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PHP 5 ChangeLog

Version 5.1.6

24-Aug-2006

Fixed memory_limit on 64bit systems. (Stefan E.)
(Access to "php://stdin" and family crashes PHP on win32). (Dmitry)

Version 5.1.5

17-Aug-2006

Fixed overflow on 64bit systems in str_repeat() and wordwrap(). (Stefan E.)
Disabled CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION in curl when open_basedir or safe_mode are enabled. (Stefan E., Ilia)
(reading past array in sscanf() leads to arbitrary code execution). (Tony)
(undefined reference to spl_dual_it_free_storage). (Marcus)
(corrupted gif segfaults) (Pierre)
(var without attribute causes segfault). (Marcus)
(FastCGI env (cgi vars) table overflow). (Piotr)
(FastCGI output buffer overrun). (Piotr, Dmitry)
(oci_fetch_array() array-type should always default to OCI_BOTH). (Tony)
(iterator_to_array() hides exceptions thrown in rewind() method). (Tony)
(Unnecessary call to OCITransRollback() at the end of request). (Tony)
($_SERVER in included file is shortened to two entries, if $_ENV gets used). (Dmitry)
(sigemptyset() used without including ). (jdolecek)
(invalid colormap format) (Pierre)
(invalid gif size) (Pierre)
(max_execution_time = max_input_time). (Dmitry)
(SOAP not respecting uri in __soapCall). (Dmitry)
(Added missing safe_mode & open_basedir checks to imap_body()). (Ilia)
(php-fastcgi doesn't handle connection abort). (Dmitry)

Version 5.1.4

04-May-2006

Added "capture_peer_cert" and "capture_peer_cert_chain" context options for SSL streams. (Wez).
Added PDO::PARAM_EVT_* family of constants. (Sara)
Fixed possible crash in highlight_string(). (Dmitry)
(FastCGI now longer works with isapi_fcgi.dll). (Dmitry)
(cloning Dom Documents or Nodes does not work). (Rob)
(problems with $_POST array). (Dmitry)
(bad error reporting for pdo_odbc exec UPDATE). (Wez).
(crash when pdo_odbc prepare fails). (Wez).

Version 5.1.3

02-May-2006

Updated bundled PCRE library to version 6.6. (Andrei)
Moved extensions to PECL:

ext/msession (Derick)

Reimplemented FastCGI interface. (Dmitry)
Improved SPL: (Marcus)

Fixed issues with not/double calling of constructors of SPL iterators.
Fixed issues with info-class/file-class in SPL directory handling classes.
Fixed ArrayIterator::seek().
Added SimpleXMLIterator::count().
Dropped erroneous RecursiveDirectoryIterator::getSubPathInfo().

Improved SimpleXML: (Marcus, Rob)

Added SimpleXMLElement::getName() to retrieve name of element.
Added ability to create elements on the fly.
Added addChild() method for element creation supporting namespaces.
Added addAttribute() method for attribute creation supporting namespaces.
Added ability to delete specific elements and attributes by offset.

Improved Reflection API: (Marcus)

Added ReflectionClass::newInstanceArgs($args).
Added ability to analyze extension dependency.
Added ReflectionFunction::isDeprecated() and constant IS_DEPRECATED.
Added ReflectionParameter::getDeclaringClass().
Changed reflection constants to be prefixed with IS_. (Johannes)

Improved cURL extension: (Ilia)

Added curl_setopt_array() function that allows setting of multiple options via an associated array.
Added the ability to retrieve the request message sent to the server.

Improved GD extension: (Pierre)

Added a weak/tolerant mode to the JPEG loader.
Added filtering mode option to imagepng() to allow reducing file size.
Fixed imagecolorallocate() and imagecolorallocatelapha() to return FALSE on error.

Changed get_headers() to retrieve headers also from non-200 responses. (Ilia)
Changed get_headers() to use the default context. (Ilia)
Changed SOAP extension to cache WSDL structure in memory and thus speed up SoapClient/SoapServer construction. (Andrei, Dmitry)
Added lchown() and lchgrp() to change user/group ownership of symlinks. (Derick)
Added support for exif date format in strtotime(). (Derick)
Added a check for special characters in the session name. (Ilia)
Added "consumed" stream filter. (Marcus)
Added new mysqli constants for BIT and NEW_DECIMAL field types: MYSQLI_TYPE_NEWDECIMAL and MYSQLI_TYPE_BIT. FR #36007. (Georg)
Added imap_savebody() that allows message body to be written to a file. (Mike)
Added overflow checks to wordwrap() function. (Ilia)
Added support for BINARY_DOUBLE and BINARY_FLOAT to PDO_OCI and OCI8 (also fixes bug #36764). (Tony)
Eliminated run-time constant fetching for TRUE, FALSE and NULL. (Dmitry)
Removed the E_STRICT deprecation notice from "var". (Ilia)
Fixed reading stream filters never notified about EOF. (Mike)
Fixed tempnam() 2nd parameter to be checked against path components. (Ilia)
Fixed a bug that would not fill in the fifth argument to preg_replace() properly, if the variable was not declared previously. (Andrei)
Fixed safe_mode check for source argument of the copy() function. (Ilia)
Fixed mysqli bigint conversion under Windows (Georg)
Fixed XSS inside phpinfo() with long inputs. (Ilia)
Fixed Apache2 SAPIs header handler modifying header strings. (Mike)
Fixed 'auto_globals_jit' to work together with 'register_argc_argv'. (Dmitry)
Fixed offset/length parameter validation in substr_compare() function. (Ilia)
Fixed debug_zval_dump() to support private and protected members. (Dmitry)
Fixed SoapFault::getMessage(). (Dmitry)
Fixed issue with iconv_mime_decode where the "encoding" would only allow upper case specifiers. (Derick)
Fixed tiger hash algorithm generating wrong results on big endian platforms. (Mike)
Fixed crash with DOMImplementation::createDocumentType("name:"). (Mike)
(Serving binary content/images fails with "comm with server aborted" FastCGI err). (Dmitry)
(cc may complain about non-constant initializers in hash_adler.c). (Mike)
(chmod takes off sticky bit when safe_mode is On). (Tony)
(PDO segfaults when throwing exception from the fetch handler). (Tony)
(wddx does not build as a shared extension). (jdolecek at NetBSD dot org, Ilia)
(fread behavior changes after calling stream_wrapper_register). (Wez)
(__autoload tries to load callback'ed self and parent). (Dmitry)
(libmbfl headers not installed). (Jani)
(Frequent crashes in SOAP extension with new WSDL caching code in multithread WS). (Andrei, Dmitry)
(compile failure on ARM architecture). (Tony)
(curl_exec() doesn't zero-terminate binary strings). (Tony)
(Type of retval of Countable::count() is not checked). (Johannes)
(oci_bind_by_name() doesn't support RAW and LONG RAW fields). (Tony)
(xmlrpc_decode() may produce arrays with numeric strings, which are unaccessible). (Tony)
(incorrect reference counting for persistent OCI8 connections). (Tony)
(SoapClient Error Fetching http headers). (Dmitry)
(html_errors with internal classes produces wrong links). (Tony)
(foreach breaks static scope). (Dmitry)
(Fixed check for special chars for http redirects). (Ilia)
(strtotime fails before 13:00:00 with some time zones identifiers). (Derick)
(Have to quote literals in INI when concatenating with vars). (Dmitry)
(mktime freezes on long numbers). (Derick)
(SplFileObject->fgets() ignores max_length). (Tony)
(serialize() does not handle recursion). (Ilia)
(strncmp & strncasecmp do not return false on negative string length). (Tony)
(ArrayIterator does not clone itself). (Marcus)
(OCILob->read() doesn't move internal pointer when reading 0's). (Tony)
(wsdl default value overrides value in soap request). (Dmitry)
(__set() leaks in classes extending internal ones). (Tony, Dmitry)
(User filters can leak buckets in some situations). (Ilia)
(error messages are printed even though an exception has been thrown). (Tony)
(is_*() functions do not account for open_basedir). (Ilia)
(session_destroy() fails after call to session_regenerate_id(true)). (Ilia)
(memory leak in output buffering when using chunked output). (Tony)
(DOMElement crashes when calling __construct when cloning). (Tony)
(Added support for partial content fetching to the HTTP streams wrapper). (Ilia)
(Documentation and code discrepancies for NULL data in oci_fetch_*() functions). (Tony)
(Exceptions thrown in ArrayObject::offsetGet cause segfault). (Tony)
(Privileged connection with an Oracle password file fails). (Tony)
(__FILE__ behavior changed). (Dmitry)
(syslog ident becomes garbage between requests). (Tony)
(mysqli_set_charset() crash with a non-open connection). (Ilia)
(DOMDocument::removeChild corrupts node). (Rob)
(SOAP: 'Error Fetching http body' when using HTTP Proxy). (Dmitry)
(No error message when load data local file isn't found). (Georg)
(In a class extending XMLReader array properties are not writable). (Tony)
(segfault in pdo_pgsql bindValue() when no parameters are defined). (Tony)
(The SoapServer is not able to send a header that it didn't receive). (Dmitry)
(Transparency is lost when using imagecreatetruecolor). (Pierre)
(Removed arbitrary limit on the length of syslog messages). (Ilia)
(http_build_query generates invalid URIs due to use of square brackets). (Mike)
(strtotime() returns false when 2nd argument < 1). (Derick)
(SoapServer::handle() exits on SOAP faults). (Dmitry)
(pg_trace() does not work). (iakio at mono-space dot net)
(Segfault when using Soap). (Dmitry)
(assignment to SimpleXML object attribute changes argument type to string). (Tony)
(pg_query_params() changes arguments type to string). (Tony)
(DATE_W3C format constant incorrect). (Derick)
(SOAP: Incorrect complex type instantiation with hierarchies). (Dmitry)
(Added PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_DIRECT_QUERY constant that should be set when executing internal queries like "show master status" via MySQL). (Ilia)
(memory_limit setting on win32 has no effect). (Dmitry)
(comment will be outputted in last line). (Dmitry)
(strtotime() fails to parse date strings with tabs). (Ilia, Derick)
(Incorrect adding PHPSESSID to links, which contains \r\n). (Ilia)
(sleep() accepts negative values). (Ilia)
(DBA problem with Berkeley DB4). (Marcus)
(Improper resolution of declaring class name of an inherited property). (Ilia)
(segfault when access result->num_rows after calling result->close()). (Ilia,Tony)
(oci_execute() no longer supports OCI_DESCRIBE_ONLY). (Tony)
(Custom 5xx error does not return correct HTTP response error code). (Tony)
(strtotime() fails to parse dates in dd-mm-yyyy format). (Derick)
(ext/soap crashes when throwing exception and session persistence). (David)
(PDO/PgSQL's getColumnMeta() crashes). (Derick)
(splFileObject::fwrite() doesn't write when no data length specified). (Tony)
(parse_url() does not parse numeric paths properly). (Ilia)
(PDO/MySQL problem loading BLOB over 1MB). (Ilia)
(ReflectionProperty fails to return correct visibility). (Ilia)
(Added missing documentation about realpath cache INI settings). (Ilia)
(ReflectionProperty::getDocComment() does not reflect extended class commentary). (Ilia)
(crc32() differ on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms) (anight@eyelinkmedia dot com, Pierre)
(foreach on error_zval produces segfault). (Dmitry)
(typo in SplFileObject::flock() parameter name). (Tony)
(Segfault with SplFileInfo conversion). (Marcus)
(SOAPClient Compression Broken). (Dmitry)
(Object destructors called even after fatal errors). (Dmitry)
(SplFileObject::getPath() may lead to segfault). (Tony)
(PHP causes ORA-07445 core dump in Oracle server 9.2.x). (Tony)
(Possible memory corruption in stream_select()). (Tony)
(ocicolumnname returns false before a successful fetch). (Tony)
(Inconsistent handling when passing potential arrays). (Dmitry)
(date(DATE_ATOM) gives wrong results). (Derick, Hannes Magnusson)
(errorInfo in PDOException is always NULL). (Ilia)
(symbol namespace conflicts using bundled gd). (Jakub Moc)
(Memory leaks on duplicate cookies). (Dmitry)
(str_rot13() crash on non-string parameter). (Pierre)
(PDO_PGSQL - PDO::exec() does not return number of rows affected by the operation). (Ilia)
(SIGTERM is not handled correctly when running as a FastCGI server). (Dmitry)
(problems with curl+ssl and pgsql+ssl in same PHP). (Mike)
(unpack("H*hex", $data) is adding an extra character to the end of the string). (Ilia)
(DirectoryIterator constructor failed to detect empty directory names). (Ilia)
(Reading records of unsupported type causes segfault). (Tony)
(oci_result() returns garbage after oci_fetch() failed). (Tony)
(SoapClient waits for responses on one-way operations). (Dmitry)
(Engine Crash related with 'clone'). (Dmitry)
(possible OCI8 crash in multi-threaded environment). (Tony)
(parse_ini_file() miscounts lines in multi-line values). (Ilia)
(ext/hash compile failure on Mac OSX). (Tony)
(heredoc adds extra line number). (Dmitry)
(realpath cache memleaks). (Dmitry, Nuno)
(Strict errormsg wrong for call_user_func() and the likes). (Marcus)
(Segfault when re-creating and re-executing statements with bound parameters). (Tony)
(Problem with $this in __destruct()). (Dmitry)
(recursive mkdir() does not work with relative path like "foo/bar"). (Tony)
(SplFileInfo::getPathname() returns unix style filenames in win32). (Marcus)
(Unknown persistent list entry type in module shutdown). (Dmitry)
(Fatal com_exception casting object). (Rob)
(stream_select() should warning when tv_sec is negative). (Ilia)
(SimpleXML causes memory read error zend engine). (Marcus)
(empty array onto COM object blows up). (Rob)
(sqlite_fetch_column_types() locks the database forever). (Ilia)

