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05 Sep 2005, PHP 5.0.5
- Upgraded PCRE library to version 5.0. (Andrei)
- Removed php_check_syntax() function which never worked properly. (Ilia)
- Added new function mysqli_set_charset(). (Georg)
- Added man pages for "phpize" and "php-config" scripts. (Jakub Vrana)
- Added support for .cc files in extensions. (Brian)
- Added PHP_INT_MAX and PHP_INT_SIZE as predefined constants. (Andrey)
- Changed sha1_file() and md5_file() functions to use streams instead of
  low level IO. (Uwe)
- Changed ming to support official 0.2a and 0.3 library versions. (Marcus)
- Fixed failing queries problem (FALSE returned) with mysqli_query() on 64 bit.
  (Andrey)
- Fixed memory corruption in pg_copy_from() in case the as_null parameter was
  passed. (Derick)
- Fixed ext/mysqli to allocate less memory when fetching bound params
  of type (MEDIUM|LONG)BLOB/(MEDIUM|LONG)TEXT. (Andrey)
- Fixed memory corruption in ImageTTFText() with 64bit systems. (Andrey)
- Fixed memory corruption in stristr(). (Derick)
- Fixed segfaults when CURL callback functions throw exception. (Tony)
- Fixed various reentrancy bugs in user-sort functions, solves bugs #33286 and
  #33295. (Mike Bretz)
- Fixed bug #34307 (on_modify handler not called to set the default value if
  setting from php.ini was invalid). (Andrei)
- Fixed bug #34302 (date('W') do not return leading zeros for week 1 to 9).
  (Derick)
- Fixed bug #34299 (ReflectionClass::isInstantiable() returns true for abstract
  classes). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #34277 (array_filter() crashes with references and objects).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #34260 (Segfault with callbacks (array_map) + overloading).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #34137 (assigning array element by reference causes binary mess).
  (Dmitry) 
- Fixed bug #34078 (Reflection API problems in methods with boolean or 
  null default values). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #34064 (arr[] as param to function is allowed only if function 
  receives argument by reference). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #34062 (Crash in catch block when many arguments are used).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33989 (extract($GLOBALS,EXTR_REFS) crashes PHP). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33940 (array_map() fails to pass by reference when called
  recursively). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33853 (php:function call __autoload with lowercase param). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #33802 (throw Exception in error handler causes crash). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33723 (php_value overrides php_admin_value). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33710 (ArrayAccess objects doen't initialize $this). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33588 (LDAP: RootDSE query not possible). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #33558 (warning with nested calls to functions returning by
  reference). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33520 (crash if safe_mode is on and session.save_path is changed).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33491 (crash after extending MySQLi internal class). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #33340 (CLI Crash when calling php:function from XSLT). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #33277 (private method accessed by child class). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33268 (iconv_strlen() works only with a parameter of < 3 in 
  length). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #33263 (mysqli_real_escape doesn't work in __construct) (Georg)
- Fixed bug #33257 (array_splice() inconsistent when passed function instead
  of variable). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33243 (ze1_compatibility_mode does not work as expected). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33242 (Mangled error message when stream fails). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #33222 (segfault when CURL handle is closed in a callback). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #33214 (odbc_next_result does not signal SQL errors with 
  2-statement SQL batches). (rich at kastle dot com, Tony)
- Fixed bug #33210 (relax jpeg recursive loop protection). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #33200 (preg_replace(): magic_quotes_sybase=On makes 'e' modifier
  misbehave). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #33185 (--enable-session=shared does not build). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #33171 (foreach enumerates private fields declared in base
  classes). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33164 (Soap extension incorrectly detects HTTP/1.1). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #33156 (cygwin version of setitimer doesn't accept ITIMER_PROF).
  (Nuno)
- Fixed bug #33116 (crash when assigning class name to global variable in
  __autoload). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #33090 (mysqli_prepare() doesn't return an error). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #33076 (str_ireplace() incorrectly counts result string length 
  and may cause segfault). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #33072 (Add a safemode/open_basedir check for runtime
  "session.save_path" change using session_save_path() function). (Rasmus)
- Fixed bug #33070 (Improved performance of bzdecompress() by several orders
  of magnitude). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #33059 (crash when moving xml attribute set in dtd). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #33057 (Don't send extraneous entity-headers on a 304 as per
  RFC 2616 section 10.3.5) (Rasmus, Choitel)
- Fixed bug #33019 (socket errors cause memory leaks in php_strerror()). 
  (jwozniak23 at poczta dot onet dot pl, Tony).
- Fixed bug #33017 ("make distclean" gives an error with VPATH build). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #33013 ("next month" was handled wrong while parsing dates).
  (Derick)
- Fixed bug #32981 (ReflectionMethod::getStaticVariables() causes apache2.0.54
  seg fault). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32956 (mysql_bind_result() doesn't support MYSQL_TYPE_NULL). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #32947 (Incorrect option for mysqli default password). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #32944 (Disabling session.use_cookies doesn't prevent reading 
  session cookies). (Jani, Tony)
- Fixed bug #32941 (Sending structured SOAP fault kills a php). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32936 (http redirects URLs are not checked for control chars). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32933 (Cannot extend class "SQLiteDatabase"). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #32932 (Oracle LDAP: ldap_get_entries(), invalid pointer). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #32930 (class extending DOMDocument doesn't clone properly). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #32904 (pg_get_notify() ignores result_type parameter). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #32852 (Crash with singleton and __destruct when
  zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = On). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32813 (parse_url() does not handle scheme-only urls properly). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32810 (temporary files not using plain file wrapper). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32809 (Missing T1LIB support on Windows). (Edin)
- Fixed bug #32802 (General cookie overrides more specific cookie). (Ilia)
- Fixed bugs #32800, #32830 (ext/odbc: Problems with 64bit systems). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #32799 (crash: calling the corresponding global var during the
  destruct). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32776 (SOAP doesn't support one-way operations). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32773 (GMP functions break when second parameter is 0). (Stas)
- Fixed bug #32759 (incorrect determination of default value (COM)). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #32758 (Cannot access safearray properties in VB6 objects). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #32755 (Segfault in replaceChild() when DocumentFragment has
  no children). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #32753 (Undefined constant SQLITE_NOTADB). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32742 (segmentation fault when the stream with a wrapper 
  is not closed). (Tony, Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32699 (pg_affected_rows() was defined when it was not available).
