serious security issues, as well as bunch of non-critical bug fixes.
All PHP5 users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this version.
Detailed change list at:
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.3
g/c no longer needed Makefile.module
add support for building extensions off PECL; version for PECL packages
is built as ${PHP_BASE_VERS}.${PECL_VERSION}, i.e. PECL pkg version 1.0
would become php-pkg-4.3.9.1.0 or php-pkg-5.0.2.1.0 respectively
to ${PREFIX}/libexec/cgi-bin; install also couple more files same way
as PHP4
Of particular note is that CLI ignores setting of register_argc_argv
(treats as if it would be On), so it's no longer necessary to do anything
special for Pear packages to work. g/c MESSAGE warning about the Pear issue.
Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:
* The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
* XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions
are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library
(http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
* A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating
XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension
and vice-versa.
* A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
* A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL
4.1 and later. This new extension includes an object-oriented
interface in addition to a traditional interface; as well as support
for many of MySQL's new features, such as prepared statements.
* SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite,
please visit their website.
* Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access
low-level socket operations on streams.
