that databases/php-pdo compiles and works as shared module on Mac OS X
after the package has been modified to use modules shipped with PHP instead
of (obsolete) PCRE versions
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.9:
* Fixed security issue in imagerotate(), background colour isn't validated correctly with a non truecolour image. Reported by Hamid Ebadi, APA Laboratory (Fixes CVE-2008-5498). (Scott)
* Fixed a crash on extract in zip when files or directories entry names contain a relative path. (Pierre)
* Fixed explode() behavior with empty string to respect negative limit. (Shire)
* Fixed a segfault when malformed string is passed to json_decode(). (Scott)
Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.9 include:
* Added optional sorting type flag parameter to array_unique(). Default is SORT_REGULAR. (Andrei)
* Fixed bug #45996 (libxml2 2.7 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()). (Rob)
* A number of fixes in the mbstring extension (Moriyoshi)
* Fixed bug #44336 (Improve pcre UTF-8 string matching performance). (frode at coretrek dot com, Nuno)
* Fixed bug #46699 (xml_parse crash when parser is namespace aware). (Rob)
* Fixed bug #46748 (Segfault when an SSL error has more than one error). (Scott)
* Fixed bug #46889 (Memory leak in strtotime()). (Derick)
* Fixed bug #47049 (SoapClient::__soapCall causes a segmentation fault). (Dmitry)
* Fixed bug #47165 (Possible memory corruption when passing return value by reference). (Dmitry)
* Fixed bug #47282 (FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL is marking valid email addresses as invalid). (Ilia)
* Fixed bug #47422 (modulus operator returns incorrect results on 64 bit linux). (Matt)
* Over 50 bug fixes.
Changes since 5.1.6:
The key features of PHP 5.2.0 include:
* New memory manager for the Zend Engine with improved performance and a more
accurate memory usage tracking.
* Input filtering extension was added and enabled by default.
* JSON extension was added and enabled by default.
* ZIP extension for creating and editing zip files was introduced.
* Hooks for tracking file upload progress were introduced.
* Introduced E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR error mode.
* Introduced DateTime and DateTimeZone objects with methods to manipulate
date/time information.
* Upgraded bundled SQLite, PCRE libraries.
* Upgraded OpenSSL, MySQL and PostgreSQL client libraries for Windows
installations.
* Many performance improvements.
* Over 200 bug fixes.
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.0:
* Made PostgreSQL escaping functions in PostgreSQL and PDO extension keep
track of character set encoding whenever possible.
* Added allow_url_include, set to Off by default to disallow use of URLs
for include and require.
* Disable realpath cache when open_basedir and safe_mode are being used.
* Improved safe_mode enforcement for error_log() function.
* Fixed a possible buffer overflow in the underlying code responsible
for htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() functions.
* Added missing safe_mode and open_basedir checks for the cURL extension.
* Fixed overflow is str_repeat() & wordwrap() functions on 64bit machines.
* Fixed handling of long paths inside the tempnam() function.
* Fixed safe_mode/open_basedir checks for session.save_path, allowing them
to account for extra parameters.
* Fixed ini setting overload in the ini_restore() function.
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.0, see the ChangeLog:
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.0
Also other notable extensions changes:
* filePRO extension removed (not in PECL yet, php-filepro disabled for PHP5)
* JSON added (not enabled by default, packaged in php-json)
* filter added (enabled by default)
* wddx rewritten to native libxml2, fixing several encoding bugs