  (Derick)
- Fixed bug #32686 (Require/include file in destructor causes segfault).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #32682 (ext/mssql: Error on module shutdown when called from
  activescript). (Frank)
- Fixed bug #32674 (exception in iterator causes crash). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32660 (Assignment by reference causes crash when field access is
  overloaded (__get)). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32647 (Using register_shutdown_function() with invalid callback
  can crash PHP). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #32615 (Segfault in replaceChild() using fragment when 
  previousSibling is NULL). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #32613 (ext/snmp: use of snmp_shutdown() causes snmpapp.conf 
  access errors). (Jani, ric at arizona dot edu)
- Fixed bug #32608 (html_entity_decode() converts single quotes even if
  ENT_NOQUOTES is given). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32596 (Segfault/Memory Leak by getClass (etc) in __destruct).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32591 (ext/mysql: Unsatisfied symbol: ntohs with HP-UX). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #32589 (Possible crash inside imap_mail_compose, with charsets).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32587 (Apache2: errors sent to error_log do not include
  timestamps). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #32560 (configure looks for incorrect db2 library). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #32553 (mmap loads only the 1st 2000000 bytes on Win32). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32533 (proc_get_status() returns the incorrect process status). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32530 (chunk_split() does not append endstr if chunklen is  
  longer then the original string). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32491 (File upload error - unable to create a temporary file).
  (Uwe Schindler)
- Fixed bug #32405 (mysqli::fetch() returns bad data - 64bit problem). (Andrey)
- Fixed bug #32282 (Segfault in mysqli_fetch_array on 64-bit). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #32296 (get_class_methods() output has changed between 5.0.2 and
  5.0.3). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32245 (xml_parser_free() in a function assigned to the xml parser
  gives a segfault). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #32171 (Userspace stream wrapper crashes PHP). (Tony, Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32080 (segfault when assigning object to itself with
  zend.ze1_compatibility_mode=On). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32013 (ext/mysqli bind_result causes fatal error: memory
  limit). (Andrey)
- Fixed bug #31887 (ISAPI: Custom 5xx error does not return correct HTTP 
  response message). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #31828 (Crash with zend.ze1_compatibility_mode=On). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31668 (multi_query works exactly every other time - multi query
  d/e flag global and not per connection). (Andrey)
- Fixed bug #31636 (another crash when echoing a COM object). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #31583 (php_std_date() uses short day names in non-y2k_compliance 
  mode). (mike at php dot net)
- Fixed bug #31525 (object reference being dropped. $this getting lost).
  (Stas, Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31502 (Wrong deserialization from session when using WDDX
  serializer). (Dmitry) 
- Fixed bug #31465 (False warning in unpack() when working with *). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31363 (broken non-blocking flock()). ian at snork dot net
- Fixed bug #31213 (Sideeffects caused by fix of bug #29493). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31158 (array_splice on $GLOBALS crashes). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30961 (Wrong linenumber in ReflectionClass getStartLine()).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30889 (Conflict between __get/__set and ++ operator). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30833 (array_count_values() modifying input array). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #30828 (debug_backtrace() reports incorrect class in overridden
  methods). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30820 (static member conflict with $this->member silently
  ignored). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30819 (Better support for LDAP SASL bind). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #30791 (magic methods (__sleep/__wakeup/__toString) call __call if
  object is overloaded). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30707 (Segmentation fault on exception in method). (Stas, Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30702 (cannot initialize class variable from class constant).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30519 (Interface not existing says Class not found). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30394 (Assignment operators yield wrong result with __get/__set).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30332 (zend.ze1_compatibility_mode isnt fully compatable with
  array_push()). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30162 (Catching exception in constructor causes lose of $this).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30140 (Problem with array in static properties). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30126 (Enhancement for error message for abstract classes). 
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30080 (Passing array or non array of objects). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29975 (memory leaks when set_error_handler() is used inside error 
  handler). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #29971 (variables_order behaviour). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29944 (Function defined in switch, crashes). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29896 (Backtrace argument list out of sync). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29683 (headers_list() returns empty array). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #29583 (crash when echoing a COM object). (M.Sisolak, Wez)
- Fixed bug #29338 (unencoded spaces get ignored after certain tags). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29210 (Function: is_callable - no support for private and
  protected classes). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29104 (Function declaration in method doesn't work). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29015 (Incorrect behavior of member vars(non string ones)-numeric
  mem vars und others). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28839 (SIGSEGV in interactive mode (php -a)).
  (kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
- Fixed bug #28605 (Need to use -[m]ieee option for Alpha CPUs). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #28377 (debug_backtrace is intermittently passing args). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27598 (list() array key assignment causes HUGE memory leak).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #26456 (Wrong results from Reflection-API getDocComment() when
  called via STDIN). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #25922 (In error handler, modifying 5th arg (errcontext) may result
  in seg fault). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #22836 (returning reference to uninitialized variable). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29689 (default value of protected member overrides default value of private) 
  and other private variable problems in inherited classes (Stas)
- Fixed bug #29253 (array_diff with $GLOBALS argument fails). (Dmitry)
- Abstract private methods are no longer allowed (Stas)

31 Mar 2005, PHP 5.0.4
- Added SNMPv2 support. (harrie)
- Added Oracle Instant Client support. (cjbj at hotmail dot com, Tony)
- Added length and charsetnr for field array and object in mysqli. (Georg)
- Added checks for negative values to gmp_sqrt(), gmp_powm(), gmp_sqrtrem()
  and gmp_fact() to prevent SIGFPE. (Tony)
- Changed foreach() to throw an exception if IteratorAggregate::getIterator()
  does not return an Iterator. (Marcus)
- Changed phpize not to require libtool. (Jani)
- Updated bundled oniguruma library (used for multibyte regular expression)
  to 3.7.0. (Moriyoshi)
- Updated bundled libmbfl library (used for multibyte functions). (Moriyoshi)
  Fixed bugs:
  . Bug #32311 (mb_encode_mimeheader() does not properly escape characters)
  . Bug #32063 (mb_convert_encoding ignores named entity 'alpha')
  . Bug #31911 (mb_decode_mimeheader() is case-sensitive to hex escapes)
  . bug #30573 (compiler warnings in libmbfl due to invalid type cast)
  . Bug #30549 (incorrect character translations for some ISO8859 charsets).
- Fixed bug preventing from building oci8 as shared. 
  (stanislav dot voroniy at portavita dot nl, Tony)
- Fixed a bug in mysql_affected_rows and mysql_stmt_affected_rows when the
  api function returns -1 (Georg)
- Fixed several leaks in ext/browscap and sapi/embed. (Andrei)
- Fixed several leaks in ext/filepro. (Tony)
- Fixed build system to always use bundled libtool files. (Jani)
- Fixed a bug in mysqli_stmt_execute() (type conversion with NULL values).
