PHP 5 ChangeLog

Version 5.0.2

23-Sep-2004

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 (ReflectionClass::getMethod() lowercases attribute). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (SOAP module processing WSDL file dumps core). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Cannot pass big integers (> 2147483647) in SOAP requests). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (unserialize()/ __PHP_Incomplete_class does not report correctly class name). (Marcus, Tony)
Fixed bug (simplexml_load_file URL limitation 255 char). (Rob)
Fixed bug (No defines around pcntl_*priority definitions). (Derick)
Fixed bug (SOAP doesn't return the result of a valid SOAP request). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (soapclient return null value). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (incorrect convert (xml:lang to lang)). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (SoapServer::setClass() should not export non-public methods). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Interfaces no longer work). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Fixed possible crashes in convert_uudecode() on invalid data). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (array_count_values() breaks with numeric strings). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (HTTP Authentication Issues). (Uwe Schindler)
Fixed bug (SegFault with Soap and Amazon's Web Services). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (ip2long should return -1 if IP is 255.255.255.255 and FALSE on error). (Tony)
Fixed bug (Changed ext/xml to default to UTF-8 output). (Rob)
Fixed bug (opendir() with ftp:// wrapper segfaults if path does not have trailing slash). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (xml_* functions throw non descriptive error). (Christian, Rob)
Fixed bug (segfault on result and statement properties). (Georg)
Fixed bug (foreach/string handling strangeness (crash)). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Reflection API issues). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Added sslv2 and sslv3 transports). (Wez)
Fixed bug (Invalid statement handle in mysqli on execute). (Georg)
Fixed bug (parse_url() is now binary safe). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (segfault with Soapserver when WSDL-Cache is enabled). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Apache 2.0 SAPI build against Apache 2 HEAD). (Joe Orton, Derick)
Fixed bug (private/protected properties not serialized when user declared method __sleep() exists). E_NOTICE thrown when __sleep() returns name of non-existing member. (Andrey, Curt)

Version 5.0.1

12-Aug-2004

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 unloading of dynamically loaded extensions. (Marcus, kameshj at fastmail dot fm)
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)
Fixed bug (php_strip_whitespace() prints to stdout rather then returning the value). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (MYSQLI_CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS undefined) (Georg)
Fixed bug (Segmentation fault, when exception thrown within PHP function called from XSLT). (Christian)
Fixed bug (accessing properties without connection) (Georg)
Fixed bug (get_class_vars() severely broken when used with arrays). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (.Net object instantiation failed). (Michael Sisolak).
Fixed bug (win32: usleep() doesn't work). (Wez)
Fixed bug (win32: feof() hangs on empty tcp stream). (Wez)
Fixed bug (Possible crash inside array_walk_recursive()). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (crash when parsing invalid address; invalid address returned by stream_socket_recvfrom(), stream_socket_getname()). (Wez)
Fixed bug (Segfault in PHP functions called from XSLT). (Rob)
Fixed bug (sqlite_escape_string() returns bogus data on empty strings). (Ilia, Tony)
Fixed bug (com_dotnet crashes when echo'ing an object). (Wez)
Fixed bug (The destructor is called when an exception is thrown from the constructor). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Exception constructor marked as both public and protected). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (strtotime() does not handle empty date string properly). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (win32 build produces invalid php_ifx.dll). (Edin)
Fixed bug (fetch functions now use MYSQLI_BOTH as default) (Georg)
Fixed bug (get_class_vars() return names with NULLs). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (gettext extension not working). (Edin)
Fixed bug (variant_date_from_timestamp() does not honour timezone). (Wez)
Fixed bug (error when sending large packets on a socket). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (memory error when wsdl-cache is enabled). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Compile Error in mnoGoSearch functions). (Sergey, Antony)
Fixed bug ($_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"] isn't defined). (Stefan)
Fixed bug (html_entity_decode() misbehaves with UTF-8). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (SoapFault exception: [WSDL] Out of memory). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (soap extension segfaults). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (__getTypes() returning nothing on complex WSDL). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Wrong data encoding of special characters). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (ReflectionClass::isAbstract always returns false). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Thread-unsafety in bcmath elementary values). (Sara)
Fixed bug (catch() does not catch exceptions by interfaces). (Marcus)

Version 5.0.0

13-Jul-2004

Updated PCRE to provide better error handling in certain cases. (Andrei)
Changed doc comments to require a single white space after '/**'. (Marcus)
Fixed strip_tags() to correctly handle '\0' characters. (Stefan)
Fixed bug (Database not closing). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (array_combine() does not handle non-numeric/string keys). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (fixed behaviour of exec() to work as it did in 4.X). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (ReflectionClass::isAbstract always returns false). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Internal filter registry not thread safe). (Sara)
Fixed bug (call_user_func_array has typo in error message). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (ArrayObject::offsetGet() does the work of offsetUnset()). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (ArrayObject::offsetExists() works inverted). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (ReflectionProperty getValue() fails on public static members). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Segfault when using xslt and clone). (Rob)
Fixed bug (SoapServer does not call _autoload()). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (array_*diff() and array_*intersect() not clearing the fci cache before work). (Andrey)
Fixed bug (appendChild() and insertBefore() unset DOMText).(Rob)
Fixed bug (SOAP does not parse WSDL service address correctly). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Reflection api bugs). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (ReflectionExtension::getFunctions() crashes PHP). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Allocate enough space to store MSSQL data). (Frank)
Fixed bug (Circular references not properly serialised). (Moriyoshi)

