PHP 5 ChangeLog

Version 5.3.0

• Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.9. (Nuno)
• Upgraded bundled sqlite to version 3.6.15. (Scott)
• Moved extensions to PECL (Derick, Lukas, Pierre, Scott):
  • ext/dbase
  • ext/fbsql
  • ext/fdf
  • ext/ncurses
  • ext/mhash (BC layer is now entirely within ext/hash)
  • ext/ming
  • ext/msql
  • ext/sybase (not maintained anymore, sybase_ct has to be used instead)
• Removed the experimental RPL (master/slave) functions from mysqli. (Andrey)
• Removed zend.ze1_compatibility_mode. (Dmitry)
• Removed all zend_extension_* php.ini directives. Zend extensions are now always loaded using zend_extension directive. (Derick)
• Removed special treatment of "/tmp" in sessions for open_basedir. Note: This undocumented behaviour was introduced in 5.2.2. (Alexey)
• Removed shebang line check from CGI sapi (checked by scanner). (Dmitry)
• Changed PCRE, Reflection and SPL extensions to be always enabled. (Marcus)
• Changed md5() to use improved implementation. (Solar Designer, Dmitry)
• Changed HTTP stream wrapper to accept any code between and including 200 to 399 as successful. (Mike, Noah Fontes)
• Changed __call() to be invoked on private/protected method access, similar to properties and __get(). (Andrei)
• Changed dl() to be disabled by default. Enabled only when explicitly registered by the SAPI. Currently enabled with cli, cgi and embed SAPIs. (Dmitry)
• Changed opendir(), dir() and scandir() to use default context when no context argument is passed. (Sara)
• Changed open_basedir to allow tightening in runtime contexts. (Sara)
• Changed PHP/Zend extensions to use flexible build IDs. (Stas)
• Changed error level E_ERROR into E_WARNING in Soap extension methods parameter validation. (Felipe)
• Changed openssl info to show the shared library version number. (Scott)
• Changed floating point behaviour to consistently use double precision on all platforms and with all compilers. (Christian Seiler)
• Changed round() to act more intuitively when rounding to a certain precision and round very large and very small exponents correctly. (Christian Seiler)
• Changed session_start() to return false when session startup fails. (Jani)
• Changed property_exists() to check the existence of a property independent of accessibility (like method_exists()). (Felipe)
• Changed array_reduce() to allow mixed $initial (Christian Seiler)
• Improved PHP syntax and semantics:
  • Added lambda functions and closures. (Christian Seiler, Dmitry)
  • Added "jump label" operator (limited "goto"). (Dmitry, Sara)
  • Added NOWDOC syntax. (Gwynne Raskind, Stas, Dmitry)
  • Added HEREDOC syntax with double quotes. (Lars Strojny, Felipe)
  • Added support for using static HEREDOCs to initialize static variables and class members or constants. (Matt)
  • Improved syntax highlighting and consistency for variables in double-quoted strings and literal text in HEREDOCs and backticks. (Matt)
  • Added "?:" operator. (Marcus)
  • Added support for namespaces. (Dmitry, Stas, Gregory, Marcus)
  • Added support for Late Static Binding. (Dmitry, Etienne Kneuss)
  • Added support for __callStatic() magic method. (Sara)
  • Added forward_static_call(_array) to complete LSB. (Mike Lively)
  • Added support for dynamic access of static members using $foo::myFunc(). (Etienne Kneuss)
  • Improved checks for callbacks. (Marcus)
  • Added __DIR__ constant. (Lars Strojny)
  • Added new error modes E_USER_DEPRECATED and E_DEPRECATED. E_DEPRECATED is used to inform about stuff being scheduled for removal in future PHP versions. (Lars Strojny, Felipe, Marcus)
  • Added "request_order" INI variable to control specifically $_REQUEST behavior. (Stas)
  • Added support for exception linking. (Marcus)
  • Added ability to handle exceptions in destructors. (Marcus)
• Improved PHP runtime speed and memory usage:
  • Substitute global-scope, persistent constants with their values at compile time. (Matt)
  • Optimized ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG(). (Matt)
  • Removed direct executor recursion. (Dmitry)
  • Use fastcall calling convention in executor on x86. (Dmitry)
  • Use IS_CV for direct access to $this variable. (Dmitry)
  • Use ZEND_FREE() opcode instead of ZEND_SWITCH_FREE(IS_TMP_VAR). (Dmitry)
  • Lazy EG(active_symbol_table) initialization. (Dmitry)
  • Optimized ZEND_RETURN opcode to not allocate and copy return value if it is not used. (Dmitry)
  • Replaced all flex based scanners with re2c based scanners. (Marcus, Nuno, Scott)
  • Added garbage collector. (David Wang, Dmitry).
  • Improved PHP binary size and startup speed with GCC4 visibility control. (Nuno)
  • Improved engine stack implementation for better performance and stability. (Dmitry)
  • Improved memory usage by moving constants to read only memory. (Dmitry, Pierre)
  • Changed exception handling. Now each op_array doesn't contain ZEND_HANDLE_EXCEPTION opcode in the end. (Dmitry)
  • Optimized require_once() and include_once() by eliminating fopen(3) on second usage. (Dmitry)
  • Optimized ZEND_FETCH_CLASS + ZEND_ADD_INTERFACE into single ZEND_ADD_INTERFACE opcode. (Dmitry)
  • Optimized string searching for a single character. (Michal Dziemianko, Scott)
  • Optimized interpolated strings to use one less opcode. (Matt)
• Improved php.ini handling: (Jani)
  • Added ".htaccess" style user-defined php.ini files support for CGI/FastCGI.
  • Added support for special [PATH=/opt/httpd/www.example.com/] and [HOST=www.example.com] sections. Directives set in these sections can not be overridden by user-defined ini-files or during runtime.
  • Added better error reporting for php.ini syntax errors.
  • Allowed using full path to load modules using "extension" directive.
  • Allowed "ini-variables" to be used almost everywhere ini php.ini files.
  • Allowed using alphanumeric/variable indexes in "array" ini options.
  • Added 3rd optional parameter to parse_ini_file() to specify the scanning mode of INI_SCANNER_NORMAL or INI_SCANNER_RAW. In raw mode option values and section values are treated as-is.
  • Fixed get_cfg_var() to be able to return "array" ini options.
  • Added optional parameter to ini_get_all() to only retrieve the current value. (Hannes)
• Improved Windows support:
  • Update all libraries to their latest stable version. (Pierre, Rob, Liz, Garrett).
  • Added Windows support for stat(), touch(), filemtime(), filesize() and related functions. (Pierre)
  • Re-added socket_create_pair() for Windows in sockets extension. (Kalle)
  • Added inet_pton() and inet_ntop() also for Windows platforms. (Kalle, Pierre)
  • Added mcrypt_create_iv() for Windows platforms. (Pierre)
  • Added ACL Cache support on Windows. (Kanwaljeet Singla, Pierre, Venkat Raman Don)
  • Added constants based on Windows' GetVersionEx information. PHP_WINDOWS_VERSION_* and PHP_WINDOWS_NT_*. (Pierre)
  • Added support for ACL (is_writable, is_readable, reports now correct results) on Windows. (Pierre, Venkat Raman Don, Kanwaljeet Singla)
  • Added support for fnmatch() on Windows. (Pierre)
  • Added support for time_nanosleep() and time_sleep_until() on Windows. (Pierre)
  • Added support for symlink(), readlink(), linkinfo() and link() on Windows. They are available only when the running platform supports them. (Pierre)
  • the GMP extension now relies on MPIR instead of the GMP library. (Pierre)
  • Added Windows support for stream_socket_pair(). (Kalle)
  • Drop all external dependencies for the core features. (Pierre)
  • Drastically improve the build procedure (Pierre, Kalle, Rob):
    • VC9 (Visual C++ 2008) or later support
    • Initial experimental x64 support
  • MSI installer now supports all recent Windows versions, including Windows 7. (John, Kanwaljeet Singla)
• Improved and cleaned CGI code:
  • FastCGI is now always enabled and cannot be disabled. See sapi/cgi/CHANGES for more details. (Dmitry)
  • Added CGI SAPI -T option which can be used to measure execution time of script repeated several times. (Dmitry)
• Improved streams:
  • Fixed confusing error message on failure when no errors are logged. (Greg)
  • Added stream_supports_lock() function. (Benjamin Schulz)
  • Added context parameter for copy() function. (Sara)
  • Added "glob://" stream wrapper. (Marcus)
  • Added "params" as optional parameter for stream_context_create(). (Sara)
  • Added ability to use stream wrappers in include_path. (Gregory, Dmitry)
• Improved DNS API
  • Added Windows support for dns_check_record(), dns_get_mx(), checkdnsrr() and getmxrr(). (Pierre)
  • Added support for old style DNS functions (supports OSX and FBSD). (Scott)
  • Added a new "entries" array in dns_check_record() containing the TXT elements. (Felipe, Pierre)
• Improved hash extension:
  • Changed mhash to be a wrapper layer around the hash extension. (Scott)
  • Added hash_copy() function. (Tony)
  • Added sha224 hash algorithm to the hash extension. (Scott)
• Improved IMAP support (Pierre):
  • Added imap_gc() to clear the imap cache
  • Added imap_utf8_to_mutf7() and imap_mutf7_to_utf8()
• Improved mbstring extension:
  • Added "mbstring.http_output_conv_mimetypes" INI directive that allows common non-text types such as "application/xhtml+xml" to be converted by mb_output_handler(). (Moriyoshi)
• Improved OCI8 extension (Chris Jones/Oracle Corp.):
  • Added Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Fast Application Notification (FAN) support.
  • Added support for Oracle External Authentication (not supported on Windows).
  • Improve persistent connection handling of restarted DBs.
  • Added SQLT_AFC (aka CHAR datatype) support to oci_bind_by_name.
  • Fixed bug #45458 (Numeric keys for associative arrays are not handled properly)
  • Fixed bug #41069 (Segmentation fault with query over DB link).
  • Fixed define of SQLT_BDOUBLE and SQLT_BFLOAT constants with Oracle 10g ORACLE_HOME builds.
  • Changed default value of oci8.default_prefetch from 10 to 100.
  • Fixed PECL bug #16035 (OCI8: oci_connect without ORACLE_HOME defined causes segfault) (Chris Jones/Oracle Corp.)
  • Fixed PECL bug #15988 (OCI8: sqlnet.ora isn't read with older Oracle libraries) (Chris Jones/Oracle Corp.)
  • Fixed PECL bug #14268 (Allow "pecl install oci8" command to "autodetect" an Instant Client RPM install) (Chris Jones/Oracle Corp.)
  • Fixed PECL bug #12431 (OCI8 ping functionality is broken).
  • Allow building (e.g from PECL) the PHP 5.3-based OCI8 code with PHP 4.3.9 onwards.
  • Provide separate extensions for Oracle 11g and 10g on Windows. (Pierre, Chris)
• Improved OpenSSL extension:
  • Added support for OpenSSL digest and cipher functions. (Dmitry)
  • Added access to internal values of DSA, RSA and DH keys. (Dmitry)
  • Fixed a memory leak on openssl_decrypt(). (Henrique)
  • Fixed segfault caused by openssl_pkey_new(). (Henrique)
  • Fixed bug caused by uninitilized variables in openssl_pkcs7_encrypt() and openssl_pkcs7_sign(). (Henrique)
  • Fixed error message in openssl_seal(). (Henrique)
• Improved pcntl extension: (Arnaud)
  • Added pcntl_signal_dispatch().
  • Added pcntl_sigprocmask().
  • Added pcntl_sigwaitinfo().
  • Added pcntl_sigtimedwait().
• Improved SOAP extension:
  • Added support for element names in context of XMLSchema's <any>. (Dmitry)
  • Added ability to use Traversable objects instead of plain arrays. (Joshua Reese, Dmitry)
  • Fixed possible crash bug caused by an uninitialized value. (Zdash Urf)
• Improved SPL extension:
  • Added SPL to list of standard extensions that cannot be disabled. (Marcus)
  • Added ability to store associative information with objects in SplObjectStorage. (Marcus)
  • Added ArrayAccess support to SplObjectStorage. (Marcus)
  • Added SplDoublyLinkedList, SplStack, SplQueue classes. (Etienne)
  • Added FilesystemIterator. (Marcus)
  • Added GlobIterator. (Marcus)
  • Added SplHeap, SplMinHeap, SplMaxHeap, SplPriorityQueue classes. (Etienne)
  • Added new parameter $prepend to spl_autoload_register(). (Etienne)
  • Added SplFixedArray. (Etienne, Tony)
  • Added delaying exceptions in SPL's autoload mechanism. (Marcus)
  • Added RecursiveTreeIterator. (Arnaud, Marcus)
  • Added MultipleIterator. (Arnaud, Marcus, Johannes)
• Improved Zend Engine:
  • Added "compact" handler for Zend MM storage. (Dmitry)
  • Added "+" and "*" specifiers to zend_parse_parameters(). (Andrei)
  • Added concept of "delayed early binding" that allows opcode caches to perform class declaration (early and/or run-time binding) in exactly the same order as vanilla PHP. (Dmitry)
