PHP 3.0.9 Released June 6th

PHP Version 3.0.9 has been released. It includes more bug fixes, including many in the OCI8 module, and an important fix for fgets() on socket connections. Also added support for PCRE (Perl-compatible Regular Expressions library), t1lib (PostScript Type-1 fonts with GD), and mhash. The complete ChangeLog from 3.0.8 is below. We've also created a new mailing list that will receive future announcements about new PHP releases and other issues relevant to the PHP community (don't worry, no spam from us, and the list is moderated). To subscribe, send an empty e-mail to php-announce-subscribe@lists.php.net. June 6 1999, Version 3.0.9 - added preg_quote() function (Andrey) - fixed OCI8 crash for "Fetch out of sequence". (Thies) - fix deallocation bug in dba's db2 module (Sascha) - add "--enable-dmalloc" option (Sascha) - added workaround for 1-digit numbers not returned correct via OCI8 (Thies) - removed the limit for Ora_GetColumn/Ora_Fetch_Into again. (Thies C. Arntzen) - fix WDDX buffer bug (Sascha) - fixed Ora_GetColumn/Ora_Fetch_Into for LONG/LONG RAW (had to put in the 64K limit again). (Thies C. Arntzen) - added easter_date() function: returns timestamp of midnight on Easter of the given year (valid for years 1970-2037) (Colin Viebrock) - added easter_days() function: returns number of days after March 21 on which Easter falls for a given year (Colin Viebrock) - added 't' option to date() function: returns number of days in the current month (Colin Viebrock) - enabled warning when header() is used after the headers have been sent in non-debug builds (Jim) - fixed connection and cursor shutdown in oracle-module (this is a fix for the previous fix). (Thies C. Arntzen) - fixed shutting down of statements in OCI8 if user logs-off. (Thies C. Arntzen) - fixed very rare crash in shutdown of oracle-cursors. (Thies C. Arntzen) - added Perl Compatible Regular Expressions support (Andrey Zmievski) - fixed a couple of bugs in split() - cpdf module now supports adding hyperlinks, annotations and outline. Some testing was suggesful. (U. Steinmann) - OCI8 now supports LONG/LONG RAW > 64K (Thies C. Arntzen) - add connection timeout to p?fsockopen (Sascha) - fix socket buffering subsystem for blocking sockets (Sascha) - fix fopen-wrappers.c for url's (danny) - fix fgets() semantics (Sascha) - fix segfault in wddx_serialize_value (Sascha) - add support for using PostScript Type 1 fonts for text in gd.c using T1lib (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/graphics/t1lib-0.?.tar.gz) (Jouni Ahto) - add bin2hex (Sascha) - add mhash support (see http://sasweb.de/mhash/ ) (Sascha)