PHP Development

Version PHP 5.1.3

• Updated bundled PCRE library to version 6.6. (Andrei)
• Moved extensions to PECL:
• ext/msession (Derick)
• Reimplemented FastCGI interface. (Dmitry)
• Improved SPL: (Marcus)
• Fixed issues with not/double calling of constructors of SPL iterators.
• Fixed issues with info-class/file-class in SPL directory handling classes.
• Fixed ArrayIterator::seek().
• Added SimpleXMLIterator::count().
• Dropped erroneous RecursiveDirectoryIterator::getSubPathInfo().
• Improved SimpleXML: (Marcus, Rob)
• Added SimpleXMLElement::getName() to retrieve name of element.
• Added ability to create elements on the fly.
• Added addChild() method for element creation supporting namespaces.
• Added addAttribute() method for attribute creation supporting namespaces.
• Added ability to delete specific elements and attributes by offset.
• Improved Reflection API: (Marcus)
• Added ReflectionClass::newInstanceArgs($args).
• Added ability to analyze extension dependency.
• Added ReflectionFunction::isDeprecated() and constant IS_DEPRECATED.
• Added ReflectionParameter::getDeclaringClass().
• Changed reflection constants to be prefixed with IS_. (Johannes)
• Improved cURL extension: (Ilia)
• Added curl_setopt_array() function that allows setting of multiple options via an associated array.
• Added the ability to retrieve the request message sent to the server.
• Improved GD extension: (Pierre)
• Added a weak/tolerant mode to the JPEG loader.
• Added filtering mode option to imagepng() to allow reducing file size.
• Fixed imagecolorallocate() and imagecolorallocatelapha() to return FALSE on error.
• Changed get_headers() to retrieve headers also from non-200 responses. (Ilia)
• Changed get_headers() to use the default context. (Ilia)
• Changed SOAP extension to cache WSDL structure in memory and thus speed up SoapClient/SoapServer construction. (Andrei, Dmitry)
• Added lchown() and lchgrp() to change user/group ownership of symlinks. (Derick)
• Added support for exif date format in strtotime(). (Derick)
• Added a check for special characters in the session name. (Ilia)
• Added "consumed" stream filter. (Marcus)
• Added new mysqli constants for BIT and NEW_DECIMAL field types: MYSQLI_TYPE_NEWDECIMAL and MYSQLI_TYPE_BIT. FR #36007. (Georg)
• Added imap_savebody() that allows message body to be written to a file. (Mike)
• Added overflow checks to wordwrap() function. (Ilia)
• Added support for BINARY_DOUBLE and BINARY_FLOAT to PDO_OCI and OCI8 (also fixes bug #36764). (Tony)
• Eliminated run-time constant fetching for TRUE, FALSE and NULL. (Dmitry)
• Removed the E_STRICT deprecation notice from "var". (Ilia)
• Fixed reading stream filters never notified about EOF. (Mike)
• Fixed tempnam() 2nd parameter to be checked against path components. (Ilia)
• Fixed a bug that would not fill in the fifth argument to preg_replace() properly, if the variable was not declared previously. (Andrei)
• Fixed safe_mode check for source argument of the copy() function. (Ilia)
• Fixed mysqli bigint conversion under Windows (Georg)
• Fixed XSS inside phpinfo() with long inputs. (Ilia)
• Fixed Apache2 SAPIs header handler modifying header strings. (Mike)
• Fixed 'auto_globals_jit' to work together with 'register_argc_argv'. (Dmitry)
• Fixed offset/length parameter validation in substr_compare() function. (Ilia)
• Fixed debug_zval_dump() to support private and protected members. (Dmitry)
• Fixed SoapFault::getMessage(). (Dmitry)
• Fixed issue with iconv_mime_decode where the "encoding" would only allow upper case specifiers. (Derick)
• Fixed tiger hash algorithm generating wrong results on big endian platforms. (Mike)
• Fixed crash with DOMImplementation::createDocumentType("name:"). (Mike)
• Fixed bug #37205 (Serving binary content/images fails with "comm with server aborted" FastCGI err). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #37192 (cc may complain about non-constant initializers in hash_adler.c). (Mike)
• Fixed bug #37191 (chmod takes off sticky bit when safe_mode is On). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #37167 (PDO segfaults when throwing exception from the fetch handler). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #37162 (wddx does not build as a shared extension). (jdolecek at NetBSD dot org, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #37158 (fread behavior changes after calling stream_wrapper_register). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #37138 (__autoload tries to load callback'ed self and parent). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #37103 (libmbfl headers not installed). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #37083 (Frequent crashes in SOAP extension with new WSDL caching code in multithread WS). (Andrei, Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #37062 (compile failure on ARM architecture). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #37061 (curl_exec() doesn't zero-terminate binary strings). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #37060 (Type of retval of Countable::count() is not checked). (Johannes)
