[PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0b3 Win32 binaries released From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 11/18/99

I just posted Win32 CGI & ISAPI binaries for PHP 4 Beta 3.
A MySQL module will follow in the next couple of days.

Andi

At 02:11 PM 11/17/99 +0100, Stig Bakken wrote:
>After three more months of development, PHP 4.0b3 is released. The
>highlights are Java support, new build system (for UNIX), support for
>multi-dimensional get/post/cookie data, object (de)serialization,
>AOLserver support and a new and faster way of passing function parameters
>is now used by the bundled extensions. There is of course a ton of other
>bux fixes and improvements too.
>
>Get it from http://www.php.net/version4/downloads.php
>
> >From the NEWS (previously ChangeLog) file:
>
>November 16 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 3
>- ucfirst()/ucwords() no longer modify arg1. (Thies)
>- Fixed strtr() not to modify arg1. (Thies)
>- Added Win32 build files for Informix driver and make it
> compile with ZTS (danny)
>- Added tmpfile() function (Stig)
>- Upgraded regex library to alpha3.8 (Sascha)
>- Fixed selecting nested-tables in OCI8. (Thies)
>- RFC-854 fix for internal FTP-Code. Commands have to end in "\r\n"
> (Thies)
>- Fix OpenLink ODBC support (Stig)
>- min(),max(),a[r]sort(),[r]sort(),k[r]sort() now work consistent with the
> language-core. (Thies)
>- tempnam() now uses mkstemp() if available (Stig)
>- serialize() and var_dump() now honor the precision as set in php.ini
> for doubles. (Thies)
>- Improved the Win32 COM module to support [out] parameters (Boris Wedl)
>- Fixed garbage returned at the end of certain Sybase-Columns (Thies)
> Patch submitted by: neal <email protected>
>- Added Microsoft SQL Server module for Win32 (Frank)
>- Added support for forcing a variable number of internal function
> arguments by reference. (Andi & Zeev, Zend library)
>- Implemented getprotoby{name,number} (Evan)
>- Added array_pad() function. (Andrei)
>- Added new getservby{name,port} functions. (Evan)
>- Added session.cookie_path and session.cookie_domain (Sascha)
>- Continue processing PHP_INI_SYSTEM knownDirectives after extension=
> (Sam Ruby)
>- Enable IBM DB2 support - Tested against DB2 6.1 UDB on Linux (Rasmus)
>- Added new str_repeat() function. (Andrei)
>- Output-Buffering system is now Thread-Safe. (Thies)
>- implemented OCI8 $lob->WriteToFile() function - very useful for
> streaming large amounts of LOB-Data without to need of a huge buffer.
> (Thies)
>- Added session.use_cookies option (Sascha)
>- Added getcwd() function. (Thies)
>- XML_Parse_Into_Struct no longer eats data. (Thies)
>- Fixed parse_url('-') crash. (Thies)
>- added === operator support. (Andi & Thies, Zend library)
>- unserialize() now gives a notice when passed invalid data. (Thies)
>- Fixed shuffle() so that it no longer breaks on Solaris. (Andrei)
>- Added is_resource(), is_bool() functions. (Thies)
>- Cleaned up File-Module (Thies)
>- Upgraded math-funtions to use new Zend function API (Thies)
>- Fixed zombie problem in shell_exec() and $a = `some_command`
> constructs. (Thies)
>- Thies introduced ZEND_FETCH_RESOURCE2 (Danny).
>- Added Informix driver to list of maintained extensions. (Danny).
>- Informix driver : Changed ifx.ec to use the new high-performance
> ZEND API. (Danny)
>- IXF_LIBDIR environment variable specifies alternate Informix library
> path for configure (Danny).
>- Fixed gmmktime() so that the following should always be true:
> gmmktime([args]) == mktime([args]) + date('Z', mktime([args])) (Jouni)
>- setlocale doesn't anymore screw up things if you forgot to change it
> back to the original settings. (Jouni)
>- Switched to new system where ChangeLog is automagically updated from
> commit messages. NEWS file is now the place for public announcements.
> (Andrei)
>- Fixed refcount problem in XML module. (Thies)
>- Fixed crash in HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA handling (Thies)
>- You can use resources as array-indices again (Thies, Zend library)
>- Fixed pg_fetch_array() with three arguments (Sascha)
> Patch submitted by: brian <email protected>
>- Upgraded a lot internal functions to use new Zend function API (Thies)
>- fdf support ported; not completely tested with latest version 4.0 for
> glibc (Uwe)
>- OCI8 connections are now kept open as long as they are referenced
> (Thies)
>- Cleaned up Directory-Module (Thies)
>- Small fix in Ora_Close (Thies)
>- Ported range() and shuffle() from PHP3 to PHP4 (Andrei)
>- Fixed header("HTTP/..."); behaviour (Sascha)
>- Improved UNIX build system. Now utilizes libtool (Sascha)
>- Upgrade some more internal functions to use new Zend function API.
