diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index c35c7c80..01f7d05c 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ language: php
 # the current Travis VMs are based on Ubuntu Trusty. Alas, those do not have php 5.3 available. So we keep using Precise...
 dist: precise
 
-# NB: we need to use the Trusty images if we want to test on hhvm
-#dist: trusty
-
 php:
   - 5.3
   - 5.4
@@ -14,8 +11,7 @@ php:
   - 7.0
   - 7.1
   - 7.2
-  # hhvm is not available any more on Precise images
-  #- hhvm
+  - 7.3
 
 before_install:
   # This is mandatory or the 'apt-get install' calls following will fail
@@ -28,13 +24,11 @@ install:
   - composer self-update && composer install
 
 before_script:
-  # Disable xdebug. NB: this should NOT be done for hhvm...
-  - if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm" ]; then phpenv config-rm xdebug.ini; fi
-
+  # Disable xdebug
+  - phpenv config-rm xdebug.ini
 
   # Set up Apache and Privoxy instances inside the Travis VM and use them for testing against
-  - if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm" ]; then ./test/ci/travis/setup_php_fpm.sh; ./test/ci/travis/setup_apache.sh; fi
-  - if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" = "hhvm" ]; then ./test/ci/travis/setup_hhvm.sh; ./test/ci/travis/setup_apache_hhvm.sh; fi
+  - ./test/ci/travis/setup_php_fpm.sh; ./test/ci/travis/setup_apache.sh
   - ./test/ci/travis/setup_privoxy.sh
 
 script:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5716d291..e64c020f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
+XML-RPC for PHP version 3.1.2 - 2019/5/27
+
+This release makes the library compatible with php 7.2 by removing one more deprecation warning.
+*NB* moving to version 4 of the library is the recommended option unless you absolutely can not upgrade, as it comes
+with many improvements and is fully API compatible with version 3.
+
+
 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.1.1 - 2018/4/7
 
-This release makes the library compatible with php 7.2 by removing the deprecation warnings.
+This release makes the library compatible with php 7.2 by removing some deprecation warnings.
 *NB* moving to version 4 of the library is the recommended option unless you absolutely can not upgrade, as it comes
-with many improvements.
+with many improvements and is fully API compatible with version 3.
 
 
 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.1.0 - 2017/7/1
 
 This release makes the library compatible with php 7 by removing the deprecation warnings.
 *NB* moving to version 4 of the library is the recommended option unless you absolutely can not upgrade, as it comes
-with many improvements.
+with many improvements and is fully API compatible with version 3.
 
 The only other changes are:
 
@@ -18,7 +25,6 @@ The only other changes are:
 
 
 XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.1 - 2015/4/18
-3
 This release corrects all bugs that have been reported and successfully reproduced since
 version 3.0.0:
 
diff --git a/lib/xmlrpc.inc b/lib/xmlrpc.inc
index 829a92d5..13bcdfcc 100644
--- a/lib/xmlrpc.inc
+++ b/lib/xmlrpc.inc
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
 	$GLOBALS['xmlrpc_internalencoding']='ISO-8859-1';
 
 	$GLOBALS['xmlrpcName']='XML-RPC for PHP';
-	$GLOBALS['xmlrpcVersion']='3.1.1';
+	$GLOBALS['xmlrpcVersion']='3.1.2';
 
 	// let user errors start at 800
 	$GLOBALS['xmlrpcerruser']=800;
@@ -2165,7 +2165,7 @@ xmlrpc_encode_entitites($this->errstr, $GLOBALS['xmlrpc_internalencoding'], $cha
 			}
 		}
 
-				/**
+		/**
 		* @deprecated
 		*/
 		function xmlrpcmsg($meth, $pars=0)
@@ -2968,7 +2968,7 @@ xmlrpc_encode_entitites($this->errstr, $GLOBALS['xmlrpc_internalencoding'], $cha
 		}
 
 		// poor man's version of print_r ???
-		// DEPRECATED!
+		/// @deprecated
 		function dump($ar)
 		{
 			foreach($ar as $key => $val)
@@ -3128,7 +3128,7 @@ xmlrpc_encode_entitites($this->errstr, $GLOBALS['xmlrpc_internalencoding'], $cha
 			//}
 		}
 
-		// DEPRECATED
+		/// @deprecated
 		function serializeval($o)
 		{
 			// add check? slower, but helps to avoid recursion in serializing broken xmlrpcvals...
@@ -3177,19 +3177,20 @@ xmlrpc_encode_entitites($this->errstr, $GLOBALS['xmlrpc_internalencoding'], $cha
 		* Return next member element for xmlrpcvals of type struct.
 		* @return xmlrpcval
 		* @access public
+		* @deprecated this will be removed in future versions
 		*/
 		function structeach()
 		{
-			return each($this->me['struct']);
+			return @each($this->me['struct']);
 		}
 
-		// DEPRECATED! this code looks like it is very fragile and has not been fixed
+		// this code looks like it is very fragile and has not been fixed
 		// for a long long time. Shall we remove it for 2.0?
+		/// @deprecated
 		function getval()
 		{
 			// UNSTABLE
 			$b = reset($this->me);
-			$a = key($this->me);
 			// contributed by I Sofer, 2001-03-24
 			// add support for nested arrays to scalarval
 			// i've created a new method here, so as to
diff --git a/lib/xmlrpcs.inc b/lib/xmlrpcs.inc
index 24cba8c2..a623adb2 100644
--- a/lib/xmlrpcs.inc
+++ b/lib/xmlrpcs.inc
@@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@
 
 		/**
 		* A debugging routine: just echoes back the input packet as a string value
-		* DEPRECATED!
+		* @deprecated
 		*/
 		function echoInput()
 		{