NEWS - WHAT IS GOING ON OVER THE INTERNET
Posted on: 17, Feb/2007
PHP 5.2.1 Release Announcement
Category: Technical
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The majority of the security vulnerabilities discovered and resolved can in most cases be only abused by local users and cannot be triggered remotely. However, some of the above issues can be triggered remotely in certain situations, or exploited by malicious local users on shared hosting setups utilizing PHP as an Apache module. Therefore, we strongly advise all users of PHP, regardless of the version to upgrade to 5.2.1 release as soon as possible. PHP 4.4.5 with equivalent security corrections is available as well.
The key improvements of PHP 5.2.1 include:
- Several performance improvements in the engine, streams API and some Windows specific optimizations.
- PDO_MySQL now uses buffered queries by default and emulates prepared statements to bypass limitations of MySQL's prepared statement API.
- Many improvements and enhancements to the filter and zip extensions.
- Memory limit is now always enabled, this includes Windows builds, with a default limit of 128 megabytes.
- Added several performance optimizations using faster Win32 APIs (this change means that PHP no longer supports Windows 98).
- FastCGI speed optimized build of PHP for Windows made available for downloading.
- Over 180 bug fixes.
