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<h1>PHP 4.3.6 Release Announcement</h1>

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<p>
 PHP Development Team is proud to announce the release of PHP <a href="/downloads.php">PHP 4.3.6</a>.
 This is is a bug fix release whose primary goal is to address two bugs which may
 result in crashes in PHP builds with thread-safety enabled. All users of PHP
 in a threaded environment (Windows) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
 this release.
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<h2>Bugfix release</h2>

<p>
 Aside from the above mentioned issues this release includes the following important fixes:
</p>

<ul>
 <li>Updated bundled PDFLib library to version 5.0.3p1 in Windows distribution.</li>
 <li>Synchronized bundled GD library with GD 2.0.22.</li>
 <li>Fixed bugs that prevented building of the GD extension against the external GD library versions 1.2-1.8.</li>
 <li>Fixed a bugs resulting in leakage of session settings across requests.</li>
 <li>Fixed several daylight savings bugs inside the mktime and strtotime functions.</li>
 <li>Fixed a bug that prevented compilation of cURL extension against libcurl 7.11.1</li>
 <li>Fixed a number of crashes inside domxml and mssql extensions.</li>

 <li>All in all this release fixes approximately 25 bugs that have been discovered
 since the 4.3.5 release.</li>
</ul>

<p>
 For a full list of changes in PHP 4.3.6, see the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.6">ChangeLog</a>.
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