1')
+				{
+					ini_set('session.hash_function', 1);
+				}
+
+				$bits = 160;
+			}
+			elseif ( ! in_array($hash_function, hash_algos(), TRUE))
+			{
+				ini_set('session.hash_function', 1);
+				$bits = 160;
+			}
+			elseif (($bits = strlen(hash($hash_function, 'dummy', false)) * 4) < 160)
+			{
+				ini_set('session.hash_function', 1);
+				$bits = 160;
+			}
+
+			$bits_per_character = (int) ini_get('session.hash_bits_per_character');
+			$sid_length         = (int) ceil($bits / $bits_per_character);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			$bits_per_character = (int) ini_get('session.sid_bits_per_character');
+			$sid_length         = (int) ini_get('session.sid_length');
+			if (($bits = $sid_length * $bits_per_character) < 160)
+			{
+				// Add as many more characters as necessary to reach at least 160 bits
+				$sid_length += (int) ceil((160 % $bits) / $bits_per_character);
+				ini_set('session.sid_length', $sid_length);
+			}
+		}
+
+		// Yes, 4,5,6 are the only known possible values as of 2016-10-27
+		switch ($bits_per_character)
+		{
+			case 4:
+				$this->_sid_regexp = '[0-9a-f]';
+				break;
+			case 5:
+				$this->_sid_regexp = '[0-9a-v]';
+				break;
+			case 6:
+				$this->_sid_regexp = '[0-9a-zA-Z,-]';
+				break;
+		}
+
+		$this->_sid_regexp .= '{'.$sid_length.'}';
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -584,6 +642,24 @@ class CI_Session {
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
+	 * __isset()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$key	'session_id' or a session data key
+	 * @return	bool
+	 */
+	public function __isset($key)
+	{
+		if ($key === 'session_id')
+		{
+			return (session_status() === PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE);
+		}
+
+		return isset($_SESSION[$key]);
+	}
+
+	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
 	 * __set()
 	 *
 	 * @param	string	$key	Session data key
@@ -711,7 +787,7 @@ class CI_Session {
 	 *
 	 * Legacy CI_Session compatibility method
 	 *
-	 * @param	mixed	$data	Session data key(s)
+	 * @param	mixed	$key	Session data key(s)
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
 	public function unset_userdata($key)
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/SessionHandlerInterface.php b/system/libraries/Session/SessionHandlerInterface.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 9dab5ac07..000000000
--- a/system/libraries/Session/SessionHandlerInterface.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * CodeIgniter
- *
- * An open source application development framework for PHP
- *
- * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
- * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
- * @since	Version 3.0.0
- * @filesource
- */
-defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
-
-/**
- * SessionHandlerInterface
- *
- * PHP 5.4 compatibility interface
- *
- * @package	CodeIgniter
- * @subpackage	Libraries
- * @category	Sessions
- * @author	Andrey Andreev
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
- */
-interface SessionHandlerInterface {
-
-	public function open($save_path, $name);
-	public function close();
-	public function read($session_id);
-	public function write($session_id, $session_data);
-	public function destroy($session_id);
-	public function gc($maxlifetime);
-}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/Session_driver.php b/system/libraries/Session/Session_driver.php
index 47376da5b..f32f14ae0 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Session/Session_driver.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Session/Session_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Sessions
  * @author	Andrey Andreev
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
  */
 abstract class CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandlerInterface {
 
@@ -74,6 +74,18 @@ abstract class CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandlerInterface {
 	 */
 	protected $_session_id;
 
+	/**
+	 * Success and failure return values
+	 *
+	 * Necessary due to a bug in all PHP 5 versions where return values
+	 * from userspace handlers are not handled properly. PHP 7 fixes the
+	 * bug, so we need to return different values depending on the version.
+	 *
+	 * @see	https://wiki.php.net/rfc/session.user.return-value
+	 * @var	mixed
+	 */
+	protected $_success, $_failure;
+
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
@@ -85,6 +97,17 @@ abstract class CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandlerInterface {
 	public function __construct(&$params)
 	{
 		$this->_config =& $params;
+
+		if (is_php('7'))
+		{
+			$this->_success = TRUE;
+			$this->_failure = FALSE;
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			$this->_success = 0;
+			$this->_failure = -1;
+		}
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -145,4 +168,24 @@ abstract class CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandlerInterface {
 		return TRUE;
 	}
 
+	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Fail
+	 *
+	 * Drivers other than the 'files' one don't (need to) use the
+	 * session.save_path INI setting, but that leads to confusing
+	 * error messages emitted by PHP when open() or write() fail,
+	 * as the message contains session.save_path ...
+	 * To work around the problem, the drivers will call this method
+	 * so that the INI is set just in time for the error message to
+	 * be properly generated.
+	 *
+	 * @return	mixed
+	 */
+	protected function _fail()
+	{
+		ini_set('session.save_path', config_item('sess_save_path'));
+		return $this->_failure;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_database_driver.php b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_database_driver.php
index 1d01c2923..31f5a4663 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_database_driver.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_database_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Sessions
  * @author	Andrey Andreev
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
  */
 class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandlerInterface {
 
@@ -109,7 +109,10 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 		}
 
 		// Note: BC work-around for the old 'sess_table_name' setting, should be removed in the future.
-		isset($this->_config['save_path']) OR $this->_config['save_path'] = config_item('sess_table_name');
+		if ( ! isset($this->_config['save_path']) && ($this->_config['save_path'] = config_item('sess_table_name')))
+		{
+			log_message('debug', 'Session: "sess_save_path" is empty; using BC fallback to "sess_table_name".');
+		}
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -125,9 +128,12 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 	 */
 	public function open($save_path, $name)
 	{
-		return empty($this->_db->conn_id)
-			? (bool) $this->_db->db_connect()
-			: TRUE;
+		if (empty($this->_db->conn_id) && ! $this->_db->db_connect())
+		{
+			return $this->_fail();
+		}
+
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -144,6 +150,9 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 	{
 		if ($this->_get_lock($session_id) !== FALSE)
 		{
+			// Prevent previous QB calls from messing with our queries
+			$this->_db->reset_query();
+
 			// Needed by write() to detect session_regenerate_id() calls
 			$this->_session_id = $session_id;
 
