Friday, 2 March 2007

PHP 4.4.6 Now Available

The PHP development team over their web site has announced the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.6. This release addresses a problem with the session extension. The problem is with theregister_globals is
introduced in PHP 4.4.6. This release comes also with the new version 7.0 of PCRE and it addresses a number of minor bugs.

Some of the changes in the version 4.4.6 are as follows:

• Updated PCRE to version 7.0
• Fixed segfault in ext/session when register_globals=On
• Fixed bug #40635 (segfault in cURL extension)
• Fixed bug #40611 (possible cURL memory error)
• Fixed bug #40578 (imagettftext() multithreading issue)
• Fixed bug #40502 (ext/interbase compile failure)
• Fixed bug #40286 (PHP fastcgi with PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN don't kill children when parent is killed)