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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.

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