cvs: phpweb / ChangeLog-5.php

sterling Sun Jun 29 12:40:23 2003 EDT Added files: /phpweb ChangeLog-5.php Log: add this. not linked to yet, but will be soon Index: phpweb/ChangeLog-5.php +++ phpweb/ChangeLog-5.php <?php require_once 'prepend.inc'; commonheader("PHP 5 ChangeLog"); ?> <h1>PHP 5 ChangeLog</h1> <a name="5.0.0b1"></a> <h3>Version 5.0.0 Beta 1</h3> <b>29-Jun-2003</b> <ul> <li>Switch to using Zend Engine 2, which includes numerous engine level improvements. A full list is available at <a href="http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php">http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php</a>. </li> <li>The SQLite (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) extension is now bundled and enabled by default. (Wez, Marcus, Tal)</li> <li>Improved the speed of internal functions that use callbacks by 40% due to a new internal fast_call_user_function() function. (Sterling)</li> <li>Completely Overhauled XML support (Rob, Sterling, Chregu, Marcus) <ul> <li>Brand new Simplexml extension</li> <li>New DOM extension</li> <li>New XSL extension</li> <li>Moved the old DOM-XML and XSLT extensions to PECL</li> <li>ext/xml can now use both libxml2 and expat to parse XML</li> <li>Removed bundled expat</li> </ul> </li> <li>Removed the bundled MySQL client library. (Sterling)</li> <li>New php.ini options: <ul> <li>"session.hash_function" and "session.hash_bits_per_character". (Sascha)</li> <li>"mail.force_extra_paramaters". (Derick)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Improved the streams support: (Wez, Sarah, Ilia) <ul> <li>Improved performance of readfile(), fpassthru() and some internal streams operations under Win32.</li> <li>stream_socket_client() - similar to fsockopen(), but more powerful.</li> <li>stream_socket_server() - Creates a server socket.</li> <li>stream_socket_accept() - Accept a client connection.</li> <li>stream_socket_get_name() - Get local or remote name of socket.</li> <li>stream_copy_to_stream()</li> <li>stream_get_line() - Reads either the specified number of bytes or until the ending string is found.</li> <li>Added context property to userspace streams object.</li> <li>Added generic crypto interface for streams (supports dynamic loading of OpenSSL)</li> <li>Added lightweight streaming input abstraction to the Zend Engine scanners to provide uniform support for include()'ing data from PHP streams across all platforms.</li> <li>Added 'string.base64' stream filter.</li> <li>Renamed stream_register_wrapper() to stream_wrapper_register().</li> </ul> </li> <li>Improved the GD extension: (Pierre-Alain Joye, Ilia) <ul> <li>imagefilter() - Apply different filters to image. (Only available with bundled GD library)</li> <li>Antialiased drawing support: <ul> <li>imageantialias() - (de)active antialias</li> <li>imageline() and imagepolygon() antialias support</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Changed the length parameter in fgetss() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)</li> <li>Changed ini parser to allow for handling of quoted multi-line values. (Ilia)</li> <li>Changed get_extension_funcs() to return list of the built-in Zend Engine functions if "zend" is specified as the module name. (Ilia)</li> <li>Changed array_search() to accept also objects as a needle. (Moriyoshi)</li> <li>Changed ext/mcrypt to require libmcrypt version 2.5.6 or greater. (Derick)</li> <li>Changed uniqid() parameters to be optional and allow any prefix length. (Marcus)</li> <li>Added new iconv functions. (Moriyoshi) <ul> <li>iconv_strlen()</li> <li>iconv_substr()</li> <li>iconv_strpos()</li> <li>iconv_strrpos()</li> <li>iconv_mime_decode()</li> <li>iconv_mime_encode()</li> </ul> </li> <li>Added misc. new functions: <ul> <li>ldap_sasl_bind(). (peter_c60@hotmail.com, Jani)</li> <li>imap_getacl(). (Dan, Holger Burbach)</li> <li>file_put_contents(). (Sterling)</li> <li>proc_nice() - Changes priority of the current process. (Ilia)</li> <li>pcntl_getpriority() and pcntl_setpriority(). (Ilia)</li> <li>idate(), date_sunrise() and date_sunset(). (Moshe Doron)</li> <li>strpbrk() - Searches a string for a list of characters. (Ilia)</li> <li>get_headers() - Returns headers sent by the server of the specified URL. (Ilia)</li> <li>str_split() - Breaks down a string into an array of elements based on length. (Ilia)</li> <li>array_walk_recursive(). (Ilia)</li> <li>array_combine(). (Andrey)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Added optional parameter to get_browser() to make it return an array. (Jay)</li> <li>Added optional parameter to openssl_sign() to specify the hashing algorithm.(scott@planetscott.ca, Derick)</li> <li>Added optional parameter to sha1(), sha1_file(), md5() and md5_file() which makes them return the digest as binary data. (Michael Bretterklieber, Derick)</li> <li>Added optional parameter to mkdir() to make directory creation recursive. (Ilia)</li> <li>Added optional parameter to file() which makes the result array not contain the line endings and to skip empty lines. (Ilia)</li> <li>Added new range() functionality: (Ilia) <ul> <li>Support for float modifier.</li> <li>Detection of numeric values inside strings passed as high &amp; low.</li> <li>Proper handle the situations where high == low.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Added encoding detection feature for expat XML parser. (Adam Dickmeiss, Moriyoshi)</li> <li>Added missing multibyte (unicode) support and numeric entity support to html_entity_decode(). (Moriyoshi)</li> <li>Added IPv6 support to ext/sockets. (Sara)</li> <li>Added "ftp://" wrapper support to opendir(), stat() and unlink(). (Sara)</li> <li>Added context options 'method', 'header' and 'content' for "http://" fopen wrapper. (Sara)</li> <li>Added input filter support. See README.input_filter for more info. (Rasmus)</li> <li>Fixed is_executable() to be available also on Windows. (Shane)</li> <li>Fixed dirname() and strip_tags() to be binary-safe. (Moriyoshi)</li> <li>Fixed bug #24098 (crash in pathinfo()). (Ilia)</li> <li>Fixed bug #21985 and #22064 (various mb_send_mail() issues). (Moriyoshi)</li> <li>Fixed bug #21600 (Assign by reference function call changes variable contents). (Zeev)</li> </ul> <?php commonfooter(); ?>