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PHP 4.0.3 has been released, along with a patch file that solves a few problems discovered in 4.0.3: "This release fixes an issue that prevented the Apache php_value mechanism from working correctly with .conf files, and a memory leak that was discovered in the module versions of PHP."

There is quite a list of changes associated with 4.0.3, as you can see from this excerpt from the changelog:

• Fixed a possible crash in -a interactive mode (Zeev, Zend Engine)
• Added mysql_escape_string() (Peter A. Savitch and & Brian Wang)
• Fixed many possible crash bugs with improper use of the printf() family of functions (Andi)
• Fixed a problem that allowed users to override admin_value's and admin_flag's (Zeev)
• Fixed PostgreSQL module to work when the link handle is omitted (Zeev)
• Fixed returning of empty LOB fields in OCI8. (Thies)
• Added Calendar module to default Win32 build (Andi)
• Added FTP module to default Win32 build (Andi)
• Fixed crash in the POSIX getrlimit() function ([email protected])
• Fixed dirname() under certain conditions (Andi)
• Added --with-imap-ssl to support SSL'ized imap library in RH7 and others (Rasmus)
• Fixed possible crash bug in parse_url() (Andi)
• Added support for trans sid under Win32 (Daniel)
• IPv6 support in fopen (Stig Venaas)
• Added the shmop extension. It allows more general ways of shared memory access. (thanks to Ilia Alshanestky <[email protected]> and Slava Poliakov <[email protected]> (Derick)
• Added the ability for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to accept an associative array of HTTP POST variables and values. (Sterling)
• Added the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option to curl_setopt(). (Sterling)
• Added the curl_error() and curl_errno() functions. (Sterling)
• Changed ext/db not to be enabled by default (Jani)
• Fixed building Apache SAPI module on SCO UnixWare (Sascha)
• Fixed writing empty session sets to shared memory ([email protected])
• Added support for BSD/OS make (Sascha)
• Added improved URL rewriter (Sascha)
• Fixed readdir_r() use on Solaris (Sascha)
• Improved HTTP headers for private-caching ([email protected], Sascha)
• Added new function session_cache_limiter ([email protected], Sascha)
• Added ftp_exec to the ftp functions (thanks to <[email protected]>) (Derick)
• PEAR: add last executed query as debug info in DB errors (Stig)
• PEAR: allow multiple modes in PEAR_Error (Stig)
• Made the Sybase CT module thread safe (Zeev)
• Added second argument to array_reverse() that indicatese whether the original array keys should be preserved. (Andrei)
• Clean up htmlspecialchars/htmlentities inconsistencies. (Rasmus)
• PEAR: renamed DB_GETMODE_* to DB_FETCHMODE_*, added setFetchMode() in DB_common to set the default mode, added some MySQL tests (Stig)
• Made eval() and several other runtime-evaluated code portions report the nature and location of errors more accurately (Stas)
• Added an optional parameter to wordwrap that cuts a string if the length of a word is longer than the maximum allowed. (Derick)
• Added functions pg_put_line and pg_end_copy (Dirk Elmendorf)
• Added second parameter for parse_str to save result (John Bafford)
• Fixed bug with curl places extra data in the output. ([email protected])
• Added the pathinfo() function. (Sterling)
• Updated sybase_ct module and its sybase_query to use high performance API. (Joey)
• Added a more configurable error reporting interface to DB. (Stig)
• Added is_uploaded_file() and move_uploaded_file() (Zeev)
• Added several directives to php.ini - post_max_size, file_uploads, display_startup_errors - see php.ini-dist for further information (Zeev)
• Worked around a bug in the libc5 implementation of readdir() (Stas)
• Fixed some potential OpenBSD and NetBSD crash bugs when opening files. (Andi)
• Added EscapeShellArg() function (Rasmus)
• Added a php.ini option session.use_trans_sid to enable/disable trans-sid. (Sterling)
• Added the Sablotron extension for XSL parsing. (Sterling)
• Fixed a bug in checkdate() which caused < 1 years to be valid (Jani)
• Added support for an optional output handler function for output buffering. This enables transparent rendering of XML through XSL, transparent compression, etc. (Zeev)
• Added support for user defined 'tick' callback functions. This helps emulate background processing. (Andrei)
• Fixed problem with having $this as the XML parser object. (Andrei)
• Internal opened_path variable now uses the Zend memory manager so that full paths of files won't leak on unclean shutdown (Andi)
• Removed support of print $obj automatically calling the __string_value() method. Instead define yourself a method such as toString() and use print $obj->toString() (Andi, Zend Engine)

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