  (Georg)
- Fixed segfault in mysqli_fetch_field_direct() when invalid field offset 
  is passed. (Tony)
- Fixed posix_getsid() & posix_getpgid() to return sid & pgid instead 
  of true. (Tony)   
- Fixed bug #32394 (offsetUnset() segfaults in a foreach). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #32373 (segfault in bzopen() if supplied path to non-existent 
  file). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #32326 (Check values of Connection/Transfer-Encoding 
  case-incentively in SOAP extension). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32290 (call_user_func_array() calls wrong class method within 
  child class). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #32238 (spl_array.c: void function cannot return value). (Johannes)
- Fixed bug #32210 (proc_get_status() sets "running" always to true). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32200 (Prevent using both --with-apxs2 and --with-apxs2filter).
  (Jani)
- Fixed bug #32134 (Overloading offsetGet/offsetSet). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #32130 (ArrayIterator::seek() does not throw an Exception on 
  invalid index). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #32115 (dateTime SOAP encoding of timezone incorrect). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #32081 (in mysqli default socket value is not being used). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #32021 (Crash caused by range('', 'z')). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #32011 (Fragments which replaced Nodes are not globaly useable).
  (Rob)
- Fixed bug #32001 (xml_parse_into_struct() function exceeds maximum 
  execution time). (Rob, Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #31980 (Unicode exif data not available on Windows). (Edin)
- Fixed bug #31960 (msql_fetch_row() and msql_fetch_array() dropping columns
  with NULL values). (Daniel Convissor)
- Fixed bug #31878 (Segmentation fault using clone keyword on nodes). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #31858 (--disable-cli does not force --without-pear). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #31842 (*date('r') does not return RFC2822 conforming date string).
  (Jani)
- Fixed bug #31832 (SOAP encoding problem with complex types in WSDL mode with
  multiple parts). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31797 (exif_read_data() uses too low nesting limit). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31796 (readline completion handler does not handle empty return
  values). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31792 (getrusage() does not provide ru_nswap value). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31755 (Cannot create SOAP header in no namespace). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31754 (dbase_open() fails for mode = 1). (Mehdi, Derick)
- Fixed bug #31751 (pg_parameter_status() missing on Windows). (Edin)
- Fixed bug #31747 (SOAP Digest Authentication doesn't work with 
  "HTTP/1.1 100 Continue" response). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31732 (mb_get_info() causes segfault when no parameters 
  specified). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #31710 (Wrong return values for mysqli_autocommit/commit/rollback).
  (Georg)
- Fixed bug #31705 (parse_url() does not recognize http://foo.com#bar). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31695 (Cannot redefine endpoint when using WSDL). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31684 (dio_tcsetattr(): misconfigured termios settings).
  (elod at itfais dot com)
- Fixed bug #31683 (changes to $name in __get($name) override future 
  parameters). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31699 (unserialize() float problem on non-English locales). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31562 (__autoload() problem with static variables). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #31651 (ReflectionClass::getDefaultProperties segfaults with arrays).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #31623 (OCILogin does not support password grace period).
  (daniel dot beet at accuratesoftware dot com, Tony)
- Fixed bug #31527 (crash in msg_send() when non-string is stored without
  being serialized). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31515 (Improve performance of scandir() by factor of 10 or so). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31514 (open_basedir uses path_translated rather then cwd for .
  translation). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31480 (Possible infinite loop in imap_mail_compose()). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31479 (Fixed crash in chunk_split(), when chunklen > strlen). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31454 (session_set_save_handler crashes PHP when supplied 
  non-existent object ref). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #31444 (Memory leak in zend_language_scanner.c).
  (hexer at studentcenter dot org)
- Fixed bug #31442 (unserialize broken on 64-bit systems). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #31440 ($GLOBALS can be overwritten via GPC when register_globals
  is enabled). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31422 (No Error-Logging on SoapServer-Side). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31413 (curl POSTFIELDS crashes on 64-bit platforms). (Joe)
- Fixed bug #31396 (compile fails with gd 2.0.33 without freetype). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #31371 (highlight_file() trims new line after heredoc). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31361 (simplexml/domxml segfault when adding node twice). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #31348 (CachingIterator::rewind() leaks). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #31346 (ArrayIterator::next segfaults). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #31190 (Unexpected warning then exception is thrown from 
  call_user_func_array()). (phpbugs at domain51 dot net, Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #31142 (imap_mail_compose() fails to generate correct output). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31139 (XML Parser Functions seem to drop &amp; when parsing). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #31398 (When magic_guotes_gpc are enabled filenames with ' get cutoff).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31288 (Possible crash in mysql_fetch_field(), if mysql_list_fields() 
  was not called previously). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31107, #31110, #31111, #31249 (Compile failure of zend_strtod.c).
  (Jani)
- Fixed bug #31110 (PHP 4.3.10 does not compile on Tru64 UNIX 5.1B). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #31107 (Compile failure on Solaris 9 (Intel) and gcc 3.4.3). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #31103 (Better error message when c-client cannot be found). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31101 (missing kerberos header file path with --with-openssl). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #31098 (isset() / empty() incorrectly return true in dereference of
  a string type). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #31087 (broken php_url_encode_hash macro). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31072 (var_export() does not output an array element with an empty
  string key). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #31060 (imageftbbox() does not use linespacing parameter). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #31056 (php_std_date() returns invalid formatted date if 
  y2k_compliance is On). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #31055 (apache2filter: per request leak proportional to the full
  path of the request URI). (kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
- Fixed bug #30901 (can't send cookies with soap envelop). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30871 (Misleading warning message for array_combine()). (Andrey)
- Fixed bug #30868 (evaluated pointer comparison in mbregex causes compile
  failure). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #30862 (Static array with boolean indexes). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30726 (-.1 like numbers are not being handled correctly). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30725 (PHP segfaults when an exception is thrown in getIterator() 
  within foreach). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30609 (cURL functions bypass open_basedir). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #30446 (apache2handler: virtual() includes files out of sequence)
- Fixed bug #30430 (odbc_next_result() doesn't bind values and that results 
  in segfault). (pdan-php at esync dot org, Tony)
- Fixed bug #30266 (Invalid opcode 137/1/8). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30120 (imagettftext() and imagettfbbox() accept too many
  parameters). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #30106 (SOAP cannot not parse 'ref' element. Causes Uncaught
  SoapFault exception). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29989 (type re_registers redefined in oniguruma.h). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #28803 (enabled debug causes bailout errors with CLI on AIX 
  because of fflush() called on already closed filedescriptor). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #29767 (Weird behaviour of __set($name, $value)). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29733 (printf() handles repeated placeholders wrong).
  (bugs dot php dot net at bluetwanger dot de, Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29424 (width and height inverted for JPEG2000 files). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29329 (configure for mysqli with shared doesn't work). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #29136 (make test - libtool failure on MacOSX). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #28976 (mail(): use "From:" from headers if sendmail_from is empty).
