SV: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released

As usual, if anybody feels like compiling a win32 version (including MSSQL), they would earn my eternal graditude... Mikkel. > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Stig Bakken [mailto:ssb@fast.no] > Sendt: 17. november 1999 14:11 > Til: php-announce@lists.php.net; php-dev@lists.php.net; > php4beta@lists.php.net > Emne: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released > > > After three more months of development, PHP 4.0b3 is released. The > highlights are Java support, new build system (for UNIX), support for > multi-dimensional get/post/cookie data, object (de)serialization, > AOLserver support and a new and faster way of passing > function parameters > is now used by the bundled extensions. There is of course a > ton of other > bux fixes and improvements too. > > Get it from http://www.php.net/version4/downloads.php > > From the NEWS (previously ChangeLog) file: > > November 16 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 3 > - ucfirst()/ucwords() no longer modify arg1. (Thies) > - Fixed strtr() not to modify arg1. (Thies) > - Added Win32 build files for Informix driver and make it > compile with ZTS (danny) > - Added tmpfile() function (Stig) > - Upgraded regex library to alpha3.8 (Sascha) > - Fixed selecting nested-tables in OCI8. (Thies) > - RFC-854 fix for internal FTP-Code. Commands have to end in "\r\n" > (Thies) > - Fix OpenLink ODBC support (Stig) > - min(),max(),a[r]sort(),[r]sort(),k[r]sort() now work > consistent with the > language-core. (Thies) > - tempnam() now uses mkstemp() if available (Stig) > - serialize() and var_dump() now honor the precision as set in php.ini > for doubles. (Thies) > - Improved the Win32 COM module to support [out] parameters > (Boris Wedl) > - Fixed garbage returned at the end of certain Sybase-Columns (Thies) > Patch submitted by: neal@wanlink.com > - Added Microsoft SQL Server module for Win32 (Frank) > - Added support for forcing a variable number of internal function > arguments by reference. (Andi & Zeev, Zend library) > - Implemented getprotoby{name,number} (Evan) > - Added array_pad() function. (Andrei) > - Added new getservby{name,port} functions. (Evan) > - Added session.cookie_path and session.cookie_domain (Sascha) > - Continue processing PHP_INI_SYSTEM knownDirectives after extension= > (Sam Ruby) > - Enable IBM DB2 support - Tested against DB2 6.1 UDB on > Linux (Rasmus) > - Added new str_repeat() function. (Andrei) > - Output-Buffering system is now Thread-Safe. (Thies) > - implemented OCI8 $lob->WriteToFile() function - very useful for > streaming large amounts of LOB-Data without to need of a > huge buffer. > (Thies) > - Added session.use_cookies option (Sascha) > - Added getcwd() function. (Thies) > - XML_Parse_Into_Struct no longer eats data. (Thies) > - Fixed parse_url('-') crash. (Thies) > - added === operator support. (Andi & Thies, Zend library) > - unserialize() now gives a notice when passed invalid data. (Thies) > - Fixed shuffle() so that it no longer breaks on Solaris. (Andrei) > - Added is_resource(), is_bool() functions. (Thies) > - Cleaned up File-Module (Thies) > - Upgraded math-funtions to use new Zend function API (Thies) > - Fixed zombie problem in shell_exec() and $a = some_command > constructs. (Thies) > - Thies introduced ZEND_FETCH_RESOURCE2 (Danny). > - Added Informix driver to list of maintained extensions. (Danny). > - Informix driver : Changed ifx.ec to use the new high-performance > ZEND API. (Danny) > - IXF_LIBDIR environment variable specifies alternate Informix library > path for configure (Danny). > - Fixed gmmktime() so that the following should always be true: > gmmktime([args]) == mktime([args]) + date('Z', > mktime([args])) (Jouni) > - setlocale doesn't anymore screw up things if you forgot to change it > back to the original settings. (Jouni) > - Switched to new system where ChangeLog is automagically updated from > commit messages. NEWS file is now the place for public > announcements. > (Andrei) > - Fixed refcount problem in XML module. (Thies) > - Fixed crash in HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA handling (Thies) > - You can use resources as array-indices again (Thies, Zend library) > - Fixed pg_fetch_array() with three arguments (Sascha) > Patch submitted by: brian@soda.berkeley.edu > - Upgraded a lot internal functions to use new Zend function > API (Thies) > - fdf support ported; not completely tested with latest > version 4.0 for > glibc (Uwe) > - OCI8 