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selfspirit50
May 8th 2006, 2:02 pm
PHP 5.1.3 Released
[01-May-2006] The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.3. This release combines small number of feature enhancements with a significant amount of bug fixes and resolves a number of security issues. Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.3 include:

Disallow certain characters in session names.
Fixed a buffer overflow inside the wordwrap() function.
Prevent jumps to parent directory via the 2nd parameter of the tempnam() function.
Enforce safe_mode for the source parameter of the copy() function.
Fixed cross-site scripting inside the phpinfo() function.
Fixed offset/length parameter validation inside the substr_compare() function.
Fixed a heap corruption inside the session extension.
Fixed a bug that would allow variable to survive unset().
Fixed a number of crashes in the DOM, SOAP and PDO extensions.
Upgraded bundled PCRE library to version 6.6
The use of the var keyword to declare properties no longer raises a deprecation E_STRICT.
FastCGI interface was completely reimplemented.
Multitude of improvements to the SPL, SimpleXML, GD, CURL and Reflection extensions.
Over 120 various bug fixes.

frisby
May 8th 2006, 2:06 pm
Few bugs fixed, there are more bugs here.

Just joking. Yes, we will update some sunny day. :)

MrSupplier
May 8th 2006, 5:40 pm
A critical bug with $_POST array handling as well as the FastCGI sapi have been discovered in PHP 5.1.3. A new PHP release 5.1.4 (http://www.php.net/downloads.php) is now available to address these issues. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.
Some details for curious developers (http://sb2.info/better/solutions/technology/php/serious-problems-with-_post-array-handling-in-recently-released-php-513/)

digitalpoint
May 8th 2006, 10:40 pm
Already followed up with 5.1.4

frisby
May 9th 2006, 4:23 am
A critical bug with $_POST array handling as well as the FastCGI sapi have been discovered in PHP 5.1.3. A new PHP release ...is now available to address these issues. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.
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Hehe, what I said in my post above. :D