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- 18 March 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 1
- - Fixed numerous bugs with the just-in-time auto-global initialization, that
- could cause $_SERVER, $argv/$argc and other variables not to work properly.
- (Zeev)
- - Fixed data corruption with constant assignments to object properties. (Zeev)
- - Changed __toString() to be called automatically only with print and echo
- statements. (Andi)
- - Replaced the exec_finished hook by the zend_post_deactive hook for
- extensions. The new hook will be run after the symbol table and destructors
- are run. (Derick)
- - Fixed possible crash when internal get_method() is not defined. (Andi)
- - Fixed calling methods using call_user_func() in conjunction with
- the array("Class","Method") syntax to use the scope of the PHP user function.
- (Dmitry)
- - Fixed php-cgi to not ignore command-line switches when run in a web context.
- This fixes our test cases allowing INI with GET sections to work. (Rasmus)
- - Fixed getopt() so it works without $_SERVER. (Rasmus, bfrance)
- - Added support for PHP 4 style object comparisons which is enabled in
- ze1_compatiblity_mode. (Andi)
- - Added support for PHP 4 style object conversion to long, double, and boolean
- values which is enabled in ze1_compatibility_mode. (Andi, Stas)
- - Allow object oriented extensions to overload comparison functions and other
- operations. Solves problems using SimpleXML values. (Andi, Zeev)
- - Fixed crash when accessing a class constant with a value which in turn is
- also a constant. (Dmitry)
- - Fixed object's truth value conversion. It is always true unless
- ze1_compatibility_mode is on in which it behaves like in PHP 4. (Stas)
- - Improved out of memory handling in new memory manager. (Stas)
- - Fixed crash when an object references itself during destructor call. (Andi)
- - Fixed crash in foreach() when iterating over object properties or a method's
- return values. (Andi)
- - Fixed crash when an exception is thrown in a destructor. Such exceptions are
- now ignored as destruction happens out of context at no definite time. (Andi)
- - Fixed crashes in exception handling. (Dmitry, Andi)
- - Changed prototype checks so that they aren't done on constructors. (Andi)
- - Changed prototype checks to output an E_STRICT message instead of
- an E_COMPILE_ERROR. (Andi)
- - Changed Iterator::has_more() to Iterator::valid(). (Marcus)
- - Upgraded bundled oniguruma library to version 2.2.2. (Rui, Moriyoshi)
- - Added mb_list_encoding() to return an array with all mbstring supported
- encodings. (Derick)
- - Added support for more ISO8601 datetime formats in strtotime(). (Moriyoshi)
- . Timezone specifier (ex. "20040301T02:00:00+19:00")
- . Week specifier (ex. "1997W021")
- - Renamed php.ini option "zend2.implicit_clone" to
- "zend.ze1_compatibility_mode" as it doesn't only affect implicit cloning.
- (Andi, Zeev)
- - Methods that override parent methods are now subject to prototype checking,
- and have to be compatible with the method they're overriding - this check is
- disabled in compatibility mode. (Andi, Zeev)
- - Fixed crash in php_ini_scanned_files() when no additional INI files were
- actually parsed. (Jon)
- - Fixed bug in gdImageFilledRectangle in the bundled GD library, that required
- x1 < x2 and y1 < y2 for coordinates. (Derick)
- - Fixed crash with foreach() and temporary objects($obj->method()->a ...) where
- method returns a non-referenced object. (Andi, Zeev)
- - Fixed problem preventing startup errors from being displayed. (Marcus)
- - Fixed start-up problem if both SPL and SimpleXML were enabled. The double
- initialization of apache 1.3 was causing problems here. (Marcus, Derick)
- - Fixed bug #27606 (Expression must be a modifiable lvalue compiler error).
- (Derick)
- - Fixed bug #27597 (pg_fetch_array not returning false). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #27586 (ArrayObject::getIterator crashes with [] assignment).
- (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #27537 (Objects pointing to each other segfaults). (Dmitry)
- - Fixed bug #27535 (Problem with object freeing mechanism). (Dmitry)
- - Fixed bug #27504 (Visibility bugs in call_user_function()). (Dmitry)
- - Fixed bug #27457 (handling of numeric indexes in strtr()). (Dmitry)
- - Fixed bug #27338 (memory leak inside tsrm_virtual_cwd.c on win32). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #27291 (get_browser matches browscap.ini patterns incorrectly).
