[PHP-DEV] Re: [ANNOUNCE] PHP 4.0.3 released From: Wico de Leeuw (wico <email protected>)
Date: 10/12/00

At 00:42 12-10-00 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>PHP 4.0.3 has been released. 4.0.3 is mostly a security-oriented
>maintenance release, therefore it's *strongly* recommended for all users
>of PHP to upgrade to it.

Any news about a new optimizer for 4.0.3?

Greetz,

Wico

>Source:
>http://www.php.net/do_download.php?download_file=php-4.0.3.tar.gz
>
>Win32 binaries:
>http://www.php.net/do_download.php?download_file=php-4.0.3-Win32.zip
>You'd notice that the 4.0.3 Win32 distribution is beefed up with a lot of
>loadable modules. The extensive build is courtesy of Daniel Beulshausen -
>thanks!
>
>The full list of changes is enclosed.
>
>Zeev
>
>
>11 Oct 2000, Version 4.0.3
>- Fixed a possible crash in -a interactive mode (Zeev, Zend Engine)
>- Added mysql_escape_string() (Peter A. Savitch and & Brian Wang)
>- Fixed many possible crash bugs with improper use of the printf() family of
> functions (Andi)
>- Fixed a problem that allowed users to override admin_value's and
>admin_flag's
> (Zeev)
>- Fixed PostgreSQL module to work when the link handle is omitted (Zeev)
>- Fixed returning of empty LOB fields in OCI8. (Thies)
>- Added Calendar module to default Win32 build (Andi)
>- Added FTP module to default Win32 build (Andi)
>- Fixed crash in the POSIX getrlimit() function (alex <email protected>)
>- Fixed dirname() under certain conditions (Andi)
>- Added --with-imap-ssl to support SSL'ized imap library in RH7 and others
> (Rasmus)
>- Fixed possible crash bug in parse_url() (Andi)
>- Added support for trans sid under Win32 (Daniel)
>- IPv6 support in fopen (Stig Venaas)
>- Added the shmop extension. It allows more general ways of shared memory
> access. (thanks to Ilia Alshanestky <iliaa <email protected>> and Slava Poliakov
> <slavapl <email protected>> (Derick)
>- Added the ability for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to accept an associative array of
> HTTP POST variables and values. (Sterling)
>- Added the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option to curl_setopt(). (Sterling)
>- Added the curl_error() and curl_errno() functions. (Sterling)
>- Changed ext/db not to be enabled by default (Jani)
>- Fixed building Apache SAPI module on SCO UnixWare (Sascha)
>- Fixed writing empty session sets to shared memory (tcarroll <email protected>)
>- Added support for BSD/OS make (Sascha)
>- Added improved URL rewriter (Sascha)
>- Fixed readdir_r() use on Solaris (Sascha)
>- Improved HTTP headers for private-caching (jon <email protected>, Sascha)
>- Added new function session_cache_limiter (jon <email protected>, Sascha)
>- Added ftp_exec to the ftp functions (thanks to <jhennebicq <email protected>>)
> (Derick)
>- PEAR: add last executed query as debug info in DB errors (Stig)
>- PEAR: allow multiple modes in PEAR_Error (Stig)
>- Made the Sybase CT module thread safe (Zeev)
>- Added second argument to array_reverse() that indicatese whether
> the original array keys should be preserved. (Andrei)
>- Clean up htmlspecialchars/htmlentities inconsistencies. (Rasmus)
>- PEAR: renamed DB_GETMODE_* to DB_FETCHMODE_*, added setFetchMode()
> in DB_common to set the default mode, added some MySQL tests (Stig)
>- Made eval() and several other runtime-evaluated code portions report the
> nature and location of errors more accurately (Stas)
>- Added an optional parameter to wordwrap that cuts a string if the length
>of a
> word is longer than the maximum allowed. (Derick)
>- Added functions pg_put_line and pg_end_copy (Dirk Elmendorf)
>- Added second parameter for parse_str to save result (John Bafford)
>- Fixed bug with curl places extra data in the output. (medvitz <email protected>)
>- Added the pathinfo() function. (Sterling)
>- Updated sybase_ct module and its sybase_query to use high performance API.
> (Joey)
>- Added a more configurable error reporting interface to DB. (Stig)
>- Added is_uploaded_file() and move_uploaded_file() (Zeev)
>- Added several directives to php.ini - post_max_size, file_uploads,
> display_startup_errors - see php.ini-dist for further information (Zeev)
>- Worked around a bug in the libc5 implementation of readdir() (Stas)
>- Fixed some potential OpenBSD and NetBSD crash bugs when opening files.
>(Andi)
>- Added EscapeShellArg() function (Rasmus)
>- Added a php.ini option session.use_trans_sid to enable/disable trans-sid.
> (Sterling)
>- Added the Sablotron extension for XSL parsing. (Sterling)
>- Fixed a bug in checkdate() which caused < 1 years to be valid (Jani)
>- Added support for an optional output handler function for output
> buffering. This enables transparent rendering of XML through XSL,
> transparent compression, etc. (Zeev)
>- Added support for user defined 'tick' callback functions. This helps
> emulate background processing. (Andrei)
>- Fixed problem with having $this as the XML parser object. (Andrei)
>- Internal opened_path variable now uses the Zend memory manager so that full
> paths of files won't leak on unclean shutdown (Andi)
>- Removed support of print $obj automatically calling the __string_value()
> method. Instead define yourself a method such as toString() and use
> print $obj->toString() (Andi, Zend Engine)
>
>
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>Zeev Suraski <zeev <email protected>>
>http://www.zend.com/
>
>
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