Version 5.1.2

12-Jan-2006

Updated libsqlite in ext/sqlite to 2.8.17. (Ilia)
Updated libsqlite in ext/pdo_sqlite to 3.2.8. (Ilia)
Updated to libxml2-2.6.22 and libxslt-1.1.15 in the win32 bundle. (Rob)
Added new extensions: (Ilia, Wez)

XMLWriter
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Added PNG compression support to GD extension. (Pierre)
Added reflection constants as class constants. (Johannes)
Added --enable-gcov configure option to enable C-level code coverage. (John, Jani, Ilia, Marcus)
Added missing support for 'B' format identifier to date() function. (Ilia)
Changed reflection to be an extension. (Marcus)
Improved SPL extension: (Marcus)

Added class SplFileInfo as root class for DirectoryIterator and SplFileObject
Added SplTempFileObject

Improved SimpleXML extension: (Marcus)

Fixed memleaks
Fixed var_dump()
Fixed isset/empty/(bool) behavior
Fixed iterator edge cases
Added methods getNamespaces(), getDocNamespaces()

Upgraded pear to version 1.4.6. (Greg)
Added constants for libxslt and libexslt versions: LIBXSLT_VERSION, LIBXSLT_DOTTED_VERSION, LIBEXSLT_VERSION and LIBEXSLT_DOTTED_VERSION. (Pierre)
Fixed possible crash in apache_getenv()/apache_setenv() on invalid parameters. (Ilia)
Changed errors to warnings in imagecolormatch(). (Pierre)
Fixed segfault/leak in imagecolormatch(). (Pierre)
Fixed small leak in mysqli_stmt_fetch() when bound variable was empty string. (Andrey)
Fixed prepared statement name conflict handling in PDO_PGSQL. (Thies, Ilia)
Fixed memory corruption when PDO::FETCH_LAZY mode is being used. (Ilia)
Fixed possible leaks in imagecreatefromstring() with invalid data. (Pierre)
Fixed possible memory corruption inside mb_strcut(). (Ilia)
Fixed possible header injection by limiting each header to a single line. (Ilia)
Fixed possible XSS inside error reporting functionality. (Ilia)
Fixed many bugs in OCI8. (Tony)
Fixed crash and leak in mysqli when using 4.1.x client libraries and connecting to 5.x server. (Andrey)
(Duplicate calls to stream_bucket_append() lead to a crash). (Ilia)
(curl extension uses undefined GCRY_THREAD_OPTIONS_USER). (Ilia)
(PDO_OCI uses hardcoded lib path $ORACLE_HOME/lib). (Tony)
(wddx_deserialize not parsing dateTime fields properly). (Derick)
(strtotime("NOW") no longer works). (Derick)
(array_map() segfaults when exception is throwed from the callback). (Tony)
(unpack() does not decode odd number of hexadecimal values). (Ilia)
(segfault on PDOStatement::execute() with zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = On). (Tony, Ilia)
(stream_filter_append() can cause segfault). (Tony)
(sybase_ct doesn't compile on Solaris using old gcc). (Tony)
(mysqli_stmt_bind_result() makes huge allocation when column empty). (Andrey)
(using date with a timestamp makes httpd segfault). (Derick)
(memory leak when including a directory). (Tony)
(ext/mssql + freetds: Use correct character encoding and allow setting it). (Frank)
(xmlrpc_introspection.c fails compile per C99 std). (Jani)
(A final constructor can be overwritten). (Marcus)
(getopt() returns array with numeric strings when passed options like '-1'). (Tony)
(strtotime() fails to parse soap date format without TZ). (Ilia)
(date() can't handle leap years before 1970). (Derick)
(Improved error message for invalid fetch mode). (Ilia)
(iconv_mime_decode() segmentation fault; with libiconv only). (Tony)
(pack() tries to allocate huge memory block when packing float values to strings). (Tony)
(imap_mail_compose() crashes with multipart-multiboundary-email). (Ilia)
(AIX TZ variable format not understood, yields UTC timezone). (Derick)
(whitespace following end of heredoc is lost). (Ilia)
(strtotime() crashes on certain relative identifiers). (Ilia)
(crash in http:// wrapper on multiple redirects). (Ilia)
(strtotime() does not handle 3 character weekdays). (Ilia)
(iis6 Access Violation crash). (Dmitry, alacn.uhahaa)
(Multiple calls to getopt() may result in a crash). (rabbitt at gmail dot com, Ilia)
(Fixed crash in Apache 2 SAPI when more then one php script is loaded via SSI include). (Ilia)
(segfault when re-using soap client object). (Dmitry)
(mktime() interpreting 3 digit years incorrectly). (Ilia)
(php crash when calling non existing method of a class that extends PDO). (Tony)
(typo in error message for ErrorException). (Tony)
(mysql_field_type() doesn't handle NEWDECIMAL). (Tony)
(mysql_stmt_fetch returns NULL on data truncation). (Georg)
(string constant as array key has different behavior inside object). (Dmitry)
(PDO fails when unknown fetch mode specified). (Tony)
(strtotime() does not handle whitespace around the date string). (Ilia)
(Crash in mcrypt_generic()/mdecrypt_generic() without proper init). (Ilia)
(socket_sendto() unable to handle IPv6 addresses). (Tony)
(Ming extension fails to compile with ming 0.3beta1). (Jani)
(Segfault or Invalid Opcode 137/1/4). (Dmitry)
(Assigning global using variable name from array doesn't function). (Dmitry)
(+ 1 [time unit] format did not work). (Ilia)
(xml_parse_into_struct() chokes on the UTF-8 BOM). (Rob)
(PDO crashes when using LAZY fetch with fetchAll). (Wez)
(PDO crashes on incorrect FETCH_FUNC use). (Tony)
(str_word_count() handles '-' incorrectly). (Ilia)
(idate() function ignores timezone settings). (Ilia)
(strtotime() does not parse times with UTC as timezone). (Ilia)
(strtotime() no longer works with ordinal suffix). (Ilia)
(wddx_deserialize() doesn't handle large ints as keys properly). (Ilia)
(undefined reference to 'rl_completion_matches'). (Jani)
(Since fix of bug #35273 SOAP decoding of soapenc:base64binary fails). (Dmitry)
(changing static protected members from outside the class, one more reference issue). (Dmitry)
(ssl library is not initialized properly). (Alan)
(PDO_SQLITE: undefined reference to "fdatasync"). (Nuno, Jani)
(HP-UX "alias not allowed in this configuration"). (Dmitry)
(iconv() function defined as libiconv()). (Nuno)
(mysqli handles bad unsigned (big)int incorrectly).(Andrey)
(socket_read() produces warnings on non blocking sockets). (Nuno, Ilia)
(SimpleXML object fails FALSE test). (Marcus)
(Crash in ZTS mode under Apache). (Dmitry, Zeev)
(Output buffering cannot be turned off with FastCGI). (Dmitry, Ilya)
(Possible crash inside fopen http wrapper). (Ilia, Sara, Nuno)
(Many Problems with SunFuncs). (Derick)
(sun_rise and sun_set don't return a GMT timestamp if one passes an offset). (Derick)
(date_sunrise and date_sunset don't handle GMT offset well). (Derick)
(is_dir and is_file (incorrectly) return true for any string greater then 255 characters). (Nuno, Ilia)
(date_sunrise() & date_sunset() don't handle endless day/night at high latitudes). (Derick)
(Remove MessageBox on win32 for E_CORE errors if display_startup_error is off). (Ilia)
(mb_strtoupper() / lower() broken with Turkish encoding). (Rui)
(mb_substr() and substr() behave differently when "mbstring.func_overload" is enabled). (Rui)
(number_format() crashes with large numbers). (Marcus)

Version 5.1.1

28-Nov-2005

Disabled native date class to prevent pear::date conflict. (Ilia)
Improved safe_mode/open_basedir checks in cURL extension. (Ilia, Jani)
Changed reflection constants be both PHP and class constants. (Johannes)
Added an additional field $frame['object'] to the result array of debug_backtrace() that contains a reference to the respective object when the frame was called from an object. (Sebastian)
(RecursiveDirectoryIterator doesnt appear to recurse with RecursiveFilterIterator). (Marcus)
(Removed -dev flag from Zend Engine version). (Ilia)
(Regression with \{$ handling). (Ilia)
(eval hangs when evall'ed code ends with comment w/o newline). (Marcus)
(pdo_mysql::exec does not return number of affected rows). (Tony)
(Comment in end of file produces fatal error). (Ilia)
(exceptions in interactive mode (php -a) may cause crash). (Dmitry)
(Incorrect error messages for PDO class constants). (Ilia)
(pdo_pgsql does not handle binary bound params). (Wez)
(Application exception trying to create COM object). (Rob)
(PHP_AUTH_DIGEST differs under Apache 1.x and 2.x). (Ilia)

Version 5.1.0

24-Nov-2005

Added support for class constants and static members for internal classes. (Dmitry, Michael Wallner)
Added "new_link" parameter to mssql_connect() (Bug ). (Frank)
Added missing safe_mode checks for image* functions and cURL. (Ilia)
Added missing safe_mode/open_basedir checks for file uploads. (Ilia)
Added PDO_MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY parameter for pdo_mysql. (Ilia)
Added date_timezone_set() function to set the timezone that the date functions will use. (Derick)
Added pg_fetch_all_columns() function to fetch all values of a column from a result cursor. (Ilia)
Added support for LOCK_EX flag for file_put_contents(). (Ilia)
Added bindto socket context option. (Ilia)
Added offset parameter to the stream_copy_to_stream() function. (Ilia)
Added offset & length parameters to substr_count() function. (Ilia)
Added man pages for "phpize" and "php-config" scripts. (Jakub Vrana)
Added support for .cc files in extensions. (Brian)
Added PHP_INT_MAX and PHP_INT_SIZE as predefined constants. (Andrey)
Added user opcode API that allow overloading of opcode handlers. (Dmitry)
Added an optional remove old session parameter to session_regenerate_id(). (Ilia)
Added array type hinting. (Dmitry)
Added the tidy_get_opt_doc() function to return documentation for configuration options in tidy. (Patch by: nlopess@php.net)
Added support for .cc files in extensions. (Brian)
Added imageconvolution() function which can be used to apply a custom 3x3 matrix convolution to an image. (Pierre)
Added optional first parameter to XsltProcessor::registerPHPFunctions to only allow certain functions to be called from XSLT. (Christian)
Added the ability to override the autotools executables used by the buildconf script via the PHP_AUTOCONF and PHP_AUTOHEADER environmental variables. (Jon)
Added several new functions to support the PostgreSQL v3 protocol introduced in PostgreSQL 7.4. (Christopher)
- pg_transaction_status() - in-transaction status of a database connection.
- pg_query_params() - execution of parameterized queries.
- pg_prepare() - prepare named queries.
- pg_execute() - execution of named prepared queries.
- pg_send_query_params() - async equivalent of pg_query_params().
- pg_send_prepare() - async equivalent of pg_prepare().
- pg_send_execute() - async equivalent of pg_execute().
- pg_result_error_field() - highly detailed error information, most importantly the SQLSTATE error code.
- pg_set_error_verbosity() - set verbosity of errors.
Added optional fifth parameter "count" to preg_replace_callback() and preg_replace() to count the number of replacements made. FR . (Andrey)
Added optional third parameter "charlist" to str_word_count() which contains characters to be considered as word part. FR . (Andrey, Ilia)
Added interface Serializable. (Stanislav, Marcus)
Added pg_field_type_oid() PostgreSQL function. (mauroi at digbang dot com)
Added zend_declare_property_...() and zend_update_property_...() API functions for bool, double and binary safe strings. (Hartmut)
Added possibility to access INI variables from within .ini file. (Andrei)
Added variable $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] containing request start time. (Ilia)
Added optional float parameter to gettimeofday(). (Ilia)
Added apache_reset_timeout() Apache1 function. (Rasmus)
Added sqlite_fetch_column_types() 3rd argument for arrays. (Ilia)
Added optional offset parameter to stream_get_contents() and file_get_contents(). (Ilia)
Added optional maxlen parameter to file_get_contents(). (Ilia)
Added SAPI hook to get the current request time. (Rasmus)
Added new functions:
- array_diff_key() (Andrey)
- array_diff_ukey() (Andrey)
- array_intersect_key() (Christiano Duarte)
- array_intersect_ukey() (Christiano Duarte)
- array_product() (Andrey)
- DomDocumentFragment::appendXML() (Christian)
- fputcsv() (David Sklar)
- htmlspecialchars_decode() (Ilia)
- inet_pton() (Sara)
- inet_ntop() (Sara)
- mysqli::client_info property (Georg)
- posix_access() (Magnus)
- posix_mknod() (Magnus)
- SimpleXMLElement::registerXPathNamespace() (Christian)
- stream_context_get_default() (Wez)
- stream_socket_enable_crypto() (Wez)
- stream_wrapper_unregister() (Sara)
- stream_wrapper_restore() (Sara)
- stream_filter_remove() (Sara)
- time_sleep_until() (Ilia)
Added DomDocument::$recover property for parsing not well-formed XML Documents. (Christian)
Added Cursor support for MySQL 5.0.x in mysqli (Georg)
Added proxy support to ftp wrapper via http. (Sara)
Added MDTM support to ftp_url_stat. (Sara)
Added zlib stream filter support. (Sara)
Added bz2 stream filter support. (Sara)
Added max_redirects context option that specifies how many HTTP redirects to follow. (Ilia)
Added support of parameter=>value arrays to xsl_xsltprocessor_set_parameter(). (Tony)
Improved PHP extension loading mechanism with support for module dependencies and conflicts. (Jani, Dmitry)
Improved interactive mode of PHP CLI (php -a). (Johannes, Marcus)
Improved performance of:
- general execution/compilation. (Andi, Thies, Sterling, Dmitry, Marcus)
- switch() statement. (Dmitry)
- several array functions. (Marcus)
- virtual path handling by adding a realpath() cache. (Andi)
- variable fetches. (Andi)
- magic method invocations. (Marcus)
Improved support for embedded server in mysqli. (Georg)
Improved mysqli extension. (Georg)

added constructor for mysqli_stmt and mysqli_result classes
added new function mysqli_get_charset()
added new function mysqli_set_charset()
added new class mysqli_driver
added new class mysqli_warning
added new class mysqli_exception
added new class mysqli_sql_exception