Version 5.0.0 Release Candidate 3

8-Jun-2004

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)
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 (Instance of Interface). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Extending mysqli class). (Georg)
Fixed bug (Transparency detection code is off by 1). (Ilia, pikeman at pikeman dot sytes dot net)
Fixed bug (Missing bounds check inside imagefilter()). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (Userspace stream/filter names forced to lowercase). (Sara)
Fixed bug (stream_*_register() not calling __autoload()). (Sara)
Fixed bug (php_image_filter_contrast calls gdImageBrightness). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (No results returned on SOAP call, no error given). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (num_rows property for statement object). (Georg)
Fixed bug (COM: Array style properties could not be accessed). (Wez)
Fixed bug (ArrayObject leaks when accessing elements). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (NULL parameter support for mysqli_ssl_set). (Georg)
Fixed bug (ArrayObject doesn't implement ArrayAccess). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (SPL: change visibility of ArrayIterator::__construct). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (memory leak of registered_zend_ini_directives). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (SPL: ArrayObject does not handle PPP correctly). (Marcus)

Version 5.0.0 Release Candidate 2

25-Apr-2004

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 (stream_socket_accept() doesn't work with ssl). (Wez)
Fixed bug (compile mssql extension with old versions of FreeTDS fails). (Frank)
Fixed bug (SPL: Crash with getInnerIterator()). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (COM doesn't pass array parameters). (Wez)
Fixed bug (sqlite incorrectly handles invalid filenames). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (in some cases using foreach() to iterate over values led to a false error message about the key being a reference). (Adam)
Fixed bug (STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR are dup()d under CLI). (Wez)
Fixed bug (xml_parse() segfaults when xml_set_object() is called from class method). (Andi, Rob)
Fixed bug (WDSL SOAP Parsing Schema bug). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Segfault on schema without targetNamespace). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (mktime issues on and around DST changeover). (Rasmus)
Fixed bug (soap extension fails without HAVE_TM_GMTOFF). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Object cloning in ze1_compatibility_mode was reimplemented) (Dmitry, Andi)
Fixed bug (Simplify the process of making a POST request via stream context). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (filters not applied to pre-buffered stream data). (Sara)
Fixed bug (Reflection_Function constructor crashes with non-existant function's name). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (serialize() objects of incomplete class). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (handling of numeric indexes in strtr()). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (debug_backtrace() not showing function arguments). (Zeev)
Fixed bug (The last catch statement was sometimes skipped). (Andi)
Fixed bug (When __set() returned a value it corrupted it). (Andi)
Fixed bug (shouldn't mmap() files larger than memory_limit). (Wez)

Version 5.0.0 Release Candidate 1

18-Mar-2004

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 (Expression must be a modifiable lvalue compiler error). (Derick)
Fixed bug (pg_fetch_array not returning false). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (ArrayObject::getIterator crashes with [] assignment). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Objects pointing to each other segfaults). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Problem with object freeing mechanism). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (Visibility bugs in call_user_function()). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (handling of numeric indexes in strtr()). (Dmitry)
Fixed bug (memory leak inside tsrm_virtual_cwd.c on win32). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (get_browser matches browscap.ini patterns incorrectly). (Jay)
Fixed bug (wddx segfaults during deserialization). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (session extension crashes when unserializing referenced values / objects). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (Working with simplexml crashes apache2). (Rob)
Fixed bug (Mixed case class names causes Fatal Error in Constructor call). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (strval() doesn't work for objects with __toString()). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Fix crash caused by bug in get_object_vars()). (Andi)
Fixed bug (mbstring compile errors with IRIX compiler). (K.Kosako , Rui, Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (register_long_arrays breaks superglobals). (Zeev)
Fixed bug (argv and argc not defined). (Zeev)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 4

