19 Feb 2015, PHP 5.6.6
- Core:
. Removed support for multi-line headers, as the are deprecated by RFC 7230.
(Stas)
. Fixed bug #67068 (getClosure returns somethings that's not a closure).
(Danack at basereality dot com)
. Fixed bug #68942 (Use after free vulnerability in unserialize() with
DateTimeZone). (CVE-2015-0273) (Stas)
. Fixed bug #68925 (Mitigation for CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname
buffer overflow). (Stas)
. Fixed Bug #67988 (htmlspecialchars() does not respect default_charset
specified by ini_set) (Yasuo)
. Added NULL byte protection to exec, system and passthru. (Yasuo)
- Dba:
. Fixed bug #68711 (useless comparisons). (bugreports at internot dot info)
- Enchant:
. Fixed bug #68552 (heap buffer overflow in enchant_broker_request_dict()).
(Antony)
- Fileinfo:
. Fixed bug #68827 (Double free with disabled ZMM). (Joshua Rogers)
. Fixed bug #67647 (Bundled libmagic 5.17 does not detect quicktime files
correctly). (Anatol)
. Fixed bug #68731 (finfo_buffer doesn't extract the correct mime with some
gifs). (Anatol)
- FPM:
. Fixed bug #66479 (Wrong response to FCGI_GET_VALUES). (Frank Stolle)
. Fixed bug #68571 (core dump when webserver close the socket).
(redfoxli069 at gmail dot com, Laruence)
- JSON:
. Fixed bug #50224 (json_encode() does not always encode a float as a float)
by adding JSON_PRESERVE_ZERO_FRACTION. (Juan Basso)
- LIBXML:
. Fixed bug #64938 (libxml_disable_entity_loader setting is shared
between threads). (Martin Jansen)
- Mysqli:
. Fixed bug #68114 (linker error on some OS X machines with fixed
width decimal support) (Keyur Govande)
. Fixed bug #68657 (Reading 4 byte floats with Mysqli and libmysqlclient
has rounding errors) (Keyur Govande)
- Opcache:
. Fixed bug with try blocks being removed when extended_info opcode
generation is turned on. (Laruence)
- PDO_mysql:
. Fixed bug #68750 (PDOMysql with mysqlnd does not allow the usage of
named pipes). (steffenb198 at aol dot com)
- Phar:
. Fixed bug #68901 (use after free). (bugreports at internot dot info)
- Pgsql:
. Fixed Bug #65199 (pg_copy_from() modifies input array variable) (Yasuo)
- Session:
. Fixed bug #68941 (mod_files.sh is a bash-script) (bugzilla at ii.nl, Yasuo)
. Fixed Bug #66623 (no EINTR check on flock) (Yasuo)
. Fixed bug #68063 (Empty session IDs do still start sessions) (Yasuo)
- Sqlite3:
. Fixed bug #68260 (SQLite3Result::fetchArray declares wrong
required_num_args). (Julien)
- Standard:
. Fixed bug #65272 (flock() out parameter not set correctly in windows).
(Daniel Lowrey)
. Fixed bug #69033 (Request may get env. variables from previous requests
if PHP works as FastCGI). (Anatol)
- Streams:
. Fixed bug which caused call after final close on streams filter. (Bob)
THe main features of PHP 5.6:
* Constant scalar expressions.
* Variadic functions and argument unpacking using the ... operator.
* Exponentiation using the ** operator.
* Function and constant importing with the use keyword.
* phpdbg as an interactive integrated debugger SAPI.
* php://input is now reusable, and $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated.
* GMP objects now support operator overloading.
* File uploads larger than 2 gigabytes in size are now accepted.
Please refer for difference from oldre release:http://php.net/migration56.
