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PHP 5.3.10 Released!

[02-Feb-2012]

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.10. This release delivers a critical security fix.

Security Fixes in PHP 5.3.10:

Fixed arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser, CVE-2012-0830.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.10.

For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

PHP 5.4.0 RC6 released

[24-Jan-2012]

The PHP development team announces the 6th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 6th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The 6th release candidate focused on improving traits. Please test them carefully and help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found at NEWS

The next candidate will be released on Feb 2.

PHP 5.3.9 Released!

[10-Jan-2012]

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.9. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 90 bug fixes, some of which are security related.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9:

Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885)
Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header). (CVE-2011-4566)

Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include:

Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to is_a and is_subclass_of).
Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared)
Many changes to the FPM SAPI module

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.9, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.9.

PHP 5.4.0 RC5 released

[07-Jan-2012]

The PHP development team announces the 5th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 5th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

We got a lot of feedback that helped us to improve the upcoming PHP version. Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please take the time to test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found at NEWS

The next and probably last release candidate will be released in 14 days.

PHP 5.4.0 RC4 released

[25-Dec-2011]

The PHP development team is proud to announce the 4th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site.

THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 4th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The new release candidate fixed several bugs, including:

Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions
Fixed a segfault in the traits code

Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes in this release.

Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

The next release candidate will be released in 14 days.

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What would you do with 5 million lines of code?

Since October 2011, 5 million lines of the PEAR codebase has shifted to github.

Hand in hand with this shift has been the tireless work of Daniel C – someone who brazenly said “I will fix the failing packages!” in the tail end of last year.

Coupling his efforts with a call to arms, we’ve now seen an evaluation of the Known Good packages against PHP 5.4, and massive input by the community. The net result is as follows:

Releases of Text_LanguageDetect, HTTP2, Net_Growl, Image_QRCode, Tree, HTML_BBCodeParser, Net_IMAP, Net_DNSBL, Services_Amazon, Image_Barcode2, Validate, Console_Color2, Services_ExchangeRates, Validate_DK, PEAR_PackageFileManager_Frontend, Text_Highlighter, PHP_Shell, Date, Image_Text, PEAR_Frontend_Gtk2, PHP_DocBlockGenerator, & Validate_AR through Dec/January
All test infrastructure upgrading to PHP 5.4 release candidates
All database driven test suites executing properly, catching a variety of simple bugs
Just shy of 900 commit emails to the pear-cvs list for Dec/Jan – many containing multiple commits & fixes
Hitting a point of “near zero” patches to be applied to unmaintained packages
Applying no less than 30+ patches contributed by the community across all of PEAR
Increasingly, the PEAR QA team is delivering PHP 5.3+ friendly forks of existing packages

I’d like to thank Daniel C for his efforts to date, as well as the contributors who may have previously lurked or found themselves distracted by other concerns.
Dec/Jan has been a great and vigorous period for the project – I heartily look forward to a great 2012.

Welcome to new contributors

With the PEAR move to github surpassing 200 repositories, we’re seeing more contributions from folks lurking in the shadows.

In particular I’d like to highlight the efforts of meldra and Gemorroj.
With XML_Feed_Parser hosted on github, Meldra has been able to provide all of the patches that have been sitting in the wings internally back to PEAR, with no fuss.
Faced with a backwards compability requirement on Image_Barcode, Gemorroj contributed heavily to an Image_Barcode2.

Having watched these two individuals over the last few weeks provide new vigour and input to some of our underloved packages, I’d like to put a challenge out to the community.

If you have a patch we have pushed back on because of backwards compatibility concerns, talk to us about making the next significant version of that package – we’ll get the code on github and help you get what you need.

No red tape. No run around. Just a solution to your problem by creating an appropriate fork, and a new major version to avoid any BC concerns.

If you have fixes for defects or enhancements being used within your organisation – send us a pull request.

Where there isn’t source available on github yet – ask for it.

PEAR is about providing the PHP community with reusable, effective components – this has been our mission since day 1.
If there is anything we can do to make that goal happen, to assist you as an individual or company, I would strongly encourage you to let us know – we’re here to help.

PEAR Development on Github

Like many other projects, many components of PEAR have started a migration to github.

We have two primary organisations set up for PEAR and PEAR2.

While the existing PEAR packages will continue to use the pear.php.net distribution and bug tracking capabilities; it’s never been easier to contribute to a PEAR package – simply fork; add your changes and send us a pull request.

If your preferred packages aren’t yet on github, please feel free to drop us a line on the pear-dev mailing list.

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