iBlog - Ilia Alshanetsky

Following the “Release early, release often” mantra, PHP 5.1.1 was released today. The main causes for this release are four regressions in behavior introduces by PHP 5.1.0, which include:

• Native date class is withdrawn to prevent namespace conflict with PEAR's date package.


• Fixed fatal parse error when the last line of the script is a PHP comment.


• eval() hangs when the code being evaluated ends with a comment.


• Usage of \{$var} in PHP 5.1.0 resulted in the output of {$var} instead of the $var variable's value enclosed in {}.

The fifth reason being a refinement of a cURL open_basedir/safe_mode security fix, to improve the checks surrounding the file: wrapper handling. The new packages and win32 PECL binaries for PHP 5.1.1 can be found here: http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Now on to the long overdue rant

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