• Improved crypt() function: (Pierre)
  • Added Blowfish and extended DES support. (Using Blowfish implementation from Solar Designer).
  • Made crypt features portable by providing our own implementations for crypt_r and the algorithms which are used when OS does not provide them. PHP implementations are always used for Windows builds.
• Deprecated session_register(), session_unregister() and session_is_registered(). (Hannes)
• Deprecated define_syslog_variables(). (Kalle)
• Deprecated ereg extension. (Felipe)
• Added new extensions:
  • Added Enchant extension as a way to access spell checkers. (Pierre)
  • Added fileinfo extension as replacement for mime_magic extension. (Derick)
  • Added intl extension for Internationalization. (Ed B., Vladimir I., Dmitry L., Stanislav M., Vadim S., Kirti V.)
  • Added mysqlnd extension as replacement for libmysql for ext/mysql, mysqli and PDO_mysql. (Andrey, Johannes, Ulf)
  • Added phar extension for handling PHP Archives. (Greg, Marcus, Steph)
  • Added SQLite3 extension. (Scott)
• Added new date/time functionality: (Derick)
  • date_parse_from_format(): Parse date/time strings according to a format.
  • date_create_from_format()/DateTime::createFromFormat(): Create a date/time object by parsing a date/time string according to a given format.
  • date_get_last_errors()/DateTime::getLastErrors(): Return a list of warnings and errors that were found while parsing a date/time string through:
    • strtotime() / new DateTime
    • date_create_from_format() / DateTime::createFromFormat()
    • date_parse_from_format().
  • support for abbreviation and offset based timezone specifiers for the 'e' format specifier, DateTime::__construct(), DateTime::getTimeZone() and DateTimeZone::getName().
  • support for selectively listing timezone identifiers by continent or country code through timezone_identifiers_list() / DateTimezone::listIdentifiers().
  • timezone_location_get() / DateTimezone::getLocation() for retrieving location information from timezones.
  • date_timestamp_set() / DateTime::setTimestamp() to set a Unix timestamp without invoking the date parser. (Scott, Derick)
  • date_timestamp_get() / DateTime::getTimestamp() to retrieve the Unix timestamp belonging to a date object.
  • two optional parameters to timezone_transitions_get() / DateTimeZone::getTranstions() to limit the range of transitions being returned.
  • support for "first/last day of <month>" style texts.
  • support for date/time strings returned by MS SQL.
  • support for serialization and unserialization of DateTime objects.
  • support for diffing date/times through date_diff() / DateTime::diff().
  • support for adding/subtracting weekdays with strtotime() and DateTime::modify().
  • DateInterval class to represent the difference between two date/times.
  • support for parsing ISO intervals for use with DateInterval.
  • date_add() / DateTime::add(), date_sub() / DateTime::sub() for applying an interval to an existing date/time.
  • proper support for "this week", "previous week"/"last week" and "next week" phrases so that they actually mean the week and not a seven day period around the current day.
  • support for "<xth> <weekday> of" and "last <weekday> of" phrases to be used with months - like in "last saturday of februari 2008".
  • support for "back of <hour>" and "front of <hour>" phrases that are used in Scotland.
  • DatePeriod class which supports iterating over a DateTime object applying DateInterval on each iteration, up to an end date or limited by maximum number of occurences.
• Added compatibility mode in GD, imagerotate, image(filled)ellipse imagefilter, imageconvolution and imagecolormatch are now always enabled. (Pierre)
• Added array_replace() and array_replace_recursive() functions. (Matt)
• Added ReflectionProperty::setAccessible() method that allows non-public property's values to be read through ::getValue() and set through ::setValue(). (Derick, Sebastian)
• Added msg_queue_exists() function to sysvmsg extension. (Benjamin Schulz)
• Added Firebird specific attributes that can be set via PDO::setAttribute() to control formatting of date/timestamp columns: PDO::FB_ATTR_DATE_FORMAT, PDO::FB_ATTR_TIME_FORMAT and PDO::FB_ATTR_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT. (Lars W)
• Added gmp_testbit() function. (Stas)
• Added icon format support to getimagesize(). (Scott)
• Added LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT option for ldap_set_option() to allow setting network timeout (FR #42837). (Jani)
• Added optional escape character parameter to fgetcsv(). (David Soria Parra)
• Added an optional parameter to strstr() and stristr() for retrieval of either the part of haystack before or after first occurrence of needle. (Johannes, Felipe)
• Added xsl->setProfiling() for profiling stylesheets. (Christian)
• Added long-option feature to getopt() and made getopt() available also on win32 systems by adding a common getopt implementation into core. (David Soria Parra, Jani)
• Added support for optional values, and = as separator, in getopt(). (Hannes)
• Added lcfirst() function. (David C)
• Added PREG_BAD_UTF8_OFFSET_ERROR constant. (Nuno)
• Added native support for asinh(), acosh(), atanh(), log1p() and expm1(). (Kalle)
• Added LIBXML_LOADED_VERSION constant (libxml2 version currently used). (Rob)
• Added JSON_FORCE_OBJECT flag to json_encode(). (Scott, Richard Quadling)
• Added timezone_version_get() to retrieve the version of the used timezone database. (Derick)
• Added 'n' flag to fopen to allow passing O_NONBLOCK to the underlying open(2) system call. (Mikko)
• Added "dechunk" filter which can decode HTTP responses with chunked transfer-encoding. HTTP streams use this filter automatically in case "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header is present in response. It's possible to disable this behaviour using "http"=>array("auto_decode"=>0) in stream context. (Dmitry)
• Added support for CP850 encoding in mbstring extension. (Denis Giffeler, Moriyoshi)
• Added stream_cast() and stream_set_options() to user-space stream wrappers, allowing stream_select(), stream_set_blocking(), stream_set_timeout() and stream_set_write_buffer() to work with user-space stream wrappers. (Arnaud)
• Added header_remove() function. (chsc at peytz dot dk, Arnaud)
• Added stream_context_get_params() function. (Arnaud)
• Added optional parameter "new" to sybase_connect(). (Timm)
• Added parse_ini_string() function. (grange at lemonde dot fr, Arnaud)
• Added str_getcsv() function. (Sara)
• Added openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() function. (Scott)
• Added ability to send user defined HTTP headers with SOAP request. (Brian J.France, Dmitry)
• Added concatenation option to bz2.decompress stream filter. (Keisial at gmail dot com, Greg)
• Added support for using compressed connections with PDO_mysql. (Johannes)
• Added the ability for json_decode() to take a user specified depth. (Scott)
• Added support for the mysql_stmt_next_result() function from libmysql. (Andrey)
• Added function preg_filter() that does grep and replace in one go. (Marcus)
• Added system independent realpath() implementation which caches intermediate directories in realpath-cache. (Dmitry)
• Added optional clear_realpath_cache and filename parameters to clearstatcache(). (Jani, Arnaud)
• Added litespeed SAPI module. (George Wang)
• Added ext/hash support to ext/session's ID generator. (Sara)
• Added quoted_printable_encode() function. (Tony)
• Added stream_context_set_default() function. (Davey Shafik)
• Added optional "is_xhtml" parameter to nl2br() which makes the function output <br> when false and <br /> when true (FR #34381). (Kalle)
• Added PHP_MAXPATHLEN constant (maximum length of a path). (Pierre)
• Added support for SSH via libssh2 in cURL. (Pierre)
• Added support for gray levels PNG image with alpha in GD extension. (Pierre)
• Added support for salsa hashing functions in HASH extension. (Scott)
• Added DOMNode::getLineNo to get line number of parsed node. (Rob)
• Added table info to PDO::getColumnMeta() with SQLite. (Martin Jansen, Scott)
• Added mail logging functionality that allows logging of mail sent via mail() function. (Ilia)
• Added json_last_error() to return any error information from json_decode(). (Scott)
• Added gethostname() to return the current system host name. (Ilia)
• Added shm_has_var() function. (Mike)
• Added depth parameter to json_decode() to lower the nesting depth from the maximum if required. (Scott)
• Added pixelation support in imagefilter(). (Takeshi Abe, Kalle)
• Added SplObjectStorage::addAll/removeAll. (Etienne)
• Implemented FR #41712 (curl progress callback: CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION). (sdteffen[at]gmail[dot].com, Pierre)
• Implemented FR #47739 (Missing cURL option do disable IPv6). (Pierre)
• Implemented FR #39637 (Missing cURL option CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD). (Pierre)
• Fixed an issue with ReflectionProperty::setAccessible(). (Sebastian, Roman Borschel)
• Fixed html_entity_decode() incorrectly converting numeric html entities to different characters with cp1251 and cp866. (Scott)
• Fixed an issue in date() where a : was printed for the O modifier after a P modifier was used. (Derick)
• Fixed exec() on Windows to not eat the first and last double quotes. (Scott)
• Fixed readlink on Windows in thread safe SAPI (apache2.x etc.). (Pierre)
• Fixed a bug causing miscalculations with the "last <weekday> of <n> month" relative time string. (Derick)
• Fixed bug causing the algorithm parameter of mhash() to be modified. (Scott)
• Fixed invalid calls to free when internal fileinfo magic file is used. (Scott)
• Fixed memory leak inside wddx_add_vars() function. (Felipe)
• Fixed check in recode extension to allow builing of recode and mysql extensions when using a recent libmysql. (Johannes)
• Fixed PECL bug #12794 (PDOStatement->nextRowset() doesn't work). (Johannes)
• Fixed PECL bug #12401 (Add support for ATTR_FETCH_TABLE_NAMES). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #48696 (ldap_read() segfaults with invalid parameters). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #48643 (String functions memory issue). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #48641 (tmpfile() uses old parameter parsing). (crrodriguez at opensuse dot org)
• Fixed bug #48624 (.user.ini never gets parsed). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #48620 (X-PHP-Originating-Script assumes no trailing CRLF in existing headers). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #48578 (Can't build 5.3 on FBSD 4.11). (Rasmus)
• Fixed bug #48535 (file_exists returns false when impersonate is used). (Kanwaljeet Singla, Venkat Raman Don)
• Fixed bug #48493 (spl_autoload_register() doesn't work correctly when prepending functions). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #48215 (Calling a method with the same name as the parent class calls the constructor). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #48200 (compile failure with mbstring.c when --enable-zend-multibyte is used). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #48188 (Cannot execute a scrollable cursors twice with PDO_PGSQL). (Matteo)
• Fixed bug #48185 (warning: value computed is not used in pdo_sqlite_stmt_get_col line 271). (Matteo)
• Fixed bug #48087 (call_user_method() invalid free of arguments). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #48060 (pdo_pgsql - large objects are returned as empty). (Matteo)
• Fixed bug #48034 (PHP crashes when script is 8192 (8KB) bytes long). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #48004 (Error handler prevents creation of default object). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47880 (crashes in call_user_func_array()). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47856 (stristr() converts needle to lower-case). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47851 (is_callable throws fatal error). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47816 (pcntl tests failing on NetBSD). (Matteo)
• Fixed bug #47779 (Wrong value for SIG_UNBLOCK and SIG_SETMASK constants). (Matteo)
• Fixed bug #47771 (Exception during object construction from arg call calls object's destructor). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47767 (include_once does not resolve windows symlinks or junctions) (Kanwaljeet Singla, Venkat Raman Don)