- (Jay)
- - Fixed bug #27287 (wddx segfaults during deserialization). (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #27263 (session extension crashes when unserializing referenced
- values / objects). (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #27237 (Working with simplexml crashes apache2). (Rob)
- - Fixed bug #27227 (Mixed case class names causes Fatal Error in Constructor
- call). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #27125 (strval() doesn't work for objects with __toString()).
- (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #27123 (Fix crash caused by bug in get_object_vars()). (Andi)
- - Fixed bug #26677 (mbstring compile errors with IRIX compiler).
- (K.Kosako <kosako at sofnec dot co dot jp>, Rui, Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #26206 (register_long_arrays breaks superglobals). (Zeev)
- - Fixed bug #25724 (argv and argc not defined). (Zeev)
-
- 12 Feb 2004, PHP 5 Beta 4
- - Changed exceptions so that they must now inherit from the built-in Exception
- class. This allows for a general catch(Exception $e) statement to catch all
- exceptions. (Andi, Zeev)
- - Added SPL extension. (Marcus, Derick)
- - Added checks for invalid characters in a cookie name and cookie data
- into set[raw]cookie(). (Brian)
- - Added support for ++ and += (and similar) to SimpleXML. (Andi, Zeev)
- - Added infrastructure for ++ and += (and similar) to object overloading
- modules. (Andi, Zeev)
- - Added error message when trying to re-assign to $this variable. (Zeev, Andi)
- - Added support for an interface to extend another interface. (Zeev)
- - Added new pspell functions: (Brian)
- . pspell_config_dict_dir()
- . pspell_config_data_dir()
- - Added new Interbase functions: (Ard)
- . ibase_service_attach() and ibase_service_detach().
- . ibase_backup() and ibase_restore().
- . ibase_maintain_db(), ibase_db_info() and ibase_server_info().
- - Added context option "http"/"request_fulluri" to send entire URI in request
- which is required format for some proxies. (Sara)
- - Added optional third parameter 'strict' to array_keys(). (Andrey)
- - Added stream_lock() method to userspace streams interface. (Hartmut, Wez)
- - Added xsltprocessor->registerPHPFunctions(). (Christian)
- - Readded support for using classes before they are declared according to
- the behavior in PHP 4. This won't work with classes who are using PHP 5
- features such as interfaces. (Zeev, Andi)
- - Completely overhauled SimpleXML extension. (Marcus, Rob, Sterling)
- - Upgraded bundled SQLite library to version 2.8.11. (Ilia, Wez)
- - Improved destructor implementation to always call destructors on clean
- shutdown. An order of destruction is not guaranteed. (Zeev, Andi)
- - Redesigned exception support. This fixes many bugs in the previous design
- such as nested try's and problems with overloaded extensions. (Zeev, Andi)
- - Redesigned clone by adding a clone keyword (clone $obj) and copying all
- properties before __clone() is called. Also allows calling parent __clone
- function by using parent::__clone(). (Zeev, Andi)
- - Fixed interfaces to check for function return-by-reference equality when
- inheriting and implementing interfaces. (Andi, Zeev)
- - Fixed foreach() to respect property visibility. (Marcus)
- - Fixed problem with parse error in include() file not stopping PHP's
- execution. (Ilia)
- - Fixed var_export() to show public, protected and private modifiers properly.
- (Derick)
- - Fixed problems with longlong values in mysqli. (Georg)
- - Fixed class name case preserving of user defined classes. (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #27145 (Unmangle private/protected property names before printing
- them inside error messages). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #27103 (preg_split('//u') incorrectly splits UTF-8 strings into
- octets). (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #27042 (SPL: SeekableIterator seek() broken). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #27008 (Every class method can be called as static). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #26938 (exec() has problems reading long lines).
- (Ilia, runekl[at]opoint[dot]com
- - Fixed bug #26947 (ext/dom: Crash when using DomDocument::getElementById()).
- (Christian)
- - Fixed bug #26911 (crash in sqlite extension when fetching data from empty
- queries). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #26844 (ext/mime_magic: magic file validation broken). (Jani)
- - Fixed bug #26819 (http_build_query() crashes on NULL output). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #26817 (http_build_query() does not handle private & protected
- object properties correctly). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #26815 (foreach of (DOM) childnodes crashes when Xinclude is used).
- (Rob)
- - Fixed bug #26796 (SQLite causes crashes with other extensions *connect()
- calls). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #26762 (unserialize() produces lowercase classnames). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #26743 (getElementsByTagName doesn't work properly). (Rob)
- - Fixed bug #26736 (__autoload not invoked for parent classes). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #26723 (domNode::appendChild() changes child node namespace). (Rob)
- - Fixed bug #26697 (calling class_exists() on a nonexistent class in __autoload
- results in segfault). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #26696 (string index in a switch() crashes with multiple matches).