  (Jani)
- Fixed bug #28930 (PHP sources pick wrong header files generated by bison).
  (eggert at gnu dot org, Jani)
- Fixed bug #28840 (__destruct of a class that extends mysqli not called).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28804 (ini-file section parsing pattern is buggy).
  (wendland at scan-plus dot de)
- Fixed bug #28451 (corrupt EXIF headers have unlimited recursive IFD directory
  entries). (Andrei)
- Fixed bug #28444 (Cannot access undefined property for object with overloaded
  property access). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28442 (Changing a static variables in a class changes it across 
  sub/super classes.) (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28324 (HTTP_SESSION_VARS appear when register_long_arrays is 
  Off). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #28074 (FastCGI: stderr should be written in a FCGI stderr stream).
  (chris at ex-parrot dot com)
- Fixed bug #28067 (partially incorrect utf8 to htmlentities mapping). (Derick,
  Benjamin Greiner)
- Fixed bug #28041 (SOAP HTTP Digest Access Authentication). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27633 (Double \r problem on ftp_get in ASCII mode on Win32). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #18613 (Multiple OUs in x509 certificate not handled properly).
  (Jani)

15 Dec 2004, PHP 5.0.3
- Added the %F modifier to *printf to render a non-locale-aware representation
  of a float with the . as decimal seperator. (Derick)
- Fixed error handling in mysqli_multi_query. (Georg)
- Extended the functionality of is_subclass_of() to accept either a class name
  or an object as first parameter. (Andrey) 
- Fixed potential problems with unserializing invalid serialize data. (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #32076 (ReflectionMethod::isDestructor() always return true). 
  (Derick, Tony)
- Fixed bug #31034 (Problem with non-existing iconv header file). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #30995 (snmp extension does not build with net-snmp 5.2). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30994 (SOAP server unable to handle request with references).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30990 (allow popen() on *NIX to accept 'b' flag). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30967 (properties in extended mysqli classes don't work). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #30928 (When Using WSDL, SoapServer doesn't handle private or
  protected properties). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30922 (reflective functions crash PHP when interfaces extend
  themselves). (Tony, Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30904 (segfault when recording soapclient into session). (Tony,
  Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30890 (MySQLi testsuite)
- Fixed bug #30856 (ReflectionClass::getStaticProperties segfaults). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30832 ("!" stripped off comments in xml parser). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #30799 (SoapServer doesn't handle private or protected properties).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30783 (Apache crash when using ReflectionFunction::
  getStaticVariables()). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30750 (Meaningful error message when upload directory is not 
  accessible). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30685 (Malformed SOAPClient http header reequest). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30672 (Problem handling exif data in jpeg images at unusual 
  places). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30658 (Ensure that temporary files created by GD are removed).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30645 (def. multi result set support for mysql_connect). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #30637 (compile with pear error). (Antony)
- Fixed bug #30587 (array_multisort doesn't separate zvals before 
  changing them). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #30572 (crash when comparing SimpleXML attribute to a boolean).
  (Andi)
- Fixed bug #30566 (attribute namespace URIs are inconsistent when parsing).
  (Rob)
- Fixed bug #30490 (PEAR installation fails). (Antony)
- Fixed bug #30475 (curl_getinfo() may crash in some situations). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30442 (segfault when parsing ?getvariable[][ ). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #30388 (rename across filesystems loses ownership and 
  permission info). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #30387 (stream_socket_client async connect was broken).
  (vnegrier at esds dot com, Wez).
- Fixed bug #30381 (Strange results with get_class_vars()). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30375 (cal_info() does not work without a parameter). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30362 (stream_get_line() not handling end string correctly).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30359 (SOAP client requests have no port in "Host" field).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30356 (str_ireplace() does not work on all strings). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30344 (Reflection::getModifierNames() returns too long strings).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30329 (Error Fetching http body, No Content-Length, connection
  closed or chunked data). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30282 (segfault when using unknown/unsupported 
  session.save_handler and/or session.serialize_handler). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #30281 (Prevent non-wbmp images from being detected as such).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30276 (Possible crash in ctype_digit on large numbers). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30230 (exception handler not working with objects). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30224 (Sybase date strings are sometimes not null terminated).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #30175 (SOAP results aren't parsed correctly). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30147 (OO sqlite_fetch_object did not reset error handler). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #30133 (get_current_user() crashes on Windows). (Edin)
- Fixed bug #30061 (xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler not called). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #30057 (did not detect IPV6 on FreeBSD 4.1). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #30042 (strtotime does not use second param). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #30027 (Possible crash inside ftp_get()).
  (cfield at affinitysolutions dot com)
- Fixed bug #29954 (array_reduce segfaults when initial value is array). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #29883 (isset gives invalid values on strings). (Tony, Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29801 (Set limit on the size of mmapable data). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29557 (strtotime error). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #29418 (double free when openssl_csr_new fails).
  (Kamesh Jayachandran).
- Fixed bug #29385 (Soapserver always uses std class). (David, Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29211 (SoapClient doesn't request wsdl through proxy). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #28817 (Var problem when extending domDocument). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #28599 (strtotime fails with zero base time). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #28598 (Lost support for MS Symbol fonts). (Pierre)
- Fixed bug #28220 (mb_strwidth() returns wrong width values for some hangul
  characters). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #28228 (NULL decimal separator is not being handled correctly).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #28209 (strtotime("now")). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #27798 (private / protected variables not exposed by 
  get_object_vars() inside class). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27728 (Can't return within a zend_try {} block or the previous
  bailout state isn't restored. (Andi)
- Fixed bug #27183 (Userland stream wrapper segfaults on stream_write). 
  (Christian)

23 Sep 2004, PHP 5.0.2
- Added new boolean (fourth) parameter to array_slice() that turns on the
  preservation of keys in the returned array. (Derick)
- Added the sorting flag SORT_LOCALE_STRING to the sort() functions which makes
  them sort based on the current locale. (Derick)
- Added interface_exists() and make class_exists() only return true for real
  classes. (Andrey)
- Added PHP_EOL constant that contains the OS way of representing newlines.
  (Paul Hudson, Derick)
- Implemented periodic PCRE compiled regexp cache cleanup, to avoid memory
  exhaustion. (Andrei)
- Renamed SoapClient->__call() to SoapClinet->__soapCall(). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug with raw_post_data not getting set (Brian)
- Fixed a file-descriptor leak with phpinfo() and other 'special' URLs (Zeev)
- Fixed bug #30209 (ReflectionClass::getMethod() lowercases attribute). 