• Fixed bug #47757 (rename JPG to JPEG in phpinfo). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #47745 (FILTER_VALIDATE_INT doesn't allow minimum integer). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47714 (autoloading classes inside exception_handler leads to crashes). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47671 (Cloning SplObjectStorage instances). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #47664 (get_class returns NULL instead of FALSE). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47662 (Support more than 127 subpatterns in preg_match). (Nuno)
• Fixed bug #47596 (Bus error on parsing file). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47572 (Undefined constant causes segmentation fault). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47560 (explode()'s limit parameter odd behaviour). (Matt)
• Fixed bug #47549 (get_defined_constants() return array with broken array categories). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47535 (Compilation failure in ps_fetch_from_1_to_8_bytes()). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #47534 (RecursiveDiteratoryIterator::getChildren ignoring CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #47443 (metaphone('scratch') returns wrong result). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47438 (mysql_fetch_field ignores zero offset). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #47398 (PDO_Firebird doesn't implements quoter correctly). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47390 (odbc_fetch_into - BC in php 5.3.0). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47359 (Use the expected unofficial mimetype for bmp files). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #47343 (gc_collect_cycles causes a segfault when called within a destructor in one case). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47320 ($php_errormsg out of scope in functions). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47318 (UMR when trying to activate user config). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #47243 (OCI8: Crash at shutdown on Windows) (Chris Jones/Oracle Corp.)
• Fixed bug #47231 (offsetGet error using incorrect offset). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #47229 (preg_quote() should escape the '-' char). (Nuno)
• Fixed bug #47165 (Possible memory corruption when passing return value by reference). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47087 (Second parameter of mssql_fetch_array()). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47085 (rename() returns true even if the file in PHAR does not exist). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #47050 (mysqli_poll() modifies improper variables). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #47045 (SplObjectStorage instances compared with ==). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #47038 (Memory leak in include). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47031 (Fix constants in DualIterator example). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #47021 (SoapClient stumbles over WSDL delivered with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46994 (OCI8: CLOB size does not update when using CLOB IN OUT param in stored procedure) (Chris Jones/Oracle Corp.)
• Fixed bug #46979 (use with non-compound name *has* effect). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46957 (The tokenizer returns deprecated values). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46944 (UTF-8 characters outside the BMP aren't encoded correctly). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #46897 (ob_flush() should fail to flush unerasable buffers). (David C.)
• Fixed bug #46849 (Cloning DOMDocument doesn't clone the properties). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #46847 (phpinfo() is missing some settings). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #46844 (php scripts or included files with first line starting with # have the 1st line missed from the output). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46817 (tokenizer misses last single-line comment (PHP 5.3+, with re2c lexer)). (Matt, Shire)
• Fixed bug #46811 (ini_set() doesn't return false on failure). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #46763 (mb_stristr() wrong output when needle does not exist). (Henrique M. Decaria)
• Fixed bug #46755 (warning: use statement with non-compound name). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46746 (xmlrpc_decode_request outputs non-suppressable error when given bad data). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46738 (Segfault when mb_detect_encoding() fails). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #46731 (Missing validation for the options parameter of the imap_fetch_overview() function). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46711 (cURL curl_setopt leaks memory in foreach loops). (magicaltux [at] php [dot] net)
• Fixed bug #46701 (Creating associative array with long values in the key fails on 32bit linux). (Shire)
• Fixed bug #46681 (mkdir() fails silently on PHP 5.3). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #46653 (can't extend mysqli). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #46646 (Restrict serialization on some internal classes like Closure and SplFileInfo using exceptions). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #46623 (OCI8: phpinfo doesn't show compile time ORACLE_HOME with phpize) (Chris Jones/Oracle Corp.)
• Fixed bug #46578 (strip_tags() does not honor end-of-comment when it encounters a single quote). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46546 (Segmentation fault when using declare statement with non-string value). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46542 (Extending PDO class with a __call() function doesn't work as expected). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #46421 (SplFileInfo not correctly handling /). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #46347 (parse_ini_file() doesn't support * in keys). (Nuno)
• Fixed bug #46268 (DateTime::modify() does not reset relative time values). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #46241 (stacked error handlers, internal error handling in general). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #46238 (Segmentation fault on static call with empty string method). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46192 (ArrayObject with objects as storage serialization). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #46185 (importNode changes the namespace of an XML element). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #46178 (memory leak in ext/phar). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #46160 (SPL - Memory leak when exception is thrown in offsetSet). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46147 (after stream seek, appending stream filter reads incorrect data). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #46127 (php_openssl_tcp_sockop_accept forgets to set context on accepted stream) (Mark Karpeles, Pierre)
• Fixed bug #46115 (Memory leak when calling a method using Reflection). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46110 (XMLWriter - openmemory() and openuri() leak memory on multiple calls). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46108 (DateTime - Memory leak when unserializing). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46106 (Memory leaks when using global statement). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46099 (Xsltprocessor::setProfiling - memory leak). (Felipe, Rob).
• Fixed bug #46087 (DOMXPath - segfault on destruction of a cloned object). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46048 (SimpleXML top-level @attributes not part of iterator). (David C.)
• Fixed bug #46044 (Mysqli - wrong error message). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #46042 (memory leaks with reflection of mb_convert_encoding()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46039 (ArrayObject iteration is slow). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46033 (Direct instantiation of SQLite3stmt and SQLite3result cause a segfault.) (Scott)
• Fixed bug #45991 (Ini files with the UTF-8 BOM are treated as invalid). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #45989 (json_decode() doesn't return NULL on certain invalid strings). (magicaltux, Scott)
• Fixed bug #45976 (Moved SXE from SPL to SimpleXML). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #45928 (large scripts from stdin are stripped at 16K border). (Christian Schneider, Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45911 (Cannot disable ext/hash). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45907 (undefined reference to 'PHP_SHA512Init'). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #45826 (custom ArrayObject serialization). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #45820 (Allow empty keys in ArrayObject). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #45791 (json_decode() doesn't convert 0e0 to a double). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #45786 (FastCGI process exited unexpectedly). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #45757 (FreeBSD4.11 build failure: failed include; stdint.h). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #45743 (property_exists fails to find static protected member in child class). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45717 (Fileinfo/libmagic build fails, missing err.h and getopt.h). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #45706 (Unserialization of classes derived from ArrayIterator fails). (Etienne, Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #45696 (Not all DateTime methods allow method chaining). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #45682 (Unable to var_dump(DateInterval)). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #45447 (Filesystem time functions on Vista and server 2008). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #45432 (PDO: persistent connection leak). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45392 (ob_start()/ob_end_clean() and memory_limit). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #45384 (parse_ini_file will result in parse error with no trailing newline). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45382 (timeout bug in stream_socket_enable_crypto). (vnegrier at optilian dot com, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #45044 (relative paths not resolved correctly). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #44861 (scrollable cursor don't work with pgsql). (Matteo)
• Fixed bug #44842 (parse_ini_file keys that start/end with underscore). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #44575 (parse_ini_file comment # line problems). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #44409 (PDO::FETCH_SERIALIZE calls __construct()). (Matteo)
• Fixed bug #44173 (PDO->query() parameter parsing/checking needs an update). (Matteo)
• Fixed bug #44154 (pdo->errorInfo() always have three elements in the returned array). (David C.)
• Fixed bug #44153 (pdo->errorCode() returns NULL when there are no errors). (David C.)
• Fixed bug #44135 (PDO MySQL does not support CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS). (Johannes, chx1975 at gmail dot com)
• Fixed bug #44100 (Inconsistent handling of static array declarations with duplicate keys). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43831 ($this gets mangled when extending PDO with persistent connection). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #43817 (opendir() fails on Windows directories with parent directory unaccessible). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43069 (SoapClient causes 505 HTTP Version not supported error message). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43008 (php://filter uris ignore url encoded filternames and can't handle slashes). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #42362 (HTTP status codes 204 and 304 should not be gzipped). (Scott, Edward Z. Yang)
• Fixed bug #41874 (separate STDOUT and STDERR in exec functions). (Kanwaljeet Singla, Venkat Raman Don, Pierre)
• Fixed bug #41534 (SoapClient over HTTPS fails to reestablish connection). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #38802 (max_redirects and ignore_errors). (patch by datibbaw@php.net)
• Fixed bug #35980 (touch() works on files but not on directories). (Pierre)