@@ -157,8 +166,12 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 				$this->_db->where('ip_address', $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
 			}
 
-			if (($result = $this->_db->get()->row()) === NULL)
+			if ( ! ($result = $this->_db->get()) OR ($result = $result->row()) === NULL)
 			{
+				// PHP7 will reuse the same SessionHandler object after
+				// ID regeneration, so we need to explicitly set this to
+				// FALSE instead of relying on the default ...
+				$this->_row_exists = FALSE;
 				$this->_fingerprint = md5('');
 				return '';
 			}
@@ -192,21 +205,24 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 	 */
 	public function write($session_id, $session_data)
 	{
+		// Prevent previous QB calls from messing with our queries
+		$this->_db->reset_query();
+
+		if ($this->_lock === FALSE)
+		{
+			return $this->_fail();
+		}
 		// Was the ID regenerated?
-		if ($session_id !== $this->_session_id)
+		elseif ($session_id !== $this->_session_id)
 		{
 			if ( ! $this->_release_lock() OR ! $this->_get_lock($session_id))
 			{
-				return FALSE;
+				return $this->_fail();
 			}
 
 			$this->_row_exists = FALSE;
 			$this->_session_id = $session_id;
 		}
-		elseif ($this->_lock === FALSE)
-		{
-			return FALSE;
-		}
 
 		if ($this->_row_exists === FALSE)
 		{
@@ -220,10 +236,11 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 			if ($this->_db->insert($this->_config['save_path'], $insert_data))
 			{
 				$this->_fingerprint = md5($session_data);
-				return $this->_row_exists = TRUE;
+				$this->_row_exists = TRUE;
+				return $this->_success;
 			}
 
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_fail();
 		}
 
 		$this->_db->where('id', $session_id);
@@ -243,10 +260,10 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 		if ($this->_db->update($this->_config['save_path'], $update_data))
 		{
 			$this->_fingerprint = md5($session_data);
-			return TRUE;
+			return $this->_success;
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -260,9 +277,9 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 	 */
 	public function close()
 	{
-		return ($this->_lock)
-			? $this->_release_lock()
-			: TRUE;
+		return ($this->_lock && ! $this->_release_lock())
+			? $this->_fail()
+			: $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -279,18 +296,28 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 	{
 		if ($this->_lock)
 		{
+			// Prevent previous QB calls from messing with our queries
+			$this->_db->reset_query();
+
 			$this->_db->where('id', $session_id);
 			if ($this->_config['match_ip'])
 			{
 				$this->_db->where('ip_address', $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
 			}
 
-			return $this->_db->delete($this->_config['save_path'])
-				? ($this->close() && $this->_cookie_destroy())
-				: FALSE;
+			if ( ! $this->_db->delete($this->_config['save_path']))
+			{
+				return $this->_fail();
+			}
 		}
 
-		return ($this->close() && $this->_cookie_destroy());
+		if ($this->close() === $this->_success)
+		{
+			$this->_cookie_destroy();
+			return $this->_success;
+		}
+
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -305,7 +332,12 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 	 */
 	public function gc($maxlifetime)
 	{
-		return $this->_db->delete($this->_config['save_path'], 'timestamp < '.(time() - $maxlifetime));
+		// Prevent previous QB calls from messing with our queries
+		$this->_db->reset_query();
+
+		return ($this->_db->delete($this->_config['save_path'], 'timestamp < '.(time() - $maxlifetime)))
+			? $this->_success
+			: $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -322,7 +354,7 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 	{
 		if ($this->_platform === 'mysql')
 		{
-			$arg = $session_id.($this->_config['match_ip'] ? '_'.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] : '');
+			$arg = md5($session_id.($this->_config['match_ip'] ? '_'.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] : ''));
 			if ($this->_db->query("SELECT GET_LOCK('".$arg."', 300) AS ci_session_lock")->row()->ci_session_lock)
 			{
 				$this->_lock = $arg;
@@ -385,5 +417,4 @@ class CI_Session_database_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHan
 
 		return parent::_release_lock();
 	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_files_driver.php b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_files_driver.php
index 45da91c46..6016e094e 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_files_driver.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_files_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
 */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Sessions
  * @author	Andrey Andreev
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
  */
 class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandlerInterface {
 
@@ -76,6 +76,20 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 	 */
 	protected $_file_new;
 
+	/**
+	 * Validate SID regular expression
+	 *
+	 * @var	string
+	 */
+	protected $_sid_regexp;
+
+	/**
+	 * mbstring.func_override flag
+	 *
+	 * @var	bool
+	 */
+	protected static $func_override;
+
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
@@ -95,8 +109,13 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 		}
 		else
 		{
+			log_message('debug', 'Session: "sess_save_path" is empty; using "session.save_path" value from php.ini.');
 			$this->_config['save_path'] = rtrim(ini_get('session.save_path'), '/\\');
 		}
+
+		$this->_sid_regexp = $this->_config['_sid_regexp'];
+
+		isset(self::$func_override) OR self::$func_override = (extension_loaded('mbstring') && ini_get('mbstring.func_override'));
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -129,7 +148,7 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 			.$name // we'll use the session cookie name as a prefix to avoid collisions
 			.($this->_config['match_ip'] ? md5($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) : '');
 
