Change list from release notes:
* Synchronized bundled GD library with GD 2.0.23.
* Fixed a bug that prevented compilation of GD extensions against
FreeType 2.1.0-2.1.2.
* Fixed thread safety issue with informix connection id.
* Fixed incorrect resolving of relative paths by glob() in windows.
* Fixed mapping of Greek letters to html entities.
* Fixed a bug that caused an on shutdown crash when using PHP with Apache
2.0.49.
* Fixed a number of crashes inside pgsql, cpdf and gd extensions.
All in all this release fixes over 30 bugs that have been discovered
and resolved since the 4.3.6 release.
From release announcemenet:
After a lengthy QA process, PHP 4.3.4 is finally out!
This is a medium size maintenance release, with a fair number of bug fixes.
All users are encouraged to upgrade to 4.3.4.
Bugfix release
PHP 4.3.4 contains, among others, following important fixes, additions
and improvements:
* Fixed disk_total_space() and disk_free_space() under FreeBSD.
* Fixed FastCGI support on Win32.
* Fixed FastCGI being unable to bind to a specific IP.
* Fixed several bugs in mail() implementation on win32.
* Fixed crashes in a number of functions.
* Fixed compile failure on MacOSX 10.3 Panther.
* Over 60 various bug fixes!
For full list of changes in PHP 4.3.4, see ChangeLog:
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.4
Some highlights of changes since 4.2.3:
* PCRE updated to 4.3, GD to 2.0.15
* improved Apache2 support
* much improved stream & URL wrapper support, output compression support
* added CLI (Command Line Interface) SAPI
* debug_backtrace() backported from ZendEngine2
* faster build system
* huge number of other bug fixes and improvements
Packaging changes:
* 'pcre', 'xml', and 'session' modules folded back into main package -
'pcre' and 'xml' is required by PEAR, and 'session' is just too essential
to be separate
* 'gd' module now uses bundled PHP GD library, which is better integrated
* PHP modules use shared distinfo when possible to ease future PHP updates
* ${PREFIX}/bin/php is now CLI version, ${PREFIX}/libexec/cgi-big/php
remains CGI version