Version 5.2.10

• Security Fixes
  • Fixed bug #48378 (exif_read_data() segfaults on certain corrupted .jpeg files). (Pierre)
• Updated timezone database to version 2009.9 (2009i) (Derick)
• Added "ignore_errors" option to http fopen wrapper. (David Zulke, Sara)
• Added new CURL options CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, and CURLPROTO_* for redirect fixes in CURL 7.19.4. (Yoram Bar Haim, Stas)
• Added support for Sun CC (FR #46595 and FR #46513). (David Soria Parra)
• Changed default value of array_unique()'s optional sorting type parameter back to SORT_STRING to fix backwards compatibility breakage introduced in PHP 5.2.9. (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed memory corruptions while reading properties of zip files. (Ilia)
• Fixed memory leak in ob_get_clean/ob_get_flush. (Christian)
• Fixed segfault on invalid session.save_path. (Hannes)
• Fixed leaks in imap when a mail_criteria is used. (Pierre)
• Fixed missing erealloc() in fix for bug #40091 in spl_autoload_register. (Greg)
• Fixed bug #48562 (Reference recursion causes segfault when used in wddx_serialize_vars()). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #48557 (Numeric string keys in Apache Hashmaps are not cast to integers). (David Zuelke)
• Fixed bug #48518 (curl crashes when writing into invalid file handle). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #48514 (cURL extension uses same resource name for simple and multi APIs). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #48469 (ldap_get_entries() leaks memory on empty search results). (Patrick)
• Fixed bug #48456 (CPPFLAGS not restored properly in phpize.m4). (Jani, spisek at kerio dot com)
• Fixed bug #48448 (Compile failure under IRIX 6.5.30 building cast.c). (Kalle)
• Fixed bug #48441 (ldap_search() sizelimit, timelimit and deref options persist). (Patrick)
• Fixed bug #48434 (Improve memory_get_usage() accuracy). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #48416 (Force a cache limit in ereg() to stop excessive memory usage). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #48409 (Crash when exception is thrown while passing function arguments). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #48378 (exif_read_data() segfaults on certain corrupted .jpeg files). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #48359 (Script hangs on snmprealwalk if OID is not increasing). (Ilia, simonov at gmail dot com)
• Fixed bug #48336 (ReflectionProperty::getDeclaringClass() does not work with redeclared property). (patch by Markus dot Lidel at shadowconnect dot com)
• Fixed bug #48326 (constant MSG_DONTWAIT not defined). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #48313 (fgetcsv() does not return null for empty rows). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #48309 (stream_copy_to_stream() and fpasstru() do not update stream position of plain files). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #48307 (stream_copy_to_stream() copies 0 bytes when $source is a socket). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #48273 (snmp*_real_walk() returns SNMP errors as values). (Ilia, lytboris at gmail dot com)
• Fixed bug #48256 (Crash due to double-linking of history.o). (tstarling at wikimedia dot org)
• Fixed bug #48248 (SIGSEGV when access to private property via &__get). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #48247 (Crash on errors during startup). (Stas)
• Fixed bug #48240 (DBA Segmentation fault dba_nextkey). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #48224 (Incorrect shuffle in array_rand). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #48221 (memory leak when passing invalid xslt parameter). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #48207 (CURLOPT_(FILE|WRITEHEADER options do not error out when working with a non-writable stream). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #48206 (Iterating over an invalid data structure with RecursiveIteratorIterator leads to a segfault). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #48204 (xmlwriter_open_uri() does not emit warnings on invalid paths). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #48203 (Crash when CURLOPT_STDERR is set to regular file). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #48202 (Out of Memory error message when passing invalid file path) (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #48156 (Added support for lcov v1.7). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #48132 (configure check for curl ssl support fails with --disable-rpath). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #48131 (Don't try to bind ipv4 addresses to ipv6 ips via bindto). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #48070 (PDO_OCI: Segfault when using persistent connection). (Pierre, Matteo, jarismar dot php at gmail dot com)
• Fixed bug #48058 (Year formatter goes wrong with out-of-int range). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #48038 (odbc_execute changes variables used to form params array). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47997 (stream_copy_to_stream returns 1 on empty streams). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #47991 (SSL streams fail if error stack contains items). (Mikko)
• Fixed bug #47981 (error handler not called regardless). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #47969 (ezmlm_hash() returns different values depend on OS). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47946 (ImageConvolution overwrites background). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47940 (memory leaks in imap_body). (Pierre, Jake Levitt)
• Fixed bug #47937 (system() calls sapi_flush() regardless of output buffering). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47903 ("@" operator does not work with string offsets). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47893 (CLI aborts on non blocking stdout). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #47849 (Non-deep import loses the namespace). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #47845 (PDO_Firebird omits first row from query). (Lars W)
• Fixed bug #47836 (array operator [] inconsistency when the array has PHP_INT_MAX index value). (Matt)
• Fixed bug #47831 (Compile warning for strnlen() in main/spprintf.c). (Ilia, rainer dot jung at kippdata dot de)
• Fixed bug #47828 (openssl_x509_parse() segfaults when a UTF-8 conversion fails). (Scott, Kees Cook, Pierre)
• Fixed bug #47818 (Segfault due to bound callback param). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47801 (__call() accessed via parent:: operator is provided incorrect method name). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47769 (Strange extends PDO). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47745 (FILTER_VALIDATE_INT doesn't allow minimum integer). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47721 (Alignment issues in mbstring and sysvshm extension) (crrodriguez at opensuse dot org, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47704 (PHP crashes on some "bad" operations with string offsets). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47695 (build error when xmlrpc and iconv are compiled against different iconv versions). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #47667 (ZipArchive::OVERWRITE seems to have no effect). (Mikko, Pierre)
• Fixed bug #47644 (Valid integers are truncated with json_decode()). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #47639 (pg_copy_from() WARNING: nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47616 (curl keeps crashing). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47598 (FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL is locale aware). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47566 (pcntl_wexitstatus() returns signed status). (patch by james at jamesreno dot com)
• Fixed bug #47564 (unpacking unsigned long 32bit bit endian returns wrong result). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47487 (performance degraded when reading large chunks after fix of bug #44607). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #47468 (enable cli|cgi-only extensions for embed sapi). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #47435 (FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE does not work with ipv6 addresses in the filter extension). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47430 (Errors after writing to nodeValue parameter of an absent previousSibling). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #47365 (ip2long() may allow some invalid values on certain 64bit systems). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47254 (Wrong Reflection for extends class). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47042 (cgi sapi is incorrectly removing SCRIPT_FILENAME). (Sriram Natarajan, David Soria Parra)
• Fixed bug #46882 (Serialize / Unserialize misbehaviour under OS with different bit numbers). (Matt)
• Fixed bug #46812 (get_class_vars() does not include visible private variable looking at subclass). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46386 (Digest authentication with SOAP module fails against MSSQL SOAP services). (Ilia, lordelph at gmail dot com)
• Fixed bug #46109 (Memory leak when mysqli::init() is called multiple times). (Andrey)
• Fixed bug #45997 (safe_mode bypass with exec/system/passthru (windows only)). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #45877 (Array key '2147483647' left as string). (Matt)
• Fixed bug #45822 (Near infinite-loops while parsing huge relative offsets). (Derick, Mike Sullivan)
• Fixed bug #45799 (imagepng() crashes on empty image). (Martin McNickle, Takeshi Abe)
• Fixed bug #45622 (isset($arrayObject->p) misbehaves with ArrayObject:: ARRAY_AS_PROPS set). (robin_fernandes at uk dot ibm dot com, Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45614 (ArrayIterator::current(), ::key() can show 1st private prop of wrapped object). (robin_fernandes at uk dot ibm dot com, Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45540 (stream_context_create creates bad http request). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45202 (zlib.output_compression can not be set with ini_set()). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #45191 (error_log ignores date.timezone php.ini val when setting logging timestamps). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #45092 (header HTTP context option not being used when compiled using --with-curlwrappers). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #44996 (xmlrpc_decode() ignores time zone on iso8601.datetime). (Ilia, kawai at apache dot org)
• Fixed bug #44827 (define() is missing error checks for class constants). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44214 (Crash using preg_replace_callback() and global variables). (Nuno, Scott)
• Fixed bug #43073 (TrueType bounding box is wrong for angle<>0). (Martin McNickle)
• Fixed bug #42663 (gzinflate() try to allocate all memory with truncated data). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #42414 (some odbc_*() functions incompatible with Oracle ODBC driver). (jhml at gmx dot net)
• Fixed bug #42362 (HTTP status codes 204 and 304 should not be gzipped). (Scott, Edward Z. Yang)
• Fixed bug #42143 (The constant NAN is reported as 0 on Windows) (Kanwaljeet Singla, Venkat Raman Don)
• Fixed bug #38805 (PDO truncates text from SQL Server text data type field). (Steph)

