cvs: phpweb / release_4_1_0.php

zeev Mon Dec 10 17:56:46 2001 EDT Modified files: /phpweb release_4_1_0.php Log: make it clearer Index: phpweb/release_4_1_0.php diff -u phpweb/release_4_1_0.php:1.2 phpweb/release_4_1_0.php:1.3 --- phpweb/release_4_1_0.php:1.2 Mon Dec 10 17:53:23 2001 +++ phpweb/release_4_1_0.php Mon Dec 10 17:56:46 2001 @@ -115,6 +115,13 @@ SECURITY: NEW INPUT MECHANISM +First and foremost, it's important to stress that regardless of +anything you may read in the following lines, PHP 4.1.0 *supports* +the old input mechanisms from older versions. Old applications +should go on working fine without modification! + +Now that we have that behind us, let's move on :) + For various reasons, PHP setups which rely on register_globals being on (i.e., on form, server and environment variables becoming a part of the global namespace, automatically) are very often