PHP 4.4.0 Released

Sebastian Bergmann » 11 July 2005 » in PHP » 4 Comments

The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 4.4.0. This is a maintenance release that addresses a serious memory corruption problem within PHP concerning references. If references were used in a wrong way, PHP would often create memory corruptions which would not always surface and be visible. The increased middle digit was required because the fix that corrected the problem with references changed PHP's internal API. PHP 4.4.0 does not have any new features, and is solely a bugfix release.

I already updated the dev-php/php, dev-php/php-cgi, and dev-php/mod_php packages in Gentoo Linux accordingly. The PHP 4.4.0 versions of these packages are currently marked ~ARCH for testing and should go stable (at least on x86) soon.
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  1. Wez
    11/07/2005 at 18:53 Permalink
    How about updating PECL-sqlite to match the latest version available in PECL while you're at it? :)

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  2. Sebastian Bergmann
    11/07/2005 at 19:00 Permalink
    dev-php/PECL-sqlite is in the portage tree, it is just not marked stable.

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  3. Michael
    11/07/2005 at 23:15 Permalink
    What about php5? is it also affected and when will it be unmasked? It has been upstreams stable version for ages.

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  4. Sebastian Bergmann
    12/07/2005 at 06:08 Permalink
    PHP 5 is, of course, not affected by the release of PHP 4.4.0. We are still working on getting it stable in Gentoo Linux.

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