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PHP 4.3.6 Released

Posted by michael on from the hyped-up-on-php dept.

ehmdjii writes "The PHP Development Team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.3.6. This is is a bug fix release whose primary goal is to address two bugs which may result in crashes in PHP builds with thread-safety enabled. All users of PHP in a threaded environment (Windows) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this release. All in all this release fixes approximately 25 bugs that have been discovered since the 4.3.5 release. For a full list of changes in PHP 4.3.6, see the ChangeLog."

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  1. Fellow slashdotters, I need karma by I+Hate+Jesus · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Please mod this up.

    --
    Do you hate Jesus too?
  2. What irritates me... by Anonytroll · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ... I know I have read somewhere about some rather nasty bugs that are still not fixed in this version.
    Anyone know anything more about this?

  3. Compile 64bit? by Rtsbasic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this mean PHP will compile as 64bit code now?
    "Fixed bug #27717 (Test Failures when compiled on 64-bit mode)"

  4. Threaded environment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not just Windows that can be threaded environments, FreeBSD and Linux also have the option of using the per-child MPM.

    1. Re:Threaded environment by Electrum · · Score: 2, Interesting

      FreeBSD and Linux also have the option of using the per-child MPM

      According to the Apache docs, perchild MPM does not work. Using FastCGI PHP will likely have much better results. PHP has always had problems with thread safety.

  5. Re:NO MORE PHP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Am I the only one who LIKES to entangle logic and presentation?

    I know that it's not good practice for large projects - but really, a website is not typically a large project.

    If I wanna just throw a quick 'page last updated' in, why NOT do it inline?

  6. Re:PHP 5 by JoScherl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think you don't really need public/private/protected in a scripting language. More interesting for me are other improvements like that assignments like

    $a = new foo();
    $b =$a;

    are made by reference. With PHP4 even the first line would create a copy of the object. Also interesting arenew extensions like MySLi, the new soap extension or the rewrite of the XML-Extensin based on libxml2 (including the realy nice SimpleXML-Extension) ....

    A collection of PHP5 information can be found p.e. on this German site (most links lead to English pages, and I'm one of the ones running this site - so it's the best (German) PHP site *g*)