Version 5.2.9

• Security Fixes
  • Fixed security issue in imagerotate(), background colour isn't validated correctly with a non truecolour image. Reported by Hamid Ebadi, APA Laboratory (Fixes CVE-2008-5498). (Scott)
  • Fixed a crash on extract in zip when files or directories entry names contain a relative path. (Pierre)
  • Fixed explode() behavior with empty string to respect negative limit. (Shire)
  • Fixed a segfault when malformed string is passed to json_decode(). (Scott)
  • Fixed bug in xml_error_string() which resulted in messages being off by one. (Scott)
• Changed __call() to be invoked on private/protected method access, similar to properties and __get(). (Andrei)
• Added optional sorting type flag parameter to array_unique(). Default is SORT_REGULAR. (Andrei)
• Fixed zip filename property read. (Pierre)
• Fixed error conditions handling in stream_filter_append(). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #47422 (modulus operator returns incorrect results on 64 bit linux). (Matt)
• Fixed bug #47399 (mb_check_encoding() returns true for some illegal SJIS characters). (for-bugs at hnw dot jp, Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #47353 (crash when creating a lot of objects in object destructor). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #47322 (sscanf %d doesn't work). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47282 (FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL is marking valid email addresses as invalid). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47220 (segfault in dom_document_parser in recovery mode). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #47217 (content-type is not set properly for file uploads). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47174 (base64_decode() interprets pad char in mid string as terminator). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47165 (Possible memory corruption when passing return value by reference). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47152 (gzseek/fseek using SEEK_END produces strange results). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47131 (SOAP Extension ignores "user_agent" ini setting). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #47109 (Memory leak on $a->{"a"."b"} when $a is not an object). (Etienne, Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47104 (Linking shared extensions fails with icc). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #47049 (SoapClient::__soapCall causes a segmentation fault). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #47048 (Segfault with new pg_meta_data). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47042 (PHP cgi sapi is removing SCRIPT_FILENAME for non apache). (Sriram Natarajan)
• Fixed bug #47037 (No error when using fopen with empty string). (Cristian Rodriguez R., Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47035 (dns_get_record returns a garbage byte at the end of a TXT record). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #47027 (var_export doesn't show numeric indices on ArrayObject). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #46985 (OVERWRITE and binary mode does not work, regression introduced in 5.2.8). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #46973 (IPv6 address filter rejects valid address). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46964 (Fixed pdo_mysql build with older version of MySQL). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46959 (Unable to disable PCRE). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #46918 (imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist host part not filled in correctly). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46889 (Memory leak in strtotime()). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #46887 (Invalid calls to php_error_docref()). (oeriksson at mandriva dot com, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46873 (extract($foo) crashes if $foo['foo'] exists). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46843 (CP936 euro symbol is not converted properly). (ty_c at cybozuy dot co dot jp, Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #46798 (Crash in mssql extension when retrieving a NULL value inside a binary or image column type). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46782 (fastcgi.c parse error). (Matt)
• Fixed bug #46760 (SoapClient doRequest fails when proxy is used). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46748 (Segfault when an SSL error has more than one error). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #46739 (array returned by curl_getinfo should contain content_type key). (Mikko)
• Fixed bug #46699 (xml_parse crash when parser is namespace aware). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #46419 (Elements of associative arrays with NULL value are lost). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46282 (Corrupt DBF When Using DATE). (arne at bukkie dot nl)
• Fixed bug #46026 (bz2.decompress/zlib.inflate filter tries to decompress after end of stream). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #46005 (User not consistently logged under Apache2). (admorten at umich dot edu, Stas)
• Fixed bug #45996 (libxml2 2.7 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #45940 (MySQLI OO does not populate connect_error property on failed connect). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #45923 (mb_st[r]ripos() offset not handled correctly). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #45327 (memory leak if offsetGet throws exception). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #45239 (Encoding detector hangs with mbstring.strict_detection enabled). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #45161 (Reusing a curl handle leaks memory). (Mark Karpeles, Jani)
• Fixed bug #44336 (Improve pcre UTF-8 string matching performance). (frode at coretrek dot com, Nuno)
• Fixed bug #43841 (mb_strrpos() offset is byte count for negative values). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #37209 (mssql_execute with non fatal errors). (Kalle)
• Fixed bug #35975 (Session cookie expires date format isn't the most compatible. Now matches that of setcookie()). (Scott)

Version 5.2.8

• Reverted bug fix Fixed bug #42718 that broke magic_quotes_gpc (Scott)