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -148,21 +167,12 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 		// which re-reads session data
 		if ($this->_file_handle === NULL)
 		{
-			// Just using fopen() with 'c+b' mode would be perfect, but it is only
-			// available since PHP 5.2.6 and we have to set permissions for new files,
-			// so we'd have to hack around this ...
-			if (($this->_file_new = ! file_exists($this->_file_path.$session_id)) === TRUE)
-			{
-				if (($this->_file_handle = fopen($this->_file_path.$session_id, 'w+b')) === FALSE)
-				{
-					log_message('error', "Session: File '".$this->_file_path.$session_id."' doesn't exist and cannot be created.");
-					return FALSE;
-				}
-			}
-			elseif (($this->_file_handle = fopen($this->_file_path.$session_id, 'r+b')) === FALSE)
+			$this->_file_new = ! file_exists($this->_file_path.$session_id);
+
+			if (($this->_file_handle = fopen($this->_file_path.$session_id, 'c+b')) === FALSE)
 			{
 				log_message('error', "Session: Unable to open file '".$this->_file_path.$session_id."'.");
-				return FALSE;
+				return $this->_failure;
 			}
 
 			if (flock($this->_file_handle, LOCK_EX) === FALSE)
@@ -170,7 +180,7 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 				log_message('error', "Session: Unable to obtain lock for file '".$this->_file_path.$session_id."'.");
 				fclose($this->_file_handle);
 				$this->_file_handle = NULL;
-				return FALSE;
+				return $this->_failure;
 			}
 
 			// Needed by write() to detect session_regenerate_id() calls
@@ -183,13 +193,19 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 				return '';
 			}
 		}
+		// We shouldn't need this, but apparently we do ...
+		// See https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4039
+		elseif ($this->_file_handle === FALSE)
+		{
+			return $this->_failure;
+		}
 		else
 		{
 			rewind($this->_file_handle);
 		}
 
 		$session_data = '';
-		for ($read = 0, $length = filesize($this->_file_path.$session_id); $read < $length; $read += strlen($buffer))
+		for ($read = 0, $length = filesize($this->_file_path.$session_id); $read < $length; $read += self::strlen($buffer))
 		{
 			if (($buffer = fread($this->_file_handle, $length - $read)) === FALSE)
 			{
@@ -218,20 +234,20 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 	{
 		// If the two IDs don't match, we have a session_regenerate_id() call
 		// and we need to close the old handle and open a new one
-		if ($session_id !== $this->_session_id && ( ! $this->close() OR $this->read($session_id) === FALSE))
+		if ($session_id !== $this->_session_id && ($this->close() === $this->_failure OR $this->read($session_id) === $this->_failure))
 		{
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_failure;
 		}
 
 		if ( ! is_resource($this->_file_handle))
 		{
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_failure;
 		}
 		elseif ($this->_fingerprint === md5($session_data))
 		{
-			return ($this->_file_new)
-				? TRUE
-				: touch($this->_file_path.$session_id);
+			return ( ! $this->_file_new && ! touch($this->_file_path.$session_id))
+				? $this->_failure
+				: $this->_success;
 		}
 
 		if ( ! $this->_file_new)
@@ -254,12 +270,12 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 			{
 				$this->_fingerprint = md5(substr($session_data, 0, $written));
 				log_message('error', 'Session: Unable to write data.');
-				return FALSE;
+				return $this->_failure;
 			}
 		}
 
 		$this->_fingerprint = md5($session_data);
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -279,10 +295,9 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 			fclose($this->_file_handle);
 
 			$this->_file_handle = $this->_file_new = $this->_session_id = NULL;
-			return TRUE;
 		}
 
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -297,21 +312,33 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 	 */
 	public function destroy($session_id)
 	{
-		if ($this->close())
+		if ($this->close() === $this->_success)
 		{
-			return file_exists($this->_file_path.$session_id)
-				? (unlink($this->_file_path.$session_id) && $this->_cookie_destroy())
-				: TRUE;
+			if (file_exists($this->_file_path.$session_id))
+			{
+				$this->_cookie_destroy();
+				return unlink($this->_file_path.$session_id)
+					? $this->_success
+					: $this->_failure;
+			}
+
+			return $this->_success;
 		}
 		elseif ($this->_file_path !== NULL)
 		{
 			clearstatcache();
-			return file_exists($this->_file_path.$session_id)
-				? (unlink($this->_file_path.$session_id) && $this->_cookie_destroy())
-				: TRUE;
+			if (file_exists($this->_file_path.$session_id))
+			{
+				$this->_cookie_destroy();
+				return unlink($this->_file_path.$session_id)
+					? $this->_success
+					: $this->_failure;
+			}
+
+			return $this->_success;
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_failure;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -329,15 +356,18 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 		if ( ! is_dir($this->_config['save_path']) OR ($directory = opendir($this->_config['save_path'])) === FALSE)
 		{
 			log_message('debug', "Session: Garbage collector couldn't list files under directory '".$this->_config['save_path']."'.");
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_failure;
 		}
 
 		$ts = time() - $maxlifetime;
 
+		$pattern = ($this->_config['match_ip'] === TRUE)
+			? '[0-9a-f]{32}'
+			: '';
+
 		$pattern = sprintf(
-			'/^%s[0-9a-f]{%d}$/',
-			preg_quote($this->_config['cookie_name'], '/'),
-			($this->_config['match_ip'] === TRUE ? 72 : 40)
+			'#\A%s'.$pattern.$this->_sid_regexp.'\z#',
+			preg_quote($this->_config['cookie_name'])
 		);
 
 		while (($file = readdir($directory)) !== FALSE)
@@ -356,7 +386,21 @@ class CI_Session_files_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 
 		closedir($directory);
 
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe strlen()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @return	int
+	 */
+	protected static function strlen($str)
+	{
+		return (self::$func_override)
+			? mb_strlen($str, '8bit')
+			: strlen($str);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_memcached_driver.php b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_memcached_driver.php
index 97b860588..2556bf0f7 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_memcached_driver.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_memcached_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Sessions
  * @author	Andrey Andreev
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
  */
 class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandlerInterface {
 
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 		{
 			$this->_memcached = NULL;
 			log_message('error', 'Session: Invalid Memcached save path format: '.$this->_config['save_path']);
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_fail();
 		}
 
 		foreach ($matches as $match)
@@ -142,10 +142,10 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 		if (empty($server_list))
 		{
 			log_message('error', 'Session: Memcached server pool is empty.');
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_fail();
 		}
 