> (Thies, Zend library)
>- Fixed backwards incompatibility with ereg() (Thies)
>- Updated Zend garbage collection with a much more thorough method.
> (Andi, Zend library)
>- Added the ability to use variable references in the array() construct.
> For example, array("foo" => &$foo). (Andi, Zend library)
>- Added array_reverse() function (Andrei)
>- Some more XML fixes/cleanups (Thies)
>- Updated preg_replace() so that if any argument passed in is an array
> it will make a copy of each entry before converting it to string so that
> the original is intact. If the subject is an array then it will preserve
> the keys in the output as well (Andrei)
>- Updated OCI8 to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Thies)
>- Configure speedup (Stig)
>- Fixed LOB/Persistent-Connection related OCI8-Crash (Thies)
>- Generalized server-API build procedure on UNIX (Stig)
>- Added '--disable-rpath' option (Sascha)
>- Added AOLserver SAPI module (Sascha)
>- Fixed XML Callbacks. (Thies)
>- Updated ODBC to use the new high-performance Zend function API (kara)
>- Updated zlib to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Stefan)
>- Updated preg_split() to allow returning only non-empty pieces (Andrei)
>- Updated PCRE to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Andrei)
>- Updated session, dba, mhash, mcrypt, sysvshm, sysvsem, gettext modules
> to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Sascha)
>- Extended var_dump to handle resource type somewhat (Andrei)
>- Updated WDDX to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Andrei)
>- Updated XML to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Thies)
>- Updated Oracle to use the new high-performance Zend function API.
> (Thies)
>- Improved the performance of the MySQL module significantly by using the
> new high-performance Zend function API. (Zeev)
>- Add support for the Easysoft ODBC-ODCB Bridge (martin <email protected>)
>- Fix bug in odbc_setoption, getParameter call incorrect
>(martin <email protected>)
>- Ora_Fetch_Into now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies)
>- Fixed NULL-Column problem in Oracle-Driver (Thies)
>- Added extra metadata functions to ODBC, SQLTables etc
> (nick <email protected>)
>- Fixed SEGV in mcal make_event_object() and
> typo in mcal_list_alarms() (Andrew Skalski)
>- Fixed Ora_PLogon (Thies)
>- Resourcified Oracle (Thies)
>- Implemented object serialization/deserialization in WDDX (Andrei)
>- Added krsort() function (Thies)
>- Added func_num_args(), func_get_arg() and func_get_args() for standard
> access to variable number of arguments functions (Zeev)
>- Added FTP support (Andrew Skalski)
>- Added optional allowable_tags arguments to strip_tags(), gzgetss() and
> fgetss() to allow you to specify a string of tags that are not to be
> stripped (Rasmus)
>- Upgraded var_dump() to take multiple arguments (Andrei)
>- Resourcified XML (Thies)
>- Fixed a memory leak in the Apache per-directory directives handler
> (Zeev)
>- Added array_count_values() function. (Thies)
>- snmp, pgsql, mysql and gd modules can be built as dynamically loaded
> modules (Greg)
>- OCI8 fix for fetching empty LOBs (Thies)
>- Added user-level callbacks for session module (Sascha)
>- Added support for unknown POST content types (Zeev)
>- Added "wddx" serialization handler for session module (Sascha)
> (automatically enabled, if you compile with --with-wddx)
>- Fixed unserializing objects (Thies)
>- PHP 4.0 now serializes Objects as 'O' (not understood by PHP 3.0), but
> unserializes PHP 3.0 serialized objects as expected. (Thies)
>- Made serialize/unserialize work on classes. If the class is known at
> unserialize() time, you'll get back a fully working object! (Thies)
>- Reworked preg_* functions according to the new PCRE API, which also made
> them behave much more like Perl ones (Andrei)
>- Made it possible to specify external location of PCRE library (Andrei)
>- Updated bundled PCRE library to version 2.08 (Andrei)
>- count()/is_array/is_object... speedups. (Thies)
>- OCI8 supports appending and positioning when saving LOBs (Thies)
>- Added metaphone support (Thies)
>- OCI8 doesn't use define callbacks any longer. (Thies)
>- OCI8 Driver now supports LOBs like PHP 3.0. (Thies)
>- var_dump now dumps the properties of an object (Thies)
>- Rewrote the GET/POST/Cookie data reader to support multi-dimensional
> arrays! (Zeev)
>- Renamed allow_builtin_links to expose_php (defaults to On). This
> directive tells PHP whether it may expose its existence to the outside
> world, e.g. by adding itself to the Web server header (Zeev)
>- Added support for transparent session id propagation (Sascha)
>- Made WDDX serialize object properties properly (Andrei)
>- Fixed WDDX mem leak when undefined variable is passed in
> for serialization (Andrei)
>- Added session_unset() function (Andrei)
>- Fixed double session globals shutdown crash (Andrei)
>- Fixed crash related to ignore_user_abort ini entry (Andrei)
>- Added support for external entropy sources for session id creation
> (on Unices /dev/random and /dev/urandom) (Sascha)
>- Added gpc_globals variable directive to php.ini. By default it is On,
> but if it is set to Off, GET, POST and Cookie variables will not be
> inserted to the global scope. Mostly makes sense when coupled with
> track_vars (Zeev)
>- Added versioning support for shared library (Sascha)
> This allows concurrent use of PHP 3.0 and PHP 4.0 as Apache modules. See
> the end of the INSTALL file for more information.
