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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."

6 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. 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.

  3. Re:NO MORE PHP! by yelvington · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If anyone is forcing you to entangle content, presentation and business logic, dial 911.

    Try some self-discipline. It's not the language's fault.

  4. thread bugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh please, PHP can't handle threads properly. Yet another reason to switch to Per-- oh wait, threads? Nevermind.

  5. Re:NO MORE PHP! by tiptone · · Score: 5, Informative


    don't bother with 911 just download Smarty.

    Try it, it's what makes PHP really nice. PHP without Smarty is almost sure to become an unmaintainable mess, especially if more than one person is working on a project. PHP + Smarty is the perfect seperation of content, presentation, and business logic.

    --
    Please don't read my sig.
  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*)