PHP 3.0.8 Released May 22nd

PHP Version 3.0.8 has been released. It includes A number of bug fixes, including glibc-2.1 related issues that caused previous versions not to work with RedHat 6.0. Also a lot of work on the oci8 Oracle module by Thies C. Arntzen, a bunch of optimizations by Sascha Schumann along with his cool new DBA module which makes it much easier to deal with different types of dbm file formats. Plus quite a few other things. The complete ChangeLog from 3.0.7 follows: - OCI8 fix for RAW and LONG RAW (Binary data) - sorry currently limited to 64K (Thies C. Arntzen) - Added support for pdf creation lib from FastIO, www.fastio.com This has not been tested, yet (U. Steinmann) - Rewrite socket buffering subsystem (Sascha) - Fix semaphore support on glibc-2.1 systems (Sascha) - Add headers_sent() function which returns true if the http headers have been sent out already - Ora_GetColumn and Ora_Fetch_Into can now return "LONG" and "LONG RAW" columns > 64K (Thies C. Arntzen) - Another str_replace() fix to check for a 0-length haystack (RL) - Add range() and shuffle() functions (Jim) - Fix glibc-2.1.1 (RH6) related crashes (ssb) - Fix md5 on 64-bit platforms (Sascha) - Let exit/die set exit status in CGI version (Sascha) - Make substr() binary-safe (RL) - OCIError can now be called without any arguments to check the error of a failed OCILogon. (Thies C. Arntzen) - added XML_Parse_Into_Struct. Parse XML without using callbacks - This makes life far easier when using the XML-Parser from classes etc. (Thies C. Arntzen) - Small fix in configure.in: doesn't try to add in Informix support anymore if INFORMIXDIR is set but --with-informix not specified (Jouni Ahto) - add mcrypt module (Sascha) - added REFCURSOR (including nested table) handling for OCI8. (Thies C. Arntzen) - finalized new behaviour of hw_modifyobject() (U. Steinmann) - added OCINLogon function (New-Logon) - if you need you "own-private" transaction context. (Thies C. Arntzen) - GetImageSize now also returns the bits/sample ("bits") and samples/pixel ("cannels") -> currently only works for JPEGs (Thies C. Arntzen) - changed parameter evaluation of hw_modifyobject() (see docs) (U. Steinmann) - fixed a sporadic crash when shutting down a request that used the ora_** calls. (Thies C. Arntzen) - Add fgetcsv() function (RL from Nick Talbott) - fixed mem-leak in ora_bind (Thies C. Arntzen) - fixed length of bound variables returned from ora_bind. (Thies C. Arntzen) - Added V1 of DBA (Sascha) - made strtr() binary safe and faster. (Thies C. Arntzen) - added Oracle-OCI8 persistent connections (Thies C. Arntzen) - fixed OCIDefineByName crash. (Thies C. Arntzen) - fixed some NULL-column related problems in OCI8-module. (Thies C. Arntzen) - avoid stripping double slashes when fopen'ing files (Sascha) - sql_regcase() change: only apply to alphabetic characters (Sascha) - add snmprealwalk() (Sascha Schumann) - fix serious bug in strftime() (Sascha Schumann) - fix bug in ucwords() (Sascha Schumann) - optimized fgets() and fread() (ssb) - memory leak in operators.c fixed - socket leak fixed (Sascha Schumann) - Fixed the XML bug that caused garbage behind attributes - Some Informix driver improvements. - PUT method support (RL from mlemos@acm.org) - Add ldap_mod_add(), ldap_mod_del() and ldap_mod_replace() (Gerritt Thomson) - Fix parameter count problem in odbc_setoption() - Replace broken str_replace(). The fix in 3.0.7 was bogus (Sascha Schumann) - Really fix implode() this time. The fix in 3.0.7 was bogus (RL) - Added more option to the date() function: (Colin Viebrock) 'g' - hour, 12-hour format, no leading zeros 'G' - hour, 24-hour format, no leading zeros 'n' - month, numeric, no leading zeros - Make fgetss() slightly smarter (RL) - Add strip_tags() which uses the fgetss state-machine but acts on a string (RL) - Add CRYPT_SALT_LENGTH constant (RL) -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net