Version 5.2.7

• Security Fixes
  • Upgraded PCRE to version 7.8 (Fixes CVE-2008-2371) (Ilia)
  • Fixed missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid), reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. (Stas)
  • Fixed incorrect php_value order for Apache configuration, reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. (Stas)
  • Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658). (Pierre)
  • Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659). (Laurent Gaffie)
  • Fixed security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666. (Christian Hoffmann)
  • Fixed bug #45151 (Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots)).(Fixes CVE-2008-3660) (Dmitry)
  • Fixed bug #42862 (IMAP toolkit crash: rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow). (Fixes CVE-2008-2829) (Dmitry)
• Updated timezone database to version 2008.9. (Derick)
• Upgraded bundled libzip to 0.9.0. (Pierre)
• Added logging option for error_log to send directly to SAPI. (Stas)
• Added PHP_MAJOR_VERSION, PHP_MINOR_VERSION, PHP_RELEASE_VERSION,PHP_EXTRA_VERSION, PHP_VERSION_ID, PHP_ZTS and PHP_DEBUG constants. (Pierre)
• Added "PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR" environment variable which can be used to either disable or change the compile time ini scan directory (FR Fixed bug #45114). (Jani)
• Fixed memory leak inside sqlite_create_aggregate(). (Felipe)
• Fixed memory leak inside PDO sqlite's sqliteCreateAggregate() method. (Felipe)
• Fixed memory leak inside readline_callback_handler_remove() function. (Felipe)
• Fixed sybase_fetch_*() to continue reading after CS_ROW_FAIL status (Timm)
• Fixed a bug inside dba_replace() that could cause file truncation with invalid keys. (Ilia)
• Fixed memory leak inside readline_callback_handler_install() function. (Ilia)
• Fixed memory leak inside readline_completion_function() function. (Felipe)
• Fixed stream_get_contents() when using $maxlength and socket is not closed. indeyets [at] php [dot] net on Fixed bug #46049. (Arnaud)
• Fixed stream_get_line() to behave as documented on non-blocking streams. (Arnaud)
• Fixed endless loop in PDOStatement::debugDumpParams().(jonah.harris at gmail dot com)
• Fixed ability to use "internal" heaps in extensions. (Arnaud, Dmitry)
• Fixed weekdays adding/subtracting algorithm. (Derick)
• Fixed some ambiguities in the date parser. (Derick)
• Fixed a bug with the YYYY-MM format not resetting the day correctly. (Derick)
• Fixed a bug in the DateTime->modify() methods, it would not use the advanced relative time strings. (Derick)
• Fixed extraction of zip files or directories when the entry name is a relative path. (Pierre)
• Fixed read or write errors for large zip archives. (Pierre)
• Fixed simplexml asXML() not to lose encoding when dumping entire document to file. (Ilia)
• Fixed a crash inside PDO when trying instantiate PDORow manually. (Felipe)
• Fixed build failure of ext/mysqli with libmysql 6.0 - missing rpl functions. (Andrey)
• Fixed a regression when using strip_tags() and < is within an attribute. (Scott)
• Fixed a crash on invalid method in ReflectionParameter constructor. (Christian Seiler)
• Reverted fix for bug Fixed bug #44197 due to behaviour change in minor version. (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46732 (mktime.year description is wrong). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #46696 (cURL fails in upload files with specified content-type). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46673 (stream_lock call with wrong parameter). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46649 (Setting array element with that same array produces inconsistent results). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46626 (mb_convert_case does not handle apostrophe correctly). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46543 (ibase_trans() memory leaks when using wrong parameters). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46521 (Curl ZTS OpenSSL, error in config.m4 fragment). (jd at cpanel dot net)
• Fixed bug #46496 (wddx_serialize treats input as ISO-8859-1). (Mark Karpeles)
• Fixed bug #46427 (SoapClient() stumbles over its "stream_context" parameter). (Dmitry, Herman Radtke)
• Fixed bug #46426 (offset parameter of stream_get_contents() does not workfor "0"). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46406 (Unregistering nodeclass throws E_FATAL). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #46389 (NetWare needs small patch for _timezone). (patch by guenter@php.net)
• Fixed bug #46388 (stream_notification_callback inside of object destroys object variables). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46381 (wrong $this passed to internal methods causes segfault). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #46379 (Infinite loop when parsing '#' in one line file). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46366 (bad cwd with / as pathinfo). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46360 (TCP_NODELAY constant for socket_{get,set}_option). (bugs at trick dot vanstaveren dot us)
• Fixed bug #46343 (IPv6 address filter accepts invalid address). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46335 (DOMText::splitText doesn't handle multibyte characters). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #46323 (compilation of simplexml for NetWare breaks). (Patch by guenter@php.net)
• Fixed bug #46319 (PHP sets default Content-Type header for HTTP 304 response code, in cgi sapi). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46313 (Magic quotes broke $_FILES). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46308 (Invalid write when changing property from inside getter). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46292 (PDO::setFetchMode() shouldn't requires the 2nd arg when using FETCH_CLASSTYPE). (Felipe)
• Fixed bugs #46274, #46249 (pdo_pgsql always fill in NULL for empty BLOB and segfaults when returned by SELECT). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46271 (local_cert option is not resolved to full path). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46247 (ibase_set_event_handler() is allowing to pass callback without event). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46246 (difference between call_user_func(array($this, $method))and $this->$method()). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #46222 (ArrayObject EG(uninitialized_var_ptr) overwrite). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #46215 (json_encode mutates its parameter and has some class-specific state). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46206 (pg_query_params/pg_execute convert passed values to strings). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46191 (BC break: DOMDocument saveXML() doesn't accept null). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #46164 (stream_filter_remove() closes the stream). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46157 (PDOStatement::fetchObject prototype error). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46147 (after stream seek, appending stream filter reads incorrect data). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #46139 (PDOStatement->setFetchMode() forgets FETCH_PROPS_LATE). (chsc at peytz dot dk, Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46127 (php_openssl_tcp_sockop_accept forgets to set context on accepted stream). (Mark Karpeles, Pierre)
• Fixed bug #46110 (XMLWriter - openmemory() and openuri() leak memory on multiple calls). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #46088 (RegexIterator::accept - segfault). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46082 (stream_set_blocking() can cause a crash in some circumstances). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46064 (Exception when creating ReflectionProperty object on dynamicly created property). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46059 (Compile failure under IRIX 6.5.30 building posix.c). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46053 (SplFileObject::seek - Endless loop). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46051 (SplFileInfo::openFile - memory overlap). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46047 (SimpleXML converts empty nodes into object with nested array). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #46031 (Segfault in AppendIterator::next). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46029 (Segfault in DOMText when using with Reflection). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #46026 (bzip2.decompress/zlib.inflate filter tries to decompress after end of stream). (Keisial at gmail dot com, Greg)
• Fixed bug #46024 (stream_select() doesn't return the correct number).(Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #46010 (warnings incorrectly generated for iv in ecb mode). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #46003 (isset on nonexisting node return unexpected results). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #45956 (parse_ini_file() does not return false with syntax errors in parsed file). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #45901 (wddx_serialize_value crash with SimpleXMLElement object).(Rob)
• Fixed bug #45862 (get_class_vars is inconsistent with 'protected' and 'private' variables). (ilewis at uk dot ibm dot com, Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45860 (header() function fails to correctly replace all Status lines). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #45805 (Crash on throwing exception from error handler). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #45765 (ReflectionObject with default parameters of self::xxx cause an error). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45751 (Using auto_prepend_file crashes (out of scope stack address use)). (basant dot kukreja at sun dot com)
• Fixed bug #45722 (mb_check_encoding() crashes). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #45705 (rfc822_parse_adrlist() modifies passed address parameter). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #45691 (Some per-dir or runtime settings may leak into other requests). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #45581 (htmlspecialchars() double encoding &#x hex items). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45580 (levenshtein() crashes with invalid argument). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #45575 (Segfault with invalid non-string as event handler callback). (Christian Seiler)
• Fixed bug #45568 (ISAPI doesn't properly clear auth_digest in header). (Patch by: navara at emclient dot com)
• Fixed bug #45556 (Return value from callback isn't freed). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45555 (Segfault with invalid non-string as register_introspection_callback). (Christian Seiler)
• Fixed bug #45553 (Using XPath to return values for attributes with a namespace does not work). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #45529 (new DateTimeZone() and date_create()->getTimezone() behave different). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #45522 (FCGI_GET_VALUES request does not return supplied values). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45486 (mb_send_mail(); header 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=' parsing incorrect). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45485 (strip_tags and <?XML tag). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45460 (imap patch for fromlength fix in imap_headerinfo doesn't accept lengths of 1024). (Felipe, andrew at lifescale dot com)
• Fixed bug #45449 (filesize() regression using ftp wrapper). (crrodriguez at suse dot de)
• Fixed bug #45423 (fastcgi parent process doesn't invoke php_module_shutdown before shutdown). (basant dot kukreja at sun dot com)
• Fixed bug #45406 (session.serialize_handler declared by shared extension fails). (Kalle, oleg dot grenrus at dynamoid dot com)
• Fixed bug #45405 (snmp extension memory leak). (Federico Cuello, Rodrigo Campos)
• Fixed bug #45392 (ob_start()/ob_end_clean() and memory_limit). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45382 (timeout bug in stream_socket_enable_crypto). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #45373 (php crash on query with errors in params). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45352 (Segmentation fault because of tick function on second request). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #45312 (Segmentation fault on second request for array functions). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #45303 (Opening php:// wrapper in append mode results in a warning). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45251 (double free or corruption with setAttributeNode()). (Rob)
• Fixed bugs #45226, #18916 (xmlrpc_set_type() segfaults and wrong behavior with valid ISO8601 date string). (Jeff Lawsons)
• Fixed bug #45220 (curl_read callback returns -1 when needs to return size_t (unsigned)). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45181 (chdir() should clear relative entries in stat cache). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45178 (memory corruption on assignment result of "new" by reference). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #45166 (substr() overflow changes). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45139 (ReflectionProperty returns incorrect declaring class).(Felipe)
• Fixed bug #45124 ($_FILES['upload']['size'] sometimes return zero and sometimes the filesize). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #45028 (CRC32 output endianness is different between crc32() and hash()). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #45004 (pg_insert() does not accept 4 digit timezone format). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44991 (Compile Failure With freetds0.82). (jklowden at freetds dot org, matthias at dsx dot at)
• Fixed bug #44938 (gettext functions crash with overly long domain). (Christian Schneider, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44925 (preg_grep() modifies input array). (Nuno)
• Fixed bug #44900 (OpenSSL extension fails to link with OpenSSL 0.9.6). (jd at cpanel dot net, Pierre)
• Fixed bug #44891 Memory leak using registerPHPFunctions and XSLT Variable as function parameter. (Rob)
• Fixed bug #44882 (SOAP extension object decoding bug). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #44830 (Very minor issue with backslash in heredoc). (Matt)
• Fixed bug #44818 (php://memory writeable when opened read only). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #44811 (Improve error message when creating a new SoapClient that contains invalid data). (Markus Fischer, David C)
• Fixed bug #44798 (Memory leak assigning value to attribute). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44716 (Progress notifications incorrect). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #44712 (stream_context_set_params segfaults on invalid arguments). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #44617 (wrong HTML entity output when substitute_character=entity). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #44607 (stream_get_line unable to correctly identify the "ending" in the stream content). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #44425 (Extending PDO/MySQL class with a __call() function doesn'twork). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #44327 (PDORow::queryString property & numeric offsets / Crash). (Felipe)
• Fixed bugs #44251, #41125 (PDO + quote() + prepare() can result in segfault). (tsteiner at nerdclub dot net)
• Fixed bug #44246 (closedir() accepts a file resource opened by fopen()). (Dmitry, Tony)
• Fixed bug #44182 (extract($a, EXTR_REFS) can fail to split copy-on-write references). (robin_fernandes at uk dot ibm dot com)
• Fixed bug #44181 (extract($a, EXTR_OVERWRITE|EXTR_REFS) can fail to create references to $a). (robin_fernandes at uk dot ibm dot com)
• Fixed bug #44127 (UNIX abstract namespace socket connect does not work). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #43993 (mb_substr_count() behaves differently to substr_count() with overlapping needles). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #43958 (class name added into the error message). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43941 (json_encode silently cuts non-UTF8 strings). (Stas)
• Fixed bug #43925 (Incorrect argument counter in prepared statements with pgsql). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #43731 (socket_getpeername: cannot use on stdin with inetd). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #43723 (SOAP not sent properly from client for <choice>). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43668 (Added odbc.default_cursortype to control the ODBCcursor model). (Patrick)
• Fixed bug #43666 (Fixed code to use ODBC 3.52 datatypes for 64bit systems). (Patrick)
• Fixed bug #43540 (rfc1867 handler newlength problem). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #43452 (strings containing a weekday, or a number plus weekday behaved incorrect of the current day-of-week was the same as the one in the phrase).(Derick)
• Fixed bug #43353 (wrong detection of 'data' wrapper causes notice). (gk at gknw dot de, Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #43053 (Regression: some numbers shown in scientific notation). (int-e at gmx dot de)
• Fixed bug #43045 (SOAP encoding violation on "INF" for type double/float). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42855 (dns_get_record() doesn't return all text from TXT record). (a dot u dot savchuk at gmail dot com)
• Fixed bug #42737 (preg_split('//u') triggers a E_NOTICE with newlines). (Nuno)
• Fixed bug #42718 (FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW not applied when configured as default filter). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #42604 ("make test" fails with --with-config-file-scan-dir=path). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42473 (ob_start php://output and headers). (Arnaud)
• Fixed bug #42318 (problem with nm on AIX, not finding object files). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42294 (Unified solution for round() based on C99 round). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42078 (pg_meta_data mix tables metadata from different schemas). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #41348 (OCI8: allow compilation with Oracle 8.1). (Chris Jones)
• Fixed bug #41033 (enable signing with DSA keys. (gordyf at google dot com, Pierre)
• Fixed bug #37100 (data is returned truncated with BINARY CURSOR). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #30312 (crash in sybase_unbuffered_query() function). (Timm)
• Fixed bug #24679 (pg_* functions doesn't work using schema). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #14962 (PECL) (::extractTo 2nd argument is not really optional). (Mark van Der Velden)
• Fixed bug #14032 (Mail() always returns false but mail is sent). (Mikko)

