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@@ -1,356 +0,0 @@ -PHP 4.0 NEWS -||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - -?? ?? ????, Version 4.0 Beta 4 -- Made implode() binary-safe (Andrei) -- Made strstr(), stristr(), and ucwords() binary-safe() (Andrei) -- Made strtoupper(), strtolower(), substr_replace() binary-safe. (Andrei) -- Fix a crash in the Apache syntax highlighting mode (Zeev) -- Report all ODBC error's not just the one on the top of the stack (lurcher) -- OCI8 now returns NULL values in LONG columns correct. (Thies) -- Added support for a C-like assert() function. (Thies) -- Added CyberCash support. (Evan) -- explode() is now binary-safe. (Thies) -- strpos() is now binary-safe. (Thies) -- added XML_Set_Object() function, now you can use the XML-Parser from - within an object. (Thies) -- Session vars are now decoded into $HTTP_STATE_VARS[] array and the - globals, depending on track_vars and gpc_globals settings (Andrei) -- Added get_used_files() function - returns a hash mapping the use()'d files - to their full path (Zeev) -- PHP 4 scripts will now obey the max_execution_time setting and actually - time out (Rasmus) -- Add configure command to phpinfo() output (Stig) -- Add optional socket path to the mysql_?connect() functions (Rasmus) -- Made mysql and gd work as shared extensions again (Stig) -- Make the global GET/POST/Cookie variables and their $HTTP_*_VARS[] counterparts - be references to each other (Zeev) -- Added support for the 'use' keyword - behaves like 'require', but will not - use the same file more than once (Andi & Zeev, Zend library) -- Added check to see if a persistent connection is still valid with the - ODBC interface before reusing (nick@easysoft.com) -- Added DBMaker support (patch by Pax Tsai <paxtsai@lion.syscom.com.tw>) -- Renamed "PECL" to "PEAR" (PHP Extension and Add-on Repository) (Stig) -- buildconf now uses build.mk (Stig) -- Disable symlinks to urls (Rasmus) -- Informix driver now reflects version of ESQL/C used (Danny) -- Modified session_register() to take variable number of arguments (Andrei) -- Fixed file descriptor leak in thread safe mode (Zeev, Zend library) -- Added select(), fd_set() and fd_isset() (Evan) -- cpdf support has been ported from php3, needs ClibPDF 2.x (Uwe) -- Fixed a leak when using automatic output buffering (Zeev) -- Introduced PECL - PHP Extension and Code Library - (prounounced "pickle") (Stig) -- Fixed inconsistencies in the implementation of here-docs (Andi & Zeev, Zend - library) -- Fixed a problem with constant class-member initializations (Andi & Zeev, - Zend library) -- Fixed float-compare in min(),max(),a[r]sort(),[r]sort() (Thies) -- Implemented get_html_translation_table() function (Thies) -- Implemented array_flip() function. Returns input-array with key, value - flipped (Thies) -- Added Berkeley DB3 support in DBA (Sascha) -- Implemented 2-Arg version of strtr($str,$translation_array). This can be used - to revert what htmlspecialchars() did (Thies) -- Fixed mem-overwrite in XML_Parse_Into_Struct (Thies) -- Added substr_replace() function (Andrei) - -November 16 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 3 -- ucfirst()/ucwords() no longer modify arg1 (Thies) -- Fixed strtr() not to modify arg1 (Thies) -- Added Win32 build files for Informix driver and make it - compile with ZTS (danny) -- Added tmpfile() function (Stig) -- Upgraded regex library to alpha3.8 (Sascha) -- Fixed selecting nested-tables in OCI8. (Thies) -- RFC-854 fix for internal FTP-Code. Commands have to end in "\r\n" (Thies) -- Fix OpenLink ODBC support (Stig) -- min(),max(),a[r]sort(),[r]sort(),k[r]sort() now work consistent with the - language-core. (Thies) -- tempnam() now uses mkstemp() if available (Stig) -- serialize() and var_dump() now honor the precision as set in php.ini - for doubles. (Thies) -- Improved the Win32 COM module to support [out] parameters (Boris Wedl) -- Fixed garbage returned