connections are now kept open as long as they are referenced > (Thies) > - Cleaned up Directory-Module (Thies) > - Small fix in Ora_Close (Thies) > - Ported range() and shuffle() from PHP3 to PHP4 (Andrei) > - Fixed header("HTTP/..."); behaviour (Sascha) > - Improved UNIX build system. Now utilizes libtool (Sascha) > - Upgrade some more internal functions to use new Zend function API. > (Thies, Zend library) > - Fixed backwards incompatibility with ereg() (Thies) > - Updated Zend garbage collection with a much more thorough method. > (Andi, Zend library) > - Added the ability to use variable references in the array() > construct. > For example, array("foo" => &$foo). (Andi, Zend library) > - Added array_reverse() function (Andrei) > - Some more XML fixes/cleanups (Thies) > - Updated preg_replace() so that if any argument passed in is an array > it will make a copy of each entry before converting it to > string so that > the original is intact. If the subject is an array then it > will preserve > the keys in the output as well (Andrei) > - Updated OCI8 to use the new high-performance Zend function > API. (Thies) > - Configure speedup (Stig) > - Fixed LOB/Persistent-Connection related OCI8-Crash (Thies) > - Generalized server-API build procedure on UNIX (Stig) > - Added '--disable-rpath' option (Sascha) > - Added AOLserver SAPI module (Sascha) > - Fixed XML Callbacks. (Thies) > - Updated ODBC to use the new high-performance Zend function > API (kara) > - Updated zlib to use the new high-performance Zend function > API. (Stefan) > - Updated preg_split() to allow returning only non-empty > pieces (Andrei) > - Updated PCRE to use the new high-performance Zend function > API (Andrei) > - Updated session, dba, mhash, mcrypt, sysvshm, sysvsem, > gettext modules > to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Sascha) > - Extended var_dump to handle resource type somewhat (Andrei) > - Updated WDDX to use the new high-performance Zend function > API (Andrei) > - Updated XML to use the new high-performance Zend function > API. (Thies) > - Updated Oracle to use the new high-performance Zend function API. > (Thies) > - Improved the performance of the MySQL module significantly > by using the > new high-performance Zend function API. (Zeev) > - Add support for the Easysoft ODBC-ODCB Bridge (martin@easysoft.com) > - Fix bug in odbc_setoption, getParameter call incorrect > (martin@easysoft.com) > - Ora_Fetch_Into now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies) > - Fixed NULL-Column problem in Oracle-Driver (Thies) > - Added extra metadata functions to ODBC, SQLTables etc > (nick@easysoft.com) > - Fixed SEGV in mcal make_event_object() and > typo in mcal_list_alarms() (Andrew Skalski) > - Fixed Ora_PLogon (Thies) > - Resourcified Oracle (Thies) > - Implemented object serialization/deserialization in WDDX (Andrei) > - Added krsort() function (Thies) > - Added func_num_args(), func_get_arg() and func_get_args() > for standard > access to variable number of arguments functions (Zeev) > - Added FTP support (Andrew Skalski) > - Added optional allowable_tags arguments to strip_tags(), > gzgetss() and > fgetss() to allow you to specify a string of tags that are not to be > stripped (Rasmus) > - Upgraded var_dump() to take multiple arguments (Andrei) > - Resourcified XML (Thies) > - Fixed a memory leak in the Apache per-directory directives handler > (Zeev) > - Added array_count_values() function. (Thies) > - snmp, pgsql, mysql and gd modules can be built as > dynamically loaded > modules (Greg) > - OCI8 fix for fetching empty LOBs (Thies) > - Added user-level callbacks for session module (Sascha) > - Added support for unknown POST content types (Zeev) > - Added "wddx" serialization handler for session module (Sascha) > (automatically enabled, if you compile with --with-wddx) > - Fixed unserializing objects (Thies) > - PHP 4.0 now serializes Objects as 'O' (not understood by > PHP 3.0), but > unserializes PHP 3.0 serialized objects as expected. (Thies) > - Made serialize/unserialize work on classes. If the class is > known at > unserialize() time, you'll get back a fully working object! (Thies) > - Reworked preg_* functions according to the new PCRE API, > which also made > them behave much more like Perl ones (Andrei) > - Made it possible to specify external location of PCRE > library (Andrei) > - Updated bundled PCRE library to version 2.08 (Andrei) > - count()/is_array/is_object... speedups. (Thies) > - OCI8 supports appending and positioning when saving LOBs (Thies) > - Added metaphone