Re: Releasing 4.3.5pl1

From: Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:51:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Releasing 4.3.5pl1
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+1 except I would call it 4.3.6. We have precedent for this sort bug fix release. 4.3.1 if I remember correctly. There were many bug reports regarding some data/time functions, maybe we should merge that fix in as well? Rasmus/Derick should know more about this one,. Edin On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:41, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Hi, > > A pretty serious bug crept into 4.3.5. > A few weeks ago, a TSRM fix was commited which was supposed to prevent > memory leaks when PHP ends its execution (shutdown dtor was not being > called in tsrm_shutdown()). This fix causes a crash when a shared extension > registers a dtor function. This is because the dtor is called after the > extension is unloaded. Stas has commited a patch to TSRM which prevents the > dtor call for now, which isn't very important because besides giving a warm > fuzzy feeling, it's right before PHP shuts down and thus, memory leaks > aren't important anyway. On a side note the per-thread dtor is still > called, thus, eliminating leaks when threads are created/destroyed in > multi-threaded servers. > I suggest we release 4.3.5pl1 with just this bug fix within the next couple > of days as this is a crash bug which can happen on any MT server or MT-safe > PHP builds (such as Windows CGI). > > Andi

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