Download PHP 4.3.5 RC2

The developers of PHP released the second release candidate of version 4.3.5 yesterday. In this version, as usual, some bugs have been fixed and no new features have been added this time. This will probably be the last release candidate before the final version is released, so everyone is urged to test this version thoroughly. The complete list of changes can be found below, but also at PHP.net itself, at this one page.

• Changed “allow_url_fopen” php.ini option to be PHP_INI_SYSTEM. (Sarah)
• Improved the sybase_ct module: (Timm)
  • Added ability to define a message handler not only globally, but also per connection.
  • Added “sybct.packet_size” php.ini option.
  • Changed “sybct.login_timeout” php.ini option changeable at runtime.
  • Fixed memory leak in sybase_set_message_handler().
• Fixed bug #27058 (crash in sybase_connect() with 2 arguments). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #27056 (ints used instead of longs inside some GD functions). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #27040 (passing an array of form-fields to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS does not work). (Ilia, Jani)
• Fixed bug #27037 (fixed possible crash in apache2handler output code). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #27011 (64bit int/long confusion in preg_match*() functions). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #27007 (missing connection closure when connect fails in pgsql). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26974 (rename() doesn’t check the destination file against safe_mode/open_basedir). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26973 (*printf() ‘+’ modifier broken). (jani)
• Fixed bug #26969 (–with-openssl=shared build fails). (jani)
• Fixed bug #26968 (Segfault with Interbase module built as shared). (Ard)
• Fixed bug #26949 (rand(min,max) always returns min when ZTS enabled). (jani)
• Fixed bug #26937 (Warning in xml.c). (jani)
• Fixed Bug #26927 (preg_quote() does not escape ). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26923 (ext/imap: pam and crypt libraries missing when build as shared extension). (jani)
• Fixed bug #26909 (crash in imap_mime_header_decode() when no encoding is used). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26892 (ORA-21301 in ocinewcollection() call). (Antony)
• Fixed bug #26878 (problem with multiple references to the same variable with different types). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26896 (ext/ftp does not work as shared extension). (jani)
• Fixed bug #26814 (When included file has a parse error, terminate script execution). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26772, #26967 (file operations return NULL instead of FALSE). (Wez, Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26381 (rand() without srand() doesn’t work with certain php.ini). (jani)
• Fixed bug #25753 (php.ini settings “leak” from vhosts/.htaccess files). (Patch by: rover at tob dot ru)
• Fixed bug #22403 (PHP crashes when executing a sql procedure without parameters). (Tim)
• Fixed bug #21513 (shutdown functions not executed if timed out). (Zeev)

[break] This version of PHP comes in three versions:
php-4.3.5RC2.tar.bz2 (3.64MB)
php-4.3.5RC2.tar.gz (24.1MB)
php-4.3.5RC2-Win32.zip (6.60MB)