Improved SPL extension. (Marcus)
- Moved RecursiveArrayIterator from examples into extension
- Moved RecursiveFilterIterator from examples into extension
- Added SplObjectStorage
- Made all SPL constants class constants
- Renamed CachingRecursiveIterator to RecursiveCachingIterator to follow Recursive<*>Iterator naming scheme.
- added standard hierarchy of Exception classes
- added interface Countable
- added interfaces Subject and SplObserver
- added spl_autoload*() functions
- converted several 5.0 examples into c code
- added class SplFileObject
- added possibility to use a string with class_parents() and class_implements(). (Andrey)
Changed type hints to allow "null" as default value for class and array. (Marcus, Derick, Dmitry)
Changed SQLite extension to be a shared module in Windows distribution. (Edin)
Changed "instanceof" and "catch" operators, is_a() and is_subclass_of() functions to not call __autoload(). (Dmitry)
Changed sha1_file() and md5_file() functions to use streams instead of low level IO. (Uwe)
Changed abstract private methods to be not allowed anymore. (Stas)
Changed stream_filter_(ap|pre)pend() to return resource. (Sara)
Changed mysqli_exception and sqlite_exception to use RuntimeException as base if SPL extension is present. (Georg, Marcus)
Upgraded bundled libraries:
- PCRE library to version 6.2. (Andrei)
- SQLite 3 library in ext/pdo_sqlite to 3.2.7. (Ilia)
- SQLite 2 library in ext/sqlite to 2.8.16. (Ilia)
Upgraded bundled libraries in Windows distribution. (Edin)
- zlib 1.2.3
- curl 7.14.0
- openssl 0.9.8
- ming 0.3b
- libpq (PostgreSQL) 8.0.1
Implemented feature request (Year belonging to ISO week). (Derick)
Allowed return by reference from internal functions. (Marcus, Andi, Dmitry)
Rewrote strtotime() with support for timezones and many new formats. Implements feature requests , , , , and . (Derick)
Moved extensions to PECL:
- ext/cpdf (Tony, Derick)
- ext/dio (Jani, Derick)
- ext/fam (Jani, Derick)
- ext/ingres_ii (Jani, Derick)
- ext/mnogosearch (Jani, Derick)
- ext/w32api (Jani, Derick)
- ext/yp (Jani, Derick)
- ext/mcve (Jani, Derick, Pierre)
- ext/oracle (Jani, Derick)
- ext/ovrimos (Jani, Derick, Pierre)
- ext/pfpro (Jani, Derick, Pierre)
- ext/dbx (Jani, Derick)
- ext/ircg (Jani, Derick)
Removed php_check_syntax() function which never worked properly. (Ilia)
Removed garbage manager in Zend Engine which results in more aggressive freeing of data. (Dmitry, Andi)
Fixed "make test" to work for phpized extensions. (Hartmut, Jani)
Fixed Apache 2 regression with sub-request handling on non-linux systems. (Ilia, Tony)
Fixed PDO shutdown problem (possible infinite loop running rollback on shutdown). (Wez)
Fixed PECL bug (PDO: beginTransaction doesn't work if you're in auto-commit mode). (Wez)
Fixed ZTS destruction. (Marcus)
Fixed __get/__set to allow recursive calls for different properties. (Dmitry)
Fixed a bug where stream_get_meta_data() did not return the "uri" element for files opened with tmpname(). (Derick)
Fixed a problem with SPL iterators aggregating the inner iterator. (Marcus)
Fixed an error in mysqli_fetch_fields (returned NULL instead of an array when row number > field_count). (Georg)
Fixed bug in mysql::client_version(). (Georg)
Fixed bug in mysqli extension with unsigned int(11) being represented as signed integer in PHP instead of string in 32bit systems. (Andrey)
Fixed bug with $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA not getting set. (Brian)
Fixed crash inside stream_get_line() when length parameter equals 0. (Ilia)
Fixed ext/mysqli to allocate less memory when fetching bound params of type (MEDIUM|LONG)BLOB/(MEDIUM|LONG)TEXT. (Andrey)
Fixed extension initialization to respect dependencies between extensions. (Wez)
Fixed failing queries (FALSE returned) with mysqli_query() on 64 bit systems. (Andrey)
Fixed fgetcsv() and fputcsv() inconsistency. (Dmitry)
Fixed inheritance check to control return by reference and pass by reference correctly (ArrayAccess can no longer support references correctly). (Marcus, Andi, Dmitry)
Fixed initializing and argument checking for posix_mknod(). (Derick)
Fixed memory corruption in ImageTTFText() with 64bit systems. (Andrey)
Fixed memory corruption in pg_copy_from() in case the as_null parameter was passed. (Derick)
Fixed memory corruption in stristr(). (Derick)
Fixed possible GLOBALS variable override when register_globals are ON. (Ilia, Stefan)
Fixed possible INI setting leak via virtual() in Apache 2 sapi. (Ilia)
Fixed possible register_globals toggle via parse_str(). (Ilia, Stefan)
Fixed potential GLOBALS overwrite via import_request_variables() and possible crash and/or memory corruption. (Ilia)
Fixed segfaults when CURL callback functions throw exception. (Tony)
Fixed support for shared extensions on AIX. (Dmitry)
(isset(DOMNodeList->length) returns false). (Rob)
(Fix for bug breaks build with older curl). (Tony)
(crash on PDO::FETCH_CLASS + __set()). (Tony)
(PDO prepare() crashes with invalid parameters). (Ilia)
(PDO segfaults when using persistent connections). (Tony)
(Multiple virtual() calls crash Apache 2 php module). (Ilia)
(Error in mapping soap - java types). (Dmitry)
(compile failure when ext/readline is compiled as shared). (Jani)
(sqlite_query() doesn't set error_msg when return value is being used). (Ilia)
(php_mblen() crashes when compiled with thread-safety on Linux). (Patch: shulmanb at il dot ibm dot com, Jani)
(Objects can lose references). (Dmitry)
(call_user_func() crashes when argument_stack is nearly full). (Dmitry)
(Destructor is not called). (Tony)
(tokenizer extension needs T_HALT_COMPILER). (Greg)
(include()/require()/*_once() produce wrong error messages about main()). (Dmitry)
(__HALT_COMPILER() breaks with --enable-zend-multibyte). (Dmitry, Moriyoshi)
(gettimeofday() ignores current time zone). (Derick)
(SOAP Client/Server Complex Object Support). (Dmitry)
(PDOStatment without related PDO object may crash). (Ilia)
(SoapClient leaks memory). (Dmitry)
(stream_set_blocking(true) toggles, not enables blocking). (askalski at gmail dot com, Tony)
(configure does not find ldap_start_tls_s). (Jani)
(phpinfo() uses improper css enclosure). (Ilia)
Fixed bugs , (Regression in the behavior of key() and current() functions). (Ilia)
(Exception thrown in error handler may cause unexpected behavior). (Dmitry)
(array_product() always returns 0). (Ilia)
(ZTS: Persistent resource destruct crashes when extension is compiled as shared). (Dmitry)
(ImageTrueColorToPalette() crashes when ncolors is zero). (Tony)
(array_walk_recursive() modifies elements outside function scope). (Dmitry)
(Compile failure on MacOSX due to use of varargs.h). (Tony)
(bz2 extension fails on to build on some win32 setups). (Ilia)
(tidy is not binary safe). (Mike)
(PHP doesn't respect ACLs for access checks). (Wez)
(Unable to get WSDL through proxy). (Dmitry)
(dns_get_record() doesn't resolve long hostnames and leaks). (Tony)
(Digest authentication does not work with Apache 1). (Ilia)
(mysqli::character_set_name() - undefined method). (Tony)
(Fixed sqlite extension compile failure). (Ilia)
(PHP5.1 overloading, Cannot access private property). (Dmitry)
(Possible crash in ext/sqlite when sqlite.assoc_case is being used). (Tony, Ilia)
(str_replace, array_map corrupt negative array indexes on 64-bit platforms). (Dmitry)
(Segmentation Fault on foreach in object). (Dmitry)
(configure fails to detect libiconv's type). (Tony)
(ibase_service_attach() segfault on AMD64). (irie at gmx dot de, Tony)
(SO_RECVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options expect integer parameter on Windows). (Mike)
(--program-suffix and --program-prefix not included in man page names). (Jani)
(zlib encoders fail on widely varying binary data on windows). (Mike, Ilia)
(several functions crash when invalid mysqli_link object is passed). (Tony)
(mysqli::init() and others use wrong $this pointer without checks). (Tony)
(FETCH_INTO in PDO crashes without a destination object). (Ilia)
(Fixed crash on object instantiation failure). (Ilia)
(missing SSL linking in ext/ftp when configured as shared). (Jani)
(preg_match_all(), named capturing groups, variable assignment/return => crash). (Dmitry)
(SOAP Client not applying correct namespace to generated values). (Dmitry)
(SOAP Client not handling boolean types correctly). (Dmitry)
(2 @ results in change to error_reporting() to random value) (Dmitry, Tony)
(subclassing of mysqli_stmt does not work). (Georg)
(token_get_all() gives wrong result). (Dmitry)
(Crash in dblib when fetching non-existent error info). (Ilia)
(strtotime() fails with 1-12am/pm). (Derick)
(Zend Engine 1 Compatibility not copying objects correctly). (Dmitry)
(PDO_DBLIB did not implement rowCount()). (Ilia)
(iconv_substr() gives "Unknown error" when offset > string length). (Tony)
(ftp wrapper failures caused from segmented command transfer). (Ilia)
(CLI segmentation faults during cleanup). (Dmitry)
(array_count_values() strips leading zeroes). (Tony)
(zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = on segfault). (Dmitry)
(Infinite recursion due to corrupt JPEG). (Marcus)
(__call(), is_callable() and static methods). (Dmitry)
(missing support for strtotime("midnight") and strtotime("noon")). (Derick)
(ctype corrupts memory when validating large numbers). (Ilia)
(wsdl default value has no effect). (Dmitry)
(Crash in pdo_mysql on longtext fields). (Ilia)
(zend_deactivate: objects_store used after zend_objects_store_destroy is called). (Dmitry)
(User defined PDOStatement class can't implement methods). (Marcus)
(Segfault with SPL autoload handler). (Marcus)
(crash with mod_rewrite). (Tony, Ilia)
(mb_send_mail does not fetch mail.force_extra_parameters). (Marco, Ilia)
(php -m exits with "error" 1). (Johannes)
(Unset doesn't separate container in CV). (Dmitry)
(Possible memory corruption when unmangling properties with empty names). (Tony)
(Incorrect parsing of url's fragment (#...)). (Dmitry)
(foreach + __get + __set inconsistency). (Dmitry)
(Possible crash inside pspell extension). (Ilia)
(parsing http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd exception). (Dmitry)
(Segfault when calling mysqli_close() in destructor). (Tony)
(ext/soap: XSD_ANYXML functionality not exposed). (Dmitry)
(Possible crash inside curl_multi_remove_handle()). (Ilia)
(Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this). (Dmitry)
(php crashes when variables_order is empty). (Ilia)
(Possible crash in filter code). (Ilia)
(unserialize() crashes with chars above 191 dec). (Nuno)
(foreach($arr as $c->d => $x) crashes). (Dmitry)
(on_modify handler not called to set the default value if setting from php.ini was invalid). (Andrei)
(wddx_serialize_value() crashes with long array keys). (Jani)
(date() doesn't have a modifier for ISO Week Day). (Derick)
(date('W') do not return leading zeros for week 1 to 9). (Derick)
(ReflectionClass::isInstantiable() returns true for abstract classes). (Marcus)
(CLI phpinfo showing html on _SERVER["argv"]). (Jani)
(array_filter() crashes with references and objects). (Dmitry)
(setAttributeNS doesn't work with default namespace). (Rob)
(Segfault with callbacks (array_map) + overloading). (Dmitry)
(lib64 not handled correctly in ming extension). (Marcus)
(Compiling xmlrpc as shared fails other parts). (Jani)
(Segfault with autoload). (Marcus)
(if($obj)/if(!$obj) inconsistency because of cast handler). (Dmitry, Alex)
(ob_gzhandler does not enforce trailing \0). (Ilia)
(memory usage remains elevated after memory limit is reached). (Ilia)
(+,- and . not supported as parts of scheme). (Ilia)
(assigning array element by reference causes binary mess). (Dmitry)
(line numbering not maintained in dom document). (Rob)
(Reflection API problems in methods with boolean or null default values). (Tony)
(Numeric string as array key not cast to integer in wddx_deserialize()). (Ilia)
(arr[] as param to function in class gives invalid opcode). (Dmitry)
(Crash in catch block when many arguments are used). (Dmitry)
(date('U') returns %ld not unix timestamp). (Nuno)
(Buffer overflow with serialized object). (Dmitry)
(pdo_mysql truncates numeric fields at 4 chars). (Ilia)
(object remains object when cast to int). (Dmitry)
(No information given for fatal error on passing invalid value to typed argument). (Dmitry)
(extract($GLOBALS,EXTR_REFS) crashes PHP). (Dmitry)
(php script as ErrorDocument causes crash in Apache 2). (Ilia)
(misuse of Exception constructor doesn't display errorfile). (Jani)
(Wrong use of reflectionproperty causes a segfault). (Tony)
(mssql_bind() fails on input parameters). (Frank)
(duplicate cookies and magic_quotes=off may cause a crash). (Ilia)
(gmdate('W')/date('W') sometimes returns wrong week number). (Derick)
(array_map() fails to pass by reference when called recursively). (Dmitry)
(number_format() output with > 1 char separators). (Jani)
(input array keys being escaped when magic quotes is off). (Ilia)
(spl_autoload_register class method). (Marcus)
(CLI: setting extension_dir=some/path extension=foobar.so does not work). (Jani)
(CLI was looking for php.ini in wrong path). (Hartmut)
(strtotime() problem with "+1days" format). (Ilia)
(pdo sqlite driver forgets to update affected column count on execution of prepared statments). (Ilia)
(Informix ESQL version numbering schema changed). (Jani)
(mime_content_type() returns text/plain for gzip and bzip files). (Derick)
(throw Exception in error handler causes crash). (Dmitry)
(error_reporting falls to 0 when @ was used inside try/catch block). (Tony)
(cURL needs to implement CRYPTO_callback functions to prevent locking). (Mike, Ilia)
