PHP 4.0 CHANGE LOG                                                    ChangeLog
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??? ?? 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 2
- Children now inherit their parent's constructor, if they do not supply a
  constructor of their own.
- Fixed runtime inheritence of classes (parent methods/properties were
  overriding their children) (Zeev, libzend)
- Fixed backwards incompatibility with the "new" operator (Andi, libzend)
- Fixed bugs in uksort() and ksort() sort ordering (Andrey)
- Fixed a memory leak when using assignment-op operators with lvalue of type
  string (Zeev, libzend)
- Fixed a problem in inheritence from classes that are defined in include()d
  files (Zeev, libzend)
- 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, libzend)
- Fixed a crash problem in switch statements that had a string offset
  as a conditional (Andi & Zeev, libzend)
- Imported PHP3 fixes for rand() and mt_rand() (Rasmus)
- Added function entries for strip_tags() and similar_text() (Andrey)
- Fixed a bug in WDDX that would cause a crash if a number was passed in
  instead of a variable name (Andrey)
- Ported strtotime() function from PHP3 (Andrey)
- Merged in gdttf stuff from php3 (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 PHP4 (Andrey)
- Ported all remaining date() format options from PHP3 (Andrey)
- $php_errormsg now works (Andrey)
- Added locale support for Perl Compatible Regexp functions (Andrey)
- 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 php3 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 php3 (Sascha)
- Fixed rpath handling for utilitites built during Apache build (Sascha)
- Added missing E_ error level constants (Zeev, libzend)
- Fixed a bug in sending multiple HTTP Cookies under Apache (Zeev)
- Fixed implicit connect on the MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase
  modules (Zeev)
  
  
July 19 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 1
- First public beta of PHP 4.0