PHP 5.3.2 Released!

[panosru]

PHP 5.3.2 Release Announcement

[04-Mar-2010] The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.2. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.2:

• Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar)
• Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen)
• Fixed a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in the session extension identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (Ilia)

Key Bug Fixes in PHP 5.3.2 include:

• Added support for SHA-256 and SHA-512 to php's crypt.
• Added protection for $_SESSION from interrupt corruption and improved "session.save_path" check.
• Fixed bug #51059 (crypt crashes when invalid salt are given).
• Fixed bug #50940 Custom content-length set incorrectly in Apache sapis.
• Fixed bug #50847 (strip_tags() removes all tags greater then 1023 bytes long).
• Fixed bug #50723 (Bug in garbage collector causes crash).
• Fixed bug #50661 (DOMDocument::loadXML does not allow UTF-16).
• Fixed bug #50632 (filter_input() does not return default value if the variable does not exist).
• Fixed bug #50540 (Crash while running ldap_next_reference test cases).
• Fixed bug #49851 (http wrapper breaks on 1024 char long headers).
• Over 60 other bug fixes.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.

Further information and downloads:

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.2, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

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[smtalk]

To update immediately:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build update
perl -pi -e 's/php53:5.3.1:41fbb368d86acb13fc3519657d277681/php53:5.3.2:4480d7c6d6b4a86de7b8ec8f0c2d1871/' versions.txt
wget -O php-5.3.2.tar.gz http://www.php.net/get/php-5.3.2.tar.gz/from/www.php.net/mirror
./build php n

 

[nev]

hey i tried your upgrade procedure sm but after i did it i changed the options.conf so it was set to 5.3 but then it says something php error in options.conf what should i do?

 

[armo]

and a key feature might be the mysqlnd support as of 5.3
have anybody connected through mysqlnd after upgrading by custombuild ? any problem , any manual configuration requirement , ... ?