• Fixed bug #37059 (oci_bind_by_name() doesn't support RAW and LONG RAW fields). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #37057 (xmlrpc_decode() may produce arrays with numeric strings, which are unaccessible). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #37055 (incorrect reference counting for persistent OCI8 connections). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #37054 (SoapClient Error Fetching http headers). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #37053 (html_errors with internal classes produces wrong links). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #37046 (foreach breaks static scope). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #37045 (Fixed check for special chars for http redirects). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #37017 (strtotime fails before 13:00:00 with some time zones identifiers). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #37002 (Have to quote literals in INI when concatenating with vars). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36988 (mktime freezes on long numbers). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #36981 (SplFileObject->fgets() ignores max_length). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36957 (serialize() does not handle recursion). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36944 (strncmp & strncasecmp do not return false on negative string length). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36941 (ArrayIterator does not clone itself). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #36934 (OCILob->read() doesn't move internal pointer when reading 0's). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36908 (wsdl default value overrides value in soap request). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36898 (__set() leaks in classes extending internal ones). (Tony, Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36886 (User filters can leak buckets in some situations). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36878 (error messages are printed even though an exception has been thrown). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36875 (is_*() functions do not account for open_basedir). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36872 (session_destroy() fails after call to session_regenerate_id(true)). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36869 (memory leak in output buffering when using chunked output). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36859 (DOMElement crashes when calling __construct when cloning). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36857 (Added support for partial content fetching to the HTTP streams wrapper). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36851 (Documentation and code discrepancies for NULL data in oci_fetch_*() functions). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36825 (Exceptions thrown in ArrayObject::offsetGet cause segfault). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36820 (Privileged connection with an Oracle password file fails). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36809 (__FILE__ behavior changed). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36808 (syslog ident becomes garbage between requests). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36802 (mysqli_set_charset() crash with a non-open connection). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36756 (DOMDocument::removeChild corrupts node). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #36749 (SOAP: 'Error Fetching http body' when using HTTP Proxy). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36745 (No error message when load data local file isn't found). (Georg)
• Fixed bug #36743 (In a class extending XMLReader array properties are not writable). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36727 (segfault in pdo_pgsql bindValue() when no parameters are defined). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36721 (The SoapServer is not able to send a header that it didn't receive). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36697 (Transparency is lost when using imagecreatetruecolor). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #36689 (Removed arbitrary limit on the length of syslog messages). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36656 (http_build_query generates invalid URIs due to use of square brackets). (Mike)
• Fixed bug #36638 (strtotime() returns false when 2nd argument < 1). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #36629 (SoapServer::handle() exits on SOAP faults). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36625 (pg_trace() does not work). (iakio at mono-space dot net)
• Fixed bug #36614 (Segfault when using Soap). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36611 (assignment to SimpleXML object attribute changes argument type to string). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36606 (pg_query_params() changes arguments type to string). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36599 (DATE_W3C format constant incorrect). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #36575 (SOAP: Incorrect complex type instantiation with hierarchies). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36572 (Added PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_DIRECT_QUERY constant that should be set when executing internal queries like "show master status" via MySQL). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36568 (memory_limit setting on win32 has no effect). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36513 (comment will be outputted in last line). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36510 (strtotime() fails to parse date strings with tabs). (Ilia, Derick)
• Fixed bug #36459 (Incorrect adding PHPSESSID to links, which contains \r\n). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36458 (sleep() accepts negative values). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36436 (DBA problem with Berkeley DB4). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #36434 (Improper resolution of declaring class name of an inherited property). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36420 (segfault when access result->num_rows after calling result->close()). (Ilia,Tony)
