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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."

2 of 34 comments (clear)

  1. 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)"

  2. 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*)