PHP 5.3 RC 2

Misschien leuk voor een nieuwsitem als iemand zin heeft om iets op de voorpagina te zetten.

bron: php.net / PHP 5.3.0RC2 Release Announcement

Ik heb hem zelf nog niet geprobeerd (draai lokaal wel 5.3 RC 1 na veel geruzie met m'n compiler)

In deze release candidate niet veel spannends, wat bugfixes en wat updates van externe bibliotheken. Enige wat mij opviel is de nieuwe 'n' flag voor [php]fopen[/php], en betere ondersteuning van HTTP/1.1's chunked encoding voor de http stream-wrapper die je onder andere met [php]file_get_contents[/php] kan gebruiken.

De release notes, zoals ze in het NEWS bestandje in de download zelf staan:
07 May 2009, PHP 5.3.0 RC 2
- Upgraded bundled sqlite to version 3.6.13. (Ilia)
- Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.9. (Nuno)
- Upgraded bundled libmagic to 5.02 in the fileinfo extension. (Scott)

- Undeprecated ticks. (Arnaud)

- Improved IMAP support (Pierre):
. Added imap_gc() to clear the imap cache
. Added imap_utf8_to_mutf7() and imap_mutf7_to_utf8()

- Implemented FR #41712 (curl progress callback: CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION).
(sdteffen[at]gmail[dot].com, Pierre)
- Implemented FR #47739 (Missing cURL option do disable IPv6). (Pierre)
- Implemented FR #39637 (Missing cURL option CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD). (Pierre)

- Added timezone_version_get() to retrieve the version of the used timezone
database. (Derick)
- Added 'n' flag to fopen to allow passing O_NONBLOCK to the underlying
open(2) system call. (Mikko)
- Added "dechunk" filter which can decode HTTP responses with chunked
transfer-encoding. HTTP streams use this filter automatically in case
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header is present in response. It's possible to
disable this behaviour using "http"=>array("auto_decode"=>0) in stream
context. (Dmitry)
- Added ability to throw exceptions from SQLite3 instead of warnings. (Scott)
- Added startup notices for deprecated ini settings. (Kalle)

- Fixed bug #48087 (call_user_method() invalid free of arguments). (Felipe)
- Fixed bug #48060 (pdo_pgsql - large objects are returned as empty). (Matteo)
- Fixed bug #48034 (PHP crashes when script is 8192 (8KB) bytes long). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #48023 (spl_autoload_register didn't store closures). (Etienne)
- Fixed bug #48004 (Error handler prevents creation of default object).
(Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47880 (crashes in call_user_func_array()). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47856 (stristr() converts needle to lower-case). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #47851 (is_callable throws fatal error). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47819 (Getting pdo_mysql.so: undefined symbol: mysqlnd_debug_init
at startup). (Johannes)
- Fixed bug #47816 (pcntl tests failing on NetBSD). (Matteo)
- Fixed bug #47779 (Wrong value for SIG_UNBLOCK and SIG_SETMASK constants).
(Matteo)
- Fixed bug #47771 (Exception during object construction from arg call calls
object's destructor). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47745 (FILTER_VALIDATE_INT doesn't allow minimum integer).
(Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47714 (autoloading classes inside exception_handler leads to
crashes). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47699 (autoload and late static binding). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47662 (Support more than 127 subpatterns in preg_match). (Nuno)
- Fixed bug #47596 (Bus error on parsing file). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47560 (explode()'s limit parameter odd behaviour). (Matt)
- Fixed bug #47535 (Compilation failure in ps_fetch_from_1_to_8_bytes()).
(Johannes)
- Fixed bug #47516 (nowdoc can not be embed in heredoc but can be embed in
double quote). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47038 (Memory leak in include). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #47021 (SoapClient stumbles over WSDL delivered with
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked"). (Dmitry)
- Fixed bug #46817 (tokenizer misses last single-line comment (PHP 5.3+, with
re2c lexer)). (Matt, Shire)
- Fixed bug #46108 (DateTime - Memory leak when unserializing). (Felipe)
- Fixed bug #44861 (scrollable cursor don't work with pgsql). (Matteo)
- Fixed bug #44409 (PDO::FETCH_SERIALIZE calls __construct()). (Matteo)
- Fixed bug #44173 (PDO->query() parameter parsing/checking needs an
update). (Matteo)
- Fixed bug #42362 (HTTP status codes 204 and 304 should not be gzipped).
(Scott, Edward Z. Yang)
- Fixed PECL bug #16338 (phar extension uses php_stream_copy_to_stream). (Greg)
- Fixed PECL bug #14646 (phar error message unclear with php stream wrappers).
(Greg)
- Fixed an issue with ReflectionProperty::setAccessible().
(Sebastian, Roman Borschel)