News Archive - 2013

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0. This release includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

The key features of PHP 5.5.0 include:

• Added generators and coroutines.
• Added the finally keyword.
• Added a simplified password hashing API.
• Added support for constant array/string dereferencing.
• Added scalar class name resolution via ::class.
• Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions.
• Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach.
• Added support for list() constructs in foreach statements.
• Added the Zend OPcache extension for opcode caching.
• The GD library has been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improving existing functionality.
• A lot more improvements and fixes.

Changes that affect compatibility:

• PHP logo GUIDs have been removed.
• Windows XP and 2003 support dropped.
• Case insensitivity is no longer locale specific. All case insensitive matching for function, class and constant names is now performed in a locale independent manner according to ASCII rules.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.4, a migration guide is available detailing the changes between 5.4 and 5.5.0.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.5.0, see the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.16 and PHP 5.3.26. These releases fix about 15 bugs, including CVE-2013-2110. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.16.

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.16 and PHP 5.3.26 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the availability of PHP 5.5 RC3. This release fixes some bugs against RC2.

You can find an incomplete changelog of PHP 5.5.0RC3 here :

• Fixed bug causing segfault in gc_zval_possible_root)
• Fixed bug about a heap based buffer overflow in quoted_printable_encode
• hash_pbkdf2() truncates data when using default length and hex output

To get the full changelog, please, check the NEWS file attached to the archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0RC3 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

We were pleased if you could test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

Thanks you helping us making PHP better.

The PHP development team announces the availability of the second release candidate of PHP 5.5. This release fixes some bugs against RC1 and improves overall stability.

You can find an incomplete changelog of PHP 5.5.0RC2 here :

• Fixed a bug related to segfault on memory exhaustion within function definition.
• Fixed bug in mbstring PHPTs which would crash on Windows x64.
• Fixed a bug where Custom Exceptions could crash when internal properties overridden.

To get the full changelog, please, check the NEWS file attached to the archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0RC2 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Please help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

Thanks to all people helping on the PHP project.

We weren't trying to pull an April Fool's Day joke in May. A temporary glitch caused the latest distributions of PHP to not properly propagate to the mirror servers. This has been fixed at the root level, and it's now being distributed to all of the mirrors. We'll take some bacon to go with the egg on our faces, please!

If you continue to experience issues with downloading these versions after 21:00 UTC on 9 May, 2013, please drop us a line at php-mirrors@lists.php.net, telling us from which mirror you're trying to download, and we'll get it resolved.

We apologize for the delays and confusion this may have caused, and thank you for using PHP.

The PHP development team announces the availability of the first release candidate of PHP 5.5. This release fixes some bugs as well as some possible leaks from our last beta.

You can find an incomplete changelog of PHP 5.5.0RC1 here :

• Ignore QUERY_STRING when sent in SCRIPT_FILENAME in FPM SAPI.
• Fix build with system libgd >= 2.1 which is now the minimal version required (as build with previous version is broken). No change when bundled libgd is used.
• Fixed some bugs in SNMP
• Fixed bug where stream_select() fails with pipes returned by proc_open() on Windows x64).

To get the full changelog, please, check the NEWS file attached to the archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0RC1 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Note that our release candidate cycle is only meant to bug fixes, no more features will be added to PHP 5.5 from now.

Please help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected. Please test this release candidate against your code base and report any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

We would like to thank all people helping us making PHP better by testing it and reporting problems, as well as all its contributors for their great work on this 5.5 version of PHP.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25. These releases fix about 10 bugs aswell as upgrading the bundled libmagic library. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.15.

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the release of the 4th beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs against beta 3 and cleans up some features.

PHP 5.5.0beta4 is shipped with some bug fixes. Here is the list:

• Fixed bug #64677, execution operator `` stealing surrounding arguments.
• Fixed bug #64342, ZipArchive::addFile() has to check for file existence.
• Fixed Windows x64 version of stream_socket_pair() and improved error handling.
• Remove curl stream wrappers

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta4 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Next step is Release Candidate. Our 1st RC is expected for May 9th.

Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.14 and PHP 5.3.24. These releases fix about 10 bugs aswell as upgrading the bundled PCRE library. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.14.

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.14 and PHP 5.3.24 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the release of the 3rd beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs against beta 2.

PHP 5.5.0beta3 is shipped with some bug fixes and improvements. Here is an incomplete list:

• Drop support for bison < 2.4 when building PHP from GIT source.
• Fixed bug #54567 (DateTimeZone serialize/unserialize)
• Fixed bug #64555 (foreach no longer copies keys if they are interned)
• Fixed bug #64578 (debug_backtrace in set_error_handler corrupts zend heap)

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta3 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Our next beta is expected for April 25th. RC should follow.

Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the release of the second beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs from beta one that could prevent the release from compiling.

PHP 5.5.0beta2 is shipped with some bug fixes. Here is an incomplete list:

• Fixed a memoryleak when using the same variablename 2times in function declaration.
• Fixed a compilation fail with error: conflicting types for 'zendparse'
• Fixed Debug backtrace changed behavior since 5.4.10 or 5.4.11

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta2 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Our next beta is expected for April 11th.

Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the release of the first beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release is the first to include the Zend OPCache. Please help our efforts to provide a stable PHP version and test this version carefully against several different applications, with Zend OPCache enabled and report any bug in the bug tracking system.

PHP 5.5.0beta1 is shipped with improvements. Here is an incomplete list:

• Added Zend Opcache extension (but disabled by ini setting),
• Added array_column function which returns a column in a multidimensional array,
• Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach,
• Added support for changing the process's title in CLI/CLI-Server SAPIs

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta1 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

This beta marks the beginning of the feature freeze. No new features will be added to PHP 5.5 after this point. Please, test and help us to roll out a stable release. Our next beta is planned for April 4th.

Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha6. This release fixes some bugs from alpha5. It also serves as a delay for our next release, beta1, integrating ZendOptimizer+ OPCode cache which is not ready yet to be merged. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

PHP 5.5.0alpha6 is shipped with improvements. Here is an incomplete list:

• Fixed a bug where uninitialized ++$foo->bar; does not cause a notice,
• Updated bundled PCRE 8.32,
• Fixed a bug in ext/sockets where sendmsg/recvmsg shutdown handler causes segfault

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0alpha6 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Our first beta should show up on 21st of March.

Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha5. This release fixes some bugs from alpha4 and adds some new features. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

PHP 5.5.0alpha5 is shipped with new features and improvements. Here is an incomplete list:

• Added the ability to change the tmp dir PHP will use during runtime, using a new php.ini entry,
• Added mysqli_begin_transaction()/mysqli::begin_transaction(). Implemented all options, per MySQL 5.6, which can be used with START TRANSACTION, COMMIT and ROLLBACK through options to mysqli_commit()/mysqli_rollback() and their respective OO counterparts. These changes are reflected in the mysqlnd API as well,
• Added recvmsg() and sendmsg() wrappers for ext/sockets

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0alpha5 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Alpha5 is the last alpha for PHP 5.5. There has been a delay in alpha releases due to late coming new features. We are now beginning the betas, and the first beta is expected for March 7th. Betas won't add any new features, except the first one, but consolidate the source code and fix found bugs.

Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha4. This release fixes some bugs from alpha3 and adds some new features. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

PHP 5.5.0alpha4 is shipped with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list):

• Class Name Resolution as scalar via "class" keyword,
• Added DateTimeImmutable class, a variant of DateTime that only returns the modified state instead of changing itself

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0alpha4 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Alpha4 is the last alpha for PHP 5.5. We are now beginning the betas, and the first beta is expected for February 7th. Betas won't add any new features but consolidate the source code and fix found bugs.

Thank you for supporting PHP.

The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha3. This release adds few features and fix some bugs from alpha2. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 3 comes with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list) :

• Generator::throw() method,
• New cURL functions and options such as curl_escape(), curl_multi_setopt(), curl_multi_strerror(), curl_pause(), curl_reset()...
• Max-Age attribute support in setcookie(),
• Few bug fixes in mysqlnd and core

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 3 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Thank you for supporting PHP.