>- Added second parameter to array_keys which specifies search value
> for which the key should be returned (Andrei)
>- Resourcified Informix driver (Danny)
>- New resource handling for odbc, renamed to php_odbc.[ch]
>- Make set_time_limit() work on Unix (Rasmus)
>- Added connection handling support (Rasmus)
>- Improved the Sybase-CT module to make use of resources (Zeev)
>- Improved the mSQL module to make use of resources (Zeev)
>- Changed mysql_query() and mysql_db_query() to return false in case of
> saving the result set data fails (Zeev)
>- Improved the resource mechanism - resources were not getting freed as
> soon as they could (Zeev)
>- Added shared memory module for session data storage (Sascha)
>- Fixed session.auto_start (Sascha)
>- Fixed several problems with output buffering and HEAD requests (Zeev)
>- Fixed HTTP Status code issue with ISAPI module (Zeev)
>- Fixed a problem that prevented $GLOBALS from working properly (Zeev,
> Zend library)
>- Ported newest GetImageSize (Thies)
>- Added session compile support in Win32 (Andi)
>- Added -d switch to the CGI binary that allows overriding php.ini values
> from the command line (Zeev)
>- Fixed a crash that would occur if wddx_deserialize did not receive
> a valid packet (Andrei)
>- Fixed a bugglet when redefining a class at run-time (Andi, Zend library)
>- Fixed sem_get() on AIX (Sascha)
>- Fixed fopen() to work with URL's in Win32 (Andi & Zeev)
>- Fixed include_path for Win32 (Andi, Zend library)
>- Fixed bug in ISAPI header sending function (Charles)
>- Fixed memory leak when using undefined values (Andi & Zeev, Zend
> library)
>- Added output_buffering directive to php.ini, to enable output buffering
> for all PHP scripts - default is off (Zeev).
>- Fixed some more class inheritance issues (Zeev, Zend library)
>- Fixed Apache build wrt to shared modules on FreeBSD/Linux (Sascha)
>- Added session.extern_referer_chk which checks whether session ids were
> referred to by an external site and eliminates them (Sascha)
>- Improved session id generation (Sascha)
>- Improved speed of uniqid() by using the combined LCG and removing
> the extra usleep() (Sascha)
>- Introduced general combined linear congruential generator (Sascha)
>- Made ldap_close back into an alias for ldap_unbind (Andrei)
>- OciFetchInto now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies)
>- Fixed mysql_errno() to work with recent versions of MySQL (Zeev)
>- Fixed a problem with define() and boolean values (Zeev)
>- Fixed inclusion of gd/freetype functions (Sascha)
>- Fixed persistency of MHASH_* constants (Sascha)
>- Oracle is now ZTS-Safe (Thies)
>- Fixed flushing of cached information to disk in DBA's DB2 module
> (Sascha)
>- OCI8 is now ZTS-Safe (Thies)
>- Fixed is_writeable/is_writable problem; they are both defined now
> (Andrei)
>- Imported PHP 3.0 diskfreespace() function (Thies)
>- Fixed thread-safety issues in the MySQL module (Zeev)
>- Fixed thread-safe support for dynamic modules (Zeev)
>- Fixed Sybase CT build process (Zeev)
>
>
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