- (Andi)
- - Fixed bug #26695 (Reflection API does not recognize mixed-case class hints).
- (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #26690 (make xsltProcessor->transformToUri use streams wrappers).
- (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #26680 (Added version check in mysqli_report_index). (Georg)
- - Fixed bug #26675 (Segfault on ArrayAccess use). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #26640 (__autoload() not invoked by Reflection classes). (Jani)
- - Fixed bug #26543 (call_user_func() broken for self, parent). (Stanislav)
- - Fixed bug #26077 (memory leak when new() result is not assigned and no
- constructor is defined). (Stanislav)
- - Fixed bug #26065 (Crash when nesting classes). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #25816 (disallow arrays in class constants). (Stanislav)
- - Fixed bug #25329 (sqlite_create_function with method and reference to $this).
- (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #25038 (call_user_func() issues a warning if function throws an
- exception). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #24608 (__set not triggered when overloading with array).
- (Stanislav)
- - Fixed bug #24243 (enabling browscap causes segfault). (Wez)
-
- 21 Dec 2003, PHP 5 Beta 3
- - Bundled new tidy extension (John, Wez)
- - Upgraded PCRE library to version 4.5. (Andrei)
- - Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)
- - Moved extensions to PECL:
- . ext/crack (Jani, Derick)
- . ext/db (Jani, Derick)
- . ext/mcal (Jani, Derick)
- . ext/qtdom (Jani, Derick)
- . ext/notes (Wez)
- - Added 'c' modifier to date() which returns the date in the ISO 8601 format.
- (Derick, Manuzhai)
- - Added an optional parameter to microtime() to get the time as float. (Andrey)
- - Added MacRoman encoding support to htmlentities(). (Derick, Marcus Bointon)
- - Added possibility to call PHP functions as XSLT-functions. (Christian)
- - Added possibility to prevent PHP from registering variables when input filter
- support is used. (Derick)
- - Added iconv stream filter (convert.iconv.*). (Moriyoshi)
- - Added EXSLT support in ext/xsl. (Christian)
- - Added qdbm handler for dba extension. (mg at iceni dot pl, Marcus)
- - Added new functions:
- . dba_key_split() to split inifile keys in an array. (Marcus)
- . time_nanosleep() signal safe sleep (Magnus, Ilia)
- . headers_list(). (Sara)
- . php_strip_whitespace(). strip whitespace & comments from a script. (Ilia)
- . php_check_syntax(). check php script for parse errors. (Ilia)
- . image_type_to_extension(). return extension based on image type. (Ilia)
- . stream_socket_sendto() and stream_socket_recvfrom(). (Wez)
- . iconv_mime_decode_headers(). (Moriyoshi)
- . get_declared_interfaces(). (Andrey, Marcus)
- . sqlite_fetch_column_types(). (Ilia)
- - Added proxy support to http:// wrapper. (Sara)
- - Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to userstreams. (Sara)
- - Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to ftp:// wrapper. (Sara)
- - Changed rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
- - Changed stat() and family to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
- - Fixed include_once() / require_once() on Windows to honor case-insensitivity
- of files. (Andi)
- - Fixed get_declared_classes() to return only classes. (Andrey, Marcus)
- - Fixed __autoload() to preserve case of the passed class name. (Andi)
- - Fixed bug #26615 () (runekl at opoint dot com, Derick)
- - Fixed bug #26591 ("__autoload threw an exception" during an uncaught).
- (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #26534 (stream_get_meta_data() -> Access Violation). (Wez)
- - Fixed bug #26528 (HTML entities are not being decoded by
- xml_parse()/xml_parse_into_struct()). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #26182 (Object properties created redundantly). (Andi)
- - Fixed bug #26156 (REPLACE_ZVAL_VALUE works on uninit stack-based zvals).
- (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #26083 (Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #26072 (--disable-libxml does not work). (Jani)
- - Fixed bug #26001 (serialize crashes when accessing an overloaded object that
- has no properties (NULL hashtable)). (Wez)
- - Fixed bug #25664 (COM crashes when calling a Delphi implementations of
- ITypeInfo). (Wez)
- - Fixed bug #24837 (Incorrect behaviour of PPP using foreach). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #24693 (Allow session.use_trans_sid to be enabled/disabled from
- inside the script). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #24394 (Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault).