at the end of certain Sybase-Columns (Thies) - Patch submitted by: neal@wanlink.com -- Added Microsoft SQL Server module for Win32 (Frank) -- Added support for forcing a variable number of internal function arguments - by reference. (Andi & Zeev, Zend library) -- Implemented getprotoby{name,number} (Evan) -- Added array_pad() function. (Andrei) -- Added new getservby{name,port} functions. (Evan) -- Added session.cookie_path and session.cookie_domain (Sascha) -- Continue processing PHP_INI_SYSTEM knownDirectives after extension= - (Sam Ruby) -- Enable IBM DB2 support - Tested against DB2 6.1 UDB on Linux (Rasmus) -- Added new str_repeat() function. (Andrei) -- Output-Buffering system is now Thread-Safe. (Thies) -- implemented OCI8 $lob->WriteToFile() function - very useful for streaming - large amounts of LOB-Data without to need of a huge buffer. (Thies) -- Added session.use_cookies option (Sascha) -- Added getcwd() function. (Thies) -- XML_Parse_Into_Struct no longer eats data. (Thies) -- Fixed parse_url('-') crash. (Thies) -- added === operator support. (Andi & Thies, Zend library) -- unserialize() now gives a notice when passed invalid data. (Thies) -- Fixed shuffle() so that it no longer breaks on Solaris. (Andrei) -- Added is_resource(), is_bool() functions. (Thies) -- Cleaned up File-Module (Thies) -- Upgraded math-funtions to use new Zend function API (Thies) -- Fixed zombie problem in shell_exec() and $a = `some_command` - constructs. (Thies) -- Thies introduced ZEND_FETCH_RESOURCE2 (Danny). -- Added Informix driver to list of maintained extensions. (Danny). -- Informix driver : Changed ifx.ec to use the new high-performance - ZEND API. (Danny) -- IXF_LIBDIR environment variable specifies alternate Informix library - path for configure (Danny). -- Fixed gmmktime() so that the following should always be true: - gmmktime([args]) == mktime([args]) + date('Z', mktime([args])) (Jouni) -- setlocale doesn't anymore screw up things if you forgot to change it back - to the original settings. (Jouni) -- Switched to new system where ChangeLog is automagically updated from commit - messages. NEWS file is now the place for public announcements. (Andrei) -- Fixed refcount problem in XML module. (Thies) -- Fixed crash in HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA handling (Thies) -- You can use resources as array-indices again (Thies, Zend library) -- Fixed pg_fetch_array() with three arguments (Sascha) - Patch submitted by: brian@soda.berkeley.edu -- Upgraded a lot internal functions to use new Zend function API (Thies) -- fdf support ported; not completely tested with latest version 4.0 for - glibc (Uwe) -- OCI8 connections are now kept open as long as they are referenced (Thies) -- Cleaned up Directory-Module (Thies) -- Small fix in Ora_Close (Thies) -- Ported range() and shuffle() from PHP3 to PHP4 (Andrei) -- Fixed header("HTTP/..."); behaviour (Sascha) -- Improved UNIX build system. Now utilizes libtool (Sascha) -- Upgrade some more internal functions to use new Zend function API. (Thies, - Zend library) -- Fixed backwards incompatibility with ereg() (Thies) -- Updated Zend garbage collection with a much more thorough method. - (Andi, Zend library) -- Added the ability to use variable references in the array() construct. - For example, array("foo" => &$foo). (Andi, Zend library) -- Added array_reverse() function (Andrei) -- Some more XML fixes/cleanups (Thies) -- Updated preg_replace() so that if any argument passed in is an array - it will make a copy of each entry before converting it to string so that - the original is intact. If the subject is an array then it will preserve - the keys in the output as well (Andrei) -- Updated OCI8 to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Thies) -- Configure speedup (Stig) -- Fixed LOB/Persistent-Connection related OCI8-Crash (Thies) -- Generalized server-API build procedure on UNIX (Stig) -- Added '--disable-rpath' option (Sascha) -- Added AOLserver SAPI module (Sascha) -- Fixed XML Callbacks. (Thies) -- Updated ODBC to use the new high-performance Zend function API (kara) -- Updated zlib to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Stefan) -- Updated preg_split() to allow returning only non-empty pieces (Andrei) -- Updated PCRE to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Andrei) -- Updated session, dba, mhash, mcrypt, sysvshm, sysvsem, gettext modules to use - the new high-performance Zend function API (Sascha) -- Extended var_dump to handle resource type somewhat (Andrei) -- Updated WDDX to use the new high-performance Zend function API (Andrei) -- Updated XML to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Thies) -- Updated Oracle to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Thies) -- Improved the performance of the MySQL module significantly by using the new - high-performance Zend function API. (Zeev) -- Add support for the Easysoft ODBC-ODCB Bridge (martin@easysoft.com) -- Fix bug in odbc_setoption, getParameter call incorrect (martin@easysoft.com) -- Ora_Fetch_Into now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies) -- Fixed NULL-Column problem in Oracle-Driver (Thies) -- Added extra metadata functions to ODBC, SQLTables etc (nick@easysoft.com) -- Fixed SEGV in mcal make_event_object() and - typo in mcal_list_alarms() (Andrew Skalski) -- Fixed Ora_PLogon (Thies) -- Resourcified Oracle (Thies) -- Implemented object serialization/deserialization in WDDX (Andrei) -- Added krsort() function (Thies) -- Added func_num_args(), func_get_arg() and func_get_args() for standard - access to variable number of arguments functions (Zeev) -- 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) -- Upgraded var_dump() to take multiple arguments (Andrei) -- Resourcified XML (Thies) -- Fixed a memory leak in the Apache per-directory directives handler (Zeev) -- Added array_count_values() function. (Thies) -- snmp, pgsql, mysql and gd modules can be built as dynamically loaded - modules (Greg) -- OCI8 fix for fetching empty LOBs (Thies) -- Added user-level callbacks for session module (Sascha) -- Added support for unknown POST content types (Zeev) -- Added "wddx" serialization handler for session module (Sascha) - (automatically enabled, if you compile with --with-wddx) -- Fixed unserializing objects (Thies) -- PHP 4.0 now serializes Objects as 'O' (not understood by PHP 3.0), but - unserializes PHP 3.0 serialized objects as expected. (Thies) -- Made serialize/unserialize work on classes. If the class is known at - unserialize() time, you'll get back a fully working object! (Thies) -- Reworked preg_* functions according to the new PCRE API, which also made - them behave much more like Perl ones (Andrei) -- Made it possible to specify external location of PCRE library (Andrei) -- Updated bundled PCRE library to version 2.08 (Andrei) -- count()/is_array/is_object... speedups. (Thies) -- OCI8 supports appending and positioning when saving LOBs (Thies) -- Added metaphone support (Thies) -- OCI8 doesn't use define callbacks any longer. (Thies) -- OCI8 Driver now supports LOBs like PHP 3.0. (Thies) -- var_dump now dumps the properties of an object (Thies) -- Rewrote the GET/POST/Cookie data reader to support multi-dimensional - arrays! (Zeev) -- Renamed allow_builtin_links to expose_php (defaults to On). This directive - tells PHP whether it may expose its existence to the outside world, e.g. - by adding itself to the Web server header (Zeev) -- Added support for transparent session id propagation (Sascha) -- Made WDDX serialize object properties properly (Andrei) -- Fixed WDDX mem leak when undefined variable is passed in - for serialization (Andrei) -- Added session_unset() function (Andrei) -- Fixed double session globals shutdown crash (Andrei) -- Fixed crash related to ignore_user_abort ini entry (Andrei) -- Added support for external entropy sources for session id