Yeha! PHP 5.2.0!
PHP 5.2.0 released! Some on the features I like.
The key features of PHP 5.2.0 include:
- New memory manager for the Zend Engine with improved performance and a more accurate memory usage tracking.
- Input filtering extension was added and enabled by default.
- JSON extension was added and enabled by default.
- ZIP extension for creating and editing zip files was introduced.
- Hooks for tracking file upload progress were introduced.
- Introduced E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR error mode.
- Introduced DateTime and DateTimeZone objects with methods to manipulate date/time information.
- Upgraded bundled SQLite, PCRE libraries.
- Upgraded OpenSSL, MySQL and PostgreSQL client libraries for Windows installations.
- Many performance improvements.
- Over 200 bug fixes.
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.0:
- Made PostgreSQL escaping functions in PostgreSQL and PDO extension keep track of character set encoding whenever possible.
- Added allow_url_include, set to Off by default to disallow use of URLs for include and require.
- Disable realpath cache when open_basedir and safe_mode are being used.
- Improved safe_mode enforcement for error_log() function.
- Fixed a possible buffer overflow in the underlying code responsible for htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() functions.
- Added missing safe_mode and open_basedir checks for the cURL extension.
- Fixed overflow is str_repeat() & wordwrap() functions on 64bit machines.
- Fixed handling of long paths inside the tempnam() function.
- Fixed safe_mode/open_basedir checks for session.save_path, allowing them to account for extra parameters.
- Fixed ini setting overload in the ini_restore() function.