From aaae921225a815a898b65d8e27d9a2b14d0eb3ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Joye Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:20:22 +0000 Subject: - update the windows section --- UPGRADING | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'UPGRADING') diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING index 360ce03c1c..f0e2fd5e23 100755 --- a/UPGRADING +++ b/UPGRADING @@ -346,15 +346,37 @@ UPGRADE NOTES - PHP 5.3 - PHP Windows binaries target i586 or later. i386 and i486 are not supported. +- Support for the IIS SAPI has been dropped. Use the FastCGI SAPI instead + (available for IIS5 and later)). It is also the recommended way to use PHP + with IIS (see http://php.iis.net/). + +- A new build is available based on the latest Visual C++ Compiler (VC9). + It is recommended to use it with FastCGI or CLI. Apache's windows binaries + are not compatible with VC9, however you can use apachelounge's build + (http://apachelounge.com). + +- The x64 binaries are for experimental usage only. They are not meant to be + used in production. + +- A new site is available to download windows releases as well as windows only + releases: http://windows.php.net. Windows specific releases will be released + to fix security issues in the bundled libraries (libpng, openssl, etc.). + - Windows support has been added for the following functions: getopt(), imagecolorclosesthwb(), mcrypt_create_iv(), inet_ntop(), inet_pton(), getmxrr(), checkdnsrr(), dns_get_record(), linkinfo(), readlink(), symlink(), link(), fnmatch(), stream_socket_pair(), time_nanosleep(), time_sleep_until(), and socket_create_pair(). +- Crypt supports now all available algorithms on Windows (blowfish included). + - Improved portability of stat(), touch(), filemtime(), filesize() and related functions (100% portable for the available data). +- It is now possible to create hard links on Windows using the link() function, + and symbolic links using the symlink() function. Hard links are available + as of Windows 2000 and symbolic links as of Windows Vista. + - The PDO_OCI php_pdo_oci8.dll library (for use with Oracle version 8 client libraries) is no longer being built. Instead, use php_pdo_oci.dll (note no '8') with Oracle 10 or 11 client libraries. Connection to other database @@ -366,9 +388,9 @@ UPGRADE NOTES - PHP 5.3 Oracle 11 client libraries. Connection to other database versions is supported. -- It is now possible to create hard links on Windows using the link() function, - and symbolic links using the symlink() function. Hard links are available - as of Windows 2000 and symbolic links as of Windows Vista. +- Firebird and SNMP support are no longer available. Firebird may be + reintroduced in the future. + =================== 12. New in PHP 5.3: -- cgit v1.2.1