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    [Fwd: PHP 5.1.2 Released!]
    January 13, 2006, 12:18 am
     

    The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.2.
    This release combines small feature enhancements with a fair number of
    bug fixes and addresses three security issues. All PHP 5 users are
    encouraged to upgrade to this release.

    The security issues resolved include the following:

    * HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in ext/session and in the
    header() function. Header() can no longer be used to send multiple
    response headers in a single call.
    * Format string vulnerability in ext/mysqli.
    * Possible cross-site scripting problems in certain error conditions.

    The feature enhancements include the following notables:

    * Hash extension was added to core and is now enabled by default. This
    extension provides support for most common hashing algorithms without
    reliance on 3rd party libraries.
    * XMLWriter was added and enabled by default.
    * New OCI8 extension that includes numerous fixes.
    * PNG compression support added to the GD extension.
    * Added --enable-gcov configure option to enable C-level code coverage.
    * getNamespaces() and getDocNamespaces() methods added to SimpleXML
    extension.

    The release also includes over 85 bug fixes with a focus on:

    * Correction of the many regressions in the strtotime() function.
    * Fixes of several crashes, leaks and memory corruptions found in the
    imap, pdo, gd, mysqli, mcrypt and soap extensions.
    * Corrected problems with the usage of SSI and virtual() in the Apache2
    SAPI.
    * Build fixes for iconv and sybase_ct extensions.
    * Fixed the previously broken Sun(rise|set) functions.
    * SQLite libraries upgraded to 2.8.17 and 3.2.8
    * Win32 binaries now include libxml2-2.6.22 and libxslt-1.1.15.

    The full details of the changes in PHP 5.1.2 can be found here:
    http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.1.2


    PHP Development Team.

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