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 			return $session_data;
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -186,40 +186,44 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 	 */
 	public function write($session_id, $session_data)
 	{
-		if ( ! isset($this->_memcached))
+		if ( ! isset($this->_memcached, $this->_lock_key))
 		{
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_fail();
 		}
 		// Was the ID regenerated?
 		elseif ($session_id !== $this->_session_id)
 		{
 			if ( ! $this->_release_lock() OR ! $this->_get_lock($session_id))
 			{
-				return FALSE;
+				return $this->_fail();
 			}
 
 			$this->_fingerprint = md5('');
 			$this->_session_id = $session_id;
 		}
 
-		if (isset($this->_lock_key))
+		$key = $this->_key_prefix.$session_id;
+
+		$this->_memcached->replace($this->_lock_key, time(), 300);
+		if ($this->_fingerprint !== ($fingerprint = md5($session_data)))
 		{
-			$this->_memcached->replace($this->_lock_key, time(), 300);
-			if ($this->_fingerprint !== ($fingerprint = md5($session_data)))
+			if ($this->_memcached->set($key, $session_data, $this->_config['expiration']))
 			{
-				if ($this->_memcached->set($this->_key_prefix.$session_id, $session_data, $this->_config['expiration']))
-				{
-					$this->_fingerprint = $fingerprint;
-					return TRUE;
-				}
-
-				return FALSE;
+				$this->_fingerprint = $fingerprint;
+				return $this->_success;
 			}
 
-			return $this->_memcached->touch($this->_key_prefix.$session_id, $this->_config['expiration']);
+			return $this->_fail();
+		}
+		elseif (
+			$this->_memcached->touch($key, $this->_config['expiration'])
+			OR ($this->_memcached->getResultCode() === Memcached::RES_NOTFOUND && $this->_memcached->set($key, $session_data, $this->_config['expiration']))
+		)
+		{
+			return $this->_success;
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -235,17 +239,17 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 	{
 		if (isset($this->_memcached))
 		{
-			isset($this->_lock_key) && $this->_memcached->delete($this->_lock_key);
+			$this->_release_lock();
 			if ( ! $this->_memcached->quit())
 			{
-				return FALSE;
+				return $this->_fail();
 			}
 
 			$this->_memcached = NULL;
-			return TRUE;
+			return $this->_success;
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -263,10 +267,11 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 		if (isset($this->_memcached, $this->_lock_key))
 		{
 			$this->_memcached->delete($this->_key_prefix.$session_id);
-			return $this->_cookie_destroy();
+			$this->_cookie_destroy();
+			return $this->_success;
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -282,7 +287,7 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 	public function gc($maxlifetime)
 	{
 		// Not necessary, Memcached takes care of that.
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -297,9 +302,17 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 	 */
 	protected function _get_lock($session_id)
 	{
-		if (isset($this->_lock_key))
+		// PHP 7 reuses the SessionHandler object on regeneration,
+		// so we need to check here if the lock key is for the
+		// correct session ID.
+		if ($this->_lock_key === $this->_key_prefix.$session_id.':lock')
 		{
-			return $this->_memcached->replace($this->_lock_key, time(), 300);
+			if ( ! $this->_memcached->replace($this->_lock_key, time(), 300))
+			{
+				return ($this->_memcached->getResultCode() === Memcached::RES_NOTFOUND)
+					? $this->_memcached->set($this->_lock_key, time(), 300)
+					: FALSE;
+			}
 		}
 
 		// 30 attempts to obtain a lock, in case another request already has it
@@ -359,5 +372,4 @@ class CI_Session_memcached_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHa
 
 		return TRUE;
 	}
-
 }
diff --git a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_redis_driver.php b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_redis_driver.php
index b098cc441..5313de04c 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_redis_driver.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Session/drivers/Session_redis_driver.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 3.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Sessions
  * @author	Andrey Andreev
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html
  */
 class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandlerInterface {
 
@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 	 */
 	protected $_lock_key;
 
+	/**
+	 * Key exists flag
+	 *
+	 * @var bool
+	 */
+	protected $_key_exists = FALSE;
+
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
@@ -85,27 +92,40 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 		{
 			log_message('error', 'Session: No Redis save path configured.');
 		}
-		elseif (preg_match('#(?:tcp://)?([^:?]+)(?:\:(\d+))?(\?.+)?#', $this->_config['save_path'], $matches))
+		elseif (preg_match('#^unix://([^\?]+)(?<options>\?.+)?$#', $this->_config['save_path'], $matches))
+		{
+			$save_path = array('path' => $matches[1]);
+		}
+		elseif (preg_match('#(?:tcp://)?([^:?]+)(?:\:(\d+))?(?<options>\?.+)?#', $this->_config['save_path'], $matches))
 		{
-			isset($matches[3]) OR $matches[3] = ''; // Just to avoid undefined index notices below
-			$this->_config['save_path'] = array(
-				'host' => $matches[1],
-				'port' => empty($matches[2]) ? NULL : $matches[2],
-				'password' => preg_match('#auth=([^\s&]+)#', $matches[3], $match) ? $match[1] : NULL,
-				'database' => preg_match('#database=(\d+)#', $matches[3], $match) ? (int) $match[1] : NULL,
-				'timeout' => preg_match('#timeout=(\d+\.\d+)#', $matches[3], $match) ? (float) $match[1] : NULL
+			$save_path = array(
+				'host'    => $matches[1],
+				'port'    => empty($matches[2]) ? NULL : $matches[2],
+				'timeout' => NULL // We always pass this to Redis::connect(), so it needs to exist
 			);
-
-			preg_match('#prefix=([^\s&]+)#', $matches[3], $match) && $this->_key_prefix = $match[1];
 		}
 		else
 		{
 			log_message('error', 'Session: Invalid Redis save path format: '.$this->_config['save_path']);
 		}
 