(Wrong behavior of constants in class and interface extending). (Dmitry)
(php_value overrides php_admin_value). (Dmitry)
(mb_encode_mimeheader does not work for multibyte chars). (Rui)
(ArrayAccess objects does not initialize $this). (Dmitry)
(Crash setting some ini directives in httpd.conf). (Rasmus)
(Added detection for partially uploaded files). (Ilia)
(substr_compare() crashes with negative offset and length). (Tony)
(setcookie() "expires" date format doesn't comply with RFC). (Tony)
(LDAP: RootDSE query not possible). (Jani)
(strtotime() problem with "Oct17" format). (Derick)
(strtotime() doesn't understand "11 Oct" format). (Derick)
(date("") crashes). (Derick)
(warning with nested calls to functions returning by reference). (Dmitry)
(strtotime() defaults to now even on non time string). (Derick)
(Different output for strftime() and date()). (Derick)
(Memory leak in xmlrpc_encode_request()). (Ilia)
(crash if safe_mode is on and session.save_path is changed). (Dmitry)
(Add missing support for isset()/unset() overloading to complement the property get/set methods). (Dmitry)
(crash after extending MySQLi internal class). (Tony)
(cURL handle is not closed on curl_close(). (Ilia)
(Compile error undefined reference to ifx_checkAPI). (Jani)
(strtoll not available on Tru64). (Jani, Derick)
(ext/odbc: check if unixODBC header file exists). (Jani)
(strtotime() related bugs). (Derick)
(Comprehensive list of incorrect days returned after strtotime() / date() tests). (Derick)
(double free() when exporting a ReflectionClass). (Marcus)
(crash when retrieving empty LOBs). (Tony)
(array_reverse() fails after *sort()), introduced by zend_hash_sort() optimizations in HEAD. (Tony)
(CLI Crash when calling php:function from XSLT). (Rob)
(Cannot build extensions with phpize on Macosx). (Jani)
(throw 1; results in Invalid opcode 108/1/8). (Dmitry)
(ReflectionParameter methods do not work correctly). (Dmitry)
(php:function no longer handles returned dom objects). (Rob, Joe Orton)
(nested array_walk() calls and user array compare functions broken; FCI cache). (Andrei, patch from m.bretz@metropolis-ag.de)
(private method accessed by child class). (Dmitry)
(iconv_strlen() works only with a parameter of < 3 in length). (Ilia)
(array_splice() inconsistent when passed function instead of variable). (Dmitry)
(ze1_compatibility_mode does not work as expected). (Dmitry)
(Mangled error message when stream fails). (Derick)
(segfault when CURL handle is closed in a callback). (Tony)
(odbc_next_result does not signal SQL errors with 2-statement SQL batches). (rich at kastle dot com, Tony)
([GCC 4]: 'zend_error_noreturn' aliased to external symbol 'zend_error'). (Dmitry)
(relax jpeg recursive loop protection). (Ilia)
(Crash when fetching some data types). (Frank)
(preg_replace(): magic_quotes_sybase=On makes 'e' modifier misbehave). (Jani)
(--enable-session=shared does not build). (Jani)
(foreach enumerates private fields declared in base classes). (Dmitry)
(Possible crash inside pg_fetch_array()). (Ilia)
(Soap extension incorrectly detects HTTP/1.1). (Ilia)
(cygwin version of setitimer doesn't accept ITIMER_PROF). (Nuno)
(crash in mssql_next result). (Frank)
(shtool: insecure temporary file creation). (Jani)
(method offsetSet in class extended from ArrayObject crash PHP). (Marcus)
(imagecopymergegray() produces mosaic rainbow effect). (Pierre)
(crash when assigning class name to global variable in __autoload). (Dmitry)
(mysqli_prepare() doesn't return an error). (Georg)
(str_ireplace() incorrectly counts result string length and may cause segfault). (Tony)
(Add a safemode/open_basedir check for runtime "session.save_path" change using session_save_path() function). (Rasmus)
(Improved performance of bzdecompress() by several orders of magnitude). (Ilia)
(crash when moving xml attribute set in dtd). (Ilia)
(Don't send extraneous entity-headers on a 304 as per RFC 2616 section 10.3.5) (Rasmus, Choitel)
(socket errors cause memory leaks in php_strerror()). (jwozniak23 at poczta dot onet dot pl, Tony).
("make distclean" gives an error with VPATH build). (Jani)
("next month" was handled wrong while parsing dates). (Derick)
(implemented Iterator function current() don't throw exception). (Dmitry)
(ReflectionMethod::getStaticVariables() causes apache2.0.54 seg fault). (Dmitry)
(mysql_bind_result() doesn't support MYSQL_TYPE_NULL). (Georg)
(Incorrect option for mysqli default password). (Georg)
(Disabling session.use_cookies doesn't prevent reading session cookies). (Jani, Tony)
(Sending structured SOAP fault kills a php). (Dmitry)
(open_basedir looses trailing / in the limiter). (Adam Conrad)
(http redirects URLs are not checked for control chars). (Ilia)
(Cannot extend class "SQLiteDatabase"). (Marcus)
(Oracle LDAP: ldap_get_entries(), invalid pointer). (Jani)
(class extending DOMDocument doesn't clone properly). (Rob)
(file included with "auto_prepend_file" can be included with require_once() or include_once()). (Stas)
(pg_get_notify() ignores result_type parameter). (Tony)
(Crash with singleton and __destruct when zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = On). (Dmitry)
(Invalid opcode). (Dmitry)
(parse_url() does not handle scheme-only urls properly). (Ilia)
(temporary files not using plain file wrapper). (Ilia)
(Missing T1LIB support on Windows). (Edin)
(General cookie overrides more specific cookie). (Ilia)
Fixed bugs , (ext/odbc: Problems with 64bit systems). (Jani)
(crash: calling the corresponding global var during the destruct). (Dmitry)
(SOAP doesn't support one-way operations). (Dmitry)
(GMP functions break when second parameter is 0). (Stas)
(incorrect determination of default value (COM)). (Wez)
(Cannot access safearray properties in VB6 objects). (Wez)
(Segfault in replaceChild() when DocumentFragment has no children). (Rob)
(Undefined constant SQLITE_NOTADB). (Ilia)
(segmentation fault when the stream with a wrapper is not closed). (Tony, Dmitry)
(pg_affected_rows() was defined when it was not available). (Derick)
(Require/include file in destructor causes segfault). (Marcus)
(ext/mssql: Error on module shutdown when called from activescript). (Frank)
(exception in iterator causes crash). (Dmitry)
(Assignment by reference causes crash when field access is overloaded (__get)). (Dmitry)
(Using register_shutdown_function() with invalid callback can crash PHP). (Jani)
(Segfault in replaceChild() using fragment when previousSibling is NULL). (Rob)
(ext/snmp: use of snmp_shutdown() causes snmpapp.conf access errors). (Jani, ric at arizona dot edu)
(html_entity_decode() converts single quotes even if ENT_NOQUOTES is given). (Ilia)
(Segfault/Memory Leak by getClass (etc) in __destruct). (Dmitry)
(ext/mysql: Unsatisfied symbol: ntohs with HP-UX). (Jani)
(possible crash inside imap_mail_compose() function). (Ilia)
(Possible crash inside imap_mail_compose, with charsets). (Ilia)
(Apache2: errors sent to error_log do not include timestamps). (Jani)
(configure looks for incorrect db2 library). (Tony)
(mmap loads only the 1st 2000000 bytes on Win32). (Ilia)
(proc_get_status() returns the incorrect process status). (Ilia)
(chunk_split() does not append endstr if chunklen is longer then the original string). (Ilia)
(File upload error - unable to create a temporary file). (Uwe Schindler)
(wrong setting property to unset value). (Dmitry)
(method_exists() always return TRUE if __call method exists). (Dmitry)
(The @ warning error suppression operator is broken). (Dmitry)
(Interfaces are not allowed 'static' access modifier). (Dmitry)
(mysqli::fetch() returns bad data - 64bit problem). (Andrey)
(get_class_methods() output has changed between 5.0.2 and 5.0.3). (Dmitry)
(Segfault in mysqli_fetch_array on 64-bit). (Georg)
(xml_parser_free() in a function assigned to the xml parser gives a segfault). (Rob)
(xmlrpc_encode() segfaults with recursive references). (Tony)
(Userspace stream wrapper crashes PHP). (Tony, Dmitry)
(copying a file into itself leads to data loss). (Ilia)
(SOAP client does not auto-handle base64 encoding). (Ilia)
($_POST is not populated in multi-threaded environment). (Moriyoshi)
(segfault when assigning object to itself with zend.ze1_compatibility_mode=On). (Dmitry)
(Crash caused by range('', 'z')). (Derick)
(ext/mysqli bind_result causes fatal error: memory limit). (Andrey)
(Memory leak in mssql_fetch_batch). (fmk)
(crash when mssql_bind() is called more than once). (Frank)
(ftp_login fails on some SSL servers). (frantisek at augusztin dot com)
(ISAPI: Custom 5xx error does not return correct HTTP response message). (Jani)
(Crash with zend.ze1_compatibility_mode=On). (Dmitry)
(multi_query works exactly every other time - multi query d/e flag global and not per connection). (Andrey)
(another crash when echoing a COM object). (Wez)
(php_std_date() uses short day names in non-y2k_compliance mode). (mike at php dot net)
(object reference being dropped. $this getting lost). (Stas, Dmitry)
(Wrong deserialization from session when using WDDX serializer). (Dmitry)
(segfault with empty() / isset()). (Moriyoshi)
(False warning in unpack() when working with *). (Ilia)
(broken non-blocking flock()). (ian at snork dot net)
(Older GCC versions do not provide portable va_copy()). (Jani)
(escape on curly inconsistent). (Dmitry)
(PHP_EVAL_LIBLINE configure macro does not handle -pthread). (Jani)
(Side effects caused by fix of bug ). (Dmitry)
(memory leaks and corruption because of incorrect refcounting). (Dmitry)
(array_splice on $GLOBALS crashes). (Dmitry)
(safe_mode & open_basedir checks only check first include_path value). (Ilia)
(php:function(string, nodeset) with xsl:key crashes PHP). (Rob)
(Wrong line number in ReflectionClass getStartLine()). (Dmitry)
(Conflict between __get/__set and ++ operator). (Dmitry)
(array_count_values() modifying input array). (Tony)
(debug_backtrace() reports incorrect class in overridden methods). (Dmitry)
(static member conflict with $this->member silently ignored). (Dmitry)
(Better support for LDAP SASL bind). (Jani)
(magic methods (__sleep/__wakeup/__toString) call __call if object is overloaded). (Dmitry)
(Segmentation fault on exception in method). (Stas, Dmitry)
(cannot initialize class variable from class constant). (Dmitry)
(Output buffers flushed before calling __destruct() functions). (Jani)
(Interface not existing says Class not found). (Dmitry)
(Strange behavior of default arguments). (Dmitry)
(Assignment operators yield wrong result with __get/__set). (Dmitry)
(zend.ze1_compatibility_mode isn't fully compatible with array_push()). (Dmitry)
(Catching exception in constructor causes lose of $this). (Dmitry)
(Problem with array in static properties). (Dmitry)
(Enhancement for error message for abstract classes). (Marcus)
(gmmktime does not return the current time). (Derick)
(Passing array or non array of objects). (Dmitry)
(Crash on shutdown after odbc_pconnect()). (Edin)
(PHP does not explicitly set mime type & charset). (Ilia)
(memory leaks when set_error_handler() is used inside error handler). (Tony)
(variables_order behavior). (Dmitry)
(Function defined in switch, crashes). (Dmitry)
(Backtrace argument list out of sync). (Dmitry)
(Reflection API Feature: Default parameter value). (Marcus)
(default value of protected member overrides default value of private and other private variable problems in inherited classes). (Stas)
(headers_list() returns empty array). (Tony)
(crash when echoing a COM object). (M.Sisolak, Wez)
(accessing properties without connection). (Georg)
(var_export() producing invalid code). (Derick)
(unencoded spaces get ignored after certain tags). (Ilia)
(fetch functions now use MYSQLI_BOTH as default). (Georg)
(win32 mail() provides incorrect Date: header). (Jani)
(calling parent constructor in mysqli). (Georg)
(__autoload() not called with Reflection->getClass()). (Dmitry)
(SOAP HTTP Error when envelop size is more than 24345 bytes). (Dmitry, Wez)
(array_diff with $GLOBALS argument fails). (Dmitry)
(memory error when wsdl-cache is enabled). (Dmitry)
(Function: is_callable - no support for private and protected classes). (Dmitry)
(SoapFault exception: [WSDL] Out of memory). (Dmitry)
(Function declaration in method doesn't work). (Dmitry)
(soap extension segfaults). (Dmitry)
(Incorrect behavior of member vars(non string ones)-numeric mem vars and others). (Dmitry)
(__getTypes() returning nothing on complex WSDL). (Dmitry)
(Wrong data encoding of special characters). (Dmitry)
(SIGSEGV in interactive mode (php -a)). (kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
(Need to use -[m]ieee option for Alpha CPUs). (Jani)
(SAPI::known_post_content_types is not thread safe). (Moriyoshi)
(debug_backtrace is intermittently passing args). (Dmitry)
(glob wont error if dir is not readable). (Hartmut)
(static array with some constant keys will be incorrectly ordered). (Dmitry)
(xml default_handlers not being called). (Rob)
(list() array key assignment causes HUGE memory leak). (Dmitry)
(Bad references accentuated by clone). (Dmitry)
(Wrong results from Reflection-API getDocComment() when called via STDIN). (Dmitry)
(In error handler, modifying 5th arg (errcontext) may result in seg fault). (Dmitry)
(array_multisort() doesn't work in a function if array is global or reference). (Dmitry)
(returning reference to uninitialized variable). (Dmitry)
(ext/sesssion: catch bailouts of write handler during RSHUTDOWN). (Jani, Xuefer at 21cn dot com)
(boolean ini options may be incorrectly displayed as Off when they are On). (Tony)
Fixed bugs , , , , , , , , , , (strtotime() related bugs). (Derick)

