April 05, 2000, Version 3.0.16

• Fixed semaphore problem (Sascha)
  Reported by: ilia@astrive.com
• Fixed pcre, dbase dupe symbol problems (Sascha)
• Fixed pcre, regex, dbase relocation problems (Sascha)
• Added UCD-SNMP 4.1.x support (Sascha)
• Make it possible to set both the socket and the port at the same time in mysql_[p]connect() (Rasmus)
• Fixed exec() and friends and make them return last line of output again. (Rasmus)
• Added check and support for JPEG format available in gd-1.8+ (Rasmus)
• Fixed Solid 2.3 support on glibc2 systems (Stig)
• Enhanced resolution of microtime() on OS/2 by using the high resolution timer API. (Brian Havard)

February 25, 2000, Version 3.0.15

• Fixed crash in preg_match_all(). (Andrei)
• Backported safe_mode_protected_env_vars and safe_mode_allowed_env_vars INI directives from PHP 4.0 (Zeev)
• Added Matthew Herman's FTP module patch for compatibility with Microsoft FTP service. (Andrew Skalski)
• Fixed crash in strip_tags() and related functions.
• Fixed passthru() to no longer return any value. (Andrei)
• base64_decode() will decode POST data correct. (Thies) Patch submitted by: Turadg Aleahmad
• Fixed a bug in the XML module that could cause crashes (Zeev)
• Fixed a long historical bug in the API function call_user_function(), that could cause crashes in functions that made use of it (e.g., XML module functions) (Zeev)
• Fixed possible buffer-overflow in base64_decode(). (Thies)
• Fixed possible buffer-overflow in setcookie(). (Thies)
• Added ImageWbmp() for outputting WAP's Wireless Bitmaps (markonen)
• Support for LZW-compressed GIFs with gd 1.5, gd/freetype cleanups (markonen)
• Added IMAP modified UTF-7 encode/decode routines (Andrew Skalski)
• Add .ini option to set the default charset for the default text/html mime type that php serves up (Rasmus)

January 11, 2000, Version 3.0.14

• Fixed broken GD autoconf check - GIF support was not detected unless libpng and libz were both installed on the system (Rasmus)
• Fix safe-mode problem in popen() (Kristian)
• Fix safe-mode problem when resource had multiple consecutive /'s (Rasmus)
• Remove written permission clause from license

January 1, 2000, Version 3.0.13

• Fixed timezone conflict on AIX (Sascha)
• Fixed mysql_errno() problem when compiled against MySQL 3.23.x (Rasmus)
• Fixed buffer overruns in iptcembed(). (Thies)
• OCI8 now returns NULL values in LONG columns correct. (Thies)
• Check for broken apxs (Rasmus)
• explode() is now binary-safe. (Thies)
• strpos() is now binary-safe. (Thies)
• Add configure command to phpinfo() output (Stig)
• added sketchy support for GNU recode 3.5 (Kristian)
• Added tmpfile() function (Stig)
• fixed trim(), chop(), ltrim(), etc. to remove NULL characters as well. (Colin Viebrock)
• krsort() added, although someone forgot to mention it ... (Thies)
• Upgraded regex library to alpha3.8 (Sascha)
• RFC-854 fix for internal FTP-Code. Commands have to end in "\r\n" (Thies)
• GD-1.7.x detection (Rasmus)
• added patch to functions/mime.c so that form submit with lynx and old IE works properly (closes bug #2362, code by ash@ash.de)
• tempnam() now uses mkstemp() if available (Stig)
• serialize()/var_dump() now honor the precision set in php3.ini for double-values. (Thies)
• Add mysql_change_user() function (Rasmus)
• Fixed garbage returned at the end of certain Sybase-Columns (Thies) Patch submitted by: neal@wanlink.com
• XML_Parse_Into_Struct() no longer eats data. (Thies)
• Added portable access to stdio streams by using the "php://stream-name" syntax (Sascha)
• Fixed zombie problem when using backquotes. eg: $x = `ls /`; (Thies)
• Locale settings are restored correctly at request end if they were changed in the script (Jouni)
• Fixed wrong values returned by gmmktime() and its inconsistent behaviour. Now gmmktime([args]) == mktime([args]) + date('Z', mktime([args])) should always be true (Jouni)
• Proper handling of the slightly different behavior of Fdf Toolkit 4.0 (U. Steinmann)
• Fixed LOB/Persistent-Connection related OCI8-Crash (Thies)
• Added a function for applying a gamma correction to a GD image Example: imagegammacorrect($im,1.8,2.2); (markonen)
• Added a function for applying a gamma correction to a HTML color value Example: $maccolor = gamma_correct_tag("#cccccc",2.2,1.8); (markonen)
• Ora_Fetch_Into now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies)
• Fixed SEGV in mcal make_event_object() and typo in mcal_list_alarms() (Andrew Skalski)
• Fixed memory leak in pdf_open_memory_image() (Uwe Steinmann)
• Added FTP support (Andrew Skalski)
• Added optional allowable_tags arguments to strip_tags(), gzgetss() and fgetss() to allow you to specify a string of tags that are not to be stripped (Rasmus)
• Fix longstanding Apache .conf nested directive problem (Rasmus)
• OCI8 fix for fetching empty LOBs (Thies)
• OCI8 supports appending and positioning when saving LOBs (Thies)
• Added Mcal support (Mark Musone)
• OCI8 doesn't use define callbacks any longer. (Thies)
• Safe-Mode fix for oci8 savefile() function. (Thies)
• Added ldap_get_values_len function (Stig Venaas)
• Added more functions to posix module (Kristian).
• Close loophole that allowed virtual() to be used on a PHP file without an error (Ken Coar)
• Add versioning support for shared library (Sascha)
• Fix bug with '%' in error_log() strings when run as Apache module (Ken Coar)
• Return false from mysql_query() and mysql_db_query() in case saving the result set data fails (Zeev)
• Make --with-apache --with-xml pick up Apache-bundled expat lib (Rasmus)
• Carry special Apache CFLAGS into PHP build for apxs build This should fix any PHP/mod_ssl compile issues (Rasmus)
• Fixed a crash that would occur if wddx_deserialize did not receive a valid packet (Andrey)
• Fixed sem_get() on AIX (Sascha)
• Removed --with-shared-apache to avoid problems with Apache 1.3.9 (Sascha)
• Improved speed of uniqid() by using the combined LCG and removing the extra usleep() (Sascha)
• Introduced general combined linear congruential generator (Sascha)
• OciFetchInto now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies)
• Fixed flushing of cached information to disk in DBA's DB2 module (Sascha)
• DiskFreeSpace() fix (Thies)
• pdflib 2.01 support (Uwe Steinmann)
• fixed mem-leak in sysv-shm (Thies)
• Add IMSP module (Chuck Hagenbuch)
• Add gd-1.6.x PNG functions (Rasmus from drew@elysium.ltd.uk)
• Fix [s]printf 0-padding issues (Rasmus)
• Fix a crash bug in number_format(), in case of very large numbers (Zeev)

July 28, 1999, Version 3.0.12

• gmktime/mktime DST fix (RL and Jim)
• Add imap_search (Chuck Hagenbuch)
• Added locale support for Perl Compatible Regexp functions (Andrey)
• fix crash on invalid URLs in fopen wrappers (Sascha)
• Add support for gd1.6 (disables the ImageCreateFromGif and ImageGif functions because gd1.6 no longer supports GIF format files) (Jim)
• Fixed popen and pclose functions on Windows. (Jim)
• Fixed subprocess creation on Windows when used with IIS (Jim, Dave Cramer)
• Support for Swatch(r) Beat(tm), also known as Internet Time. Use by including "B" in the date() or gmdate() format string. (markonen)
• added gmstrftime() (like strftime() but prints out in GMT not local time) (David Sklar)
• A hack to allow 4bit antialiasing by modifying Freetype2 source (markonen)
• Initial Freetype2 support. You need to use the 1.2 compatibility API for now.. (markonen)
• added strtotime() function from with some modifications (Andrey)
• fix some problems in the socket buffering system (Sascha)
• allow subsecond precision in timeout parameter to fsockopen (Sascha)
• OCI8 - got rid of most Callback-Code (there's a bug in the Oracle Client-Libraries). (Thies)
• OCI8 - added OCISetPrefetch($stmt,$rows) for automatic prefetching of data. (Thies)
• make buildable on OS/2 (Brian Havard )
• added Chad Cunningham's patches for Mac OS X Server compatibility (markonen)
• added ldap_error(), ldap_errno() and ldap_err2str() functions (kk)
• fix --with-shared-apache (Sascha) NOTE: Use of this is deprecated. Refer to INSTALL.DSO instead. Future releases do not support this option.
• support for accessing the raw POST data when its content-type isn't already understood by PHP (Jim)
• fix pgsql_fetch_array/pgsql_fetch_object (Sascha)
• detect missing getrlimit function (Jim Jag.)
• fix diskfreespace() on Windows post-OSR2 again (Jim)
• added Chuck Hagenbuch's imap_getmailboxes(), imap_getsubscribed(), and imap error queues; added preliminary support for persistent IMAP connections. <askalski@chekinc.com>

June 27, 1999, Version 3.0.11

• detect missing getpgid function, fix posix_getsid (Jim)
• fix diskspacefree() on Win95 pre-OSR2 (Jim)
• fix APXS argument order (Sascha)
• decrease lexer memory footprint (see #1600) (alanc@soar.berkeley.edu, Sascha)
• add dbase_replace_record() (Greg , Sascha)
• bringing preg_split() behavior in line with split() (Andrey)
• fix APXS build on AIX (Rasmus)

June 25, 1999, Version 3.0.10

• fix base64_decode to match RFC 2045 semantics (Sascha & bfranklin@dct.com)
• fix potential segfault in tempnam() (Sascha)
• fix buffer overruns in dbase_get_record() (Sascha)
• workaround for negative 1-digit numbers not returned correct via OCI8 (Thies)
• fix APXS linking wrt to static libraries (Sascha)
• OCIExecute would sometimes return true on error (Thies)
• Made dba_open modes consistant with those from dbm_open. Specifically, 'w' is read/write but will NOT auto-create a non-existant file. To do this, use 'c' which is read/write and auto-create. (Jim Jagielski)
• reverted split() to work the same way as pre 3.0.9 versions (Andrey)
• moved easter_date and easter_days to the calendar extension (Jim)
• fix VPATH APXS build process (Sascha)
• make workaround for UCD SNMP deallocate problem optional (Sascha) (see the documentation for a more verbose description)
• make fgetcsv() understand multi-line fields and embedded quotes (RL & Nick Talbott)
• Add extension_loaded() function (Jim)
• fix URL wrapper functions to play nicely with the socket code (Sascha)
• fix persistent definitions of constants in the mcrypt module (Sascha)
• Fix gmmktime() problems (RL and Cole Tuininga)
• Added support for "localhost:/path/to/socket" syntax for mysql_connect (Thanks to Orion Poplawski .)
• Added support for file-upload arrays and put file-upload vars into HTTP_POST_VARS (Brian)
• fix a string allocation bug introduced in 3.0.8 in the MySQL module (Sascha)
• overhaul of Hyperwave module, mainly code clean ups, some bug fixes
• fixed a bug in preg_split() that would return nothing if nothing matched (Andrey)
• fixed a bug in preg_replace() that had to do with "\\" at the end of the replacement string (Andrey)
• open_basedir now resolves symlinks in the configuration (S. Steffann)
• added 'Z' flag to date(): timezone offset in seconds (C. Viebrock)
• added 'L' flag to date(): 1 if it's a leap year, 0 if it isn't (C. Viebrock)
• fixed 't' flag in date() (J. Ahto)
• added support for upcoming pdflib 2.0 (U. Steinmann)
• mail() on Win32 will only add Date: and From: headers if not supplied by the caller. (F. Kromann)

June 6 1999, Version 3.0.9

• added preg_quote() function (Andrey)
• fixed OCI8 crash for "Fetch out of sequence". (Thies)
• fix deallocation bug in dba's db2 module (Sascha)
• add "--enable-dmalloc" option (Sascha)
• added workaround for 1-digit numbers not returned correct via OCI8 (Thies)
• removed the limit for Ora_GetColumn/Ora_Fetch_Into again. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• fix WDDX buffer bug (Sascha)
• fixed Ora_GetColumn/Ora_Fetch_Into for LONG/LONG RAW (had to put in the 64K limit again). (Thies C. Arntzen)
• added easter_date() function: returns timestamp of midnight on Easter of the given year (valid for years 1970-2037) (Colin Viebrock)
• added easter_days() function: returns number of days after March 21 on which Easter falls for a given year (Colin Viebrock)
• added 't' option to date() function: returns number of days in the current month (Colin Viebrock)
• enabled warning when header() is used after the headers have been sent in in non-debug builds (Jim)
• fixed connection and cursor shutdown in oracle-module (this is a fix for the previous fix). (Thies C. Arntzen)
• fixed shutting down of statements in OCI8 if user logs-off. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• fixed very rare crash in shutdown of oracle-cursors. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• added Perl Compatible Regular Expressions support (Andrey Zmievski)
• fixed a couple of bugs in split()
• cpdf module now supports adding hyperlinks, annotations and outline. Some testing was suggesful. (U. Steinmann)
• OCI8 now supports LONG/LONG RAW > 64K (Thies C. Arntzen)
• add connection timeout to p?fsockopen (Sascha)
• fix socket buffering subsystem for blocking sockets (Sascha)
• fix fopen-wrappers.c for url's (danny)
• fix fgets() semantics (Sascha)
• fix segfault in wddx_serialize_value (Sascha)
• add support for using PostScript Type 1 fonts for text in gd.c using T1lib (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/graphics/t1lib-0.?.tar.gz) (Jouni Ahto)
• add bin2hex (Sascha)
• add mhash support (see http://sasweb.de/mhash/ ) (Sascha)

May 22 1999, Version 3.0.8

• OCI8 fix for RAW and LONG RAW (Binary data) - sorry currently limited to 64K (Thies C. Arntzen)
• Added support for pdf creation lib from FastIO, www.fastio.com This has not been tested, yet (U. Steinmann)
• Rewrite socket buffering subsystem (Sascha)
• Fix semaphore support on glibc-2.1 systems (Sascha)
• Add headers_sent() function which returns true if the http headers have been sent out already
• Ora_GetColumn and Ora_Fetch_Into can now return "LONG" and "LONG RAW" columns > 64K (Thies C. Arntzen)
• Another str_replace() fix to check for a 0-length haystack (RL)
• Add range() and shuffle() functions (Jim)
• Fix glibc-2.1.x (RH6) related crashes (ssb)
• Fix md5 on 64-bit platforms (Sascha)
• Let exit/die set exit status in CGI version (Sascha)
• Make substr() binary-safe (RL)
• OCIError can now be called without any arguments to check the error of a failed OCILogon. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• added XML_Parse_Into_Struct. Parse XML without using callbacks - This makes life far easier when using the XML-Parser from classes etc. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• Small fix in configure.in: doesn't try to add in Informix support anymore if INFORMIXDIR is set but --with-informix not specified (Jouni Ahto)
• add mcrypt module (Sascha)
• added REFCURSOR (including nested table) handling for OCI8. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• finalized new behaviour of hw_modifyobject() (U. Steinmann)
• added OCINLogon function (New-Logon) - if you need you "own-private" transaction context. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• GetImageSize now also returns the bits/sample ("bits") and samples/pixel ("cannels") -> currently only works for JPEGs (Thies C. Arntzen)
• changed parameter evaluation of hw_modifyobject() (see docs) (U. Steinmann)
• fixed a sporadic crash when shutting down a request that used the ora_** calls. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• Add fgetcsv() function (RL from Nick Talbott)
• fixed mem-leak in ora_bind (Thies C. Arntzen)
• fixed length of bound variables returned from ora_bind. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• Added V1 of DBA (Sascha)
• made strtr() binary safe and faster. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• added Oracle-OCI8 persistent connections (Thies C. Arntzen)
• fixed OCIDefineByName crash. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• fixed some NULL-column related problems in OCI8-module. (Thies C. Arntzen)
• avoid stripping double slashes when fopen'ing files (Sascha)
• sql_regcase() change: only apply to alphabetic characters (Sascha)
• add snmprealwalk() (Sascha Schumann)
• fix serious bug in strftime() (Sascha Schumann)
• fix bug in ucwords() (Sascha Schumann)
• optimized fgets() and fread() (ssb)
• memory leak in operators.c fixed
• socket leak fixed (Sascha Schumann)
• Fixed the XML bug that caused garbage behind attributes
• Some Informix driver improvements.
• PUT method support (RL from mlemos@acm.org)
• Add ldap_mod_add(), ldap_mod_del() and ldap_mod_replace() (Gerritt Thomson)
• Fix parameter count problem in odbc_setoption()
• Replace broken str_replace(). The fix in 3.0.7 was bogus (Sascha Schumann)
• Really fix implode() this time. The fix in 3.0.7 was bogus (RL)
• Added more option to the date() function: (Colin Viebrock) 'g' - hour, 12-hour format, no leading zeros 'G' - hour, 24-hour format, no leading zeros 'n' - month, numeric, no leading zeros
• Make fgetss() slightly smarter (RL)
• Add strip_tags() which uses the fgetss state-machine but acts on a string (RL)
• Add CRYPT_SALT_LENGTH constant (RL)

March 1 1999, Version 3.0.7

• Added pdf_put_image and pdf_execute_image
• Initial work on an ImageMagick module - doesn't do anything yet
• Make configure script detect Netscape's LDAP SDK automagically
• Fixed Oracle-OCI8 module for windows.
• Add OCIRowCount function. (Number of affected rows for update-statements)
• Add OCIDefineByName function.
• Change the behaviour of open_basedir. It's now possible to supply more than one directory. open_basedir paths from parent directories are now automatically inherited.
• fix rand() and mt_rand() to make the ranges work correctly
• htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() are now binary safe.
• Add extract() function.
• Oracle-OCI8 driver now supports BLOBS/CLOBS and IN/OUT binding of local php variables.
• Clean up apxs build
• Add INSTALL.REDHAT file to walk RedHat users through the install
• Added YP/NIS module from Stephanie Wehner
• Added optional second argument to mysql_fetch_array(); MYSQL_ASSOC will cause the resulting array to contain the associative indices only, MYSQL_NUM will cause the array to contain the numeric indices only (like mysql_fetch_row()) and MYSQL_BOTH would cause them both to be defined (default).
• Backport the Zend debugging memory manager into the PHP 3.0.x tree.
• Add function_exists() function.
• Add another version of WDDX module (we need to pick a single implementation here)
• Fixed includes for iODBC to support both the old and the new LGPL version
• Add flock() function
• Fix implode() bug - When imploding an array that contained unset() elements it wasn't correctly skipping past these
• Add connection_status() function. This returns the raw bitfield which indicates whether the script terminated due to a user abort, a timeout or normally. Note that if ignore_user_abort is enabled, then both the timeout state and the user abort state can be active
• Add connection_timeout() function. This one can be called in a shutdown function to tell you if you got there because of a timeout
• Add ignore_user_abort() function and .ini/.conf directive of same name
• Fix connection abort detection code - It should now work reliably with Apache. Also added a user-level connection_aborted() function designed to let people check whether the user aborted the connection in a user-level shutdown function.
• Add pfsockopen() function
• Improvements in FreeType support: Macintosh fonts work, and non-antialiased output is considerably cleaner
• Fixed checkdate() function, range of valid years is now 0 to 32767
• Make sure XML element attributes have the right character encoding
• hw_insertdocument() returns object id now
• Add pdf_open() warning in configure and documentation
• Add diskfreespace() function
• Added aspell support
• Iptcparse would sometimes find a wrong tag.
• Force var_dump() to output headers
• Add optional 3th parameter to ora_fetchinto.
• Serialize and var_dump no longer show array elements that have been unset.
• Add IptcEmbed() function (can replace an APP13-Marker in a JPEG file)
• Add OCI8 module for Windows
• Fix bug in pdf_close() function
• Add WDDX support (see http://www.wddx.org for more info)
• Add similar_text() function
• Constructors of parent classes weren't accessible to derived classes (as of 3.0.6). Fixed.
• Introduce simple regex compilation cache
• Add gettimeofday() function
• Add getrusage() function

December 24 1998, Version 3.0.6

• Fix GetImageSize() to work with non-standard jpg images
• Add Mersenne Twister functions (mt_rand, mt_srand, etc)
• Add str_replace() function
• Add chunk_split() function
• Fixed a bug in the memory limit code, in cases where $php_errormsg was also used.
• Add iptcparse() function
• Adobe FDF supported
• getallheaders() NULL string fix <michale@utko.fee.vutbr.cz>
• Add all configuration directives to phpinfo() page
• Functions pack() and unpack() rewritten to be binary and buffer overrun safe and behave like the Perl functions for all implemented format codes.
• Ensured that msql_error() will not return error messages generated by previously-run scripts.
• Add base_convert() function
• Make sprintf() and printf() output binary safe
• Made gzgetc binary safe
• Add convert_cyr_string() and quoted_printable_decode() functions
• Fix ldap_free_result() core dump bug
• Add support for current OpenLDAP-2.0-devel library
• Add php3_asp_tags directive so it can be set from Apache config files
• Added UTF-8 support in the XML extension
• Make rand(min,max) safer on older platforms where the low-order bits have short cycles.
• Added new pdf (Portable Document Format) module
• Added an XML parsing extension using James Clark's "expat" library
• Optimized parts of the token cache code.
• Terminate on out-of-memory errors. Until now, PHP could crash in out of memory situations (clean-up, no real effect).
• Unterminated comments in include files were being reported with the wrong line number. Fixed.
• Added ImageCopy() and ImageColorDeallocate(). ImageCopy() is about 20% faster than ImageCopyResized(). ImageColorDeallocate() marks palette entries free for reuse (by <mka@satama.com>).
• In the CGI version, it was impossible to access resources (e.g. SQL links, images) from user-defined shutdown functions. Fixed.
• Added optional third parameter to strpos() to specify the offset to start searching from.
• Fixed a crash bug in unset() when unsetting illegal variables (rare).
• Made ImageInterlace and ImageTransparentColor parameters optional, and made them return the current/new settings.
• Optimized GetImageSize() <thies@digicol.de>.
• Made odbc_autocommit() without args return status
• Added connect workaround for OpenLink ODBC
• Added minimal InterBase support. Tested only on 4.0 & Linux.
• Fixed some memory leaks and bogus error messages in the URL handler of the various file open functions. Should only affect error handling in bad URLs.
• Added support for Empress RDBMS using unified ODBC inteface and Empress ODBC client driver (for Empress v8.10 and above).

October 5 1998 Version 3.0.5

• mysql_field_flags now reports all MySQL flags and the result is suitable for automatic parsing. Compatibility warning: The result format has changed. If you have scripts parsing the result of this function, you may need to adapt them.
• Made nl2br() binary safe (not that it's of much use).
• Fixed a bug in the API function getThis(). It affected mostly the dir functions, if nested within objects.
• Fixed a problem in require() in conjunction with switch(), and in some other cases. Also fixed an identical problem with the call_user_function() API function.
• Removed -lpthread when compiling with MySQL support. It caused various serious problems when compiled into Apache.
• Add serialize() and unserialize() functions from jkl@njet.net
• Fix in_addr_t check for systems with in_addr_t in netinet/in.h
• Add atan2() function

Sept. 22, 1998 Version 3.0.4

• Added uksort() - array key sort using a user defined comparison function.
• Added 'j' support to date() - generates the day of the month, without possible leading zeros.
• Added support for multiple crypt() encryptions if the system supports it
• Added optional support for ASP-style <% %> and <%= tags
• Fixed data loss problems with very large numeric array indices on 64-bit platforms (e.g. DEC UNIX).
• 2 cursor_type parameters for ifx_query() and ifx_prepare changed to 1 (bitmask). Added a few constants for use in Informix module.
• Added php3.ini option ifx.charasvarchar. If set, trailing blanks are stripped from fixed-length char columns. (Makes life easier for people using Informix SE.)
• Static SNMP module which compiles with ucd-snmp 3.5.2
• fixed imap_header & header_info from crashing when a header line is > 1024 characters.
• Added patch for rfc822_parse_adr to return an array of objects instead of a single object.
• Informix Online 7.x & SE 7.x support now fairly complete and stable
• Add dbase_get_record_with_names() function
• Added a special case for open_basedir. When open_basedir is set to "." the directory in which the script is stored will be used as basedir.
• Include alloca.c in the distribution for platforms without alloca().
• Improved stripping of URL passwords from error messages - the length of the username/password isn't obvious now, and all protocols are handled properly (most importantly, http).
• Copying objects that had member functions with static variables produced undetermined results. Fixed.
• Added function lstat() and cleaned up the status functions, added tests for file status functions (this may break on some plattforms)
• Fixed is_link() - it was returning always false.
• Fixed apache_note() - it was corrupting memory.
• New Function. void get_meta_tags(string filename); Parses filename until closing head tag and turns all meta tags into variables prefixed with 'meta_'. The below meta tag would produce $meta_test="some string here"
  <meta name="test" content="some string here">
• Generalized some internal functions in order to better support calling user-level functions from C code. Fixes a few sporadic problems related to constructors inside eval() and more.
• Fixed an endless loop in explode(), strstr() and strpos() in case of an invalid empty delimiter.
• rand() now accepts two optional arguments, which denote the requested range of the generated number. E.g., rand(3,7) would generate a random number between 3 and 7.
• Added M_PI constant.
• Added deg2rad() and rad2deg() for converting radians<->degrees.
• ImageArc() misbehaved when given negative angles, fixed.
• Fixed a bug in ereg() that may have caused buglets under some circumstances.
• Added imap_status
• Shutdown functions, registered via register_shutdown_function(), could never generate output in the Apache module version. Fixed.
• Brought IMAP docs into sync with acutal imap code
• imap_fetchstructure now takes in optional flags
• Fix potential core dumps in imap_append and imap_fetchtext_full
• Fix problem in SetCookie() function related to long cookies
• Add uasort() function to go along with usort (like sort() and asort())
• Add port number to Host header as per section 14.23 of the HTTP 1.1 RFC
• Fix imap_reopen to only take 2 arguments with an optional 3rd flags arg
• Add optional 2nd argument to imap_close
• Add CL_EXPUNGE flag to imap_open() flags
• Fix 4th arg on imap_append(). It was getting converted to a long by mistake.
• Fix shutdown warning in the LDAP module
• *COMPATIBILITY WARNING* imap_fetchstructure() "parametres" object and property name changed to "parameters" to match the documentation and to be consistent with the rest of the API.
• Delete uploaded temporary files automatically at the end of a request
• Add upload_max_filesize and correponsing php3_upload_max_filesize directive to control the maximum size of an uploaded file. Setting this to 0 would completely eliminate file uploads.
• Force $PHP_SELF to PATH_INFO value when running in CGI FORCE_CGI_REDIRECT mode
• Add apache_lookup_uri() function which does an internal sub-request lookup and returns an object containing the request_rec fields for the URI. (Yes, you have to be a bit of a gearhead to figure this one out)
• Fix a few signed char problems causing functions like ucfirst() not to work correctly with non-English charsets
• md5() function not binary safe - fixed

August 15, 1998 Version 3.0.3

• Changed the name of fopen_basedir to open_basedir, to be a little more accurate about what it does.
• Added Hyperwave module
• Added config-option (php3_)enable_dl <on/off>. This enables/disables the dl() function. In safe-mode dl() is always disabled.
• Auto-prepended files were crashing under some circumstances - fixed.
• Win32 mail fixes provided by walton@nordicdms.com
• Comparing between arrays and/or objects now generates a warning (it always returns false, as it used to; no comparison is made)
• Fixed a bug in the syntax highlighting code, that made ending-double-quotes appear twice under certain circumstances.
• Fix bug in filetype() function related to symlinks
• Started integrating Informix SE support to PHP configure/makefile setup.
• gdttf roundoff fixes from ellson@lucent.com
• Added initial Informix SE support files from Danny Heijl - This code still needs to be integrated into the PHP configure/makefile setup and the code itself needs more work.
• return in the global scope now terminates the execution of the current file.
• Added the ability to register shutdown function(s), via register_shutdown_function($function_name).
• Clean up const warnings
• Add write support to ftp fopen wrappers
• Add strspn() and strcspn() functions
• On systems without strerror use Apache version if compiling as Apache module
• The PHP start tag was being ignored under some circumstances - fixed.
• The db, dbase and filepro functions are now Safe-Mode aware.
• Added config-option (php3_)fopen_basedir <path>. This limits the directory- tree scripts can open files in to <path>.
• Fixed pg_loreadall that didn't always return all the contents in a PostgreSQL large object. Also, doesn't pass through anything if method is HEAD.
• configure fix to create target Apache module dir
• Fix core dump in imageTTFtext() function
• Added static IMAP support
• Syntax highlighting was generating additional whitespace - fixed.
• Added ucwords. Works like ucfirst, but works on all words within a string.
• Added array_walk() - apply user function to every element of an array
• Added usort() - array sort that accepts a user defined comparison function!
• Added the ability to call user-level functions and object methods on demand from the C source using a completely generalized, slick API function. Miracles do happen every once in a while.
• Added constructors. Don't even squeek about destructors! :) (we mean that)
• Make pg_lowrite() binary safe
• Fixed mod_charset option in ./setup
• Fixed rewinddir() and dir()::rewind() under Win32 (they didn't work before).
• Add Win32 COM support! By-name referencing is supported using the IDispatch interface (automation). Available functions - COM_Load(), COM_Invoke(), COM_PropGet() and COM_PropSet().

July 18 1998 Version 3.0.2

• Compile cleanups for *BSD
• Add support for the OpenLink ODBC Drivers
• Add PHP_SELF, PHP_AUTH_* and HTTP_*_VARS PHP variables to phpinfo() output
• Add workaround for broken makes
• Add Apache 1.3.1 support (some Apache header files were moved around)
• Added apache_note() function.
• Fix order of system libraries and detect libresolv correctly
• Fixed a bug in the Sybase-DB module. Several numeric field types were getting truncated when having large values.
• Added testpages for unified odbc
• Fix php -s seg fault when filename was missing
• Made getdate() without args default to current time
• Added ImageColorResolve() and some fixes to the freetype support.
• Added strcasecmp()
• Added error_prepend_string and error_append_string .ini and .conf directives to make it possible to configure the look of error messages displayed by PHP to some extent
• Added E_ERROR, E_WARNING, E_NOTICE, E_PARSE and E_ALL constants, that can be used in conjunction with error_reporting() (e.g. error_reporting(E_ERROR|E_WARNING|E_NOTICE);
• Fixed a crash problem with classes that contained function(s) with default values.
• Fixed a problem in the browscap module. Browscap files weren't being read properly.
• Fix -L path in libphp3.module to make ApacheSSL compile without errors
• Fix StripSlashes so it correctly decodes a \0 to a NUL

July 04 1998 Version 3.0.1

• echo/print of empty strings don't trigger sending the header anymore.
• Implemented shift left and shift right operators (<< and >>)
• Compile fix for cc on HP-UX.
• Look for beta-version Solid libraries as well.
• Make GD module show more info in phpinfo().
• Compile fix for NextStep 3.0.
• Fix for Oracle extension on OSF/1.
• Fix gd 1.3 bug in ImageColorAt().
• pg_loread() hopefully handles binary data now.
• Turned off some warnings in dns.c
• Added ImageTTFBBox() and made ImageTTFText() return bounding box.
• Added constants for Ora_Bind()'s modes.
• Renamed all hash_*() routines to _php3_hash_*() to avoid clashes with other libraries.
• Changed uodbc default LONG behaviour: longreadlen 4096 bytes, binmode 1. The module now actually uses the php.ini settings.
• New PostgreSQL functions: pg_fetch_row(), pg_fetch_array() and pg_fetch_object()
• Fix a segmentation fault when calling invalid functions in certain circumstances
• Fix bug that caused link-related functions to not pay attention to run-time safe mode setting (it was using whatever was set at compile time).
• Fix bug in exec() function when used in safe mode