-		if ($this->_config['match_ip'] === TRUE)
+		if (isset($save_path))
 		{
-			$this->_key_prefix .= $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].':';
+			if (isset($matches['options']))
+			{
+				$save_path['password'] = preg_match('#auth=([^\s&]+)#', $matches['options'], $match) ? $match[1] : NULL;
+				$save_path['database'] = preg_match('#database=(\d+)#', $matches['options'], $match) ? (int) $match[1] : NULL;
+				$save_path['timeout']  = preg_match('#timeout=(\d+\.\d+)#', $matches['options'], $match) ? (float) $match[1] : NULL;
+
+				preg_match('#prefix=([^\s&]+)#', $matches['options'], $match) && $this->_key_prefix = $match[1];
+			}
+
+			$this->_config['save_path'] = $save_path;
+
+			if ($this->_config['match_ip'] === TRUE)
+			{
+				$this->_key_prefix .= $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].':';
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -124,29 +144,40 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 	{
 		if (empty($this->_config['save_path']))
 		{
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_fail();
 		}
 
 		$redis = new Redis();
-		if ( ! $redis->connect($this->_config['save_path']['host'], $this->_config['save_path']['port'], $this->_config['save_path']['timeout']))
-		{
-			log_message('error', 'Session: Unable to connect to Redis with the configured settings.');
-		}
-		elseif (isset($this->_config['save_path']['password']) && ! $redis->auth($this->_config['save_path']['password']))
-		{
-			log_message('error', 'Session: Unable to authenticate to Redis instance.');
-		}
-		elseif (isset($this->_config['save_path']['database']) && ! $redis->select($this->_config['save_path']['database']))
+		$connected = isset($this->_config['save_path']['path'])
+			? $redis->connect($this->_config['save_path']['path'])
+			: $redis->connect(
+				$this->_config['save_path']['host'],
+				$this->_config['save_path']['port'],
+				$this->_config['save_path']['timeout']
+			);
+
+		if ($connected)
 		{
-			log_message('error', 'Session: Unable to select Redis database with index '.$this->_config['save_path']['database']);
+			if (isset($this->_config['save_path']['password']) && ! $redis->auth($this->_config['save_path']['password']))
+			{
+				log_message('error', 'Session: Unable to authenticate to Redis instance.');
+			}
+			elseif (isset($this->_config['save_path']['database']) && ! $redis->select($this->_config['save_path']['database']))
+			{
+				log_message('error', 'Session: Unable to select Redis database with index '.$this->_config['save_path']['database']);
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$this->_redis = $redis;
+				return $this->_success;
+			}
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			$this->_redis = $redis;
-			return TRUE;
+			log_message('error', 'Session: Unable to connect to Redis with the configured settings.');
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -166,12 +197,17 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 			// Needed by write() to detect session_regenerate_id() calls
 			$this->_session_id = $session_id;
 
-			$session_data = (string) $this->_redis->get($this->_key_prefix.$session_id);
+			$session_data = $this->_redis->get($this->_key_prefix.$session_id);
+
+			is_string($session_data)
+				? $this->_key_exists = TRUE
+				: $session_data = '';
+
 			$this->_fingerprint = md5($session_data);
 			return $session_data;
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -187,40 +223,38 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 	 */
 	public function write($session_id, $session_data)
 	{
-		if ( ! isset($this->_redis))
+		if ( ! isset($this->_redis, $this->_lock_key))
 		{
-			return FALSE;
+			return $this->_fail();
 		}
 		// Was the ID regenerated?
 		elseif ($session_id !== $this->_session_id)
 		{
 			if ( ! $this->_release_lock() OR ! $this->_get_lock($session_id))
 			{
-				return FALSE;
+				return $this->_fail();
 			}
 
-			$this->_fingerprint = md5('');
+			$this->_key_exists = FALSE;
 			$this->_session_id = $session_id;
 		}
 
-		if (isset($this->_lock_key))
+		$this->_redis->setTimeout($this->_lock_key, 300);
+		if ($this->_fingerprint !== ($fingerprint = md5($session_data)) OR $this->_key_exists === FALSE)
 		{
-			$this->_redis->setTimeout($this->_lock_key, 300);
-			if ($this->_fingerprint !== ($fingerprint = md5($session_data)))
+			if ($this->_redis->set($this->_key_prefix.$session_id, $session_data, $this->_config['expiration']))
 			{
-				if ($this->_redis->set($this->_key_prefix.$session_id, $session_data, $this->_config['expiration']))
-				{
-					$this->_fingerprint = $fingerprint;
-					return TRUE;
-				}
-
-				return FALSE;
+				$this->_fingerprint = $fingerprint;
+				$this->_key_exists = TRUE;
+				return $this->_success;
 			}
 
-			return $this->_redis->setTimeout($this->_key_prefix.$session_id, $this->_config['expiration']);
+			return $this->_fail();
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return ($this->_redis->setTimeout($this->_key_prefix.$session_id, $this->_config['expiration']))
+			? $this->_success
+			: $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -239,10 +273,10 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 			try {
 				if ($this->_redis->ping() === '+PONG')
 				{
-					isset($this->_lock_key) && $this->_redis->delete($this->_lock_key);
-					if ( ! $this->_redis->close())
+					$this->_release_lock();
+					if ($this->_redis->close() === FALSE)
 					{
-						return FALSE;
+						return $this->_fail();
 					}
 				}
 			}
@@ -252,10 +286,10 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 			}
 
 			$this->_redis = NULL;
-			return TRUE;
+			return $this->_success;
 		}
 
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -277,10 +311,11 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 				log_message('debug', 'Session: Redis::delete() expected to return 1, got '.var_export($result, TRUE).' instead.');
 			}
 
-			return $this->_cookie_destroy();
+			$this->_cookie_destroy();
+			return $this->_success;
 		}
 
-		return FALSE;
+		return $this->_fail();
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -296,7 +331,7 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 	public function gc($maxlifetime)
 	{
 		// Not necessary, Redis takes care of that.
-		return TRUE;
+		return $this->_success;
 	}
 
 	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -311,7 +346,10 @@ class CI_Session_redis_driver extends CI_Session_driver implements SessionHandle
 	 */
 	protected function _get_lock($session_id)
 	{
-		if (isset($this->_lock_key))
+		// PHP 7 reuses the SessionHandler object on regeneration,
+		// so we need to check here if the lock key is for the
+		// correct session ID.
+		if ($this->_lock_key === $this->_key_prefix.$session_id.':lock')
 		{
 			return $this->_redis->setTimeout($this->_lock_key, 300);
 		}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Table.php b/system/libraries/Table.php
index 2d9823093..dc309890b 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Table.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Table.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.1
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	HTML Tables
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/table.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/table.html
  */
 class CI_Table {
 
