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PHP 5.1.3

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Change Log

  • misc

    • Updated bundled PCRE library to version 6.6.
      Andrei

  • moved extensions to pecl

    • ext/msession (Derick)
    • Reimplemented FastCGI interface.
      Dmitry
    • Improved SPL: (Marcus)
    • Fixed issues with not/double calling of constructors of SPL iterators.
    • Fixed issues with info-class/file-class in SPL directory handling classes.
    • Fixed ArrayIterator::seek().
    • Added SimpleXMLIterator::count().
    • Dropped erroneous RecursiveDirectoryIterator::getSubPathInfo().
    • Improved SimpleXML: (Marcus, Rob)
    • Added SimpleXMLElement::getName() to retrieve name of element.
    • Added ability to create elements on the fly.
    • Added addChild() method for element creation supporting namespaces.
    • Added addAttribute() method for attribute creation supporting namespaces.
    • Added ability to delete specific elements and attributes by offset.
    • Improved Reflection API: (Marcus)
    • Added ReflectionClass::newInstanceArgs($args).
    • Added ability to analyze extension dependency.
    • Added ReflectionFunction::isDeprecated() and constant IS_DEPRECATED.
    • Added ReflectionParameter::getDeclaringClass().
    • Changed reflection constants to be prefixed with IS_.
      Johannes
    • Improved cURL extension: (Ilia)
    • Added curl_setopt_array() function that allows setting of multiple options via an associated array.
    • Added the ability to retrieve the request message sent to the server.
    • Improved GD extension: (Pierre)
    • Added a weak/tolerant mode to the JPEG loader.
    • Added filtering mode option to imagepng() to allow reducing file size.
    • Fixed imagecolorallocate() and imagecolorallocatelapha() to return FALSE on error.
    • Changed get_headers() to retrieve headers also from non-200 responses.
      Ilia
    • Changed get_headers() to use the default context.
      Ilia
    • Added lchown() and lchgrp() to change user/group ownership of symlinks.
      Derick
    • Added support for exif date format in strtotime().
      Derick
    • Added a check for special characters in the session name.
      Ilia
    • Added "consumed" stream filter.
      Marcus
    • Added new mysqli constants for BIT and NEW_DECIMAL field types: MYSQLI_TYPE_NEWDECIMAL and MYSQLI_TYPE_BIT. FR #36007.
      Georg
    • Added imap_savebody() that allows message body to be written to a file.
      Mike
    • Added overflow checks to wordwrap() function.
      Ilia
    • Added support for BINARY_DOUBLE and BINARY_FLOAT to PDO_OCI and OCI8 (also fixes bug #36764).
      Tony
    • Eliminated run-time constant fetching for TRUE, FALSE and NULL.
      Dmitry
    • Removed the E_STRICT deprecation notice from "var".
      Ilia
    • Fixed reading stream filters never notified about EOF.
      Mike
    • Fixed tempnam() 2nd parameter to be checked against path components.
      Ilia
    • Fixed a bug that would not fill in the fifth argument to preg_replace() properly, if the variable was not declared previously.
      Andrei
    • Fixed safe_mode check for source argument of the copy() function.
      Ilia
    • Fixed mysqli bigint conversion under Windows (Georg)
    • Fixed XSS inside phpinfo() with long inputs.
      Ilia
    • Fixed Apache2 SAPIs header handler modifying header strings.
      Mike
    • Fixed 'auto_globals_jit' to work together with 'register_argc_argv'.
      Dmitry
    • Fixed offset/length parameter validation in substr_compare() function.
      Ilia
    • Fixed debug_zval_dump() to support private and protected members.
      Dmitry
    • Fixed SoapFault::getMessage().
      Dmitry
    • Fixed issue with iconv_mime_decode where the "encoding" would only allow upper case specifiers.
      Derick
    • Fixed tiger hash algorithm generating wrong results on big endian platforms.
      Mike
    • Fixed crash with DOMImplementation::createDocumentType("name:").
      Mike
    • Fixed bug #37205 (Serving binary content/images fails with "comm with server aborted" FastCGI err).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #37192 (cc may complain about non-constant initializers in hash_adler.c).
      Mike
    • Fixed bug #37191 (chmod takes off sticky bit when safe_mode is On).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #37167 (PDO segfaults when throwing exception from the fetch handler).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #37162 (wddx does not build as a shared extension).
      jdolecek at NetBSD dot org
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #37158 (fread behavior changes after calling stream_wrapper_register).
      Wez
    • Fixed bug #37138 (__autoload tries to load callback'ed self and parent).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #37103 (libmbfl headers not installed).
      Jani
    • Fixed bug #37062 (compile failure on ARM architecture).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #37061 (curl_exec() doesn't zero-terminate binary strings).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #37060 (Type of retval of Countable::count() is not checked).
      Johannes
    • Fixed bug #37059 (oci_bind_by_name() doesn't support RAW and LONG RAW fields).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #37057 (xmlrpc_decode() may produce arrays with numeric strings, which are unaccessible).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #37055 (incorrect reference counting for persistent OCI8 connections).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #37054 (SoapClient Error Fetching http headers).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #37053 (html_errors with internal classes produces wrong links).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #37046 (foreach breaks static scope).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #37045 (Fixed check for special chars for http redirects).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #37017 (strtotime fails before 13:00:00 with some time zones identifiers).