Version 5.0.5

05-Sep-2005

Upgraded PCRE library to version 5.0. (Andrei)
Removed php_check_syntax() function which never worked properly. (Ilia)
Added new function mysqli_set_charset(). (Georg)
Added man pages for "phpize" and "php-config" scripts. (Jakub Vrana)
Added support for .cc files in extensions. (Brian)
Added PHP_INT_MAX and PHP_INT_SIZE as predefined constants. (Andrey)
Changed sha1_file() and md5_file() functions to use streams instead of low level IO. (Uwe)
Changed ming to support official 0.2a and 0.3 library versions. (Marcus)
Fixed failing queries problem (FALSE returned) with mysqli_query() on 64 bit. (Andrey)
Fixed memory corruption in pg_copy_from() in case the as_null parameter was passed. (Derick)
Fixed ext/mysqli to allocate less memory when fetching bound params of type (MEDIUM|LONG)BLOB/(MEDIUM|LONG)TEXT. (Andrey)
Fixed memory corruption in ImageTTFText() with 64bit systems. (Andrey)
Fixed memory corruption in stristr(). (Derick)
Fixed segfaults when CURL callback functions throw exception. (Tony)
Fixed various reentrancy bugs in user-sort functions, solves bugs and . (Mike Bretz)
(on_modify handler not called to set the default value if setting from php.ini was invalid). (Andrei)
(date('W') do not return leading zeros for week 1 to 9). (Derick)
(ReflectionClass::isInstantiable() returns true for abstract classes). (Marcus)
(array_filter() crashes with references and objects). (Dmitry)
(Segfault with callbacks (array_map) + overloading). (Dmitry)
(assigning array element by reference causes binary mess). (Dmitry)
(Reflection API problems in methods with boolean or null default values). (Tony)
(arr[] as param to function is allowed only if function receives argument by reference). (Dmitry)
(Crash in catch block when many arguments are used). (Dmitry)
(extract($GLOBALS,EXTR_REFS) crashes PHP). (Dmitry)
(array_map() fails to pass by reference when called recursively). (Dmitry)
(php:function call __autoload with lowercase param). (Marcus)
(throw Exception in error handler causes crash). (Dmitry)
(php_value overrides php_admin_value). (Dmitry)
(ArrayAccess objects doen't initialize $this). (Dmitry)
(LDAP: RootDSE query not possible). (Jani)
(warning with nested calls to functions returning by reference). (Dmitry)
(crash if safe_mode is on and session.save_path is changed). (Dmitry)
(crash after extending MySQLi internal class). (Tony)
(CLI Crash when calling php:function from XSLT). (Rob)
(private method accessed by child class). (Dmitry)
(iconv_strlen() works only with a parameter of < 3 in length). (Ilia)
(mysqli_real_escape doesn't work in __construct) (Georg)
(array_splice() inconsistent when passed function instead of variable). (Dmitry)
(ze1_compatibility_mode does not work as expected). (Dmitry)
(Mangled error message when stream fails). (Derick)
(segfault when CURL handle is closed in a callback). (Tony)
(odbc_next_result does not signal SQL errors with 2-statement SQL batches). (rich at kastle dot com, Tony)
(relax jpeg recursive loop protection). (Ilia)
(preg_replace(): magic_quotes_sybase=On makes 'e' modifier misbehave). (Jani)
(--enable-session=shared does not build). (Jani)
(foreach enumerates private fields declared in base classes). (Dmitry)
(Soap extension incorrectly detects HTTP/1.1). (Ilia)
(cygwin version of setitimer doesn't accept ITIMER_PROF). (Nuno)
(crash when assigning class name to global variable in __autoload). (Dmitry)
(mysqli_prepare() doesn't return an error). (Georg)
(str_ireplace() incorrectly counts result string length and may cause segfault). (Tony)
(Add a safemode/open_basedir check for runtime "session.save_path" change using session_save_path() function). (Rasmus)
(Improved performance of bzdecompress() by several orders of magnitude). (Ilia)
(crash when moving xml attribute set in dtd). (Ilia)
(Don't send extraneous entity-headers on a 304 as per RFC 2616 section 10.3.5) (Rasmus, Choitel)
(socket errors cause memory leaks in php_strerror()). (jwozniak23 at poczta dot onet dot pl, Tony).
("make distclean" gives an error with VPATH build). (Jani)
("next month" was handled wrong while parsing dates). (Derick)
(ReflectionMethod::getStaticVariables() causes apache2.0.54 seg fault). (Dmitry)
(mysql_bind_result() doesn't support MYSQL_TYPE_NULL). (Georg)
(Incorrect option for mysqli default password). (Georg)
(Disabling session.use_cookies doesn't prevent reading session cookies). (Jani, Tony)
(Sending structured SOAP fault kills a php). (Dmitry)
(http redirects URLs are not checked for control chars). (Ilia)
(Cannot extend class "SQLiteDatabase"). (Marcus)
(Oracle LDAP: ldap_get_entries(), invalid pointer). (Jani)
(class extending DOMDocument doesn't clone properly). (Rob)
(pg_get_notify() ignores result_type parameter). (Tony)
(Crash with singleton and __destruct when zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = On). (Dmitry)
(parse_url() does not handle scheme-only urls properly). (Ilia)
(temporary files not using plain file wrapper). (Ilia)
(Missing T1LIB support on Windows). (Edin)
(General cookie overrides more specific cookie). (Ilia)
Fixed bugs , (ext/odbc: Problems with 64bit systems). (Jani)
(crash: calling the corresponding global var during the destruct). (Dmitry)
(SOAP doesn't support one-way operations). (Dmitry)
(GMP functions break when second parameter is 0). (Stas)
(incorrect determination of default value (COM)). (Wez)
(Cannot access safearray properties in VB6 objects). (Wez)
(Segfault in replaceChild() when DocumentFragment has no children). (Rob)
(Undefined constant SQLITE_NOTADB). (Ilia)
(segmentation fault when the stream with a wrapper is not closed). (Tony, Dmitry)
(pg_affected_rows() was defined when it was not available). (Derick)
(Require/include file in destructor causes segfault). (Marcus)
(ext/mssql: Error on module shutdown when called from activescript). (Frank)
(exception in iterator causes crash). (Dmitry)
(Assignment by reference causes crash when field access is overloaded (__get)). (Dmitry)
(Using register_shutdown_function() with invalid callback can crash PHP). (Jani)
(Segfault in replaceChild() using fragment when previousSibling is NULL). (Rob)
(ext/snmp: use of snmp_shutdown() causes snmpapp.conf access errors). (Jani, ric at arizona dot edu)
(html_entity_decode() converts single quotes even if ENT_NOQUOTES is given). (Ilia)
(Segfault/Memory Leak by getClass (etc) in __destruct). (Dmitry)
(ext/mysql: Unsatisfied symbol: ntohs with HP-UX). (Jani)
(Possible crash inside imap_mail_compose, with charsets). (Ilia)
(Apache2: errors sent to error_log do not include timestamps). (Jani)
(configure looks for incorrect db2 library). (Tony)
(mmap loads only the 1st 2000000 bytes on Win32). (Ilia)
(proc_get_status() returns the incorrect process status). (Ilia)
(chunk_split() does not append endstr if chunklen is longer then the original string). (Ilia)
(File upload error - unable to create a temporary file). (Uwe Schindler)
(mysqli::fetch() returns bad data - 64bit problem). (Andrey)
(Segfault in mysqli_fetch_array on 64-bit). (Georg)
(get_class_methods() output has changed between 5.0.2 and 5.0.3). (Dmitry)
(xml_parser_free() in a function assigned to the xml parser gives a segfault). (Rob)
(Userspace stream wrapper crashes PHP). (Tony, Dmitry)
(segfault when assigning object to itself with zend.ze1_compatibility_mode=On). (Dmitry)
(ext/mysqli bind_result causes fatal error: memory limit). (Andrey)
(ISAPI: Custom 5xx error does not return correct HTTP response message). (Jani)
(Crash with zend.ze1_compatibility_mode=On). (Dmitry)
(multi_query works exactly every other time - multi query d/e flag global and not per connection). (Andrey)
(another crash when echoing a COM object). (Wez)
(php_std_date() uses short day names in non-y2k_compliance mode). (mike at php dot net)
(object reference being dropped. $this getting lost). (Stas, Dmitry)
(Wrong deserialization from session when using WDDX serializer). (Dmitry)
(False warning in unpack() when working with *). (Ilia)
(broken non-blocking flock()). ian at snork dot net
(Sideeffects caused by fix of bug . (Dmitry)
(array_splice on $GLOBALS crashes). (Dmitry)
(Wrong linenumber in ReflectionClass getStartLine()). (Dmitry)
(Conflict between __get/__set and ++ operator). (Dmitry)
(array_count_values() modifying input array). (Tony)
(debug_backtrace() reports incorrect class in overridden methods). (Dmitry)
(static member conflict with $this->member silently ignored). (Dmitry)
(Better support for LDAP SASL bind). (Jani)
(magic methods (__sleep/__wakeup/__toString) call __call if object is overloaded). (Dmitry)
(Segmentation fault on exception in method). (Stas, Dmitry)
(cannot initialize class variable from class constant). (Dmitry)
(Interface not existing says Class not found). (Dmitry)
(Assignment operators yield wrong result with __get/__set). (Dmitry)
(zend.ze1_compatibility_mode isnt fully compatable with array_push()). (Dmitry)
(Catching exception in constructor causes lose of $this). (Dmitry)
(Problem with array in static properties). (Dmitry)
(Enhancement for error message for abstract classes). (Marcus)
(Passing array or non array of objects). (Dmitry)
(memory leaks when set_error_handler() is used inside error handler). (Tony)
(variables_order behaviour). (Dmitry)
(Function defined in switch, crashes). (Dmitry)
(Backtrace argument list out of sync). (Dmitry)
(headers_list() returns empty array). (Tony)
(crash when echoing a COM object). (M.Sisolak, Wez)
(unencoded spaces get ignored after certain tags). (Ilia)
(Function: is_callable - no support for private and protected classes). (Dmitry)
(Function declaration in method doesn't work). (Dmitry)
(Incorrect behavior of member vars(non string ones)-numeric mem vars und others). (Dmitry)
(SIGSEGV in interactive mode (php -a)). (kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
(Need to use -[m]ieee option for Alpha CPUs). (Jani)
(debug_backtrace is intermittently passing args). (Dmitry)
(list() array key assignment causes HUGE memory leak). (Dmitry)
(Wrong results from Reflection-API getDocComment() when called via STDIN). (Dmitry)
(In error handler, modifying 5th arg (errcontext) may result in seg fault). (Dmitry)
(returning reference to uninitialized variable). (Dmitry)
(default value of protected member overrides default value of private) and other private variable problems in inherited classes (Stas)
(array_diff with $GLOBALS argument fails). (Dmitry)
Abstract private methods are no longer allowed (Stas)