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ class CI_Table {
 	public function set_caption($caption)
 	{
 		$this->caption = $caption;
+		return $this;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -426,6 +427,7 @@ class CI_Table {
 		$this->rows = array();
 		$this->heading = array();
 		$this->auto_heading = TRUE;
+		$this->caption = NULL;
 		return $this;
 	}
 
diff --git a/system/libraries/Trackback.php b/system/libraries/Trackback.php
index 23bdbbd58..55e9a0ee6 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Trackback.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Trackback.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Trackbacks
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/trackback.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/trackback.html
  */
 class CI_Trackback {
 
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ class CI_Trackback {
 	{
 		$url = trim($url);
 
-		if (strpos($url, 'http') !== 0)
+		if (stripos($url, 'http') !== 0)
 		{
 			$url = 'http://'.$url;
 		}
diff --git a/system/libraries/Typography.php b/system/libraries/Typography.php
index 3b6cb1645..b25d8fdaa 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Typography.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Typography.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Helpers
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/typography.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/typography.html
  */
 class CI_Typography {
 
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class CI_Typography {
 						// Clean up stray paragraph tags that appear before block level elements
 						'#<p></p><('.$this->block_elements.')#'	=> '<$1',
 
-						// Clean up stray non-breaking spaces preceeding block elements
+						// Clean up stray non-breaking spaces preceding block elements
 						'#(&nbsp;\s*)+<('.$this->block_elements.')#'	=> '  <$2',
 
 						// Replace the temporary markers we added earlier
diff --git a/system/libraries/Unit_test.php b/system/libraries/Unit_test.php
index 3f986f3e8..38e0fbd24 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Unit_test.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Unit_test.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.3.1
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	UnitTesting
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/unit_testing.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/unit_testing.html
  */
 class CI_Unit_test {
 
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ class CI_Unit_test {
 
 		if (in_array($expected, array('is_object', 'is_string', 'is_bool', 'is_true', 'is_false', 'is_int', 'is_numeric', 'is_float', 'is_double', 'is_array', 'is_null', 'is_resource'), TRUE))
 		{
-			$expected = str_replace('is_double', 'is_float', $expected);
 			$result = $expected($test);
 			$extype = str_replace(array('true', 'false'), 'bool', str_replace('is_', '', $expected));
 		}
@@ -291,7 +290,7 @@ class CI_Unit_test {
 				{
 					continue;
 				}
-				elseif (in_array($key, array('test_name', 'test_datatype', 'test_res_datatype', 'result'), TRUE))
+				elseif (in_array($key, array('test_name', 'test_datatype', 'res_datatype', 'result'), TRUE))
 				{
 					if (FALSE !== ($line = $CI->lang->line(strtolower('ut_'.$val), FALSE)))
 					{
diff --git a/system/libraries/Upload.php b/system/libraries/Upload.php
index 8a2dec76a..3a1731e58 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Upload.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Upload.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Uploads
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/file_uploading.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/file_uploading.html
  */
 class CI_Upload {
 
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ class CI_Upload {
 	/**
 	 * Constructor
 	 *
-	 * @param	array	$props
+	 * @param	array	$config
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
 	public function __construct($config = array())
@@ -526,6 +526,12 @@ class CI_Upload {
 			$this->file_name = preg_replace('/\s+/', '_', $this->file_name);
 		}
 
+		if ($this->file_ext_tolower && ($ext_length = strlen($this->file_ext)))
+		{
+			// file_ext was previously lower-cased by a get_extension() call
+			$this->file_name = substr($this->file_name, 0, -$ext_length).$this->file_ext;
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Validate the file name
 		 * This function appends an number onto the end of
@@ -595,7 +601,7 @@ class CI_Upload {
 				'file_type'		=> $this->file_type,
 				'file_path'		=> $this->upload_path,
 				'full_path'		=> $this->upload_path.$this->file_name,
-				'raw_name'		=> str_replace($this->file_ext, '', $this->file_name),
+				'raw_name'		=> substr($this->file_name, 0, -strlen($this->file_ext)),
 				'orig_name'		=> $this->orig_name,
 				'client_name'		=> $this->client_name,
 				'file_ext'		=> $this->file_ext,
@@ -1077,16 +1083,27 @@ class CI_Upload {
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		if (memory_get_usage() && ($memory_limit = ini_get('memory_limit')))
+		if (memory_get_usage() && ($memory_limit = ini_get('memory_limit')) > 0)
 		{
-			$memory_limit *= 1024 * 1024;
-
-			// There was a bug/behavioural change in PHP 5.2, where numbers over one million get output
-			// into scientific notation. number_format() ensures this number is an integer
-			// http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43053
-
-			$memory_limit = number_format(ceil(filesize($file) + $memory_limit), 0, '.', '');
+			$memory_limit = str_split($memory_limit, strspn($memory_limit, '1234567890'));
+			if ( ! empty($memory_limit[1]))
+			{
+				switch ($memory_limit[1][0])
+				{
+					case 'g':
+					case 'G':
+						$memory_limit[0] *= 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+						break;
+					case 'm':
+					case 'M':
+						$memory_limit[0] *= 1024 * 1024;
+						break;
+					default:
+						break;
+				}
+			}
 
+			$memory_limit = (int) ceil(filesize($file) + $memory_limit[0]);
 			ini_set('memory_limit', $memory_limit); // When an integer is used, the value is measured in bytes. - PHP.net
 		}
 
@@ -1201,10 +1218,13 @@ class CI_Upload {
 		// We'll need this to validate the MIME info string (e.g. text/plain; charset=us-ascii)
 		$regexp = '/^([a-z\-]+\/[a-z0-9\-\.\+]+)(;\s.+)?$/';
 