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #30182 (SOAP module processing WSDL file dumps core). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #30045 (Cannot pass big integers (> 2147483647) in SOAP requests).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29985 (unserialize()/ __PHP_Incomplete_class does not report 
  correctly class name). (Marcus, Tony)
- Fixed bug #29945 (simplexml_load_file URL limitation 255 char). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #29873 (No defines around pcntl_*priority definitions). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #29844 (SOAP doesn't return the result of a valid SOAP request).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29842 (soapclient return null value). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29839 (incorrect convert (xml:lang to lang)). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29830 (SoapServer::setClass() should not export non-public
  methods). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29828 (Interfaces no longer work). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #29821 (Fixed possible crashes in convert_uudecode() on invalid
  data). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29808 (array_count_values() breaks with numeric strings). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29805 (HTTP Authentication Issues). (Uwe Schindler)
- Fixed bug #29795 (SegFault with Soap and Amazon's Web Services). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29737 (ip2long should return -1 if IP is 255.255.255.255 and FALSE
  on error). (Tony)
- Fixed bug #29711 (Changed ext/xml to default to UTF-8 output). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #29678 (opendir() with ftp:// wrapper segfaults if path does not
  have trailing slash). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29657 (xml_* functions throw non descriptive error). 
  (Christian, Rob)
- Fixed bug #29656 (segfault on result and statement properties). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #29566 (foreach/string handling strangeness (crash)). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29447 (Reflection API issues). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #29296 (Added sslv2 and sslv3 transports). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #29283 (Invalid statement handle in mysqli on execute). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #29913 (parse_url() is now binary safe). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #27994 (segfault with Soapserver when WSDL-Cache is enabled).
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27791 (Apache 2.0 SAPI build against Apache 2 HEAD). (Joe Orton,
  Derick)
- Fixed bug #26737 (private/protected properties not serialized when user
  declared method __sleep() exists). E_NOTICE thrown when __sleep() returns
  name of non-existing member. (Andrey, Curt)

12 Aug 2004, PHP 5.0.1
- Changed destructor mechanism so that destructors are called prior to request
  shutdown. (Marcus)
- Rewritten UNIX and Windows install help files. (Documentation Team)
- Updated several libraries bundled with the windows release which now 
  includes libxml2-2.6.11, libxslt-1.1.7 and iconv-1.9.1. (Rob, Edin)
- Improved and moved ActiveScript SAPI to PECL.  (Wez)
- Fixed bug #29606 (php_strip_whitespace() prints to stdout rather then
  returning the value). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29577 (MYSQLI_CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS undefined) (Georg)
- Fixed bug #29573 (Segmentation fault, when exception thrown within
  PHP function called from XSLT). (Christian)
- Fixed bug #29522 (accessing properties without connection) (Georg)
- Fixed bug #29505 (get_class_vars() severely broken when used with arrays).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #29490 (.Net object instantiation failed). (Michael Sisolak).
- Fixed bug #29474 (win32: usleep() doesn't work). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #29449 (win32: feof() hangs on empty tcp stream). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #29437 (Possible crash inside array_walk_recursive()). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29431 (crash when parsing invalid address; invalid address
  returned by stream_socket_recvfrom(), stream_socket_getname()). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #29409 (Segfault in PHP functions called from XSLT). (Rob)
- Fixed unloading of dynamically loaded extensions. 
  (Marcus, kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
- Fixed bug #29395 (sqlite_escape_string() returns bogus data on empty
  strings). (Ilia, Tony)
- Fixed bug #29392 (com_dotnet crashes when echo'ing an object). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #29368 (The destructor is called when an exception is thrown from 
  the constructor). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #29354 (Exception constructor marked as both public and protected).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #29342 (strtotime() does not handle empty date string properly).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #29340 (win32 build produces invalid php_ifx.dll). (Edin)
- Fixed bug #29335 (fetch functions now use MYSQLI_BOTH as default) (Georg)
- Fixed bug #29291 (get_class_vars() return names with NULLs). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #29264 (gettext extension not working). (Edin)
- Fixed bug #29258 (variant_date_from_timestamp() does not honour
  timezone).  (Wez)
- Fixed bug #29256 (error when sending large packets on a socket). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29236 (memory error when wsdl-cache is enabled). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29147 (Compile Error in mnoGoSearch functions). (Sergey, Antony)
- Fixed bug #29132 ($_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"] isn't defined). (Stefan)
- Fixed bug #29119 (html_entity_decode() misbehaves with UTF-8). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #29109 (SoapFault exception: [WSDL] Out of memory). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #29061 (soap extension segfaults). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28985 (__getTypes() returning nothing on complex WSDL). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28969 (Wrong data encoding of special characters). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28895 (ReflectionClass::isAbstract always returns false). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28829 (Thread-unsafety in bcmath elementary values). (Sara)
- Fixed bug #28464 (catch() does not catch exceptions by interfaces). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27669 (PHP 5 didn't support all possibilities for calling static
  methods dynamically). (Dmitry)
- Fixed ReflectionClass::getMethod() and ReflectionClass::getProperty() to
  raise an ReflectionException instead of returning NULL on failure.
  (Sebastian)
- Fixed convert.* filters to consume remaining buckets_in on flush. (Sara)
- Fixed bug in mysqli->client_version. (Georg)

13 Jul 2004, PHP 5.0.0
- Updated PCRE to provide better error handling in certain cases. (Andrei)
- Changed doc comments to require a single white space after '/**'. (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #29019 (Database not closing). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #29008 (array_combine() does not handle non-numeric/string keys).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #28999 (fixed behaviour of exec() to work as it did in 4.X). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #28868 (Internal filter registry not thread safe). (Sara)
- Fixed bug #28851 (call_user_func_array has typo in error message). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28831 (ArrayObject::offsetGet() does the work of offsetUnset()). 
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28822 (ArrayObject::offsetExists() works inverted). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28789 (ReflectionProperty getValue() fails on public static 
  members). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28771 (Segfault when using xslt and clone). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #28751 (SoapServer does not call _autoload()). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28739 (array_*diff() and array_*intersect() not clearing the fci
  cache before work). (Andrey)
- Fixed bug #28721 (appendChild() and insertBefore() unset DOMText).(Rob)
- Fixed bug #28702 (SOAP does not parse WSDL service address correctly). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28699 (Reflection api bugs). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28694 (ReflectionExtension::getFunctions() crashes PHP). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28512 (Allocate enough space to store MSSQL data). (Frank)
- Fixed strip_tags() to correctly handle '\0' characters. (Stefan)

7 Jun 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 3
- Moved the PDFLib extension to PECL. (Wez)
- Added MySQL 4.1.2-alpha and 4.1.3-beta support to MySQLI extension. (Georg)
- Added support for dumping private/protected properties to var_dump().