creation - (on Unices /dev/random and /dev/urandom) (Sascha) -- Added gpc_globals variable directive to php.ini. By default it is On, but - if it is set to Off, GET, POST and Cookie variables will not be inserted - to the global scope. Mostly makes sense when coupled with track_vars (Zeev) -- Added versioning support for shared library (Sascha) - This allows concurrent use of PHP 3.0 and PHP 4.0 as Apache modules. See - the end of the INSTALL file for more information. -- Added second parameter to array_keys which specifies search value - for which the key should be returned (Andrei) -- Resourcified Informix driver (Danny) -- New resource handling for odbc, renamed to php_odbc.[ch] -- Make set_time_limit() work on Unix (Rasmus) -- Added connection handling support (Rasmus) -- Improved the Sybase-CT module to make use of resources (Zeev) -- Improved the mSQL module to make use of resources (Zeev) -- Changed mysql_query() and mysql_db_query() to return false in case of saving - the result set data fails (Zeev) -- Improved the resource mechanism - resources were not getting freed as soon - as they could (Zeev) -- Added shared memory module for session data storage (Sascha) -- Fixed session.auto_start (Sascha) -- Fixed several problems with output buffering and HEAD requests (Zeev) -- Fixed HTTP Status code issue with ISAPI module (Zeev) -- Fixed a problem that prevented $GLOBALS from working properly (Zeev, Zend - library) -- Ported newest GetImageSize (Thies) -- Added session compile support in Win32 (Andi) -- Added -d switch to the CGI binary that allows overriding php.ini values - from the command line (Zeev) -- Fixed a crash that would occur if wddx_deserialize did not receive - a valid packet (Andrei) -- Fixed a bugglet when redefining a class at run-time (Andi, Zend library) -- Fixed sem_get() on AIX (Sascha) -- Fixed fopen() to work with URL's in Win32 (Andi & Zeev) -- Fixed include_path for Win32 (Andi, Zend library) -- Fixed bug in ISAPI header sending function (Charles) -- Fixed memory leak when using undefined values (Andi & Zeev, Zend library) -- Added output_buffering directive to php.ini, to enable output buffering - for all PHP scripts - default is off (Zeev). -- Fixed some more class inheritance issues (Zeev, Zend library) -- Fixed Apache build wrt to shared modules on FreeBSD/Linux (Sascha) -- Added session.extern_referer_chk which checks whether session ids were - referred to by an external site and eliminates them (Sascha) -- Improved session id generation (Sascha) -- Improved speed of uniqid() by using the combined LCG and removing - the extra usleep() (Sascha) -- Introduced general combined linear congruential generator (Sascha) -- Made ldap_close back into an alias for ldap_unbind (Andrei) -- OciFetchInto now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies) -- Fixed mysql_errno() to work with recent versions of MySQL (Zeev) -- Fixed a problem with define() and boolean values (Zeev) -- Fixed inclusion of gd/freetype functions (Sascha) -- Fixed persistency of MHASH_* constants (Sascha) -- Oracle is now ZTS-Safe (Thies) -- Fixed flushing of cached information to disk in DBA's DB2 module (Sascha) -- OCI8 is now ZTS-Safe (Thies) -- Fixed is_writeable/is_writable problem; they are both defined now (Andrei) -- Imported PHP 3.0 diskfreespace() function (Thies) -- Fixed thread-safety issues in the MySQL module (Zeev) -- Fixed thread-safe support for dynamic modules (Zeev) -- Fixed Sybase CT build process (Zeev) - -August 9 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 2 -- Fixed a problem when sending HTTP/1.x header lines using header() (Zeev) -- Win32 builds now include the ODBC module built-in (Zeev) -- Fixed SYSV-SHM interface (Thies). -- Updated hyperwave module, made it thread safe -- Updated pdflib module, version 0.6 of pdflib no longer supported -- Updated fdf module -- Built-in phpinfo() links are now turned off by default. They can be turned - on using