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The latest release of PHP 5.2 is
5.2.17.
Source Code
Change Log
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misc
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Upgraded PCRE to version 7.3 (Nuno)
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Added optional parameter $provide_object to debug_backtrace().
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Added alpha support for imagefilter() IMG_FILTER_COLORIZE.
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Added ability to control memory consumption between request using ZEND_MM_COMPACT environment variable.
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Improved speed of array_intersect_key(), array_intersect_assoc(), array_uintersect_assoc(), array_diff_key(), array_diff_assoc() and array_udiff_assoc().
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Fixed move_uploaded_file() to always set file permissions of resulting file according to UMASK.
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Fixed possible crash in ext/soap because of uninitialized value.
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Fixed regression in glob() when enforcing safe_mode/open_basedir checks on paths containing '*'.
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Fixed "mail.force_extra_parameters" php.ini directive not to be modifiable in .htaccess due to the security implications - reported by SecurityReason.
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Fixed PDO crash when driver returns empty LOB stream.
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Fixed dl() to only accept filenames - reported by Laurent Gaffie.
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Fixed dl() to limit argument size to MAXPATHLEN (CVE-2007-4887).
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Fixed iconv_*() functions to limit argument sizes as workaround to libc bug (CVE-2007-4783, CVE-2007-4840 by Laurent Gaffie).
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Fixed missing brackets leading to build warning and error in the log. Win32 code.
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Fixed leaks with multiple connects on one mysqli object.
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Fixed endianness detection on MacOS when building universal binary.
Uwe Schindler
Christian Speich
Tony
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Fixed possible triggering of buffer overflows inside glibc implementations of the fnmatch(), setlocale() and glob() functions. Reported by Laurent Gaffie.
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Fixed imagerectangle regression with 1x1 rectangle (libgd #106).
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Fixed htmlentities/htmlspecialchars not to accept partial multibyte sequences.
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Fixed bug
#43196 (array_intersect_assoc() crashes with non-array input).
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Fixed bug
#43139 (PDO ignores ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE in some cases with fetchAll()).
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Fixed bug
#43137 (rmdir() and rename() do not clear statcache).
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Fixed bug
#43130 (Bound parameters cannot have - in their name).
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Fixed bug
#43099 (XMLWriter::endElement() does not check # of params).
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Fixed bug
#43020 (Warning message is missing with shuffle() and more than one argument).
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Fixed bug
#42976 (Crash when constructor for newInstance() or newInstanceArgs() fails) (Ilia)
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Fixed bug
#42943 (ext/mssql: Move *timeout initialization from RINIT to connect time).
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Fixed bug
#42917 (PDO::FETCH_KEY_PAIR doesn't work with setFetchMode).
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Fixed bug
#42890 (Constant "LIST" defined by mysqlclient and c-client).
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Fixed bug
#42869 (automatic session id insertion adds sessions id to non-local forms).
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Fixed bug
#42818 ($foo = clone(array()); leaks memory).
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Fixed bug
#42817 (clone() on a non-object does not result in a fatal error).
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Fixed bug
#42785 (json_encode() formats doubles according to locale rather then following standard syntax).
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Fixed bug
#42783 (pg_insert() does not accept an empty list for insertion).
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Fixed bug
#42773 (WSDL error causes HTTP 500 Response).
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Fixed bug
#42772 (Storing $this in a static var fails while handling a cast to string).
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Fixed bug
#42767 (highlight_string() truncates trailing comment).
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Fixed bug
#42739 (mkdir() doesn't like a trailing slash when safe_mode is enabled).
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Fixed bug
#42703 (Exception raised in an iterator::current() causes segfault in FilterIterator) (Marcus)
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Fixed bug
#42699 (PHP_SELF duplicates path).
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Fixed bug
#42654 (RecursiveIteratorIterator modifies only part of leaves) (Marcus)
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Fixed bug
#42643 (CLI segfaults if using ATTR_PERSISTENT).
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Fixed bug
#42637 (SoapFault : Only http and https are allowed).
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Fixed bug
#42629 (Dynamically loaded PHP extensions need symbols exported on MacOSX).
jdolecek at NetBSD dot org
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Fixed bug
#42627 (bz2 extension fails to build with -fno-common).
dolecek at netbsd dot org
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Fixed Bug #42596 (session.save_path MODE option does not work).
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Fixed bug
#42590 (Make the engine recognize \v and \f escape sequences).
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Fixed bug
#42587 (behavior change regarding symlinked .php files).
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Fixed bug
#42579 (apache_reset_timeout() does not exist).
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Fixed bug
#42549 (ext/mysql failed to compile with libmysql 3.23).
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Fixed bug
#42523 (PHP_SELF duplicates path).
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Fixed bug
#42512 (ip2long('255.255.255.255') should return 4294967295 on 64-bit PHP).
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Fixed bug
#42506 (php_pgsql_convert() timezone parse bug) (nonunnet at gmail dot com, Ilia)
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Fixed bug
#42496 (OCI8 cursor is not closed when using 2 clobs in a select query).
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Fixed bug
#42462 (Segmentation when trying to set an attribute in a DOMElement).
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Fixed bug
#42453 (CGI SAPI does not shut down cleanly with -i/-m/-v cmdline options).
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Fixed bug
#42452 (PDO classes do not expose Reflection API information).
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Fixed bug
#42468 (Write lock on file_get_contents fails when using a compression stream).
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Fixed bug
#42488 (SoapServer reports an encoding error and the error itself breaks).
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Fixed bug
#42378 (mysqli_stmt_bind_result memory exhaustion).
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Fixed bug
#42359 (xsd:list type not parsed).
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Fixed bug
#42326 (SoapServer crash).
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Fixed bug
#42214 (SoapServer sends clients internal PHP errors).
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Fixed bug
#42189 (xmlrpc_set_type() crashes php on invalid datetime values).
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Fixed bug
#42139 (XMLReader option constants are broken using XML()).
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Fixed bug
#42086 (SoapServer return Procedure '' not present for WSIBasic compliant wsdl).
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Fixed bug
#41822 (Relative includes broken when getcwd() fails).
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Fixed bug
#41561 (Values set with php_admin_* in httpd.conf can be overwritten with ini_set()).
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Fixed bug
#39651 (proc_open() append mode doesn't work on windows).