  (Andrey)
- Added count() support for COM arrays. (Wez)
- Added Firebird/InterBase UDF source that allows PHP functions to be called 
  from SQL (Ard)
- Removed Firebird/Interbase function ibase_timefmt() (Ard)
- Changed user error handler mechanism to relay to built-in error handler if it
  returns false. (Andrei)
- Changed class type hints for function parameters to not allow the passing of
  NULL values. (Andi)
- Changed tidy_node to tidyNode and removed tidy_exception. (John)
- Fixed ip2long() to return FALSE if an IP address passed to this function
  is not valid. (Derick)
- Fixed memory leak in memory manager. (Andi)
- Fixed problem with exceptions returning from include(). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28641 (Instance of Interface). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28430 (Extending mysqli class). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #28311 (Transparency detection code is off by 1).
  (Ilia, pikeman at pikeman dot sytes dot net)
- Fixed bug #28304 (Missing bounds check inside imagefilter()). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #28300 (Userspace stream/filter names forced to lowercase). (Sara)
- Fixed bug #28287 (stream_*_register() not calling __autoload()). (Sara)
- Fixed bug #28267 (php_image_filter_contrast calls gdImageBrightness). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #28239 (No results returned on SOAP call, no error given). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #28205 (num_rows property for statement object). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #28161 (COM: Array style properties could not be accessed). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #28125 (ArrayObject leaks when accessing elements). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #28100 (NULL parameter support for mysqli_ssl_set). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #28099 (ArrayObject doesn't implement ArrayAccess). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27929 (SPL: change visibility of ArrayIterator::__construct).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27640 (memory leak of registered_zend_ini_directives).  (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27063 (SPL: ArrayObject does not handle PPP correctly). (Marcus)

25 Apr 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 2
- Implementing an interface/abstract method with the wrong prototype is now
  a fatal error. (Zeev)
- Reimplemented zend.ze1_compatibility_mode to have better PHP 4 compliance.
  (Dmitry, Andi)
- Under CLI, fclose() on php://stdin, php://stdout and php://stderr will now
  close the real stream.  Please update your CLI scripts to use STDIN, STDOUT
  and STDERR constants instead of fopen()/fclose(). (Wez)
- Moved yaz extension to PECL. (Wez)
- Added pty support to proc_open(). (Wez)
- Added possibility to check in which extension an internal class was defined 
  in using reflection API. (Marcus)
- Changed tidy error handling to no longer use exceptions and 
  renamed the "error_buf" property to errorBuffer. (John)
- Changed class and method names to use studlyCaps convention. (Marcus)
- Changed language parser to throw errors when a non-empty signature is used in
  a destructor definition. (Marcus)
- Changed HTTP file uploads not to throw E_WARNINGs and E_NOTICEs. The error 
  value in the $_FILES global should be used for error handling. (Derick)
- Changed __construct() to always take precedence over old style constructor.
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed handling of return values from storred procedures in mssql_execute()
  with multiple result sets returned. (Frank)
- Fixed bug #28096 (stream_socket_accept() doesn't work with ssl). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #28007 (compile mssql extension with old versions of FreeTDS
  fails). (Frank)
- Fixed bug #27997 (SPL: Crash with getInnerIterator()). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27974 (COM doesn't pass array parameters). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #27928 (sqlite incorrectly handles invalid filenames). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug $27923 (in some cases using foreach() to iterate over values
  led to a false error message about the key being a reference). (Adam)
- Fixed bug #27865 (STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR are dup()d under CLI). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #27821 (xml_parse() segfaults when xml_set_object() is called from
  class method). (Andi, Rob)
- Fixed bug #27742 (WDSL SOAP Parsing Schema bug). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27722 (Segfault on schema without targetNamespace). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27719 (mktime issues on and around DST changeover). (Rasmus)
- Fixed bug #27681 (soap extension fails without HAVE_TM_GMTOFF). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27641 (Object cloning in ze1_compatibility_mode was reimplemented)
  (Dmitry, Andi)
- Fixed bug #27628 (Simplify the process of making a POST request via stream
  context). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #27619 (filters not applied to pre-buffered stream data). (Sara)
- Fixed bug #27519 (Reflection_Function constructor crashes with non-existant 
  function's name). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27457 (handling of numeric indexes in strtr()). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27397 (debug_backtrace() not showing function arguments). (Zeev)
- Fixed bug #27283 (The last catch statement was sometimes skipped). (Andi)
- Fixed bug #26441 (When __set() returned a value it corrupted it). (Andi)
- Fixed bug #19749 (shouldn't mmap() files larger than memory_limit). (Wez)

18 March 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 1
- Fixed numerous bugs with the just-in-time auto-global initialization, that
  could cause $_SERVER, $argv/$argc and other variables not to work properly.
  (Zeev)
- Fixed data corruption with constant assignments to object properties. (Zeev)
- Changed __toString() to be called automatically only with print and echo
  statements. (Andi)
- Replaced the exec_finished hook by the zend_post_deactive hook for
  extensions. The new hook will be run after the symbol table and destructors
  are run. (Derick)
- Fixed possible crash when internal get_method() is not defined. (Andi)
- Fixed calling methods using call_user_func() in conjunction with 
  the array("Class","Method") syntax to use the scope of the PHP user function.
  (Dmitry)
- Fixed php-cgi to not ignore command-line switches when run in a web context.
  This fixes our test cases allowing INI with GET sections to work. (Rasmus)
- Fixed getopt() so it works without $_SERVER. (Rasmus, bfrance)
- Added support for PHP 4 style object comparisons which is enabled in
  ze1_compatiblity_mode. (Andi)
- Added support for PHP 4 style object conversion to long, double, and boolean
  values which is enabled in ze1_compatibility_mode. (Andi, Stas)
- Allow object oriented extensions to overload comparison functions and other
  operations. Solves problems using SimpleXML values. (Andi, Zeev)
- Fixed crash when accessing a class constant with a value which in turn is
  also a constant. (Dmitry)
- Fixed object's truth value conversion. It is always true unless
  ze1_compatibility_mode is on in which it behaves like in PHP 4. (Stas)
- Improved out of memory handling in new memory manager. (Stas)
- Fixed crash when an object references itself during destructor call. (Andi)
- Fixed crash in foreach() when iterating over object properties or a method's
  return values. (Andi)
- Fixed crash when an exception is thrown in a destructor. Such exceptions are
  now ignored as destruction happens out of context at no definite time. (Andi)
- Fixed crashes in exception handling. (Dmitry, Andi)
- Changed prototype checks so that they aren't done on constructors. (Andi)
- Changed prototype checks to output an E_STRICT message instead of
  an E_COMPILE_ERROR. (Andi)
- Changed Iterator::has_more() to Iterator::valid(). (Marcus)
- Upgraded bundled oniguruma library to version 2.2.2. (Rui, Moriyoshi)
- Added mb_list_encoding() to return an array with all mbstring supported
  encodings. (Derick)
- Added support for more ISO8601 datetime formats in strtotime(). (Moriyoshi)
  . Timezone specifier (ex. "20040301T02:00:00+19:00")
  . Week specifier (ex. "1997W021")
- Renamed php.ini option "zend2.implicit_clone" to 
  "zend.ze1_compatibility_mode" as it doesn't only affect implicit cloning.
