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-?? ??? 200?, Version 5.0.0
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-?? ??? 2003, PHP 5 Beta 2
-- Added misc. new functions:
- . pg_version(). (Marcus)
- . dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak)
- . snmp_read_mib(). (Jani)
-- Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of LOB
- (Patch by Novicky Marek <novicky@aarongroup.cz>). (Thies)
-- Added SQLite support to DBX. (Marc)
-- Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm)
-- Fixed support for <![CDATA[]]> fields within XML documents in ext/xml.
- (Sterling)
-- Fixed visibility of __construct and __clone. (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #24729 ($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not
- set). (Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #24565 (cannot read array elements recived via $_REQUEST). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #24445 (get_parent_class() returns different values).
- (Sterling, Stanislav)
-- Fixed bug #24403 (preg_replace() problem: Using $this when not in object
- context). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #24399 (PEAR DB isError crash [instanceof_function fault?]).
- (Sterling, Marcus)
-- Fixed bug #24396 (foreach ($k=>$v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #24279 (__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #22367 (undefined variable has a value). (Zeev)
-- Fixed bug #19859 (allow fast_call_user_function to support __call).
- (Stanislav)
-
-29 Jun 2003, PHP 5 Beta 1
-- Removed the bundled MySQL client library. (Sterling)
-- Switched to Zend Engine 2, which includes numerous engine level improvements.
- A full list is available at http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php.
-- Added SQLite (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) extension: (Wez, Marcus, Tal)
- . Includes bundled SQLite library
- . Enabled by default
-- Completely Overhauled XML support:
- . New simplexml extension. (Sterling)
- . New DOM extension. (Rob, Chregu, Marcus)
- . New XSL extension. (Chregu, Rob)
- . Moved the old DOM-XML and XSLT extensions to PECL. (James, Sterling)
- . ext/xml can now use either libxml2 or expat to parse XML. (Sterling)
- . Removed bundled expat library. (Jani)
-- New php.ini options:
- . "session.hash_function" and "session.hash_bits_per_character". (Sascha)
- . "mail.force_extra_paramaters". (Derick)
- . "register_long_arrays". (Zeev)
-- Improved the speed of internal functions that use callbacks by 40% due to a
- new internal fast_call_user_function() function. (Sterling)
-- Improved the streams support: (Wez)
- . Improved performance of readfile(), fpassthru() and some internal streams
- operations under Win32.
- . stream_socket_client() - similar to fsockopen(), but more powerful.
- . stream_socket_server() - Creates a server socket.
- . stream_socket_accept() - Accept a client connection.
- . stream_socket_get_name() - Get local or remote name of socket.
- . stream_copy_to_stream()
- . stream_get_line() - Reads either the specified number of bytes or until
- the ending string is found. (Ilia)
- . Added context property to userspace streams object. (Sara)
- . Added generic crypto interface for streams.
- (supports dynamic loading of OpenSSL)
- . Added lightweight streaming input abstraction to the Zend Engine scanners
- to provide uniform support for include()'ing data from PHP streams across
- all platforms.
- . Added 'string.base64' stream filter. (Moriyoshi)
- . Renamed stream_register_wrapper() to stream_wrapper_register(). (Derick)
-- Improved the GD extension: (Pierre-Alain Joye, Ilia)
- . imagefilter() - Apply different filters to image.
- (Only available with bundled GD library)
- . Antialiased drawing support:
- o imageantialias() - (de)active antialias
- o imageline() and imagepolygon() antialias support
-- Changed the length parameter in fgetss() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
-- Changed ini parser to allow for handling of quoted multi-line values. (Ilia)
-- Changed get_extension_funcs() to return list of the built-in Zend Engine
- functions if "zend" is specified as the module name. (Ilia)
-- Changed array_search() to accept also objects as a needle. (Moriyoshi)
-- Changed ext/mcrypt to require libmcrypt version 2.5.6 or greater. (Derick)
-- Changed uniqid() parameters to be optional and allow any prefix length.
- (Marcus)
-- Added new iconv functions. (Moriyoshi)
- . iconv_strlen()
- . iconv_substr()
- . iconv_strpos()
- . iconv_strrpos()
- . iconv_mime_decode()
- . iconv_mime_encode()
-- Added misc. new functions:
- . ldap_sasl_bind(). (peter_c60@hotmail.com, Jani)
- . imap_getacl(). (Dan, Holger Burbach)
- . file_put_contents(). (Sterling)
- . proc_nice() - Changes priority of the current process. (Ilia)
- . pcntl_getpriority() and pcntl_setpriority(). (Ilia)
- . idate(), date_sunrise() and date_sunset(). (Moshe Doron)
- . strpbrk() - Searches a string for a list of characters. (Ilia)
- . get_headers() - Returns headers sent by the server of the specified URL.
- (Ilia)
- . str_split() - Breaks down a string into an array of elements based on
- length. (Ilia)
- . array_walk_recursive(). (Ilia)
- . array_combine(). (Andrey)
-- Added optional parameter to get_browser() to make it return an array. (Jay)
-- Added optional parameter to openssl_sign() to specify the hashing algorithm.
- (scott@planetscott.ca, Derick)
-- Added optional parameter to sha1(), sha1_file(), md5() and md5_file() which
- makes them return the digest as binary data. (Michael Bretterklieber, Derick)
-- Added optional parameter to mkdir() to make directory creation recursive.
- (Ilia)
-- Added optional parameter to file() which makes the result array not contain
- the line endings and to skip empty lines. (Ilia)
-- Added new range() functionality:
- . Support for float modifier. (Ilia)
- . Detection of numeric values inside strings passed as high & low. (Ilia)
- . Proper handle the situations where high == low. (Ilia)
- . Added an optional step parameter. (Jon)
-- Added encoding detection feature for expat XML parser.
- (Adam Dickmeiss, Moriyoshi)
-- Added missing multibyte (unicode) support and numeric entity support to
- html_entity_decode(). (Moriyoshi)
-- Added IPv6 support to ext/sockets. (Sara)
-- Added "ftp://" wrapper support to opendir(), stat() and unlink(). (Sara)
-- Added context options 'method', 'header' and 'content' for "http://" fopen
- wrapper. (Sara)
-- Added input filter support. See README.input_filter for more info. (Rasmus)
-- Added a replace count for str_[i]replace(), see bug #8218. (Sara)
-- Fixed is_executable() to be available also on Windows. (Shane)
-- Fixed dirname() and strip_tags() to be binary-safe. (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #24098 (crash in pathinfo()). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #21985 and #22064 (various mb_send_mail() issues). (Moriyoshi)
-- Fixed bug #21600 (Assign by reference function call changes variable
- contents). (Zeev)