      Derick
    • Fixed bug #37002 (Have to quote literals in INI when concatenating with vars). (Dmitry)z
    • Fixed bug #36988 (mktime freezes on long numbers).
      Derick
    • Fixed bug #36981 (SplFileObject->fgets() ignores max_length).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36957 (serialize() does not handle recursion).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36944 (strncmp & strncasecmp do not return false on negative string length).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36941 (ArrayIterator does not clone itself).
      Marcus
    • Fixed bug #36934 (OCILob->read() doesn't move internal pointer when reading 0's).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36908 (wsdl default value overrides value in soap request).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36898 (__set() leaks in classes extending internal ones).
      Tony
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36886 (User filters can leak buckets in some situations).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36878 (error messages are printed even though an exception has been thrown).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36875 (is_*() functions do not account for open_basedir).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36872 (session_destroy() fails after call to session_regenerate_id(true)).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36869 (memory leak in output buffering when using chunked output).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36859 (DOMElement crashes when calling __construct when cloning).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36857 (Added support for partial content fetching to the HTTP streams wrapper).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36851 (Documentation and code discrepancies for NULL data in oci_fetch_*() functions).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36825 (Exceptions thrown in ArrayObject::offsetGet cause segfault).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36820 (Privileged connection with an Oracle password file fails).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36809 (__FILE__ behavior changed).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36808 (syslog ident becomes garbage between requests).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36802 (mysqli_set_charset() crash with a non-open connection).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36756 (DOMDocument::removeChild corrupts node).
      Rob
    • Fixed bug #36749 (SOAP: 'Error Fetching http body' when using HTTP Proxy).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36745 (No error message when load data local file isn't found).
      Georg
    • Fixed bug #36743 (In a class extending XMLReader array properties are not writable).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36727 (segfault in pdo_pgsql bindValue() when no parameters are defined).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36721 (The SoapServer is not able to send a header that it didn't receive).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36697 (Transparency is lost when using imagecreatetruecolor).
      Pierre
    • Fixed bug #36689 (Removed arbitrary limit on the length of syslog messages).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36656 (http_build_query generates invalid URIs due to use of square brackets).
      Mike
    • Fixed bug #36638 (strtotime() returns false when 2nd argument < 1).
      Derick
    • Fixed bug #36629 (SoapServer::handle() exits on SOAP faults).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36625 (pg_trace() does not work).
      iakio at mono-space dot net
    • Fixed bug #36614 (Segfault when using Soap).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36611 (assignment to SimpleXML object attribute changes argument type to string).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36606 (pg_query_params() changes arguments type to string).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36599 (DATE_W3C format constant incorrect).
      Derick
    • Fixed bug #36575 (SOAP: Incorrect complex type instantiation with hierarchies).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36572 (Added PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_DIRECT_QUERY constant that should be set when executing internal queries like "show master status" via MySQL).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36568 (memory_limit setting on win32 has no effect).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36513 (comment will be outputted in last line).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36510 (strtotime() fails to parse date strings with tabs).
      Ilia
      Derick
    • Fixed bug #36459 (Incorrect adding PHPSESSID to links, which contains \r\n).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36458 (sleep() accepts negative values).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36436 (DBA problem with Berkeley DB4).
      Marcus
    • Fixed bug #36434 (Improper resolution of declaring class name of an inherited property).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36420 (segfault when access result->num_rows after calling result->close()).
