PHP 5.4.4 RC 1 / 5.4.3

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

PHP is mainly focused on server-side scripting, so you can do anything any other CGI program can do, such as generate dynamic page content, collect form data, send and receive cookies and much more

PHP can be used on all major operating systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, many Unix variants (including HP-UX, Solaris and OpenBSD), Microsoft Windows, RISC OS, and probably others.

PHP has also support for most of the web servers today. This includes Personal Web Server, Netscape and iPlanet servers, Oreilly Website Pro server, Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server,Caudium, Xitami, OmniHTTPd, and many others. For the majority of the servers PHP has a module, for the others supporting the CGI standard, PHP can work as a CGI processor.

Here are some key features of "PHP":

· HTTP authentication with PHP.
· Cookies.
· Sessions.
· Dealing with XForms.
· Handling file uploads.
· Using remote files.
· Connection handling.
· Persistent Database Connections.
· Safe Mode.
· Using PHP from the command line.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

CLI Server:
· Implemented FR #61977 (Need CLI web-server support for files with .htm & svg extensions). (Sixd, Laruence)
· Improved performance while sending error page, this also fixed bug #61785 (Memory leak when access a non-exists file without router). (Laruence)
· Fixed bug #61546 (functions related to current script failed when chdir() in cli sapi). (Laruence, reeze.xia@gmail.com)

CURL:
· Fixed bug #61948 (CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE '' raises open_basedir restriction). (Laruence)

Core:
· Fixed missing bound check in iptcparse(). (chris at chiappa.net)
· Fixed bug #62005 (unexpected behavior when incrementally assigning to a member of a null object). (Laruence)
· Fixed bug #61978 (Object recursion not detected for classes that implement JsonSerializable). (Felipe)
· Fixed bug #61991 (long overflow in realpath_cache_get()). (Anatoliy)
· Fixed bug #61922 (ZTS build doesn't accept zend.script_encoding config). (Laruence)
· Fixed bug #61827 (incorrect \e processing on Windows) (Anatoliy)
· Fixed bug #6...