PHP 4.0.7-RC3 disponible

La troisième Release Candidate de PHP 4.0.7 est sortie vendredi. Les modifications sont plutôt nombreuses, mais restent principalement des corrections de bugs. Les constantes de type $HTTP_*_VARS ont également été remplacées par des constantes du genre $_GET, $_COOKIES, etc. La totalité des changements se trouve dans le fichier joint.

A noter que PHP 4.1.0 devrait être identique à PHP 4.0.7, la seule différence étant que les anciennes constantes de type $HTTP_*_VARS ne seraient plus activées par défaut. Tel était du moins ce qui était prévu il y a quelques semaines.

On notera également la sortie récente de PHP-GTK 0.1.1, avec un ChangeLog plus modeste, et de mySQL 3.23.43. Version 4.0.7-dev
- Fixed pg_last_notice() (could cause random crashes in PostgreSQL applications,
even if they didn't use pg_last_notice()) (Zeev)
- Fixed DOM-XML's error reporting, so E_WARNING errors are given instead of
E_ERROR error's, this allows you to trap errors thrown by DOMXML functions.
(Sterling)
- Fixed a bug in the mcrypt extension, where list destructors were not
properly being allocated. (Sterling)
- Better Interbase blob, null and error handling (Patch by Jeremy Bettis)
- Fixed a crash bug in array_map() if the input arrays had string or
non-sequential keys. Also modified it so that if a single array is passed,
its keys are preserved in the resulting array. (Andrei)
- Fixed a crash in dbase_replace_record (Patch by robin.marlow@dps-int.com)
- Fixed a crash in msql_result() (Zeev)
- Added support for single dimensional SafeArrays and Enumerations.
Added an is_enum() function to check if a component implements an
enumeration. (Alan, Harald)
- Fixed a bug in dbase_get_record() and dbase_get_record_with_names().
boolean fields are now returned correctly.
Patch by Lawrence E. Widman (Jani)
- Added --version option to php-config (Stig)
- Improved support for thttpd-2.21b by incorporating patches for all known
bugs (Sascha)
- Added ircg_get_username, a roomkey argument to ircg_join, error fetching
infrastructure, a tokenizer to speed up message processing, and fixed
a lot of bugs in the IRCG extension (Sascha)
- Improved speed of the serializer/deserializer (Thies, Sascha)
- Floating point numbers are better detected when converting from strings
(Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Replaced php.ini-optimized with php.ini-recommended. As the name implies,
it's warmly recommended to use this file as the basis for your PHP
configuration, rather than php.ini-dist. (Zeev)
- Restore xpath_eval() and php_xpathptr_eval() for 4.0.7. There
are still some known leaks. (Joey)
- Added import_request_variables(), to allow users to safely import form
variables to the global scope (Zeev)
- Introduced a new $_REQUEST array, which includes any GET, POST or COOKIE
variables. Like the other new variables, this variable is also available
regardless of the context. (Andi & Zeev)
- Introduced $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER and $_ENV variables, which
deprecate the old $HTTP_*_VARS arrays. In addition to be much shorter to
type - these variables are also available regardless of the scope, and
there's no need to import them using the 'global' statement. (Andi & Zeev)
- Added vprintf() and vsprintf() functions that allow passing all arguments
after format as an array. (Andrei)
- Added support for GD2 image type for ImageCreateFromString() (Jani)
- Added ImageCreateFromGD(), ImageCreateFromGD2(), ImageCreateFromGD2part(),
ImageGD() and ImageGD2() functions (Jani)
- addcslashes now warns when charlist is invalid. The returned string
remained the same (Jeroen)
- Added optional extra argument to gmp_init(). The extra argument
indicates which number base gmp should use when converting a
string to the gmp-number. (Troels)
- Added the Cyrus-IMAP extension, which allows a direct interface to Cyrus'
more advanced capabilities. (Sterling)
- Enhance read_exif_data() to support multiple comment tags (Rasmus)
- Fixed a crash bug in array_map() when NULL callback was passed in. (Andrei)
- Change from E_ERROR to E_WARNING in the exif extension (Rasmus)
- New pow() implementation, which returns an integer when possible,
and warnings on wrong input (jeroen)
- Added optional second parameter to trim, chop and ltrim. You can
now specify which characters to trim (jeroen)
- Hugely improved the performance of the thread-safe version of PHP, especially
under Windows (Andi & Zeev)
- Improved request-shutdown performance significantly (Andi & Zeev, Zend
Engine)
- Added a few new math functions. (Jesus)
- Bump bundled expat to 1.95.2 (Thies)
- Improved the stability of OCIPlogon() after a database restart. (Thies)
- Fixed __FILE__ in the CGI & Java servlet modes when used in the main script.
It only worked correctly in included files before this fix (Andi)
- Improved the Zend hash table implementation to be much faster (Andi, Zend
Engine)
- Updated PHP's file open function (used by include()) to check in the calling
script's directory in case the file can't be found in the include_path (Andi)
- Fixed a corruption bug that could cause constants to become corrupted, and
possibly prevent resources from properly being cleaned up at the end of
a request (Zeev)
- Added optional use of Boyer-Moore algorithm to str_replace() (Sascha)
- Fixed and improved shared-memory session storage module (Sascha)
- Add config option (always_populate_raw_post_data) which when enabled
will always populate $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA regardless of the post mime
type (Rasmus)
- Added support for socket and popen file types to ftp_fput (Jason)
