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PHP 5.5 has deprecated call-time pass-by-reference, but many packages still use it for input validation and other purposes. These will need to be cleaned up as they are found.

I added a post to the forum describing how to fix it for other package maintainers to use as a reference:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=76632.0

Many of the fixes will be simple, but the ones using the pfSense function do_input_validation() will be more problematic as they will require a version test to ensure the package calls the correct version for the platform it's being run upon. On 2.0.x and before the function definition in pfSense does not include a reference, on 2.1 and later it does.