Version 5.0.4

31-Mar-2005

Added SNMPv2 support. (harrie)
Added Oracle Instant Client support. (cjbj at hotmail dot com, Tony)
Added length and charsetnr for field array and object in mysqli. (Georg)
Added checks for negative values to gmp_sqrt(), gmp_powm(), gmp_sqrtrem() and gmp_fact() to prevent SIGFPE. (Tony)
Changed foreach() to throw an exception if IteratorAggregate::getIterator() does not return an Iterator. (Marcus)
Changed phpize not to require libtool. (Jani)
Updated bundled oniguruma library (used for multibyte regular expression) to 3.7.0. (Moriyoshi)
Updated bundled libmbfl library (used for multibyte functions). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bugs:
- Bug (mb_convert_encoding ignores named entity 'alpha')
- Bug (mb_decode_mimeheader() is case-sensitive to hex escapes)
- Bug (compiler warnings in libmbfl due to invalid type cast)
- Bug (incorrect character translations for some ISO8859 charsets)
Fixed bug preventing from building oci8 as shared. (stanislav dot voroniy at portavita dot nl, Tony)
Fixed a bug in mysql_affected_rows and mysql_stmt_affected_rows when the api function returns -1 (Georg)
Fixed several leaks in ext/browscap and sapi/embed. (Andrei)
Fixed several leaks in ext/filepro. (Tony)
Fixed build system to always use bundled libtool files. (Jani)
Fixed a bug in mysqli_stmt_execute() (type conversion with NULL values). (Georg)
Fixed segfault in mysqli_fetch_field_direct() when invalid field offset is passed. (Tony)
Fixed posix_getsid() & posix_getpgid() to return sid & pgid instead of true. (Tony)
(offsetUnset() segfaults in a foreach). (Marcus)
(segfault in bzopen() if supplied path to non-existent file). (Tony)
(Check values of Connection/Transfer-Encoding case-incentively in SOAP extension). (Ilia)
(call_user_func_array() calls wrong class method within child class). (Marcus)
(spl_array.c: void function cannot return value). (Johannes)
(proc_get_status() sets "running" always to true). (Ilia)
(Prevent using both --with-apxs2 and --with-apxs2filter). (Jani)
(Overloading offsetGet/offsetSet). (Marcus)
(ArrayIterator::seek() does not throw an Exception on invalid index). (Marcus)
(dateTime SOAP encoding of timezone incorrect). (Dmitry)
(in mysqli default socket value is not being used). (Ilia)
(Crash caused by range('', 'z')). (Derick)
(Fragments which replaced Nodes are not globaly useable). (Rob)
(xml_parse_into_struct() function exceeds maximum execution time). (Rob, Moriyoshi)
(Unicode exif data not available on Windows). (Edin)
(getrusage() does not provide ru_nswap value). (Ilia)
(msql_fetch_row() and msql_fetch_array() dropping columns with NULL values). (Daniel Convissor)
(Segmentation fault using clone keyword on nodes). (Rob)
(--disable-cli does not force --without-pear). (Jani)
(*date('r') does not return RFC2822 conforming date string). (Jani)
(SOAP encoding problem with complex types in WSDL mode with multiple parts). (Dmitry)
(exif_read_data() uses too low nesting limit). (Ilia)
(readline completion handler does not handle empty return values). (Ilia)
(Cannot create SOAP header in no namespace). (Dmitry)
(dbase_open() fails for mode = 1). (Mehdi, Derick)
(pg_parameter_status() missing on Windows). (Edin)
(SOAP Digest Authentication doesn't work with "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" response). (Dmitry)
(mb_get_info() causes segfault when no parameters specified). (Tony)
(Wrong return values for mysqli_autocommit/commit/rollback). (Georg)
(parse_url() does not recognize http://foo.com#bar). (Ilia)
(Cannot redefine endpoint when using WSDL). (Dmitry)
(dio_tcsetattr(): misconfigured termios settings). (elod at itfais dot com)
(changes to $name in __get($name) override future parameters). (Dmitry)
(unserialize() float problem on non-English locales). (Ilia)
(__autoload() problem with static variables). (Marcus)
(ReflectionClass::getDefaultProperties segfaults with arrays). (Marcus)
(OCILogin does not support password grace period). (daniel dot beet at accuratesoftware dot com, Tony)
(crash in msg_send() when non-string is stored without being serialized). (Ilia)
(Improve performance of scandir() by factor of 10 or so). (Ilia)
(open_basedir uses path_translated rather then cwd for . translation). (Ilia)
(Possible infinite loop in imap_mail_compose()). (Ilia)
(Fixed crash in chunk_split(), when chunklen > strlen). (Ilia)
(False warning in unpack() when working with *). (Ilia)
(session_set_save_handler crashes PHP when supplied non-existent object ref). (Tony)
(Memory leak in zend_language_scanner.c). (hexer at studentcenter dot org)
(unserialize broken on 64-bit systems). (Marcus)
($GLOBALS can be overwritten via GPC when register_globals is enabled). (Ilia)
(No Error-Logging on SoapServer-Side). (Dmitry)
(curl POSTFIELDS crashes on 64-bit platforms). (Joe)
(compile fails with gd 2.0.33 without freetype). (Jani)
(highlight_file() trims new line after heredoc). (Ilia)
(simplexml/domxml segfault when adding node twice). (Rob)
(CachingIterator::rewind() leaks). (Marcus)
(ArrayIterator::next segfaults). (Marcus)
(Unexpected warning then exception is thrown from call_user_func_array()). (phpbugs at domain51 dot net, Dmitry)
(imap_mail_compose() fails to generate correct output). (Ilia)
(XML Parser Functions seem to drop & when parsing). (Rob)
(When magic_guotes_gpc are enabled filenames with ' get cutoff). (Ilia)
(Possible crash in mysql_fetch_field(), if mysql_list_fields() was not called previously). (Ilia)
, , , (Compile failure of zend_strtod.c). (Jani)
(PHP 4.3.10 does not compile on Tru64 UNIX 5.1B). (Derick)
(Compile failure on Solaris 9 (Intel) and gcc 3.4.3). (Derick)
(Better error message when c-client cannot be found). (Ilia)
(missing kerberos header file path with --with-openssl). (Jani)
(isset() / empty() incorrectly return true in dereference of a string type). (Moriyoshi)
(broken php_url_encode_hash macro). (Ilia)
(var_export() does not output an array element with an empty string key). (Derick)
(imageftbbox() does not use linespacing parameter). (Jani)
(php_std_date() returns invalid formatted date if y2k_compliance is On). (Ilia)
(apache2filter: per request leak proportional to the full path of the request URI). (kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
(can't send cookies with soap envelop). (Dmitry)
(Misleading warning message for array_combine()). (Andrey)
(evaluated pointer comparison in mbregex causes compile failure). (Moriyoshi)
(Static array with boolean indexes). (Marcus)
(-.1 like numbers are not being handled correctly). (Ilia)
(PHP segfaults when an exception is thrown in getIterator() within foreach). (Marcus)
(cURL functions bypass open_basedir). (Jani)
(apache2handler: virtual() includes files out of sequence)
(odbc_next_result() doesn't bind values and that results in segfault). (pdan-php at esync dot org, Tony)
(Invalid opcode 137/1/8). (Marcus)
(imagettftext() and imagettfbbox() accept too many parameters). (Jani)
(SOAP cannot not parse 'ref' element. Causes Uncaught SoapFault exception). (Dmitry)
(type re_registers redefined in oniguruma.h). (Moriyoshi)
(enabled debug causes bailout errors with CLI on AIX because of fflush() called on already closed filedescriptor). (Tony)
(Weird behaviour of __set($name, $value)). (Dmitry)
(printf() handles repeated placeholders wrong). (bugs dot php dot net at bluetwanger dot de, Ilia)
(width and height inverted for JPEG2000 files). (Ilia)
(configure for mysqli with shared doesn't work). (Georg)
(make test libtool failure on MacOSX). (Jani)
(mail(): use "From:" from headers if sendmail_from is empty). (Jani)
(PHP sources pick wrong header files generated by bison). (eggert at gnu dot org, Jani)
(__destruct of a class that extends mysqli not called). (Marcus)
(ini-file section parsing pattern is buggy). (wendland at scan-plus dot de)
(corrupt EXIF headers have unlimited recursive IFD directory entries). (Andrei)
(Cannot access undefined property for object with overloaded property access). (Dmitry)
(Changing a static variables in a class changes it across sub/super classes.) (Marcus)
(HTTP_SESSION_VARS appear when register_long_arrays is Off). (Tony)
(FastCGI: stderr should be written in a FCGI stderr stream). (chris at ex-parrot dot com)
(partially incorrect utf8 to htmlentities mapping). (Derick, Benjamin Greiner)
(SOAP HTTP Digest Access Authentication). (Dmitry)
(Double \r problem on ftp_get in ASCII mode on Win32). (Ilia)
(Multiple OUs in x509 certificate not handled properly). (Jani)

Version 5.0.3

15-Dec-2004

Added the %F modifier to *printf to render a non-locale-aware representation of a float with the . as decimal seperator. (Derick)
Fixed error handling in mysqli_multi_query. (Georg)
Extended the functionality of is_subclass_of() to accept either a class name or an object as first parameter. (Andrey)
Fixed potential problems with unserializing invalid serialize data. (Marcus)
(Problem with non-existing iconv header file). (Derick)
(snmp extension does not build with net-snmp 5.2). (Ilia)
(SOAP server unable to handle request with references). (Dmitry)
(allow popen() on *NIX to accept 'b' flag). (Ilia)
(properties in extended mysqli classes don't work). (Georg)
(When Using WSDL, SoapServer doesn't handle private or protected properties). (Dmitry)
(reflective functions crash PHP when interfaces extend themselves). (Tony, Dmitry)
(segfault when recording soapclient into session). (Tony, Dmitry)
(MySQLi testsuite)
(ReflectionClass::getStaticProperties segfaults). (Marcus)
("!" stripped off comments in xml parser). (Rob)
(SoapServer doesn't handle private or protected properties). (Dmitry)
(Apache crash when using ReflectionFunction:: getStaticVariables()). (Marcus)
(Meaningful error message when upload directory is not accessible). (Ilia)
(Malformed SOAPClient http header reequest). (Dmitry)
(Problem handling exif data in jpeg images at unusual places). (Marcus)
(Ensure that temporary files created by GD are removed). (Ilia)
(def. multi result set support for mysql_connect). (Georg)
(compile with pear error). (Antony)
(array_multisort doesn't separate zvals before changing them). (Tony)
(crash when comparing SimpleXML attribute to a boolean). (Andi)
(attribute namespace URIs are inconsistent when parsing). (Rob)
(PEAR installation fails). (Antony)
(curl_getinfo() may crash in some situations). (Ilia)
(segfault when parsing ?getvariable[][ ). (Tony)
(rename across filesystems loses ownership and permission info). (Tony)
(stream_socket_client async connect was broken). (vnegrier at esds dot com, Wez).
(Strange results with get_class_vars()). (Marcus)
(cal_info() does not work without a parameter). (Ilia)
(stream_get_line() not handling end string correctly). (Ilia)
(SOAP client requests have no port in "Host" field). (Dmitry)
(str_ireplace() does not work on all strings). (Ilia)
(Reflection::getModifierNames() returns too long strings). (Marcus)
(Error Fetching http body, No Content-Length, connection closed or chunked data). (Dmitry)
(segfault when using unknown/unsupported session.save_handler and/or session.serialize_handler). (Tony)
(Prevent non-wbmp images from being detected as such). (Ilia)
(Possible crash in ctype_digit on large numbers). (Ilia)
(exception handler not working with objects). (Marcus)
(Sybase date strings are sometimes not null terminated). (Ilia)
(SOAP results aren't parsed correctly). (Dmitry)
(OO sqlite_fetch_object did not reset error handler). (Wez)
(get_current_user() crashes on Windows). (Edin)
(xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler not called). (Rob)
(did not detect IPV6 on FreeBSD 4.1). (Wez)
(strtotime does not use second param). (Derick)
(Possible crash inside ftp_get()). (cfield at affinitysolutions dot com)
(array_reduce segfaults when initial value is array). (Tony)
(isset gives invalid values on strings). (Tony, Dmitry)
(Set limit on the size of mmapable data). (Ilia)
(strtotime error). (Derick)
(double free when openssl_csr_new fails). (Kamesh Jayachandran).
(Soapserver always uses std class). (David, Dmitry)
(SoapClient doesn't request wsdl through proxy). (Rob)
(Var problem when extending domDocument). (Georg)
(strtotime fails with zero base time). (Derick)
(Lost support for MS Symbol fonts). (Pierre)
(mb_strwidth() returns wrong width values for some hangul characters). (Moriyoshi)
(NULL decimal separator is not being handled correctly). (Ilia)
(strtotime("now")). (Derick)
(private / protected variables not exposed by get_object_vars() inside class). (Marcus)
(Can't return within a zend_try {} block or the previous bailout state isn't restored. (Andi)
(Userland stream wrapper segfaults on stream_write). (Christian)