  (Andi, Zeev)
- Methods that override parent methods are now subject to prototype checking,
  and have to be compatible with the method they're overriding - this check is 
  disabled in compatibility mode. (Andi, Zeev)
- Fixed crash in php_ini_scanned_files() when no additional INI files were
  actually parsed. (Jon)
- Fixed bug in gdImageFilledRectangle in the bundled GD library, that required
  x1 < x2 and y1 < y2 for coordinates. (Derick)
- Fixed crash with foreach() and temporary objects($obj->method()->a ...) where
  method returns a non-referenced object. (Andi, Zeev)
- Fixed problem preventing startup errors from being displayed. (Marcus)
- Fixed start-up problem if both SPL and SimpleXML were enabled. The double
  initialization of apache 1.3 was causing problems here. (Marcus, Derick)
- Fixed bug #27606 (Expression must be a modifiable lvalue compiler error).
  (Derick)
- Fixed bug #27597 (pg_fetch_array not returning false). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27586 (ArrayObject::getIterator crashes with [] assignment). 
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27537 (Objects pointing to each other segfaults). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27535 (Problem with object freeing mechanism). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27504 (Visibility bugs in call_user_function()). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #27338 (memory leak inside tsrm_virtual_cwd.c on win32). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #27291 (get_browser matches browscap.ini patterns incorrectly). 
  (Jay)
- Fixed bug #27287 (wddx segfaults during deserialization). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #27263 (session extension crashes when unserializing referenced
  values / objects). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #27237 (Working with simplexml crashes apache2). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #27227 (Mixed case class names causes Fatal Error in Constructor 
  call). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27125 (strval() doesn't work for objects with __toString()).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27123 (Fix crash caused by bug in get_object_vars()). (Andi)
- Fixed bug #26677 (mbstring compile errors with IRIX compiler).
  (K.Kosako <kosako at sofnec dot co dot jp>, Rui, Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #26206 (register_long_arrays breaks superglobals). (Zeev)
- Fixed bug #25724 (argv and argc not defined). (Zeev)

12 Feb 2004, PHP 5 Beta 4
- Changed exceptions so that they must now inherit from the built-in Exception
  class. This allows for a general catch(Exception $e) statement to catch all
  exceptions. (Andi, Zeev)
- Added SPL extension. (Marcus, Derick)
- Added checks for invalid characters in a cookie name and cookie data 
  into set[raw]cookie(). (Brian)
- Added support for ++ and += (and similar) to SimpleXML. (Andi, Zeev)
- Added infrastructure for ++ and += (and similar) to object overloading
  modules. (Andi, Zeev)
- Added error message when trying to re-assign to $this variable. (Zeev, Andi)
- Added support for an interface to extend another interface. (Zeev)
- Added new pspell functions: (Brian)
  . pspell_config_dict_dir()
  . pspell_config_data_dir()
- Added new Interbase functions: (Ard)
  . ibase_service_attach() and ibase_service_detach().
  . ibase_backup() and ibase_restore().
  . ibase_maintain_db(), ibase_db_info() and ibase_server_info().
- Added context option "http"/"request_fulluri" to send entire URI in request
  which is required format for some proxies. (Sara)
- Added optional third parameter 'strict' to array_keys(). (Andrey)
- Added stream_lock() method to userspace streams interface. (Hartmut, Wez)
- Added xsltprocessor->registerPHPFunctions(). (Christian)
- Readded support for using classes before they are declared according to
  the behavior in PHP 4. This won't work with classes who are using PHP 5
  features such as interfaces. (Zeev, Andi)
- Completely overhauled SimpleXML extension. (Marcus, Rob, Sterling)
- Upgraded bundled SQLite library to version 2.8.11. (Ilia, Wez)
- Improved destructor implementation to always call destructors on clean
  shutdown. An order of destruction is not guaranteed. (Zeev, Andi)
- Redesigned exception support. This fixes many bugs in the previous design
  such as nested try's and problems with overloaded extensions. (Zeev, Andi)
- Redesigned clone by adding a clone keyword (clone $obj) and copying all
  properties before __clone() is called. Also allows calling parent __clone
  function by using parent::__clone(). (Zeev, Andi)
- Fixed interfaces to check for function return-by-reference equality when
  inheriting and implementing interfaces. (Andi, Zeev)
- Fixed foreach() to respect property visibility. (Marcus)
- Fixed problem with parse error in include() file not stopping PHP's
  execution. (Ilia)
- Fixed var_export() to show public, protected and private modifiers properly.
  (Derick)
- Fixed problems with longlong values in mysqli. (Georg)
- Fixed class name case preserving of user defined classes. (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27145 (Unmangle private/protected property names before printing
  them inside error messages). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #27103 (preg_split('//u') incorrectly splits UTF-8 strings into
  octets). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #27042 (SPL: SeekableIterator seek() broken). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #27008 (Every class method can be called as static). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #26938 (exec() has problems reading long lines).
  (Ilia, runekl[at]opoint[dot]com
- Fixed bug #26947 (ext/dom: Crash when using DomDocument::getElementById()).
  (Christian)
- Fixed bug #26911 (crash in sqlite extension when fetching data from empty
  queries). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #26844 (ext/mime_magic: magic file validation broken). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #26819 (http_build_query() crashes on NULL output). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #26817 (http_build_query() does not handle private & protected
  object properties correctly). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #26815 (foreach of (DOM) childnodes crashes when Xinclude is used).
  (Rob)
- Fixed bug #26796 (SQLite causes crashes with other extensions *connect()
  calls). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #26762 (unserialize() produces lowercase classnames). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #26743 (getElementsByTagName doesn't work properly). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #26736 (__autoload not invoked for parent classes). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #26723 (domNode::appendChild() changes child node namespace). (Rob)
- Fixed bug #26697 (calling class_exists() on a nonexistent class in __autoload
  results in segfault). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #26696 (string index in a switch() crashes with multiple matches).
  (Andi)
- Fixed bug #26695 (Reflection API does not recognize mixed-case class hints).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #26690 (make xsltProcessor->transformToUri use streams wrappers).