• Fixed bug #36403 (oci_execute() no longer supports OCI_DESCRIBE_ONLY). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36400 (Custom 5xx error does not return correct HTTP response error code). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36396 (strtotime() fails to parse dates in dd-mm-yyyy format). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #36388 (ext/soap crashes when throwing exception and session persistence). (David)
• Fixed bug #36382 (PDO/PgSQL's getColumnMeta() crashes). (Derick)
• Fixed bug #36359 (splFileObject::fwrite() doesn't write when no data length specified). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36351 (parse_url() does not parse numeric paths properly). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36345 (PDO/MySQL problem loading BLOB over 1MB). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36337 (ReflectionProperty fails to return correct visibility). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36334 (Added missing documentation about realpath cache INI settings). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36308 (ReflectionProperty::getDocComment() does not reflect extended class commentary). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36306 (crc32() differ on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms) (anight@eyelinkmedia dot com, Pierre)
• Fixed bug #36303 (foreach on error_zval produces segfault). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36295 (typo in SplFileObject::flock() parameter name). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36287 (Segfault with SplFileInfo conversion). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #36283 (SOAPClient Compression Broken). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36268 (Object destructors called even after fatal errors). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36258 (SplFileObject::getPath() may lead to segfault). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36250 (PHP causes ORA-07445 core dump in Oracle server 9.2.x). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36242 (Possible memory corruption in stream_select()). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36235 (ocicolumnname returns false before a successful fetch). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36226 (Inconsistent handling when passing potential arrays). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36224 (date(DATE_ATOM) gives wrong results). (Derick, Hannes Magnusson)
• Fixed bug #36222 (errorInfo in PDOException is always NULL). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36208 (symbol namespace conflicts using bundled gd). (Jakub Moc)
• Fixed bug #36205 (Memory leaks on duplicate cookies). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36185 (str_rot13() crash on non-string parameter). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #36176 (PDO_PGSQL - PDO::exec() does not return number of rows affected by the operation). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36158 (SIGTERM is not handled correctly when running as a FastCGI server). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36152 (problems with curl+ssl and pgsql+ssl in same PHP). (Mike)
• Fixed bug #36148 (unpack("H*hex", $data) is adding an extra character to the end of the string). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36134 (DirectoryIterator constructor failed to detect empty directory names). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36113 (Reading records of unsupported type causes segfault). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36096 (oci_result() returns garbage after oci_fetch() failed). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36083 (SoapClient waits for responses on one-way operations). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36071 (Engine Crash related with 'clone'). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36055 (possible OCI8 crash in multi-threaded environment). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36046 (parse_ini_file() miscounts lines in multi-line values). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #36038 (ext/hash compile failure on Mac OSX). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36037 (heredoc adds extra line number). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #36016 (realpath cache memleaks). (Dmitry, Nuno)
• Fixed bug #36011 (Strict errormsg wrong for call_user_func() and the likes). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #36010 (Segfault when re-creating and re-executing statements with bound parameters). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #36006 (Problem with $this in __destruct()). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #35999 (recursive mkdir() does not work with relative path like "foo/bar"). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #35998 (SplFileInfo::getPathname() returns unix style filenames in win32). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #35988 (Unknown persistent list entry type in module shutdown). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #35954 (Fatal com_exception casting object). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #35900 (stream_select() should warning when tv_sec is negative). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #35785 (SimpleXML causes memory read error zend engine). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #34272 (empty array onto COM object blows up). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #29476 (sqlite_fetch_column_types() locks the database forever). (Ilia)