PHP 4.2.3 Released

PHP 4.2.3 has been released with a large number of bug fixes. It is a maintenance release, and is a recommended update for all users of PHP, and Windows users in particular. A complete list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog.

Version 4.2.3

• Enable UTF8 modifier support for PCRE on win32. (Wez, Edin)
• Enabled strcoll() on win32. (Markus)
• Fixed possible ASCII control char injection in mail(). (Stefan Esser)
• Fixed a potential crash bug in import_request_variables() (Zeev)
• Fixed several problems with directory functions on Windows. (Steph)
• Fixed xbithack bug in Apache module. (Rasmus)
• Fixed a bug that prevented touch() from working on various platforms. (Steph)
• Fixed ob_gzhandler()'s handling of requests that do have the Accept-Encoding header, but do not allow compression. (Zeev)
• Fixed several bugs in the multithreaded version that could cause random parse errors, especially on machines with multiple CPUs. (Zeev, Zend Engine)
• Fixed a build problem in bcmath. (Alan)
• Fixed several bzip2 issues. (Andrei, kalowsky)
• Fixed several COM issues. (Harald)
• Various exif fixes. (Marcus)
• Fixed domxml_xslt_process() and domxml_get_element_by_id() and several other issues in DOMXML. (Christian)
• Fixed DOMXML crash on removing previously created attributes. (Christian)
• Fixed crash when converting $GLOBALS to an object. (Zeev, Zend Engine)
• Fixed ImageCreateFromGD2Part() (Jani)
• Fixed a build issue in the IMAP extension under IRIX. (kalowsky)
• Fixed a bug in imap_last_error() (Jani)
• Various mbstring fixes. (Yasuo, Rui)
• Fixed a build problem in the mcal extension. (Jani)
• Made MySQL rollback open transactions when the request ends. (Georg)
• Fixed a crash in the shutdown order of the ODBC module. (kalowsky)
• Fixed PCRE build problems. (troels@arvin.dk)
• Fixed a crash in pg_lo_write() (Yasuo)
• Fixed posix_isatty() and posix_ttyname(). (Markus)
• Fixed accidental pg_lo_import() API change. (Yasuo)
• Fixed ereg_replace() crash when the backreference number was greater than the number of captured subpatterns. (oliver@billix.franken.de)
• Fixed array_rand() on thread-safe platforms such as Windows. (Edin)
• Report the right exit code after a call to exit(). (Edin)