Version 5.2.6

• Security Fixes
  • Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in FastCGI SAPI. (Andrei Nigmatulin)
  • Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() (Ilia, Stefan Esser)
  • Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599. (Rasmus)
  • Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. (Ilia)
  • Upgraded PCRE to version 7.6 (Nuno)
• Fixed two possible crashes inside posix extension (Tony)
• Fixed incorrect heredoc handling when label is used within the block. (Matt)
• Fixed sending of uninitialized paddings which may contain some information. (Andrei Nigmatulin)
• Fixed a bug in formatting timestamps when DST is active in the default timezone (Derick)
• Fix integer overflow in printf(). (Stas, Maksymilian Aciemowicz)
• Fixed potential memleak in stream filter parameter for zlib filter. (Greg)
• Added Reflection API metadata for the methods of the DOM classes. (Sebastian)
• Fixed weird behavior in CGI parameter parsing. (Dmitry, Hannes Magnusson)
• Fixed a bug with PDO::FETCH_COLUMN|PDO::FETCH_GROUP mode when a column # by which to group by data is specified. (Ilia)
• Fixed segfault in filter extension when using callbacks. (Arnar Mar Sig, Felipe)
• Fixed faulty fix for bug Fixed bug #40189 (endless loop in zlib.inflate stream filter). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #44742 (timezone_offset_get() causes segmentation faults). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #44720 (Prevent crash within session_register()). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #44703 (htmlspecialchars() does not detect bad character set argument). (Andy Wharmby)
• Fixed bug #44673 (With CGI argv/argc starts from arguments, not from script) (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #44667 (proc_open() does not handle pipes with the mode 'wb' correctly). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #44663 (Crash in imap_mail_compose if "body" parameter invalid). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44650 (escapeshellscmd() does not check arg count). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44613 (Crash inside imap_headerinfo()). (Ilia, jmessa)
• Fixed bug #44603 (Order issues with Content-Type/Length headers on POST). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44594 (imap_open() does not validate # of retries parameter). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44591 (imagegif's filename parameter). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44557 (Crash in imap_setacl when supplied integer as username) (Thomas Jarosch)
• Fixed bug #44487 (call_user_method_array issues a warning when throwing an exception). (David Soria Parra)
• Fixed bug #44478 (Inconsistent behaviour when assigning new nodes). (Rob, Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44445 (email validator does not handle domains starting/ending with a -). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44440 (st_blocks undefined under BeOS). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44394 (Last two bytes missing from output). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44388 (Crash inside exif_read_data() on invalid images) (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44373 (PDO_OCI extension compile failed). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44333 (SEGFAULT when using mysql_pconnect() with client_flags). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44306 (Better detection of MIPS processors on Windows). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44242 (metaphone('CMXFXM') crashes PHP). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44233 (MSG_PEEK undefined under BeOS R5). (jonathonfreeman at gmail dot com, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44216 (strftime segfaults on large negative value). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #44209 (strtotime() doesn't support 64 bit timestamps on 64 bit platforms). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #44206 (OCI8 selecting ref cursors leads to ORA-1000 maximum open cursors reached). (Oracle Corp.)
• Fixed bug #44200 (A crash in PDO when no bound targets exists and yet bound parameters are present). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44197 (socket array keys lost on socket_select). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44191 (preg_grep messes up array index). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44189 (PDO setAttribute() does not properly validate values for native numeric options). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44184 (Double free of loop-variable on exception). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #44171 (Invalid FETCH_COLUMN index does not raise an error). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44166 (Parameter handling flaw in PDO::getAvailableDrivers()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44159 (Crash: $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::STATEMENT_ATTR_CLASS, NULL)). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #44152 (Possible crash with syslog logging on ZTS builds). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44141 (private parent constructor callable through static function). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #44113 (OCI8 new collection creation can fail with OCI-22303). (Oracle Corp.)
• Fixed bug #44069 (Huge memory usage with concatenation using . instead of .=). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #44046 (crash inside array_slice() function with an invalid by-ref offset). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44028 (crash inside stream_socket_enable_crypto() when enabling encryption without crypto type). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #44018 (RecursiveDirectoryIterator options inconsistancy). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #44008 (OCI8 incorrect usage of OCI-Lob->close crashes PHP). (Oracle Corp.)
• Fixed bug #43998 (Two error messages returned for incorrect encoding for mb_strto[upper|lower]). (Rui)
• Fixed bug #43994 (mb_ereg 'successfully' matching incorrect). (Rui)
• Fixed bug #43954 (Memory leak when sending the same HTTP status code multiple times). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #43927 (koi8r is missing from html_entity_decode()). (andy at demos dot su, Tony)
• Fixed bug #43912 (Interbase column names are truncated to 31 characters). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43875 (Two error messages returned for $new and $flag argument in mysql_connect()). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #43863 (str_word_count() breaks on cyrillic "ya" in locale cp1251). (phprus at gmail dot com, Tony)
• Fixed bug #43841 (mb_strrpos offset is byte count for negative values). (Rui)
• Fixed bug #43840 (mb_strpos bounds check is byte count rather than a character count). (Rui)
• Fixed bug #43808 (date_create never fails (even when it should)). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #43793 (zlib filter is unable to auto-detect gzip/zlib file headers). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #43703 (Signature compatibility check broken). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43677 (Inconsistent behaviour of include_path set with php_value). (manuel at mausz dot at)
• Fixed bug #43663 (Extending PDO class with a __call() function doesn't work). (David Soria Parra)
• Fixed bug #43647 (Make FindFile use PATH_SEPARATOR instead of ";"). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43635 (mysql extension ingores INI settings on NULL values passed to mysql_connect()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43620 (Workaround for a bug inside libcurl 7.16.2 that can result in a crash). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43614 (incorrect processing of numerical string keys of array in arbitrary serialized data). (Dmitriy Buldakov, Felipe)
• Fixed bug #43606 (define missing depencies of the exif extension). (crrodriguez at suse dot de)
• Fixed bug #43589 (a possible infinite loop in bz2_filter.c). (Greg)
• Fixed bug #43580 (removed bogus declaration of a non-existent php_is_url() function). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43559 (array_merge_recursive() doesn't behave as expected with duplicate NULL values). (Felipe, Tony)
• Fixed bug #43533 (escapeshellarg('') returns null). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43527 (DateTime created from a timestamp reports environment timezone). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #43522 (stream_get_line() eats additional characters). (Felipe, Ilia, Tony)
• Fixed bug #43507 (SOAPFault HTTP Status 500 - would like to be able to set the HTTP Status). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43505 (Assign by reference bug). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43498 (file_exists() on a proftpd server got SIZE not allowed in ASCII mode). (Ilia, crrodriguez at suse dot de)
• Fixed bug #43497 (OCI8 XML/getClobVal aka temporary LOBs leak UGA memory). (Chris)
• Fixed bug #43495 (array_merge_recursive() crashes with recursive arrays). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43493 (pdo_pgsql does not send username on connect when password is not available). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43491 (Under certain conditions, file_exists() never returns). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43483 (get_class_methods() does not list all visible methods). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43482 (array_pad() does not warn on very small pad numbers). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43457 (Prepared statement with incorrect parms doesn't throw exception with pdo_pgsql driver). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43450 (Memory leak on some functions with implicit object __toString() call). (David C.)
• Fixed bug #43386 (array_globals not reset to 0 properly on init). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43377 (PHP crashes with invalid argument for DateTimeZone). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43373 (pcntl_fork() should not raise E_ERROR on error). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43364 (recursive xincludes don't remove internal xml nodes properly). (Rob, patch from ddb@bitxtender.de)
• Fixed bug #43301 (mb_ereg*_replace() crashes when replacement string is invalid PHP expression and 'e' option is used). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #43295 (crash because of uninitialized SG(sapi_headers).mimetype). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43293 (Multiple segfaults in getopt()). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #43279 (pg_send_query_params() converts all elements in 'params' to strings). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43276 (Incomplete fix for bug #42739, mkdir() under safe_mode). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43248 (backward compatibility break in realpath()). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43221 (SimpleXML adding default namespace in addAttribute). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #43216 (stream_is_local() returns false on "file://"). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43201 (Crash on using uninitialized vals and __get/__set). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43182 (file_put_contents() LOCK_EX does not work properly on file truncation). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43175 (__destruct() throwing an exception with __call() causes segfault). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43128 (Very long class name causes segfault). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #43105 (PHP seems to fail to close open files). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #43092 (curl_copy_handle() crashes with > 32 chars long URL). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #43003 (Invalid timezone reported for DateTime objects constructed using a timestamp). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #42978 (mismatch between number of bound params and values causes a crash in pdo_pgsql). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42945 (preg_split() swallows part of the string). (Nuno)
• Fixed bug #42937 (__call() method not invoked when methods are called on parent from child class). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42841 (REF CURSOR and oci_new_cursor() crash PHP). (Chris)
• Fixed bug #42838 (Wrong results in array_diff_uassoc) (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #42779 (Incorrect forcing from HTTP/1.0 request to HTTP/1.1 response). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42736 (xmlrpc_server_call_method() crashes). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #42692 (Procedure 'int1' not present with doc/lit SoapServer). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42548 (mysqli PROCEDURE calls can't return result sets). (Hartmut)
• Fixed bug #42505 (new sendmail default breaks on Netware platform) (Guenter Knauf)
• Fixed bug #42369 (Implicit conversion to string leaks memory). (David C., Rob).
• Fixed bug #42272 (var_export() incorrectly escapes char(0)). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #42261 (Incorrect lengths for date and boolean data types). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42190 (Constructing DateTime with TimeZone Indicator invalidates DateTimeZone). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #42177 (Warning "array_merge_recursive(): recursion detected" comes again...). (Felipe)
• Fixed bug #41941 (oci8 extension not lib64 savvy). (Chris)
• Fixed bug #41828 (Failing to call RecursiveIteratorIterator::__construct() causes a sefault). (Etienne)
• Fixed bug #41599 (setTime() fails after modify() is used). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #41562 (SimpleXML memory issue). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #40013 (php_uname() does not return nodename on Netware (Guenter Knauf)
• Fixed bug #38468 (Unexpected creation of cycle). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #32979 (OpenSSL stream->fd casts broken in 64-bit build) (stotty at tvnet dot hu)