- (Moriyoshi)
-
- 30 Oct 2003, PHP 5 Beta 2
- - Lots and lots of changes in the Zend Engine 2 since beta 1:
- . Added Iterators
- . Improved memory manager
- . Added Reflection API
- . Removed the not so working namespaces support
- . Removed support for expressions within constant declarations.
- . You can read about most changes in ZEND_CHANGES under the Zend directory.
- - Improved the DBX extension: (Marc)
- . Added DBX_RESULT_UNBUFFERED flag for dbx_query().
- . Added dbx_fetch_row()
- . Added SQLite support.
- - Improved the Interbase extension: (Ard Biesheuvel)
- . Added support for multiple databases into ibase_trans()
- . Added support for CREATE DATABASE, SET TRANSACTION and EXECUTE PROCEDURE
- statements into ibase_query()
- . Added ability to bind PHP arrays to native Interbase arrays
- . Added ibase_commit_ret() and ibase_rollback_ret()
- . Added ibase_drop_db()
- . Added ibase_gen_id()
- . Added ibase_name_result()
- . Added ibase_errcode()
- . Added ibase_affected_rows() and ibase_num_params()
- . Added ibase_param_info()
- . Added ibase_wait_event()
- . Added ibase_set_event_handler() and ibase_free_event_handler()
- - Added new COM extension with integrated .Net support. (Wez)
- - Added new functions:
- . setrawcookie(). (Brian)
- . pg_version(). (Marcus)
- . dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak)
- . snmp_read_mib(). (Jani)
- . http_build_query(). (Sara)
- . ftp_alloc(). (Sara)
- . array_udiff(). (Andrey)
- . array_udiff_assoc(). (Andrey)
- . array_udiff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
- . array_diff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
- . convert_uuencode(). (Ilia)
- . convert_uudecode(). (Ilia)
- . substr_compare(). (Ilia)
- . pcntl_wait(). (GeorgeS)
- - Added "resume_pos" context option to "ftp://" wrapper. (Sara)
- - Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of LOB
- (Patch by Novicky Marek <novicky@aarongroup.cz>). (Thies)
- - Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm)
- - Changed length parameter in fgetcsv() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed IPv6 support in MacOSX Panther. (Dan, Marko)
- - Fixed fgetcsv() to correctly handle international (non-ascii) characters.
- (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed support for <![CDATA[]]> fields within XML documents in ext/xml.
- (Sterling)
- - Fixed visibility of __construct and __clone. (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #25756 (SimpleXML's validate_schema_file() broken). (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #25581 (getimagesize() returns incorrect values on bitmap (os2)
- files). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #25494 (array_merge*() allows non-arrays as argument). (Jay)
- - Fixed bug #24766 (strange result array from unpack()). (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #24729 ($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not
- set). (Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #24565 (cannot read array elements received via $_REQUEST). (Zeev)
- - Fixed bug #24445 (get_parent_class() returns different values).
- (Sterling, Stanislav)
- - Fixed bug #24403 (preg_replace() problem: Using $this when not in object
- context). (Zeev)
- - Fixed bug #24399 (PEAR DB isError crash [instanceof_function fault?]).
- (Sterling, Marcus)
- - Fixed bug #24396 (foreach ($k=>$v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev)
- - Fixed bug #24279 (__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #22367 (undefined variable has a value). (Zeev)
- - Fixed bug #19859 (allow fast_call_user_function to support __call).
- (Stanislav)
- - Fixed bug #17997 (Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev)
- - Fixed bug #17988 (strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick)
-
- 29 Jun 2003, PHP 5 Beta 1
- - Removed the bundled MySQL client library. (Sterling)
- - Switched to Zend Engine 2, which includes numerous engine level improvements.
- A full list is available at http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php.
- - Added SQLite (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) extension: (Wez, Marcus, Tal)
- . Includes bundled SQLite library
- . Enabled by default
- - Completely Overhauled XML support:
- . New simplexml extension. (Sterling)
- . New DOM extension. (Rob, Chregu, Marcus)
- . New XSL extension. (Chregu, Rob)
- . Moved the old DOM-XML and XSLT extensions to PECL. (James, Sterling)
- . ext/xml can now use either libxml2 or expat to parse XML. (Sterling)
- . Removed bundled expat library. (Jani)
- - New php.ini options:
- . "session.hash_function" and "session.hash_bits_per_character". (Sascha)
- . "mail.force_extra_paramaters". (Derick)
- . "register_long_arrays". (Zeev)
- - Improved the speed of internal functions that use callbacks by 40% due to a
- new internal fast_call_user_function() function. (Sterling)
- - Improved the streams support: (Wez)
- . Improved performance of readfile(), fpassthru() and some internal streams
- operations under Win32.
