PHP 5.3 on Windows

Congratulations to the PHP community on its PHP 5.3 alpha 2 release in December. In roughly one month, there have been over 80,000 downloads of the alpha 2 release from unique IP addresses.

You can see that interest in PHP on Windows is growing significantly when you compare this to the 40,000 or so Windows downloads of PHP 5.2 alpha and beta combined over nearly five months.

One of the critical accomplishments in 5.3 has been updating the code base so that the core engine can be built under the latest version of Visual C (VC9). This update has enabled members of the community to focus on optimizing the PHP core to run on Windows. Already, with alpha 2, the release is proving itself to be a stable, robust implementation.

The community anticipates hitting general availability for 5.3 in the spring. Interest in that release is already running high and should continue to grow in the coming weeks.

Source: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/01/16/php-5-3-on-windows-update.aspx

PHP 5.2.7 Released

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.7:

• Upgraded PCRE to version 7.8 (Fixes CVE-2008-2371)
• Fixed missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid), reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
• Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658).
• Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659).
• Fixed incorrect php_value order for Apache configuration, reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
• Fixed safe_mode related security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666.
• Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots) (Fixes CVE-2008-3660)
• IMAP toolkit crash: rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow. (Fixes CVE-2008-2829)

Some of the key enhancements in PHP 5.2.7 include:

• Fixed several memory leaks inside the readline and sqlite extensions
• A number of corrections relating to date parsing inside the date extension
• Fixed bugs relating to data retrieval in the PDO extension
• A series of crashes in various areas of code were resolved
• Several corrections were made to the strip_tags() function interms of <>
• A number of bugs were fixed in extract() function when
• EXTR_REFS flag is being used
• Added the ability to log PHP errors to the SAPI (Ex. Apachelog) logging facility
• Over 170 bug fixes.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.0 and PHP 5.1, an upgrade guide is available here http://www.php.net/migration52), detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.2.7. For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.7, see the ChangeLog (http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7).

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