12-Feb-2004

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 (Unmangle private/protected property names before printing them inside error messages). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (preg_split('//u') incorrectly splits UTF-8 strings into octets). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (SPL: SeekableIterator seek() broken). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Every class method can be called as static). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (exec() has problems reading long lines). (Ilia, runekl[at]opoint[dot]com
Fixed bug (ext/dom: Crash when using DomDocument::getElementById()). (Christian)
Fixed bug (crash in sqlite extension when fetching data from empty queries). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (ext/mime_magic: magic file validation broken). (Jani)
Fixed bug (http_build_query() crashes on NULL output). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (http_build_query() does not handle private & protected object properties correctly). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (foreach of (DOM) childnodes crashes when Xinclude is used). (Rob)
Fixed bug (SQLite causes crashes with other extensions *connect() calls). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (unserialize() produces lowercase classnames). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (getElementsByTagName doesn't work properly). (Rob)
Fixed bug (__autoload not invoked for parent classes). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (domNode::appendChild() changes child node namespace). (Rob)
Fixed bug (calling class_exists() on a nonexistent class in __autoload results in segfault). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (string index in a switch() crashes with multiple matches). (Andi)
Fixed bug (Reflection API does not recognize mixed-case class hints). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (make xsltProcessor->transformToUri use streams wrappers). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (Added version check in mysqli_report_index). (Georg)
Fixed bug (Segfault on ArrayAccess use). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (__autoload() not invoked by Reflection classes). (Jani)
Fixed bug (call_user_func() broken for self, parent). (Stanislav)
Fixed bug (memory leak when new() result is not assigned and no constructor is defined). (Stanislav)
Fixed bug (Crash when nesting classes). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (disallow arrays in class constants). (Stanislav)
Fixed bug (sqlite_create_function with method and reference to $this). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (call_user_func() issues a warning if function throws an exception). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (__set not triggered when overloading with array). (Stanislav)
Fixed bug (enabling browscap causes segfault). (Wez)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 3

21-Dec-2003

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 () (runekl at opoint dot com, Derick)
Fixed bug ("__autoload threw an exception" during an uncaught). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (stream_get_meta_data() -> Access Violation). (Wez)
Fixed bug (HTML entities are not being decoded by xml_parse()/xml_parse_into_struct()). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (Object properties created redundantly). (Andi)
Fixed bug (REPLACE_ZVAL_VALUE works on uninit stack-based zvals). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (--disable-libxml does not work). (Jani)
Fixed bug (serialize crashes when accessing an overloaded object that has no properties (NULL hashtable)). (Wez)
Fixed bug (COM crashes when calling a Delphi implementations of ITypeInfo). (Wez)
Fixed bug (Incorrect behaviour of PPP using foreach). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (Allow session.use_trans_sid to be enabled/disabled from inside the script). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault). (Moriyoshi)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 2

30-Oct-2003

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 declerations.
- 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 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 <[email protected]>). (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 (fgetcsv() not binary-safe on null bytes). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (SimpleXML's validate_schema_file() broken). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (getimagesize() returns incorrect values on bitmap (os2) files). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (array_merge*() allows non-arrays as argument). (Jay)
Fixed bug (strange result array from unpack()). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug ($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not set). (Marcus)
Fixed bug (cannot read array elements received via $_REQUEST). (Zeev)
Fixed bug (get_parent_class() returns different values). (Sterling, Stanislav)
Fixed bug (preg_replace() problem: Using $this when not in object context). (Zeev)
Fixed bug (PEAR DB isError crash [instanceof_function fault?]). (Sterling, Marcus)
Fixed bug (foreach ($k=>$v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev)
Fixed bug (__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia)
Fixed bug (undefined variable has a value). (Zeev)
Fixed bug (allow fast_call_user_function to support __call). (Stanislav)
Fixed bug (Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev)
Fixed bug (strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 1

29-Jun-2003

Switch to using Zend Engine 2, which includes numerous engine level improvements. A full list is available at .
The SQLite () extension is now bundled and enabled by default. (Wez, Marcus, Tal)
Improved the speed of internal functions that use callbacks by 40% due to a new internal fast_call_user_function() function. (Sterling)
Completely Overhauled XML support (Rob, Sterling, Chregu, Marcus)
- Brand new Simplexml extension
- New DOM extension
- New XSL extension
- Moved the old DOM-XML and XSLT extensions to PECL
- ext/xml can now use both libxml2 and expat to parse XML
- Removed bundled expat
Removed the bundled MySQL client library. (Sterling)
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 streams support: (Wez, Sara, Ilia)
- 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.
- Added context property to userspace streams object.
- 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.
- Renamed stream_register_wrapper() to stream_wrapper_register().
- Added "ftp://" wrapper support to opendir(), stat() and unlink().
- Added context options 'method', 'header' and 'content' for "http://" fopen wrapper.
Improved the GD extension: (Pierre-Alain Joye, Ilia)
- imagefilter() - Apply different filters to image. (Only available with bundled GD library)
- Antialiased drawing support:
  - imageantialias() - (de)active antialias
  - 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(). ([email protected], 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.([email protected], 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 input filter support. See README.input_filter for more info. (Rasmus)
Added a replace count for str_[i]replace(), see . (Sara)
Fixed is_executable() to be available also on Windows. (Shane)
Fixed dirname() and strip_tags() to be binary-safe. (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (crash in pathinfo()). (Ilia)
Fixed bug and (various mb_send_mail() issues). (Moriyoshi)
Fixed bug (Assign by reference function call changes variable contents). (Zeev)