the allow_builtin_links INI directive (Zeev) -- Changed phpinfo() to list modules that have no info function (Zeev) -- Modified array_walk() function so that the userland callback is passed - a key and possible user data in addition to the value (Andrei) -- Fixed ldap_search(), ldap_read() and ldap_list() (Zeev) -- Fixed Apache information in phpinfo() (sam@breakfree.com) -- Improved register_shutdown_function() - you may now supply arguments that - will be passed to the shutdown function (Zeev) -- Improved call_user_func() and call_user_method() - they now support passing - arguments by reference (Zeev) -- Fixed usort() and uksort() (Zeev) -- Fixed md5() in the Apache module (Thies) -- Introduced build process for dynamic modules (Stig) -- Improved ISAPI module to supprt large server variables (Zeev) -- Imported PHP 3.0 fixes for problem with PHP as a dynamic module and Redhat - libc2.1 in zlib module (Stefan) -- Fixed sybase_fetch_object() (Zeev) -- Made the IMAP module work with PHP 4.0 (Zeev) -- Fixed a problem with include()/require() of URLs (Sascha, Zeev) -- Fixed a bug in implode() that caused it to corrupt its arguments (Zeev) -- Added get_class($obj), get_parent_class($obj) and method_exists($obj,"name") - (Andi & Zeev) -- Fixed various inheritance problems (Andi & Zeev, Zend library) -- Children now inherit their parent's constructor, if they do not supply a - constructor of their own. -- Fixed runtime inheritance of classes (parent methods/properties were - overriding their children) (Zeev, Zend library) -- Fixed backwards incompatibility with the "new" operator (Andi, Zend library) -- Fixed bugs in uksort() and ksort() sort ordering (Andrei) -- Fixed a memory leak when using assignment-op operators with lvalue of type - string (Zeev, Zend library) -- Fixed a problem in inheritance from classes that are defined in include()d - files (Zeev, Zend library) -- Fixed a problem with the PHP error handler that could result in a crash - on certain operating systems (Zeev) -- Apache php_flag values only recognized 'On' (case sensitive) - changed - to case insensitive (Zeev) -- Fixed a memory leak with switch statement containing return statements - (Andi & Zeev, Zend library) -- Fixed a crash problem in switch statements that had a string offset - as a conditional (Andi & Zeev, Zend library) -- Imported PHP 3.0 fixes for rand() and mt_rand() (Rasmus) -- Added function entries for strip_tags() and similar_text() (Andrei) -- Fixed a bug in WDDX that would cause a crash if a number was passed in - instead of a variable name (Andrei) -- Ported strtotime() function from PHP 3.0 (Andrei) -- Merged in gdttf stuff from PHP 3.0 (Sascha) -- buildconf now checks your installation (Stig) -- XML module now built dynamically with --with-xml=shared (Stig) -- Added a check for freetype.h - fixed build on RedHat 6.0 (Zeev) -- Fixed array_walk() to work in PHP 4.0 (Andrei) -- Ported all remaining date() format options from PHP 3.0 (Andrei) -- $php_errormsg now works (Andrei) -- Added locale support for Perl Compatible Regexp functions (Andrei) -- Informix module ported (Danny) -- Removed --with-shared-apache (Sascha) -- Added patch for reverse lookup table in base64_decode (Sascha) - Submitted by bfranklin@dct.com -- Merged in PHP 3.0 version of str_replace (Sascha) -- Added DBA module (Sascha) -- Added session id detection within REQUEST_URI (Sascha) -- Merged in HP-UX/ANSI compatibility switch from PHP 3.0 (Sascha) -- Fixed rpath handling for utilitites built during Apache build (Sascha) -- Added missing E_ error level constants (Zeev, Zend library) -- Fixed a bug in sending multiple HTTP Cookies under Apache (Zeev) -- Fixed implicit connect on the MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase - modules (Zeev) -- Gave PHP 4.0's SNMP extension all the functionality of PHP 3.0.12 (SteveL) - -July 19 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 1 -- First public beta of PHP 4.0 |