Version 5.0.2

23-Sep-2004

Added new boolean (fourth) parameter to array_slice() that turns on the preservation of keys in the returned array. (Derick)
Added the sorting flag SORT_LOCALE_STRING to the sort() functions which makes them sort based on the current locale. (Derick)
Added interface_exists() and make class_exists() only return true for real classes. (Andrey)
Added PHP_EOL constant that contains the OS way of representing newlines. (Paul Hudson, Derick)
Implemented periodic PCRE compiled regexp cache cleanup, to avoid memory exhaustion. (Andrei)
Renamed SoapClient->__call() to SoapClinet->__soapCall(). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug with raw_post_data not getting set (Brian)
Fixed a file-descriptor leak with phpinfo() and other 'special' URLs (Zeev)
(ReflectionClass::getMethod() lowercases attribute). (Marcus)
(SOAP module processing WSDL file dumps core). (Dmitry)
(Cannot pass big integers (> 2147483647) in SOAP requests). (Dmitry)
(unserialize()/ __PHP_Incomplete_class does not report correctly class name). (Marcus, Tony)
(simplexml_load_file URL limitation 255 char). (Rob)
(No defines around pcntl_*priority definitions). (Derick)
(SOAP doesn't return the result of a valid SOAP request). (Dmitry)
(soapclient return null value). (Dmitry)
(incorrect convert (xml:lang to lang)). (Dmitry)
(SoapServer::setClass() should not export non-public methods). (Dmitry)
(Interfaces no longer work). (Marcus)
(Fixed possible crashes in convert_uudecode() on invalid data). (Ilia)
(array_count_values() breaks with numeric strings). (Ilia)
(HTTP Authentication Issues). (Uwe Schindler)
(SegFault with Soap and Amazon's Web Services). (Dmitry)
(ip2long should return -1 if IP is 255.255.255.255 and FALSE on error). (Tony)
(Changed ext/xml to default to UTF-8 output). (Rob)
(opendir() with ftp:// wrapper segfaults if path does not have trailing slash). (Ilia)
(xml_* functions throw non descriptive error). (Christian, Rob)
(segfault on result and statement properties). (Georg)
(foreach/string handling strangeness (crash)). (Dmitry)
(Reflection API issues). (Marcus)
(Added sslv2 and sslv3 transports). (Wez)
(Invalid statement handle in mysqli on execute). (Georg)
(parse_url() is now binary safe). (Ilia)
(segfault with Soapserver when WSDL-Cache is enabled). (Dmitry)
(Apache 2.0 SAPI build against Apache 2 HEAD). (Joe Orton, Derick)
(private/protected properties not serialized when user declared method __sleep() exists). E_NOTICE thrown when __sleep() returns name of non-existing member. (Andrey, Curt)

Version 5.0.1

12-Aug-2004

Changed destructor mechanism so that destructors are called prior to request shutdown. (Marcus)
Rewritten UNIX and Windows install help files. (Documentation Team)
Updated several libraries bundled with the windows release which now includes libxml2-2.6.11, libxslt-1.1.7 and iconv-1.9.1. (Rob, Edin)
Improved and moved ActiveScript SAPI to PECL. (Wez)
Fixed unloading of dynamically loaded extensions. (Marcus, kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
Fixed ReflectionClass::getMethod() and ReflectionClass::getProperty() to raise an ReflectionException instead of returning NULL on failure. (Sebastian)
Fixed convert.* filters to consume remaining buckets_in on flush. (Sara)
Fixed bug in mysqli->client_version. (Georg)
(php_strip_whitespace() prints to stdout rather then returning the value). (Ilia)
(MYSQLI_CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS undefined) (Georg)
(Segmentation fault, when exception thrown within PHP function called from XSLT). (Christian)
(accessing properties without connection) (Georg)
(get_class_vars() severely broken when used with arrays). (Marcus)
(.Net object instantiation failed). (Michael Sisolak).
(win32: usleep() doesn't work). (Wez)
(win32: feof() hangs on empty tcp stream). (Wez)
(Possible crash inside array_walk_recursive()). (Ilia)
(crash when parsing invalid address; invalid address returned by stream_socket_recvfrom(), stream_socket_getname()). (Wez)
(Segfault in PHP functions called from XSLT). (Rob)
(sqlite_escape_string() returns bogus data on empty strings). (Ilia, Tony)
(com_dotnet crashes when echo'ing an object). (Wez)
(The destructor is called when an exception is thrown from the constructor). (Marcus)
(Exception constructor marked as both public and protected). (Marcus)
(strtotime() does not handle empty date string properly). (Ilia)
(win32 build produces invalid php_ifx.dll). (Edin)
(fetch functions now use MYSQLI_BOTH as default) (Georg)
(get_class_vars() return names with NULLs). (Marcus)
(gettext extension not working). (Edin)
(variant_date_from_timestamp() does not honour timezone). (Wez)
(error when sending large packets on a socket). (Dmitry)
(memory error when wsdl-cache is enabled). (Dmitry)
(Compile Error in mnoGoSearch functions). (Sergey, Antony)
($_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"] isn't defined). (Stefan)
(html_entity_decode() misbehaves with UTF-8). (Moriyoshi)
(SoapFault exception: [WSDL] Out of memory). (Dmitry)
(soap extension segfaults). (Dmitry)
(__getTypes() returning nothing on complex WSDL). (Dmitry)
(Wrong data encoding of special characters). (Dmitry)
(ReflectionClass::isAbstract always returns false). (Marcus)
(Thread-unsafety in bcmath elementary values). (Sara)
(catch() does not catch exceptions by interfaces). (Marcus)

Version 5.0.0

13-Jul-2004

Updated PCRE to provide better error handling in certain cases. (Andrei)
Changed doc comments to require a single white space after '/**'. (Marcus)
Fixed strip_tags() to correctly handle '\0' characters. (Stefan)
(Database not closing). (Marcus)
(array_combine() does not handle non-numeric/string keys). (Ilia)
(fixed behaviour of exec() to work as it did in 4.X). (Ilia)
(ReflectionClass::isAbstract always returns false). (Marcus)
(Internal filter registry not thread safe). (Sara)
(call_user_func_array has typo in error message). (Marcus)
(ArrayObject::offsetGet() does the work of offsetUnset()). (Marcus)
(ArrayObject::offsetExists() works inverted). (Marcus)
(ReflectionProperty getValue() fails on public static members). (Marcus)
(Segfault when using xslt and clone). (Rob)
(SoapServer does not call _autoload()). (Dmitry)
(array_*diff() and array_*intersect() not clearing the fci cache before work). (Andrey)
(appendChild() and insertBefore() unset DOMText).(Rob)
(SOAP does not parse WSDL service address correctly). (Dmitry)
(Reflection api bugs). (Marcus)
(ReflectionExtension::getFunctions() crashes PHP). (Marcus)
(Allocate enough space to store MSSQL data). (Frank)
(Circular references not properly serialised). (Moriyoshi)

Version 5.0.0 Release Candidate 3

8-Jun-2004

Moved the PDFLib extension to PECL. (Wez)
Added MySQL 4.1.2-alpha and 4.1.3-beta support to MySQLI extension. (Georg)
Added support for dumping private/protected properties to var_dump(). (Andrey)
Added count() support for COM arrays. (Wez)
Added Firebird/InterBase UDF source that allows PHP functions to be called from SQL (Ard)
Changed user error handler mechanism to relay to built-in error handler if it returns false. (Andrei)
Changed class type hints for function parameters to not allow the passing of NULL values. (Andi)
Changed tidy_node to tidyNode and removed tidy_exception. (John)
Fixed ip2long() to return FALSE if an IP address passed to this function is not valid. (Derick)
Fixed memory leak in memory manager. (Andi)
Fixed problem with exceptions returning from include(). (Dmitry)
(Instance of Interface). (Marcus)
(Extending mysqli class). (Georg)
(Transparency detection code is off by 1). (Ilia, pikeman at pikeman dot sytes dot net)
(Missing bounds check inside imagefilter()). (Ilia)
(Userspace stream/filter names forced to lowercase). (Sara)
(stream_*_register() not calling __autoload()). (Sara)
(php_image_filter_contrast calls gdImageBrightness). (Ilia)
(No results returned on SOAP call, no error given). (Dmitry)
(num_rows property for statement object). (Georg)
(COM: Array style properties could not be accessed). (Wez)
(ArrayObject leaks when accessing elements). (Marcus)
(NULL parameter support for mysqli_ssl_set). (Georg)
(ArrayObject doesn't implement ArrayAccess). (Marcus)
(SPL: change visibility of ArrayIterator::__construct). (Marcus)
(memory leak of registered_zend_ini_directives). (Dmitry)
(SPL: ArrayObject does not handle PPP correctly). (Marcus)

Version 5.0.0 Release Candidate 2

25-Apr-2004

Implementing an interface/abstract method with the wrong prototype is now a fatal error. (Zeev)
Reimplemented zend.ze1_compatibility_mode to have better PHP 4 compliance. (Dmitry, Andi)
Under CLI, fclose() on php://stdin, php://stdout and php://stderr will now close the real stream. Please update your CLI scripts to use STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR constants instead of fopen()/fclose(). (Wez)
Moved yaz extension to PECL. (Wez)
Added pty support to proc_open(). (Wez)
Added possibility to check in which extension an internal class was defined in using reflection API. (Marcus)
Changed tidy error handling to no longer use exceptions and renamed the "error_buf" property to errorBuffer. (John)
Changed class and method names to use studlyCaps convention. (Marcus)
Changed language parser to throw errors when a non-empty signature is used in a destructor definition. (Marcus)
Changed HTTP file uploads not to throw E_WARNINGs and E_NOTICEs. The error value in the $_FILES global should be used for error handling. (Derick)
Changed __construct() to always take precedence over old style constructor. (Dmitry)
Fixed handling of return values from storred procedures in mssql_execute() with multiple result sets returned. (Frank)
(stream_socket_accept() doesn't work with ssl). (Wez)
(compile mssql extension with old versions of FreeTDS fails). (Frank)
(SPL: Crash with getInnerIterator()). (Marcus)
(COM doesn't pass array parameters). (Wez)
(sqlite incorrectly handles invalid filenames). (Ilia)
(in some cases using foreach() to iterate over values led to a false error message about the key being a reference). (Adam)
(STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR are dup()d under CLI). (Wez)
(xml_parse() segfaults when xml_set_object() is called from class method). (Andi, Rob)
(WDSL SOAP Parsing Schema bug). (Dmitry)
(Segfault on schema without targetNamespace). (Dmitry)
(mktime issues on and around DST changeover). (Rasmus)
(soap extension fails without HAVE_TM_GMTOFF). (Dmitry)
(Object cloning in ze1_compatibility_mode was reimplemented) (Dmitry, Andi)
(Simplify the process of making a POST request via stream context). (Ilia)
(filters not applied to pre-buffered stream data). (Sara)
(Reflection_Function constructor crashes with non-existant function's name). (Marcus)
(serialize() objects of incomplete class). (Dmitry)
(handling of numeric indexes in strtr()). (Dmitry)
(debug_backtrace() not showing function arguments). (Zeev)
(The last catch statement was sometimes skipped). (Andi)
(When __set() returned a value it corrupted it). (Andi)
(shouldn't mmap() files larger than memory_limit). (Wez)