Version 5.2.5

• Security Fixes
  • Fixed dl() to only accept filenames. reported by Laurent Gaffie.
  • Fixed dl() to limit argument size to MAXPATHLEN (CVE-2007-4887).
  • Fixed htmlentities/htmlspecialchars not to accept partial multibyte sequences.
  • Fixed possible triggering of buffer overflows inside glibc implementations of the fnmatch(), setlocale() and glob() functions. Reported by Laurent Gaffie.
  • Fixed "mail.force_extra_parameters" php.ini directive not to be modifiable in .htaccess due to the security implications reported by SecurityReason.
  • Fixed bug #42869 (automatic session id insertion adds sessions id to non-local forms).
  • Fixed bug #41561 (Values set with php_admin_* in httpd.conf can be overwritten with ini_set()).
• Upgraded PCRE to version 7.3 (Nuno)
• Added optional parameter $provide_object to debug_backtrace(). (Sebastian)
• Added alpha support for imagefilter() IMG_FILTER_COLORIZE. (Pierre)
• Added ability to control memory consumption between request using ZEND_MM_COMPACT environment variable. (Dmitry)
• Improved speed of array_intersect_key(), array_intersect_assoc(), array_uintersect_assoc(), array_diff_key(), array_diff_assoc() and array_udiff_assoc(). (Dmitry)
• Fixed move_uploaded_file() to always set file permissions of resulting file according to UMASK. (Andrew Sitnikov)
• Fixed possible crash in ext/soap because of uninitialized value. (Zdash Urf)
• Fixed regression in glob() when enforcing safe_mode/open_basedir checks on paths containing '*'. (Ilia)
• Fixed PDO crash when driver returns empty LOB stream. (Stas)
• Fixed iconv_*() functions to limit argument sizes as workaround to libc bug (CVE-2007-4783, CVE-2007-4840 by Laurent Gaffie). (Christian Hoffmann, Stas)
• Fixed missing brackets leading to build warning and error in the log. Win32 code. (Andrey)
• Fixed leaks with multiple connects on one mysqli object. (Andrey)
• Fixed endianness detection on MacOS when building universal binary. (Uwe Schindler, Christian Speich, Tony)
• Fixed imagerectangle regression with 1x1 rectangle (libgd #106). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #43196 (array_intersect_assoc() crashes with non-array input). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #43139 (PDO ignores ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE in some cases with fetchAll()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43137 (rmdir() and rename() do not clear statcache). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #43130 (Bound parameters cannot have - in their name). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43099 (XMLWriter::endElement() does not check # of params). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #43020 (Warning message is missing with shuffle() and more than one argument). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #42976 (Crash when constructor for newInstance() or newInstanceArgs() fails) (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42943 (ext/mssql: Move *timeout initialization from RINIT to connect time). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42917 (PDO::FETCH_KEY_PAIR doesn't work with setFetchMode). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42890 (Constant "LIST" defined by mysqlclient and c-client). (Andrey)
• Fixed bug #42818 ($foo = clone(array()); leaks memory). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42817 (clone() on a non-object does not result in a fatal error). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42785 (json_encode() formats doubles according to locale rather then following standard syntax). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42783 (pg_insert() does not accept an empty list for insertion). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42773 (WSDL error causes HTTP 500 Response). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42772 (Storing $this in a static var fails while handling a cast to string). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42767 (highlight_string() truncates trailing comment). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42739 (mkdir() doesn't like a trailing slash when safe_mode is enabled). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42703 (Exception raised in an iterator::current() causes segfault in FilterIterator) (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #42699 (PHP_SELF duplicates path). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42654 (RecursiveIteratorIterator modifies only part of leaves) (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #42643 (CLI segfaults if using ATTR_PERSISTENT). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42637 (SoapFault : Only http and https are allowed). (Bill Moran)
• Fixed bug #42629 (Dynamically loaded PHP extensions need symbols exported on MacOSX). (jdolecek at NetBSD dot org)
• Fixed bug #42627 (bz2 extension fails to build with -fno-common). (dolecek at netbsd dot org)
• Fixed bug #42596 (session.save_path MODE option does not work). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42590 (Make the engine recognize \v and \f escape sequences). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42587 (behavior change regarding symlinked .php files). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42579 (apache_reset_timeout() does not exist). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42549 (ext/mysql failed to compile with libmysql 3.23). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #42523 (PHP_SELF duplicates path). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42512 (ip2long('255.255.255.255') should return 4294967295 on 64-bit PHP). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #42506 (php_pgsql_convert() timezone parse bug) (nonunnet at gmail dot com, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42462 (Segmentation when trying to set an attribute in a DOMElement). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #42453 (CGI SAPI does not shut down cleanly with -i/-m/-v cmdline options). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42452 (PDO classes do not expose Reflection API information). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #42468 (Write lock on file_get_contents fails when using a compression stream). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42488 (SoapServer reports an encoding error and the error itself breaks). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42378 (mysqli_stmt_bind_result memory exhaustion). (Andrey)
• Fixed bug #42359 (xsd:list type not parsed). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42326 (SoapServer crash). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42214 (SoapServer sends clients internal PHP errors). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42189 (xmlrpc_set_type() crashes php on invalid datetime values). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42139 (XMLReader option constants are broken using XML()). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #42086 (SoapServer return Procedure '' not present for WSIBasic compliant wsdl). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41822 (Relative includes broken when getcwd() fails). (Ab5602, Jani)
• Fixed bug #39651 (proc_open() append mode doesn't work on windows). (Nuno)

Version 5.2.4

• Security Fixes
  • Fixed "Floating point exception" inside wordwrap(). (Mattias Bengtsson, Ilia)
  • Fixed several integer overflows in ImageCreate(), ImageCreateTrueColor(), ImageCopyResampled() and ImageFilledPolygon() reported by Mattias Bengtsson. (Tony)
  • Fixed size calculation in chunk_split(). (Stas)
  • Fixed integer overflow in str[c]spn(). (Stas)
  • Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens. (Stas, Ilia)
  • Fixed zend_alter_ini_entry() memory_limit interruption vulnerability. (Ilia)
  • Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL extensions not to be allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active. (Stas)
  • Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378) (Stas, Maksymilian Arciemowicz)
  • Fixed possible invalid read in glob() win32 implementation (CVE-2007-3806). (Tony)
  • Improved fix for MOPB-03-2007. (Ilia)
  • Corrected fix for CVE-2007-2872. (Ilia)
• Removed --enable-versioning configure option. (Jani)
• Upgraded PCRE to version 7.2 (Nuno)
• Updated timezone database to version 2007.6. (Derick)
• Improved openssl_x509_parse() to return extensions in readable form. (Dmitry)
• Enabled changing the size of statement cache for non-persistent OCI8 connections. (Chris Jones, Tony)
• Changed display_errors php.ini option to accept stderr as value which makes the error messages to be outputted to STDERR instead of STDOUT with CGI and CLI SAPIs (#22839). (Jani)
• Changed error handler to send HTTP 500 instead of blank page on PHP errors. (Dmitry, Andrei Nigmatulin)
• Changed mail() function to be always available. (Johannes)
• Added check for unknown options passed to configure. (Jani)
• Added persistent connection status checker to pdo_pgsql. (Elvis Pranskevichus, Ilia)
• Added support for ATTR_TIMEOUT inside pdo_pgsql driver. (Ilia)
• Added php_ini_loaded_file() function which returns the path to the actual php.ini in use. (Jani)
• Added GD version constants GD_MAJOR_VERSION, GD_MINOR_VERSION GD_RELEASE_VERSION, GD_EXTRA_VERSION and GD_VERSION_STRING. (Pierre)
• Added missing open_basedir checks to CGI. (anight at eyelinkmedia dot com, Tony)
• Added missing format validator to unpack() function. (Ilia)
• Added missing error check inside bcpowmod(). (Ilia)
• Added CURLOPT_PRIVATE & CURLINFO_PRIVATE constants. (Andrey A. Belashkov, Tony)
• Added missing MSG_EOR and MSG_EOF constants to sockets extension. (Jani)
• Added PCRE_VERSION constant. (Tony)
• Added ReflectionExtension::info() function to print the phpinfo() block for an extension. (Johannes)
• Implemented FR #41884 (ReflectionClass::getDefaultProperties() does not handle static attributes). (Tony)
• Fixed possible crash in imagepsloadfont(), work around a bug in the pslib on Windows. (Pierre)
• Fixed oci8 and PDO_OCI extensions to allow configuring with Oracle 11g client libraries. (Chris Jones)
• Fixed EOF handling in case of reading from file opened in write only mode. (Dmitry)
• Fixed var_export() to use the new H modifier so that it can generate parseable PHP code for floats, independent of the locale. (Derick)
• Fixed regression introduced by the fix for the libgd bug #74. (Pierre)
• Fixed SimpleXML's behavior when used with empty(). (Sara)
• Fixed crash in OpenSSL extension because of non-string passphrase. (Dmitry)
• Fixed PECL bug #11345 (PDO_OCI crash after National language Support "NLS" environment initialization error). (Chris Jones)
• Fixed PECL bug #11216 (crash in ZipArchive::addEmptyDir when a directory already exists). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #42368 (Incorrect error message displayed by pg_escape_string). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42365 (glob() crashes and/or accepts way too many flags). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42364 (Crash when using getRealPath with DirectoryIterator). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #42292 ($PHP_CONFIG not set for phpized builds). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42261 (header wrong for date field). (roberto at spadim dot com dot br, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42259 (SimpleXMLIterator loses ancestry). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #42247 (ldap_parse_result() not defined under win32). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42243 (copy() does not output an error when the first arg is a dir). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42242 (sybase_connect() crashes). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42237 (stream_copy_to_stream returns invalid values for mmaped streams). (andrew dot minerd at sellingsource dot com, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42233 (Problems with æøå in extract()). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42222 (possible buffer overflow in php_openssl_make_REQ). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #42211 (property_exists() fails to find protected properties from a parent class). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42208 (substr_replace() crashes when the same array is passed more than once). (crrodriguez at suse dot de, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42198 (SCRIPT_NAME and PHP_SELF truncated when inside a userdir and using PATH_INFO). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42195 (C++ compiler required always). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42183 (classmap causes crash in non-wsdl mode). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42173 (oci8 INTERVAL and TIMESTAMP type fixes). (Chris)
• Fixed bug #42151 (__destruct functions not called after catching a SoapFault exception). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42142 (substr_replace() returns FALSE when length > string length). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42135 (Second call of session_start() causes creation of SID). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42134 (oci_error() returns false after oci_new_collection() fails). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #42119 (array_push($arr,&$obj) doesn't work with zend.ze1_compatibility_mode On). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42117 (bzip2.compress loses data in internal buffer). (Philip, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42112 (deleting a node produces memory corruption). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #42107 (sscanf broken when using %2$s format parameters). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42090 (json_decode causes segmentation fault). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #42082 (NodeList length zero should be empty). (Hannes)
• Fixed bug #42072 (No warning message for clearstatcache() with arguments). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #42071 (ini scanner allows using NULL as option name). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42027 (is_file() / is_dir() matches file/dirnames with wildcard char or trailing slash in Windows). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #42019 (configure option --with-adabas=DIR does not work). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #42015 (ldap_rename(): server error "DSA is unwilling to perform"). (bob at mroczka dot com, Jani)
• Fixed bug #42009 (is_a() and is_subclass_of() should NOT call autoload, in the same way as "instanceof" operator). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41989 (move_uploaded_file() & relative path in ZTS mode). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #41984 (Hangs on large SoapClient requests). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41983 (Error Fetching http headers terminated by '\n'). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41973 (--with-ldap=shared fails with LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed"). (Nuno)
• Fixed bug #41971 (PDOStatement::fetch and PDOStatement::setFetchMode causes unexpected behavior). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41964 (strtotime returns a timestamp for non-time string of pattern '(A|a) .+'). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #41961 (Ensure search for hidden private methods does not stray from class hierarchy). (robin_fernandes at uk dot ibm dot com)
• Fixed bug #41947 (SimpleXML incorrectly registers empty strings as namespaces). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #41929 (Foreach on object does not iterate over all visible properties). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41919 (crash in string to array conversion). (judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41909 (var_export() is locale sensitive when exporting float values). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #41908 (CFLAGS="-Os" ./configure --enable-debug fails). (christian at hoffie dot info, Tony) <