      Ilia
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36403 (oci_execute() no longer supports OCI_DESCRIBE_ONLY).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36400 (Custom 5xx error does not return correct HTTP response error code).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36396 (strtotime() fails to parse dates in dd-mm-yyyy format).
      Derick
    • Fixed bug #36388 (ext/soap crashes when throwing exception and session persistence).
      David
    • Fixed bug #36382 (PDO/PgSQL's getColumnMeta() crashes).
      Derick
    • Fixed bug #36359 (splFileObject::fwrite() doesn't write when no data length specified).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36351 (parse_url() does not parse numeric paths properly).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36345 (PDO/MySQL problem loading BLOB over 1MB).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36337 (ReflectionProperty fails to return correct visibility).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36334 (Added missing documentation about realpath cache INI settings).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36308 (ReflectionProperty::getDocComment() does not reflect extended class commentary).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36306 (crc32() differ on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms) (anight@eyelinkmedia dot com, Pierre)
    • Fixed bug #36303 (foreach on error_zval produces segfault).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36295 (typo in SplFileObject::flock() parameter name).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36287 (Segfault with SplFileInfo conversion).
      Marcus
    • Fixed bug #36283 (SOAPClient Compression Broken).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36268 (Object destructors called even after fatal errors).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36258 (SplFileObject::getPath() may lead to segfault).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36250 (PHP causes ORA-07445 core dump in Oracle server 9.2.x).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36242 (Possible memory corruption in stream_select()).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36235 (ocicolumnname returns false before a successful fetch).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36226 (Inconsistent handling when passing potential arrays).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36224 (date(DATE_ATOM) gives wrong results).
      Derick
      Hannes Magnusson
    • Fixed bug #36222 (errorInfo in PDOException is always NULL).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36208 (symbol namespace conflicts using bundled gd).
      Jakub Moc
    • Fixed bug #36205 (Memory leaks on duplicate cookies).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36185 (str_rot13() crash on non-string parameter).
      Pierre
    • Fixed bug #36176 (PDO_PGSQL - PDO::exec() does not return number of rows affected by the operation).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36158 (SIGTERM is not handled correctly when running as a FastCGI server).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36152 (problems with curl+ssl and pgsql+ssl in same PHP).
      Mike
    • Fixed bug #36148 (unpack("H*hex", $data) is adding an extra character to the end of the string).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36134 (DirectoryIterator constructor failed to detect empty directory names).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36113 (Reading records of unsupported type causes segfault).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36096 (oci_result() returns garbage after oci_fetch() failed).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36083 (SoapClient waits for responses on one-way operations).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36071 (Engine Crash related with 'clone').
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36055 (possible OCI8 crash in multi-threaded environment).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36046 (parse_ini_file() miscounts lines in multi-line values).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #36038 (ext/hash compile failure on Mac OSX).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36037 (heredoc adds extra line number).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #36016 (realpath cache memleaks).
      Dmitry
      Nuno
    • Fixed bug #36011 (Strict errormsg wrong for call_user_func() and the likes).
      Marcus
    • Fixed bug #36010 (Segfault when re-creating and re-executing statements with bound parameters).
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #36006 (Problem with $this in __destruct()).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #35999 (recursive mkdir() does not work with relative path like "foo/bar").
      Tony
    • Fixed bug #35998 (SplFileInfo::getPathname() returns unix style filenames in win32).
      Marcus
    • Fixed bug #35988 (Unknown persistent list entry type in module shutdown).
      Dmitry
    • Fixed bug #35954 (Fatal com_exception casting object).
      Rob
    • Fixed bug #35900 (stream_select() should warning when tv_sec is negative).
      Ilia
    • Fixed bug #35785 (SimpleXML causes memory read error zend engine).
      Marcus
    • Fixed bug #34272 (empty array onto COM object blows up).
      Rob
    • Fixed bug #33292 (apache_get_modules() crashes on Windows).
      Edin
    • Fixed bug #29476 (sqlite_fetch_column_types() locks the database forever).
      Ilia

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