support (Thies) > - OCI8 doesn't use define callbacks any longer. (Thies) > - OCI8 Driver now supports LOBs like PHP 3.0. (Thies) > - var_dump now dumps the properties of an object (Thies) > - Rewrote the GET/POST/Cookie data reader to support multi-dimensional > arrays! (Zeev) > - Renamed allow_builtin_links to expose_php (defaults to On). This > directive tells PHP whether it may expose its existence to > the outside > world, e.g. by adding itself to the Web server header (Zeev) > - Added support for transparent session id propagation (Sascha) > - Made WDDX serialize object properties properly (Andrei) > - Fixed WDDX mem leak when undefined variable is passed in > for serialization (Andrei) > - Added session_unset() function (Andrei) > - Fixed double session globals shutdown crash (Andrei) > - Fixed crash related to ignore_user_abort ini entry (Andrei) > - Added support for external entropy sources for session id creation > (on Unices /dev/random and /dev/urandom) (Sascha) > - Added gpc_globals variable directive to php.ini. By > default it is On, > but if it is set to Off, GET, POST and Cookie variables will not be > inserted to the global scope. Mostly makes sense when coupled with > track_vars (Zeev) > - Added versioning support for shared library (Sascha) > This allows concurrent use of PHP 3.0 and PHP 4.0 as Apache > modules. See > the end of the INSTALL file for more information. > - Added second parameter to array_keys which specifies search value > for which the key should be returned (Andrei) > - Resourcified Informix driver (Danny) > - New resource handling for odbc, renamed to php_odbc.[ch] > - Make set_time_limit() work on Unix (Rasmus) > - Added connection handling support (Rasmus) > - Improved the Sybase-CT module to make use of resources (Zeev) > - Improved the mSQL module to make use of resources (Zeev) > - Changed mysql_query() and mysql_db_query() to return false > in case of > saving the result set data fails (Zeev) > - Improved the resource mechanism - resources were not > getting freed as > soon as they could (Zeev) > - Added shared memory module for session data storage (Sascha) > - Fixed session.auto_start (Sascha) > - Fixed several problems with output buffering and HEAD > requests (Zeev) > - Fixed HTTP Status code issue with ISAPI module (Zeev) > - Fixed a problem that prevented $GLOBALS from working properly (Zeev, > Zend library) > - Ported newest GetImageSize (Thies) > - Added session compile support in Win32 (Andi) > - Added -d switch to the CGI binary that allows overriding > php.ini values > from the command line (Zeev) > - Fixed a crash that would occur if wddx_deserialize did not receive > a valid packet (Andrei) > - Fixed a bugglet when redefining a class at run-time (Andi, > Zend library) > - Fixed sem_get() on AIX (Sascha) > - Fixed fopen() to work with URL's in Win32 (Andi & Zeev) > - Fixed include_path for Win32 (Andi, Zend library) > - Fixed bug in ISAPI header sending function (Charles) > - Fixed memory leak when using undefined values (Andi & Zeev, Zend > library) > - Added output_buffering directive to php.ini, to enable > output buffering > for all PHP scripts - default is off (Zeev). > - Fixed some more class inheritance issues (Zeev, Zend library) > - Fixed Apache build wrt to shared modules on FreeBSD/Linux (Sascha) > - Added session.extern_referer_chk which checks whether > session ids were > referred to by an external site and eliminates them (Sascha) > - Improved session id generation (Sascha) > - Improved speed of uniqid() by using the combined LCG and removing > the extra usleep() (Sascha) > - Introduced general combined linear congruential generator (Sascha) > - Made ldap_close back into an alias for ldap_unbind (Andrei) > - OciFetchInto now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies) > - Fixed mysql_errno() to work with recent versions of MySQL (Zeev) > - Fixed a problem with define() and boolean values (Zeev) > - Fixed inclusion of gd/freetype functions (Sascha) > - Fixed persistency of MHASH_* constants (Sascha) > - Oracle is now ZTS-Safe (Thies) > - Fixed flushing of cached information to disk in DBA's DB2 module > (Sascha) > - OCI8 is now ZTS-Safe (Thies) > - Fixed is_writeable/is_writable problem; they are both defined now > (Andrei) > - Imported PHP 3.0 diskfreespace() function (Thies) > - Fixed thread-safety issues in the MySQL module (Zeev) > - Fixed thread-safe support for dynamic modules (Zeev) > - Fixed Sybase CT build process (Zeev) > > > > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > >