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PHP
55 lines
2.2 KiB
PHP
<?php
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$_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'releases/5_2_7.php';
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include_once __DIR__ . '/../include/prepend.inc';
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site_header("PHP 5.2.7 Release Announcement");
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?>
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<h1>PHP 5.2.7 Release Announcement</h1>
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<p>
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The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
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availability of PHP 5.2.7. This release focuses on improving the stability of
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the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.
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All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.7:</b>
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Upgraded PCRE to version 7.8 (Fixes CVE-2008-2371)</li>
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<li>Fixed missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid), reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.</li>
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<li>Fixed incorrect php_value order for Apache configuration, reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.</li>
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<li>Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658).</li>
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<li>Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659).</li>
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<li>Fixed security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666.</li>
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<li>Fixed bug #45151 (Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots)).(Fixes CVE-2008-3660)</li>
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<li>Fixed bug #42862 (IMAP toolkit crash: rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow). (Fixes CVE-2008-2829)</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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<b>Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.7 include:</b>
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Fixed several memory leaks inside the readline and sqlite extensions</li>
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<li>A number of corrections relating to date parsing inside the date extension</li>
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<li>Fixed bugs relating to data retrieval in the PDO extension</li>
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<li>A series of crashes in various areas of code were resolved</li>
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<li>Several corrections were made to the strip_tags() function in terms of < and <?XML handling</li>
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<li>A number of bugs were fixed in extract() function when EXTR_REFS flag is being used</li>
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<li>Added the ability to log PHP errors to the SAPI (Ex. Apache log) logging facility</li>
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<li>Over 170 bug fixes.</li></li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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For users upgrading from PHP 5.0 and PHP 5.1, an upgrade guide is available
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<a href="/UPDATE_5_2.txt">here</a>, detailing the changes between those releases
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and PHP 5.2.7.
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</p>
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<p>
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For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.7, see the <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7">ChangeLog</a>.
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</p>
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