PHP 4.3.6 Release Announcement

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PHP Development Team is proud to announce the release of PHP PHP 4.3.6. This is is a bug fix release whose primary goal is to address two bugs which may result in crashes in PHP builds with thread-safety enabled. All users of PHP in a threaded environment (Windows) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Bugfix release

Aside from the above mentioned issues this release includes the following important fixes:

Updated bundled PDFLib library to version 5.0.3p1 in Windows distribution.
Synchronized bundled GD library with GD 2.0.22.
Fixed bugs that prevented building of the GD extension against the external GD library versions 1.2-1.8.
Fixed a bugs resulting in leakage of session settings across requests.
Fixed several daylight savings bugs inside the mktime and strtotime functions.
Fixed a bug that prevented compilation of cURL extension against libcurl 7.11.1
Fixed a number of crashes inside domxml and mssql extensions.
All in all this release fixes approximately 25 bugs that have been discovered since the 4.3.5 release.

For a full list of changes in PHP 4.3.6, see the ChangeLog.