- . stream_socket_client() - similar to fsockopen(), but more powerful.
- . stream_socket_server() - Creates a server socket.
- . stream_socket_accept() - Accept a client connection.
- . stream_socket_get_name() - Get local or remote name of socket.
- . stream_copy_to_stream()
- . stream_get_line() - Reads either the specified number of bytes or until
- the ending string is found. (Ilia)
- . Added context property to userspace streams object. (Sara)
- . Added generic crypto interface for streams.
- (supports dynamic loading of OpenSSL)
- . Added lightweight streaming input abstraction to the Zend Engine scanners
- to provide uniform support for include()'ing data from PHP streams across
- all platforms.
- . Added 'string.base64' stream filter. (Moriyoshi)
- . Renamed stream_register_wrapper() to stream_wrapper_register(). (Derick)
- - Improved the GD extension: (Pierre-Alain Joye, Ilia)
- . imagefilter() - Apply different filters to image.
- (Only available with bundled GD library)
- . Antialiased drawing support:
- o imageantialias() - (de)active antialias
- o imageline() and imagepolygon() antialias support
- - Changed the length parameter in fgetss() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
- - Changed ini parser to allow for handling of quoted multi-line values. (Ilia)
- - Changed get_extension_funcs() to return list of the built-in Zend Engine
- functions if "zend" is specified as the module name. (Ilia)
- - Changed array_search() to accept also objects as a needle. (Moriyoshi)
- - Changed ext/mcrypt to require libmcrypt version 2.5.6 or greater. (Derick)
- - Changed uniqid() parameters to be optional and allow any prefix length.
- (Marcus)
- - Added new iconv functions. (Moriyoshi)
- . iconv_strlen()
- . iconv_substr()
- . iconv_strpos()
- . iconv_strrpos()
- . iconv_mime_decode()
- . iconv_mime_encode()
- - Added misc. new functions:
- . ldap_sasl_bind(). (peter_c60@hotmail.com, Jani)
- . imap_getacl(). (Dan, Holger Burbach)
- . file_put_contents(). (Sterling)
- . proc_nice() - Changes priority of the current process. (Ilia)
- . pcntl_getpriority() and pcntl_setpriority(). (Ilia)
- . idate(), date_sunrise() and date_sunset(). (Moshe Doron)
- . strpbrk() - Searches a string for a list of characters. (Ilia)
- . get_headers() - Returns headers sent by the server of the specified URL.
- (Ilia)
- . str_split() - Breaks down a string into an array of elements based on
- length. (Ilia)
- . array_walk_recursive(). (Ilia)
- . array_combine(). (Andrey)
- - Added optional parameter to get_browser() to make it return an array. (Jay)
- - Added optional parameter to openssl_sign() to specify the hashing algorithm.
- (scott@planetscott.ca, Derick)
- - Added optional parameter to sha1(), sha1_file(), md5() and md5_file() which
- makes them return the digest as binary data. (Michael Bretterklieber, Derick)
- - Added optional parameter to mkdir() to make directory creation recursive.
- (Ilia)
- - Added optional parameter to file() which makes the result array not contain
- the line endings and to skip empty lines. (Ilia)
- - Added new range() functionality:
- . Support for float modifier. (Ilia)
- . Detection of numeric values inside strings passed as high & low. (Ilia)
- . Proper handle the situations where high == low. (Ilia)
- . Added an optional step parameter. (Jon)
- - Added encoding detection feature for expat XML parser.
- (Adam Dickmeiss, Moriyoshi)
- - Added missing multibyte (unicode) support and numeric entity support to
- html_entity_decode(). (Moriyoshi)
- - Added IPv6 support to ext/sockets. (Sara)
- - Added "ftp://" wrapper support to opendir(), stat() and unlink(). (Sara)
- - Added context options 'method', 'header' and 'content' for "http://" fopen
- wrapper. (Sara)
- - Added input filter support. See README.input_filter for more info. (Rasmus)
- - Added a replace count for str_[i]replace(), see bug #8218. (Sara)
- - Fixed is_executable() to be available also on Windows. (Shane)
- - Fixed dirname() and strip_tags() to be binary-safe. (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #24098 (crash in pathinfo()). (Ilia)
- - Fixed bug #21985 and #22064 (various mb_send_mail() issues). (Moriyoshi)
- - Fixed bug #21600 (Assign by reference function call changes variable
- contents). (Zeev)
-