PHP5 version evolution Summary

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/************** By Jiangong SUN *******************/PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1 --06-29 Use Zend Engine 2 SQLite extension to bind to PHP and fully support XML (Simplexml extension, new DOM extensions, new XSL extensions, porting DOM-XML and XSLT to PECL, etc.) Remove the bundled MySQL client library

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PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1-2003-06-29

Use Zend Engine 2
SQLite extension bound to PHP and started by default
Fully supports XML (Simplexml extensions, new DOM extensions, new XSL extensions, porting DOM-XML and XSLT to PECL, etc)
Removed the bundled MySQL client library.
New php. ini options (session. hash_function, session. hash_bits_per_character, mail. force_extra_parameters, register_long_arrays)
Improved stream support and GD extension Library

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2-2003-10-30

Improved Zend Engine 2 (the iterator is added, the memory manager is improved, the Reflection API is added, and the namespace support that is not easy to use is removed)
Improved DBX Extension
Improved Interbase Extension
New COM Extension

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 3-2003-12-21

Bound tidy Extension
Removed Windows 95 support
Port ext/crack, ext/db, ext/mcal, ext/qtdom, ext/notes to PECL
Date (), mocrotime (), htmlentities (), and other functions are added.
Added support for http: // packaging proxy

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 4-2004-02-12

Changed exception class
Added the SPL extension.
Set [raw] cookie added
Added ++ and ++ = in SimpleXML
Added an interface to inherit from another interface

PHP 5.0.0 Release Candidate 1-2004-03-18

Solving bugs

PHP 5.0.0 Release Candidate 2-2004-04-25

Implementing the interface/abstract method using an incorrect prototype will produce significant errors.
Zend. zemo-compatibility_mode is re-implemented to better cater to PHP4
Put the yaz extension in PECL
Added the pty method to know the proc_open () method.

PHP 5.0.0 Release Candidate 3-2004-06-08

Add the PDFlib extension to PECL
Added MySQL 4.1.2-apha and 4.1.3-beta support for MySQLI extension.
Add the dump private/protected attribute to var_dump ()
Added count () to COM array
Added Firebird/InterBase UDF, allowing PHP functions to be called from SQL

PHP 5.0.0-2004-07-13

Updated PCRE to provide better error handling
A text comment must use a space after '/**'

PHP 5.0.1-2004-08-12

The desctrucor deconstructor mechanism has been changed so that the deconstruct can be called before shutdown.
The installation help file for Unix and windows has been rewritten.
Improve and port ActiveScript SAPI to PECL

PHP 5.0.2-2004-09-23

Added the boolean (fourth digit) parameter to the array_slice () function.
Added the SORT_LOCALE_STRING to sort () function to enable sorting by local region.
Added the PHP_EOL constant.
Implements Regular Expression cache cleaning for PCRE compilation in stages to avoid Memory depletion.
SoapClient->__ call () is renamed to SoapClient->__ soapCall ()

PHP 5.0.3-2004-12-15

Add % F to * printf
Solved mysqli_multi_query () Error Handling
Extended is_subclass_of () to accept or use a class name or an object as the first parameter.

PHP 5.0.4-2005-03-31

Added support for SNMPv2
Added support for Oracle instant client
Add length and charsetnr of objects and arrays in mysqli
Check negative numbers in gmp_sqrt (), gmp_powm (), gmp_sqrtem (), and gmp_fact () to avoid floating point overflow (SIGFPE ).
Libtool is not required to modify phpize.

PHP 5.0.5-2005-09-05

Upgrade the PCRE Library to 5.0
The php_check_syntax () function is deleted.
Added the new function mysqli_set_charset ()
The 'phpsize' and 'php-config' scripts are added.
Added support for. cc file types
Add PHP_INT_MAX and PHP_INT_SIZE as predefined constants.
Change the sha1_file () and md5_file () functions using stream proxy low-level IO

PHP 5.1.0-2005-11-24

Add support class constants and static members to the internal class
Add 'new _ link' to mssql_connect
Add the PDO_MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY parameter to pdo_mysql
Add the date_timezone_set () function
Add the pg_fetch_all_columns () function to obtain all values of the column.
Add the LOCK_EX flag file_put_constent ()
Add the bindto option to the socket
Add the offset parameter to the stream_copy_to_stream () function.
Add the offset and length parameters to the substr_count () function.
The 'phpsize' and 'php-config' scripts are added.
Added support for. cc file types
Add PHP_INT_MAX and PHP_INT_SIZE as predefined constants.
Input prompt with array added
Added support for. cc files in extension
Add new functions to support PostgreSQL v3 Protocol: pg_transaction_status (), pg_query_params (), pg_prepare (), pg_execute (), merge (), pg_send_prepare (), pg_send_execute (), pg_result_error_field (), pg_set_error_verbosity ().
Add interface Serializable
Add new functions: array_diff_key (), array_diff_ukey (), equals (), equals (), array_product (), DomDocumentFragment: appendXML (), fputcsv (), htmlspecialchars_decode (), inet_ton (), inet_ntop (), mysqli: client_info, posix_access (), posix_mknod (), SimpleXMLElement: sums (), stream_context_get_default (), sums (), sums (), stream_filter_remove (), time_sleep_until ().
Added support for pointers in MySQL 5.x mysqli.
Added support for zlib stream filter
Add MDTM support to ftp_url_stat
Added bz2 stream filter support
Improved mysqli Extension
Improve SPL Extension
Upgrade the PCRE Library to version 6.2, upgrade the SQLite 3 Library in ext/pdo_sqlite to 3.2.7, and upgrade the sqlite 2 library in ext/SQLite to 2.8.16.
Upgrade zlib 1.2.3, curl 7.14.0, openssl 0.9.8, ming 0.3b, libpq (PostgreSQL) 8.0.1

PHP 5.1.1-2005-11-28

Disable the local time class to prevent the pear: date conflict.
Improved safe_mode/open_basedir check
Change the reflection variables in php and class variables

PHP 5.1.2-2006-01-12

Update libsqlite from ext/sqlite to 2.8.17.
Update libsqlite in ext/pdo-sqlite to 3.2.8.
Updating libxml2-2.6.22 and libxslt-1.1.15 in win32
Add new extensions: XMLWriter and Hash
Add PNG compression to GD Extension
Add a reflection constant as a class constant
Change the reflection to an extension.
Improve SPL Extension
Improved SimpleXML Extension
Upgrade PEAR to 1.4.6
Add the following constants: libxslt and libexslt versions: LIBXSLT_VERSION, LIBXSLT_DOTTED_VERSION, LIBEXSLT_VERSION, and LIBEXSLT_DOTTED_VERSION.

PHP 5.1.3-2006-05-02

Upgrade the PCRE Library to version 6.6.
Re-implement FastCGI Interface
Improve SPL
Improvement of SimpleXML
Improved Reflection API
Improved cURL Extension
Improves DG Expansion

PHP 5.1.4-2006-05-04

Add the 'capture _ peer_cert 'and 'capture _ peer_cert_chain' options for the SSL stream.
Add a PDO: PARAM_EVT _ * family constant

PHP 5.1.4-2006-08-17

Overflow of str_repeat () and wordwrap () in 64-bit Systems

PHP 5.1.4-2006-08-24

Solve the Problem of memory_limit for 64-bit Systems