  (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #26680 (Added version check in mysqli_report_index). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #26675 (Segfault on ArrayAccess use). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #26640 (__autoload() not invoked by Reflection classes). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #26543 (call_user_func() broken for self, parent). (Stanislav)
- Fixed bug #26077 (memory leak when new() result is not assigned and no
  constructor is defined). (Stanislav)
- Fixed bug #26065 (Crash when nesting classes). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #25816 (disallow arrays in class constants). (Stanislav)
- Fixed bug #25329 (sqlite_create_function with method and reference to $this).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #25038 (call_user_func() issues a warning if function throws an
  exception). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #24608 (__set not triggered when overloading with array).
  (Stanislav)
- Fixed bug #24243 (enabling browscap causes segfault). (Wez)

21 Dec 2003, PHP 5 Beta 3
- Bundled new tidy extension (John, Wez)
- Upgraded PCRE library to version 4.5. (Andrei)
- Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)
- Moved extensions to PECL:
  . ext/crack (Jani, Derick)
  . ext/db (Jani, Derick)
  . ext/mcal (Jani, Derick)
  . ext/qtdom (Jani, Derick)
  . ext/notes (Wez)
- Added 'c' modifier to date() which returns the date in the ISO 8601 format.
  (Derick, Manuzhai)
- Added an optional parameter to microtime() to get the time as float. (Andrey)
- Added MacRoman encoding support to htmlentities(). (Derick, Marcus Bointon)
- Added possibility to call PHP functions as XSLT-functions. (Christian)
- Added possibility to prevent PHP from registering variables when input filter
  support is used. (Derick)
- Added iconv stream filter (convert.iconv.*). (Moriyoshi)
- Added EXSLT support in ext/xsl. (Christian)
- Added qdbm handler for dba extension. (mg at iceni dot pl, Marcus)
- Added new functions:
  . dba_key_split() to split inifile keys in an array. (Marcus)
  . time_nanosleep() signal safe sleep (Magnus, Ilia)
  . headers_list(). (Sara)
  . php_strip_whitespace(). strip whitespace & comments from a script. (Ilia)
  . php_check_syntax(). check php script for parse errors. (Ilia)
  . image_type_to_extension(). return extension based on image type. (Ilia)
  . stream_socket_sendto() and stream_socket_recvfrom(). (Wez)
  . iconv_mime_decode_headers(). (Moriyoshi)
  . get_declared_interfaces(). (Andrey, Marcus)
  . sqlite_fetch_column_types(). (Ilia)
- Added proxy support to http:// wrapper. (Sara)
- Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to userstreams. (Sara)
- Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to ftp:// wrapper. (Sara)
- Changed rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
- Changed stat() and family to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
- Fixed include_once() / require_once() on Windows to honor case-insensitivity
  of files. (Andi)
- Fixed get_declared_classes() to return only classes. (Andrey, Marcus)
- Fixed __autoload() to preserve case of the passed class name. (Andi)
- Fixed bug #26615 () (runekl at opoint dot com, Derick)
- Fixed bug #26591 ("__autoload threw an exception" during an uncaught).
  (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #26534 (stream_get_meta_data() -> Access Violation). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #26528 (HTML entities are not being decoded by
  xml_parse()/xml_parse_into_struct()). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #26182 (Object properties created redundantly). (Andi)
- Fixed bug #26156 (REPLACE_ZVAL_VALUE works on uninit stack-based zvals).
  (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #26083 (Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #26072 (--disable-libxml does not work). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #26001 (serialize crashes when accessing an overloaded object that
  has no properties (NULL hashtable)). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #25664 (COM crashes when calling a Delphi implementations of
  ITypeInfo). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #24837 (Incorrect behaviour of PPP using foreach). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #24693 (Allow session.use_trans_sid to be enabled/disabled from
  inside the script). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #24394 (Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault).
  (Moriyoshi)

30 Oct 2003, PHP 5 Beta 2
- Lots and lots of changes in the Zend Engine 2 since beta 1:
  . Added Iterators
  . Improved memory manager
  . Added Reflection API
  . Removed the not so working namespaces support
  . Removed support for expressions within constant declarations.
  . You can read about most changes in ZEND_CHANGES under the Zend directory.
- Improved the DBX extension: (Marc)
  . Added DBX_RESULT_UNBUFFERED flag for dbx_query().
  . Added dbx_fetch_row()
  . Added SQLite support.
- Improved the Interbase extension: (Ard Biesheuvel)
  . Added support for multiple databases into ibase_trans()
  . Added support for CREATE DATABASE, SET TRANSACTION and EXECUTE PROCEDURE
    statements into ibase_query()
  . Added ability to bind PHP arrays to native Interbase arrays
  . Added ibase_commit_ret() and ibase_rollback_ret()
  . Added ibase_drop_db()
  . Added ibase_gen_id()
  . Added ibase_name_result()
  . Added ibase_errcode()
  . Added ibase_affected_rows() and ibase_num_params()
  . Added ibase_param_info()
  . Added ibase_wait_event()
  . Added ibase_set_event_handler() and ibase_free_event_handler()
- Added new COM extension with integrated .Net support. (Wez)
- Added new functions:
  . setrawcookie(). (Brian)
  . pg_version(). (Marcus)
  . dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak)
  . snmp_read_mib(). (Jani)
  . http_build_query(). (Sara)
  . ftp_alloc(). (Sara)
  . array_udiff(). (Andrey)
  . array_udiff_assoc(). (Andrey)
  . array_udiff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
  . array_diff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
  . convert_uuencode(). (Ilia)
  . convert_uudecode(). (Ilia)
  . substr_compare(). (Ilia)
  . pcntl_wait(). (GeorgeS)
- Added "resume_pos" context option to "ftp://" wrapper. (Sara)
- Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of LOB
  (Patch by Novicky Marek <novicky@aarongroup.cz>). (Thies)
- Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm)
- Changed length parameter in fgetcsv() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed IPv6 support in MacOSX Panther. (Dan, Marko)
- Fixed fgetcsv() to correctly handle international (non-ascii) characters.
  (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed support for <![CDATA[]]> fields within XML documents in ext/xml.
  (Sterling)
- Fixed visibility of __construct and __clone. (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #25756 (SimpleXML's validate_schema_file() broken). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #25581 (getimagesize() returns incorrect values on bitmap (os2)
  files). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #25494 (array_merge*() allows non-arrays as argument). (Jay)
- Fixed bug #24766 (strange result array from unpack()). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #24729 ($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not
  set). (Marcus)
- Fixed bug #24565 (cannot read array elements received 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)
- Fixed bug #17997 (Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev)
- Fixed bug #17988 (strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick)

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)