-		/* Fileinfo extension - most reliable method
+		/**
+		 * Fileinfo extension - most reliable method
 		 *
-		 * Unfortunately, prior to PHP 5.3 - it's only available as a PECL extension and the
-		 * more convenient FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE flag doesn't exist.
+		 * Apparently XAMPP, CentOS, cPanel and who knows what
+		 * other PHP distribution channels EXPLICITLY DISABLE
+		 * ext/fileinfo, which is otherwise enabled by default
+		 * since PHP 5.3 ...
 		 */
 		if (function_exists('finfo_file'))
 		{
@@ -1239,9 +1259,7 @@ class CI_Upload {
 		 */
 		if (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR !== '\\')
 		{
-			$cmd = function_exists('escapeshellarg')
-				? 'file --brief --mime '.escapeshellarg($file['tmp_name']).' 2>&1'
-				: 'file --brief --mime '.$file['tmp_name'].' 2>&1';
+			$cmd = 'file --brief --mime '.escapeshellarg($file['tmp_name']).' 2>&1';
 
 			if (function_usable('exec'))
 			{
@@ -1258,7 +1276,7 @@ class CI_Upload {
 				}
 			}
 
-			if ( ! ini_get('safe_mode') && function_usable('shell_exec'))
+			if (function_usable('shell_exec'))
 			{
 				$mime = @shell_exec($cmd);
 				if (strlen($mime) > 0)
diff --git a/system/libraries/User_agent.php b/system/libraries/User_agent.php
index 53d932a53..cda3ef0a0 100644
--- a/system/libraries/User_agent.php
+++ b/system/libraries/User_agent.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	User Agent
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/user_agent.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/user_agent.html
  */
 class CI_User_agent {
 
@@ -173,13 +173,11 @@ class CI_User_agent {
 	 */
 	public function __construct()
 	{
+		$this->_load_agent_file();
+
 		if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
 		{
 			$this->agent = trim($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
-		}
-
-		if ($this->agent !== NULL && $this->_load_agent_file())
-		{
 			$this->_compile_data();
 		}
 
diff --git a/system/libraries/Xmlrpc.php b/system/libraries/Xmlrpc.php
index 55555f56f..e025c4508 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Xmlrpc.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Xmlrpc.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('xml_parser_create'))
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	XML-RPC
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
  */
 class CI_Xmlrpc {
 
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ class CI_Xmlrpc {
 	public $result;
 
 	/**
-	 * XML-RPC Reponse
+	 * XML-RPC Response
 	 *
 	 * @var	array
 	 */
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ class CI_Xmlrpc {
 	 */
 	public function server($url, $port = 80, $proxy = FALSE, $proxy_port = 8080)
 	{
-		if (strpos($url, 'http') !== 0)
+		if (stripos($url, 'http') !== 0)
 		{
 			$url = 'http://'.$url;
 		}
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ class CI_Xmlrpc {
  *
  * @category	XML-RPC
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
  */
 class XML_RPC_Client extends CI_Xmlrpc
 {
@@ -735,6 +735,8 @@ class XML_RPC_Client extends CI_Xmlrpc
 			.'Content-Length: '.strlen($msg->payload).$r.$r
 			.$msg->payload;
 
+		stream_set_timeout($fp, $this->timeout); // set timeout for subsequent operations
+
 		for ($written = $timestamp = 0, $length = strlen($op); $written < $length; $written += $result)
 		{
 			if (($result = fwrite($fp, substr($op, $written))) === FALSE)
@@ -753,9 +755,6 @@ class XML_RPC_Client extends CI_Xmlrpc
 					$result = FALSE;
 					break;
 				}
-
-				usleep(250000);
-				continue;
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -781,7 +780,7 @@ class XML_RPC_Client extends CI_Xmlrpc
  *
  * @category	XML-RPC
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
  */
 class XML_RPC_Response
 {
@@ -837,9 +836,7 @@ class XML_RPC_Response
 		{
 			// error
 			$this->errno = $code;
-			$this->errstr = htmlspecialchars($fstr,
-							(is_php('5.4') ? ENT_XML1 | ENT_NOQUOTES : ENT_NOQUOTES),
-							'UTF-8');
+			$this->errstr = htmlspecialchars($fstr, ENT_XML1 | ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8');
 		}
 		elseif ( ! is_object($val))
 		{
@@ -1030,7 +1027,7 @@ class XML_RPC_Response
  *
  * @category	XML-RPC
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
  */
 class XML_RPC_Message extends CI_Xmlrpc
 {
@@ -1649,7 +1646,7 @@ class XML_RPC_Message extends CI_Xmlrpc
  *
  * @category	XML-RPC
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
  */
 class XML_RPC_Values extends CI_Xmlrpc
 {
diff --git a/system/libraries/Xmlrpcs.php b/system/libraries/Xmlrpcs.php
index 00d1feca6..21de937c8 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Xmlrpcs.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Xmlrpcs.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ if ( ! class_exists('CI_Xmlrpc', FALSE))
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	XML-RPC
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/xmlrpc.html
  */
 class CI_Xmlrpcs extends CI_Xmlrpc {
 
@@ -339,11 +339,11 @@ class CI_Xmlrpcs extends CI_Xmlrpc {
 		//-------------------------------------
 
 		$method_parts = explode('.', $this->methods[$methName]['function']);
-		$objectCall = (isset($method_parts[1]) && $method_parts[1] !== '');
+		$objectCall   = ! empty($method_parts[1]);
 
 		if ($system_call === TRUE)
 		{
-			if ( ! is_callable(array($this,$method_parts[1])))
+			if ( ! is_callable(array($this, $method_parts[1])))
 			{
 				return new XML_RPC_Response(0, $this->xmlrpcerr['unknown_method'], $this->xmlrpcstr['unknown_method']);
 			}
@@ -400,11 +400,11 @@ class CI_Xmlrpcs extends CI_Xmlrpc {
 			}
 			elseif ($this->object === FALSE)
 			{
-				return get_instance()->$method_parts[1]($m);
+				return get_instance()->{$method_parts[1]}($m);
 			}
 			else
 			{
-				return $this->object->$method_parts[1]($m);
+				return $this->object->{$method_parts[1]}($m);
 			}
 		}
 		else
diff --git a/system/libraries/Zip.php b/system/libraries/Zip.php
index 3e98ac568..d6974b13a 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Zip.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Zip.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
  *
  * @package	CodeIgniter
  * @author	EllisLab Dev Team
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
- * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (https://ellislab.com/)
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
  * @license	http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT	MIT License
- * @link	http://codeigniter.com
+ * @link	https://codeigniter.com
  * @since	Version 1.0.0
  * @filesource
  */
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  * @subpackage	Libraries
  * @category	Encryption
  * @author		EllisLab Dev Team
- * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/zip.html
+ * @link		https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/zip.html
  */
 class CI_Zip {
 