Version 5.0.0 Release Candidate 1

18-Mar-2004

Fixed numerous bugs with the just-in-time auto-global initialization, that could cause $_SERVER, $argv/$argc and other variables not to work properly. (Zeev)
Fixed data corruption with constant assignments to object properties. (Zeev)
Changed __toString() to be called automatically only with print and echo statements. (Andi)
Replaced the exec_finished hook by the zend_post_deactive hook for extensions. The new hook will be run after the symbol table and destructors are run. (Derick)
Fixed possible crash when internal get_method() is not defined. (Andi)
Fixed calling methods using call_user_func() in conjunction with the array("Class","Method") syntax to use the scope of the PHP user function. (Dmitry)
Fixed php-cgi to not ignore command-line switches when run in a web context. This fixes our test cases allowing INI with GET sections to work. (Rasmus)
Fixed getopt() so it works without $_SERVER. (Rasmus, bfrance)
Added support for PHP 4 style object comparisons which is enabled in ze1_compatiblity_mode. (Andi)
Added support for PHP 4 style object conversion to long, double, and boolean values which is enabled in ze1_compatibility_mode. (Andi, Stas)
Allow object oriented extensions to overload comparison functions and other operations. Solves problems using SimpleXML values. (Andi, Zeev)
Fixed crash when accessing a class constant with a value which in turn is also a constant. (Dmitry)
Fixed object's truth value conversion. It is always true unless ze1_compatibility_mode is on in which it behaves like in PHP 4. (Stas)
Improved out of memory handling in new memory manager. (Stas)
Fixed crash when an object references itself during destructor call. (Andi)
Fixed crash in foreach() when iterating over object properties or a method's return values. (Andi)
Fixed crash when an exception is thrown in a destructor. Such exceptions are now ignored as destruction happens out of context at no definite time. (Andi)
Fixed crashes in exception handling. (Dmitry, Andi)
Changed prototype checks so that they aren't done on constructors. (Andi)
Changed prototype checks to output an E_STRICT message instead of an E_COMPILE_ERROR. (Andi)
Changed Iterator::has_more() to Iterator::valid(). (Marcus)
Upgraded bundled oniguruma library to version 2.2.2. (Rui, Moriyoshi)
Added mb_list_encoding() to return an array with all mbstring supported encodings. (Derick)
Added support for more ISO8601 datetime formats in strtotime(). (Moriyoshi) . Timezone specifier (ex. "20040301T02:00:00+19:00") . Week specifier (ex. "1997W021")
Renamed php.ini option "zend2.implicit_clone" to "zend.ze1_compatibility_mode" as it doesn't only affect implicit cloning. (Andi, Zeev)
Methods that override parent methods are now subject to prototype checking, and have to be compatible with the method they're overriding - this check is disabled in compatibility mode. (Andi, Zeev)
Fixed crash in php_ini_scanned_files() when no additional INI files were actually parsed. (Jon)
Fixed bug in gdImageFilledRectangle in the bundled GD library, that required x1 < x2 and y1 < y2 for coordinates. (Derick)
Fixed crash with foreach() and temporary objects($obj->method()->a ...) where method returns a non-referenced object. (Andi, Zeev)
Fixed problem preventing startup errors from being displayed. (Marcus)
Fixed start-up problem if both SPL and SimpleXML were enabled. The double initialization of apache 1.3 was causing problems here. (Marcus, Derick)
(Expression must be a modifiable lvalue compiler error). (Derick)
(pg_fetch_array not returning false). (Marcus)
(ArrayObject::getIterator crashes with [] assignment). (Marcus)
(Objects pointing to each other segfaults). (Dmitry)
(Problem with object freeing mechanism). (Dmitry)
(Visibility bugs in call_user_function()). (Dmitry)
(handling of numeric indexes in strtr()). (Dmitry)
(memory leak inside tsrm_virtual_cwd.c on win32). (Ilia)
(get_browser matches browscap.ini patterns incorrectly). (Jay)
(wddx segfaults during deserialization). (Moriyoshi)
(session extension crashes when unserializing referenced values / objects). (Moriyoshi)
(Working with simplexml crashes apache2). (Rob)
(Mixed case class names causes Fatal Error in Constructor call). (Marcus)
(strval() doesn't work for objects with __toString()). (Marcus)
(Fix crash caused by bug in get_object_vars()). (Andi)
(mbstring compile errors with IRIX compiler). (K.Kosako , Rui, Moriyoshi)
(register_long_arrays breaks superglobals). (Zeev)
(argv and argc not defined). (Zeev)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 4

12-Feb-2004

Changed exceptions so that they must now inherit from the built-in Exception class. This allows for a general catch(Exception $e) statement to catch all exceptions. (Andi, Zeev)
Added SPL extension. (Marcus, Derick)
Added checks for invalid characters in a cookie name and cookie data into set[raw]cookie(). (Brian)
Added support for ++ and += (and similar) to SimpleXML. (Andi, Zeev)
Added infrastructure for ++ and += (and similar) to object overloading modules. (Andi, Zeev)
Added error message when trying to re-assign to $this variable. (Zeev, Andi)
Added support for an interface to extend another interface. (Zeev)
Added new pspell functions: (Brian)

pspell_config_dict_dir()
pspell_config_data_dir()

Added new Interbase functions: (Ard)

ibase_service_attach() and ibase_service_detach().
ibase_backup() and ibase_restore().
ibase_maintain_db(), ibase_db_info() and ibase_server_info().

Added context option "http"/"request_fulluri" to send entire URI in request which is required format for some proxies. (Sara)
Added optional third parameter 'strict' to array_keys(). (Andrey)
Added stream_lock() method to userspace streams interface. (Hartmut, Wez)
Added xsltprocessor->registerPHPFunctions(). (Christian)
Readded support for using classes before they are declared according to the behavior in PHP 4. This won't work with classes who are using PHP 5 features such as interfaces. (Zeev, Andi)
Completely overhauled SimpleXML extension. (Marcus, Rob, Sterling)
Upgraded bundled SQLite library to version 2.8.11. (Ilia, Wez)
Improved destructor implementation to always call destructors on clean shutdown. An order of destruction is not guaranteed. (Zeev, Andi)
Redesigned exception support. This fixes many bugs in the previous design such as nested try's and problems with overloaded extensions. (Zeev, Andi)
Redesigned clone by adding a clone keyword (clone $obj) and copying all properties before __clone() is called. Also allows calling parent __clone function by using parent::__clone(). (Zeev, Andi)
Fixed interfaces to check for function return-by-reference equality when inheriting and implementing interfaces. (Andi, Zeev)
Fixed foreach() to respect property visibility. (Marcus)
Fixed problem with parse error in include() file not stopping PHP's execution. (Ilia)
Fixed var_export() to show public, protected and private modifiers properly. (Derick)
Fixed problems with longlong values in mysqli. (Georg)
Fixed class name case preserving of user defined classes. (Marcus)
(Unmangle private/protected property names before printing them inside error messages). (Ilia)
(preg_split('//u') incorrectly splits UTF-8 strings into octets). (Moriyoshi)
(SPL: SeekableIterator seek() broken). (Marcus)
(Every class method can be called as static). (Marcus)
(exec() has problems reading long lines). (Ilia, runekl[at]opoint[dot]com
(ext/dom: Crash when using DomDocument::getElementById()). (Christian)
(crash in sqlite extension when fetching data from empty queries). (Ilia)
(ext/mime_magic: magic file validation broken). (Jani)
(http_build_query() crashes on NULL output). (Ilia)
(http_build_query() does not handle private & protected object properties correctly). (Ilia)
(foreach of (DOM) childnodes crashes when Xinclude is used). (Rob)
(SQLite causes crashes with other extensions *connect() calls). (Marcus)
(unserialize() produces lowercase classnames). (Marcus)
(getElementsByTagName doesn't work properly). (Rob)
(__autoload not invoked for parent classes). (Marcus)
(domNode::appendChild() changes child node namespace). (Rob)
(calling class_exists() on a nonexistent class in __autoload results in segfault). (Marcus)
(string index in a switch() crashes with multiple matches). (Andi)
(Reflection API does not recognize mixed-case class hints). (Marcus)
(make xsltProcessor->transformToUri use streams wrappers). (Ilia)
(Added version check in mysqli_report_index). (Georg)
(Segfault on ArrayAccess use). (Marcus)
(__autoload() not invoked by Reflection classes). (Jani)
(call_user_func() broken for self, parent). (Stanislav)
(memory leak when new() result is not assigned and no constructor is defined). (Stanislav)
(Crash when nesting classes). (Marcus)
(disallow arrays in class constants). (Stanislav)
(sqlite_create_function with method and reference to $this). (Marcus)
(call_user_func() issues a warning if function throws an exception). (Marcus)
(__set not triggered when overloading with array). (Stanislav)
(enabling browscap causes segfault). (Wez)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 3

21-Dec-2003

Bundled new tidy extension (John, Wez)
Upgraded PCRE library to version 4.5. (Andrei)
Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)
Moved extensions to PECL:

ext/crack (Jani, Derick)
ext/db (Jani, Derick)
ext/mcal (Jani, Derick)
ext/qtdom (Jani, Derick)
ext/notes (Wez)

Added 'c' modifier to date() which returns the date in the ISO 8601 format. (Derick, Manuzhai)
Added an optional parameter to microtime() to get the time as float. (Andrey)
Added MacRoman encoding support to htmlentities(). (Derick, Marcus Bointon)
Added possibility to call PHP functions as XSLT-functions. (Christian)
Added possibility to prevent PHP from registering variables when input filter. support is used. (Derick)
Added iconv stream filter (convert.iconv.*). (Moriyoshi)
Added EXSLT support in ext/xsl. (Christian)
Added qdbm handler for dba extension. (mg at iceni dot pl, Marcus)
Added new functions:

dba_key_split() to split inifile keys in an array. (Marcus)
time_nanosleep() signal safe sleep (Magnus, Ilia)
headers_list(). (Sara)
php_strip_whitespace(). strip whitespace & comments from a script. (Ilia)
php_check_syntax(). check php script for parse errors. (Ilia)
image_type_to_extension(). return extension based on image type. (Ilia)
stream_socket_sendto() and stream_socket_recvfrom(). (Wez)
iconv_mime_decode_headers(). (Moriyoshi)
get_declared_interfaces(). (Andrey, Marcus)
sqlite_fetch_column_types(). (Ilia)

Added proxy support to http:// wrapper. (Sara)
Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to userstreams. (Sara)
Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to ftp:// wrapper. (Sara)
Changed rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
Changed stat() and family to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
Fixed include_once() / require_once() on Windows to honor case-insensitivity; of files. (Andi)
Fixed get_declared_classes() to return only classes. (Andrey, Marcus)
Fixed __autoload() to preserve case of the passed class name. (Andi)
() (runekl at opoint dot com, Derick)
("__autoload threw an exception" during an uncaught). (Marcus)
(stream_get_meta_data() -> Access Violation). (Wez)
(HTML entities are not being decoded by xml_parse()/xml_parse_into_struct()). (Ilia)
(Object properties created redundantly). (Andi)
(REPLACE_ZVAL_VALUE works on uninit stack-based zvals). (Moriyoshi)
(Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia)
(--disable-libxml does not work). (Jani)
(serialize crashes when accessing an overloaded object that has no properties (NULL hashtable)). (Wez)
(COM crashes when calling a Delphi implementations of ITypeInfo). (Wez)
(Incorrect behaviour of PPP using foreach). (Marcus)
(Allow session.use_trans_sid to be enabled/disabled from inside the script). (Ilia)
(Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault). (Moriyoshi)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 2

30-Oct-2003

Lots and lots of changes in the Zend Engine 2 since beta 1:
- Added Iterators
- Improved memory manager
- Added Reflection API
- Removed the not so working namespaces support
- Removed support for expressions within constant declerations.
- You can read about most changes in ZEND_CHANGES under the Zend directory.
Improved the DBX extension: (Marc)

Added DBX_RESULT_UNBUFFERED flag for dbx_query().
Added dbx_fetch_row()
Added SQLite support.

Improved the Interbase extension: (Ard Biesheuvel)

Added support for multiple databases into ibase_trans()
Added support for CREATE DATABASE, SET TRANSACTION and EXECUTE PROCEDURE statements into ibase_query()
Added ibase_commit_ret() and ibase_rollback_ret()
Added ibase_drop_db()
Added ibase_gen_id()
Added ibase_name_result()
Added ibase_errcode()
Added ibase_affected_rows() and ibase_num_params()
Added ibase_param_info()
Added ibase_wait_event()
Added ibase_set_event_handler() and ibase_free_event_handler()

Added new COM extension with integrated .Net support. (Wez)
Added new functions:

setrawcookie(). (Brian)
pg_version(). (Marcus)
dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak)
snmp_read_mib(). (Jani)
http_build_query(). (Sara)
ftp_alloc(). (Sara)
array_udiff(). (Andrey)
array_udiff_assoc(). (Andrey)
array_udiff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
array_diff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
convert_uuencode(). (Ilia)
convert_uudecode(). (Ilia)
substr_compare(). (Ilia)
pcntl_wait(). (GeorgeS)

Added "resume_pos" context option to "ftp://" wrapper. (Sara)
Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of LOB (Patch by Novicky Marek <novicky@aarongroup.cz>). (Thies)
Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm)
Changed length parameter in fgetcsv() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
Fixed IPv6 support in MacOSX Panther. (Dan, Marko)
Fixed fgetcsv() to correctly handle international (non-ascii) characters. (Moriyoshi)
Fixed support for <![CDATA[]]> fields within XML documents in ext/xml. (Sterling)
Fixed visibility of __construct and __clone. (Marcus)
(fgetcsv() not binary-safe on null bytes). (Moriyoshi)
(SimpleXML's validate_schema_file() broken). (Moriyoshi)
(getimagesize() returns incorrect values on bitmap (os2) files). (Marcus)
(array_merge*() allows non-arrays as argument). (Jay)
(strange result array from unpack()). (Moriyoshi)
($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not set). (Marcus)
(cannot read array elements received via $_REQUEST). (Zeev)
(get_parent_class() returns different values). (Sterling, Stanislav)
(preg_replace() problem: Using $this when not in object context). (Zeev)
(PEAR DB isError crash [instanceof_function fault?]). (Sterling, Marcus)
(foreach ($k=>$v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev)
(__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia)
(undefined variable has a value). (Zeev)
(allow fast_call_user_function to support __call). (Stanislav)
(Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev)
(strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 1

29-Jun-2003

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