PHP 4.4.0 Release

Published yesterday, do not know why I subscribed to the RSS actually did not show. Not much change than 4.3.11, mainly bug Fix.
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Version 4.4.0

11-jul-2005

Added mans pages for "Phpize" and "Php-config" scripts. The use of the Linux platform is relatively large Added. cc files in extensions.//or under the Linux platform Added the sorting flag sort_locale_string to the Sort () functions which makes them sort based on the current locale. The sort function appears to be a bit out of the old usage. Changed sha1_file () and Md5_file () functions to use streams instead of low level IO. This is good stuff that can improve the execution efficiency of many programs in the Fixed memory corruptions when using the references in a wrong means. Fixed Memory Corruption in Pg_copy_from () of the As_null parameter was passed. Fixed Memory Corruption in STRISTR (). (Derick)//These three may seem to reduce the likelihood of overflow fixed bug #32685, fixed bug #29423 (Segfault when using assignment by reference within function ). Fixed bug #33242 (Mangled error message when stream fails). Fixed bug #33222 (Segfault when CURL handle was closed in a callback). Fixed bug #33214 (Odbc_next_result does not signal SQL errors with 2-statement SQL batches). Fixed bug #33210 (relax jpeg recursive loop protection). Fixed bug #33200 (Preg_replace (): Magic_quotes_sybase=on makes ' e ' modifier misbehave). Fixed bug #33150 (shtool:insecure temporary file creation). Fixed bug #33072 (Add a safemode/open_basedir check for runtime save_path change). Fixed bug #33070 (improved performance of bzdecompress () by several orders of magnitude). Fixed bug #33057 (Don ' t send extraneous entity-headers on a 304 as per RFC 2616 section 10.3.5). Fixed bug #33019 (socket errors cause memory leaks in php_strerror ()). Fixed bug #33017 ("Make Distclean" gives a error with VPATH build). Fixed bug #33013 ("next month" is handled wrong while parsing dates). Fixed bug #32974 (Pcntl calls malloc () from a signal handler). Fixed bug #32944 (disabling session.use_cookies doesn ' t prevent reading session cookies). Fixed bug #32936 (http redirects URLs is not checked for control chars). Fixed bug #32932 (Oracle ldap:ldap_get_entries Invalid pointer). Fixed bug #32904 (pg_get_notify () ignores result_type parameter). Fixed bug #32813 (Parse_url () does not handLe scheme-only URLs properly). Fixed bug #32810 (temporary files not using plain file wrapper). Fixed bug #32802 (General cookie overrides more specific cookie). Fixed bug #32800, fixed bug #32830 (ext/odbc:problems with 64bit systems). Fixed bug #32773 (GMP functions second parameter is 0). Fixed bug #32742 (segmentation fault when the stream with a wrapper are not closed). Fixed bug #32730 (ext/crack.c fails to compile with cracklib-2.8.3). Fixed bug #32670 (foreach () does not issue warning on unset array arg). Fixed bug #32699 (pg_affected_rows () was defined when it is not available). Fixed bug #32682 (Ext/mssql:error on module shutdown if called from ActiveScript). Fixed bug #32647 (Using register_shutdown_function () with invalid callback can crash PHP). Fixed bug #32591 (ext/mysql:unsatisfied symbol:ntohs with HP-UX). Fixed bug #32589 (Possible crash inside Imap_mail_compose, with charsets). Fixed bug #32587 (Apache2:errors sent to Error_log does not include TimestAmps). Fixed bug #32567 (Ext/gmp fails to compile in Threadsafe mode). Fixed bug #32538 (EXT/SWF/SWF.C does not compile with gcc-3.4.x or newer). Fixed bug #32530 (Chunk_split () does not append ENDSTR if chunklen are longer then the original string). Fixed bug #32491 (file upload error-unable to create a temporary file). Fixed bug #32311 (Mb_encode_mimeheader () does not properly escape characters). Fixed bug #32245 (Xml_parser_free () in a function assigned to the XML parser gives a segfault). Fixed bug #32116 (MySQL compressed connection doesn ' t work under Windows). Fixed bug #31887 (isapi:custom 5xx error does not return correct HTTP response message). Fixed bug #31583 (Php_std_date () uses short day names in non-y2k_compliance mode). Fixed bug #31213 (sideeffects caused by fix of bug fixed bug #29493). Fixed bug #30052 (Crash on shutdown after Odbc_pconnect ()). Fixed bug #29975 (memory leaks when Set_error_handler () is used inside error handler). Fixed bug #29944 (Function defined In switch, crashes). Fixed bug #29338 (unencoded spaces get ignored after certain tags). Fixed bug #28605 (need to use-[m]ieee option for Alpha CPUs). Fixed bug #28377 (Debug_backtrace is intermittently passing args).

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