@@ -106,12 +106,21 @@ class CI_Zip {
 	public $compression_level = 2;
 
 	/**
+	 * mbstring.func_override flag
+	 *
+	 * @var	bool
+	 */
+	protected static $func_override;
+
+	/**
 	 * Initialize zip compression class
 	 *
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
 	public function __construct()
 	{
+		isset(self::$func_override) OR self::$func_override = (extension_loaded('mbstring') && ini_get('mbstring.func_override'));
+
 		$this->now = time();
 		log_message('info', 'Zip Compression Class Initialized');
 	}
@@ -182,7 +191,7 @@ class CI_Zip {
 			.pack('V', 0) // crc32
 			.pack('V', 0) // compressed filesize
 			.pack('V', 0) // uncompressed filesize
-			.pack('v', strlen($dir)) // length of pathname
+			.pack('v', self::strlen($dir)) // length of pathname
 			.pack('v', 0) // extra field length
 			.$dir
 			// below is "data descriptor" segment
@@ -197,7 +206,7 @@ class CI_Zip {
 			.pack('V',0) // crc32
 			.pack('V',0) // compressed filesize
 			.pack('V',0) // uncompressed filesize
-			.pack('v', strlen($dir)) // length of pathname
+			.pack('v', self::strlen($dir)) // length of pathname
 			.pack('v', 0) // extra field length
 			.pack('v', 0) // file comment length
 			.pack('v', 0) // disk number start
@@ -206,7 +215,7 @@ class CI_Zip {
 			.pack('V', $this->offset) // relative offset of local header
 			.$dir;
 
-		$this->offset = strlen($this->zipdata);
+		$this->offset = self::strlen($this->zipdata);
 		$this->entries++;
 	}
 
@@ -255,10 +264,10 @@ class CI_Zip {
 	{
 		$filepath = str_replace('\\', '/', $filepath);
 
-		$uncompressed_size = strlen($data);
+		$uncompressed_size = self::strlen($data);
 		$crc32  = crc32($data);
-		$gzdata = substr(gzcompress($data, $this->compression_level), 2, -4);
-		$compressed_size = strlen($gzdata);
+		$gzdata = self::substr(gzcompress($data, $this->compression_level), 2, -4);
+		$compressed_size = self::strlen($gzdata);
 
 		$this->zipdata .=
 			"\x50\x4b\x03\x04\x14\x00\x00\x00\x08\x00"
@@ -267,7 +276,7 @@ class CI_Zip {
 			.pack('V', $crc32)
 			.pack('V', $compressed_size)
 			.pack('V', $uncompressed_size)
-			.pack('v', strlen($filepath)) // length of filename
+			.pack('v', self::strlen($filepath)) // length of filename
 			.pack('v', 0) // extra field length
 			.$filepath
 			.$gzdata; // "file data" segment
@@ -279,7 +288,7 @@ class CI_Zip {
 			.pack('V', $crc32)
 			.pack('V', $compressed_size)
 			.pack('V', $uncompressed_size)
-			.pack('v', strlen($filepath)) // length of filename
+			.pack('v', self::strlen($filepath)) // length of filename
 			.pack('v', 0) // extra field length
 			.pack('v', 0) // file comment length
 			.pack('v', 0) // disk number start
@@ -288,7 +297,7 @@ class CI_Zip {
 			.pack('V', $this->offset) // relative offset of local header
 			.$filepath;
 
-		$this->offset = strlen($this->zipdata);
+		$this->offset = self::strlen($this->zipdata);
 		$this->entries++;
 		$this->file_num++;
 	}
@@ -401,8 +410,8 @@ class CI_Zip {
 			.$this->directory."\x50\x4b\x05\x06\x00\x00\x00\x00"
 			.pack('v', $this->entries) // total # of entries "on this disk"
 			.pack('v', $this->entries) // total # of entries overall
-			.pack('V', strlen($this->directory)) // size of central dir
-			.pack('V', strlen($this->zipdata)) // offset to start of central dir
+			.pack('V', self::strlen($this->directory)) // size of central dir
+			.pack('V', self::strlen($this->zipdata)) // offset to start of central dir
 			."\x00\x00"; // .zip file comment length
 	}
 
@@ -425,9 +434,9 @@ class CI_Zip {
 
 		flock($fp, LOCK_EX);
 
-		for ($result = $written = 0, $data = $this->get_zip(), $length = strlen($data); $written < $length; $written += $result)
+		for ($result = $written = 0, $data = $this->get_zip(), $length = self::strlen($data); $written < $length; $written += $result)
 		{
-			if (($result = fwrite($fp, substr($data, $written))) === FALSE)
+			if (($result = fwrite($fp, self::substr($data, $written))) === FALSE)
 			{
 				break;
 			}
@@ -481,4 +490,40 @@ class CI_Zip {
 		return $this;
 	}
 
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe strlen()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @return	int
+	 */
+	protected static function strlen($str)
+	{
+		return (self::$func_override)
+			? mb_strlen($str, '8bit')
+			: strlen($str);
+	}
+
+	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	/**
+	 * Byte-safe substr()
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$str
+	 * @param	int	$start
+	 * @param	int	$length
+	 * @return	string
+	 */
+	protected static function substr($str, $start, $length = NULL)
+	{
+		if (self::$func_override)
+		{
+			return mb_substr($str, $start, $length, '8bit');
+		}
+
+		return isset($length)
+			? substr($str, $start, $length)
+			: substr($str, $start);
+	}
 }