The second and final RC of 5.1.2 was packaged today and is now available for download. This has been a purely bug fix RC that addresses a number of crash bugs and does a bit of further tweaking on the date
functionality. Please test it as much as you can, since pending any major problems this becomes the final release on January 12th.
The sources can be downloaded from:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.2RC2.tar.bz2
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http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.2RC2.tar.gz
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Win32 binaries should be available shortly from
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/ as well.
If you know of any regressions introduced by this release, please let me know.
Just finished packaging Fileinfo 1.0.3 that finally builds on both PHP 5.1 and 5.0 properly. You can download the new version by running "pecl install fileinfo" or download the tgz file from here.
I've also made the release of GDChart 0.2 that is nearly a complete rewrite of the extension, originally written by Rasmus that allows it to work with PHP 5.1. This extension wraps around the bundled gdchart library and allows you with just a few lines of code draw 20 different graphs types. Like all pecl extensions it can be installed by running "pecl install gdchart" or you can download the tar ball from here. Since at the moment there is no documentation for the extension, here are a few examples of its usage:
Line Graph:
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$g = new GDChart(GDChart::LINE);
$g->addValues(array(2.5, 5.1, 8.6, 12.0, 15, 9, 8, 7));
$g->addValues(array(5.0, 8.0, 9.2, 10.2, 7, 8, 10, 9));
$g->addValues(array(8.0, 10.0, 14.0, 18.2, 16, 14, 12, 10));
$g->setLabels(array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul", "Aug"));
$...
I've just packaged PHP 5.1.2RC1, the first release candidate for the next 5.1 version. A small holiday present for all PHP users, from the the PHP developers ;-). This is primarily a bug fixing release with its major points being:
Many fixes to the strtotime() function, over 10 bugs have been resolved.
A fair number of fixes to PDO and its drivers
New OCI8 that fixes large number of bugs backported from head.
A final fix for Apache 2 crash when SSI includes are being used.
A number of crash fixes in extensions and core components.
XMLwriter & Hash extensions were added and enabled by default.
The sources can be downloaded from:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.2RC1.tar.bz2
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http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.2RC1.tar.gz
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Win32 binaries should be available shortly from
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/ as well.
Following the “Release early, release often” mantra, PHP 5.1.1 was released today. The main causes for this release are four regressions in behavior introduces by PHP 5.1.0, which include:
Native date class is withdrawn to prevent namespace conflict with PEAR's date package.
Fixed fatal parse error when the last line of the script is a PHP comment.
eval() hangs when the code being evaluated ends with a comment.
Usage of \{$var} in PHP 5.1.0 resulted in the output of {$var} instead of the $var variable's value enclosed in {}.
The fifth reason being a refinement of a cURL open_basedir/safe_mode security fix, to improve the checks surrounding the file: wrapper handling. The new packages and win32 PECL binaries for PHP 5.1.1 can be found here: http://www.php.net/downloads.php
Now on to the long overdue rant ;-)
The initial and probably the main reason for the PHP 5.1.1 release in such a hurry was a rather interesting problem. One of the features introduced by 5.1.0 was the addition of th...
Yes, it is true, PHP 5.1.0 is finally out!
The packages and win32 binaries are available at:
http://www.php.net/downloads.php
Some of the release highlights are:
A complete rewrite of date handling code, with improved timezone support.
Significant performance improvements compared to PHP 5.0.X.
PDO extension is now enabled by default.
Over 30 new functions in various extensions and built-in functionality.
Bundled libraries, PCRE and SQLite upgraded to latest versions.
Over 400 various bug fixes.
PEAR upgraded to version 1.4.5
8 security fixes of varying "criticality"
The full changelog is here and the official release announcement can be viewed from http://www.php.net/release_5_1_0.php
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