Op PHP.net is zojuist de finalversie van PHP 5.0 gepubliceerd. Ongeveer een jaar geleden werd de eeste bèta van de 5.0-branch uitgebracht en in de tussentijd zijn er zeven verschillende builds gereleast. PHP 5 wordt gekenmerkt door onder meer Zend Engine II, vernieuwde XML-ondersteuning en SQLite. Hieronder zijn de veranderingen geplaatst van deze versie:
Updated PCRE to provide better error handling in certain cases. (Andrei) Changed doc comments to require a single white space after '/**'. (Marcus) Fixed strip_tags() to correctly handle '\0' characters. (Stefan) Fixed bug #29019 (Database not closing). (Marcus) Fixed bug #29008 (array_combine() does not handle non-numeric/string keys). (Ilia) Fixed bug #28999 (fixed behaviour of exec() to work as it did in 4.X). (Ilia) Fixed bug #28895 (ReflectionClass::isAbstract always returns false). (Marcus) Fixed bug #28868 (Internal filter registry not thread safe). (Sara) Fixed bug #28851 (call_user_func_array has typo in error message). (Marcus) Fixed bug #28831 (ArrayObject:: offsetGet() does the work of offsetUnset()). (Marcus) Fixed bug #28822 (ArrayObject:: offsetExists() works inverted). (Marcus) Fixed bug #28789 (ReflectionProperty getValue() fails on public static members). (Marcus) Fixed bug #28771 (Segfault when using xslt and clone). (Rob) Fixed bug #28751 (SoapServer does not call _autoload()). (Dmitry) Fixed bug #28739 (array_*diff() and array_*intersect() not clearing the fci cache before work). (Andrey) Fixed bug #28721 (appendChild() and insertBefore() unset DOMText).(Rob) Fixed bug #28702 (SOAP does not parse WSDL service address correctly). (Dmitry) Fixed bug #28699 (Reflection api bugs). (Marcus) Fixed bug #28694 (ReflectionExtension::getFunctions() crashes PHP). (Marcus) Fixed bug #28512 (Allocate enough space to store MSSQL data). (Frank) Fixed bug #28325 (Circular references not properly serialised). (Moriyoshi) [break] PHP 5.0.0 final Win32 Zip
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