- Fixed various memory leaks in the LDAP extension (Stig Venaas)
- Improved interactive mode - it is now available in all builds of PHP, without
any significant slowdown (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Fixed crash in iptcparse() if the supplied data was bogus. (Thies)
- Fixed return value for a failed snmpset() - now returns false (Rasmus)
- Added hostname:port support to snmp functions (nbougues@axialys.net, Rasmus)
- Added fdf_set_encoding() function (Masaki YATSU, Rasmus)
- Reversed the destruction-order of resources. This fixes the reported OCI8
"failed to rollback outstanding transactions!" message (Thies, Zend Engine)
- Added option for returning XMLRPC fault packets. (Matt Allen, Sascha
Schumann)
- Improved range() function to support range('a','z') and range(9,0) types of
ranges. (Rasmus)
- Added getmygid() and safe_mode_gid ini directive to allow safe mode to do
a gid check instead of a uid check. (James E. Flemer, Rasmus)
- Made assert() accept the array(&$obj, 'methodname') syntax. (Thies)
- Made sure that OCI8 outbound variables are always zero-terminated. (Thies)
- Fixed a bug that allowed users to spawn processes while using the 5th
parameter to mail(). (Derick)
- Added nl_langinfo() (when OS provides it) that returns locale.
- Fixed a major memory corruption bug in the thread safe version. (Zeev)
- Fixed a crash when using the CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER option. (Sterling)
- Added optional suffix removal parameter to basename(). (Hartmut)
- Added new parameter UDM_PARAM_VARDIR ha in Udm_Set_Agent_Param() function to
support alternative search data directory. This requires mnogoSearch 3.1.13
or later.
- Fixed references in sessions. This doesn't work when using the WDDX
session-serializer. Also improved speed of sessions. (Thies)
- Added new experimental module pcntl (Process Control). (Jason)
- Fixed a bug when com.allow_dcom is set to false. (phanto)
- Added a further parameter to the constructor to load typelibs from file when
instantiating components (e.g. DCOM Components without local registration).
(phanto)
- Added the possibility to specify typelibs by full name in the typelib file
(Alan Brown)
- Renamed the ZZiplib extension to the Zip extension, function names have also
changed accordingly, functionality, has stayed constant. (Sterling)
- Made the length argument (argument 2) to pg_loread() optional, if not
specified data will be read in 1kb chunks. (Sterling)
- Added a third argument to pg_lowrite() which is the length of the data to
write. (Sterling)
- Added the CONNECTION_ABORTED, CONNECTION_TIMEOUT and CONNECTION_NORMAL
constants. (Zak)
- Assigning to a string offset beyond the end of the string now automatically
increases the string length by padding it with spaces, and performs the
assignment. (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Added warnings in case an uninitialized string offset is read. (Zeev, Zend
Engine)
- Fixed a couple of overflow bugs in case of very large negative integer
numbers. (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Fixed a crash bug in the string-offsets implementation (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Improved the implementation of parent::method_name() for classes which use
run-time inheritance. (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Added 'W' flag to date() function to return week number of year using ISO
8601 standard. (Colin)
- Made the PostgreSQL driver do internal row counting when iterating through
result sets. (gvz@2scale.net)
- Updated ext/mysql/libmysql to version 3.23.39; Portability fixes, minor
bug fixes. (tim@mysql.com)
- Added get_defined_constants() function to return an associative array of
constants mapped to their values. (Sean)
- New mailparse extension for parsing and manipulating MIME mail. (Wez)
- Define HAVE_CONFIG_H when building standalone DSO extensions. (Stig)
- Added the 'u' modifier to printf/sprintf which prints unsigned longs.
(Derick)
- Improved IRIX compatibility. (Sascha)
- Fixed crash bug in bzopen() when specifying an invalid file. (Andi)
- Fixed bugs in the mcrypt extension that caused crashes. (Derick)
- Added the IMG_ARC_ROUNDED option for the ImageFilledArc() function, which
specified that the drawn curve should be rounded. (Sterling)
- Updated the sockets extension to use resources instead of longs for the
socket descriptors. The socket functions have been renamed to conform with
the PHP standard instead of their C counterparts. The sockets extension is
now usable under Win32. (Daniel)
- Added disk_total_space() to return the total size of a filesystem.
(Patch from Steven Bower)
- Renamed diskfreespace() to disk_free_space() to conform to established
naming conventions. (Jon)
- Fixed #2181. Now zero is returned instead of an unset value for
7-bit encoding and plain text body type. (Vlad)
- Fixed a bug in call_user_*() functions that would not allow calling
functions/methods that accepted parameters by reference. (Andrei)
- Added com_release($obj) and com_addref($obj) functions and the related class
members $obj->Release() and $obj->AddRef() to gain more control over the used
COM components. (phanto)
- Added an additional parameter to dotnet_load to specify the codepage (phanto)
- Added peak memory logging. Use --enable-memory-limit to create a new Apache
1.x logging directive "{mod_php_memory_usage}n" which will log the peak
amount of memory used by the script. (Thies)
- Made fstat() and stat() provide identical output by returning a numerical and
string indexed array. (Jason)
- Fixed memory leak upon re-registering constants. (Sascha, Zend Engine)

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