Software-update: PHP 5.0 Beta 3

De ontwikkelaars van PHP 5 hebben gisteren de derde beta-versie online gezet. In deze versie zijn, zoals men inmiddels gewend is, een aantal bugs opgelost en er zijn weer een aantal nieuwe features toegevoegd. De voornaamste features van PHP 5 zijn de ondersteuning voor de tweede versie van de Zend Engine, de sterk verbeterde XML-ondersteuning en de verbeterde omgang met streams. Het changelog is hier terug te vinden, maar staat ook hieronder:

• Bundled new tidy extension (John, Wez)
• Upgraded PCRE library to version 4.5. (Andrei)
• Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)
• Moved extensions to PECL:
• ext/crack (Jani, Derick)
• ext/db (Jani, Derick)
• ext/mcal (Jani, Derick)
• ext/qtdom (Jani, Derick)
• ext/notes (Wez)
• Added 'c' modifier to date() which returns the date in the ISO 8601 format. (Derick, Manuzhai)
• Added an optional parameter to microtime() to get the time as float. (Andrey)
• Added MacRoman encoding support to htmlentities(). (Derick, Marcus Bointon)
• Added possibility to call PHP functions as XSLT-functions. (Christian)
• Added possibility to prevent PHP from registering variables when input filter support is used. (Derick)
• Added iconv stream filter (convert.iconv.*). (Moriyoshi)
• Added EXSLT support in ext/xsl. (Christian)
• Added qdbm handler for dba extension. (mg at iceni dot pl, Marcus)
• Added new functions:
• dba_key_split() to split inifile keys in an array. (Marcus)
• time_nanosleep() signal safe sleep (Magnus, Ilia)
• headers_list(). (Sara)
• php_strip_whitespace(). strip whitespace & comments from a script. (Ilia)
• php_check_syntax(). check php script for parse errors. (Ilia)
• image_type_to_extension(). return extension based on image type. (Ilia)
• stream_socket_sendto() and stream_socket_recvfrom(). (Wez)
• iconv_mime_decode_headers(). (Moriyoshi)
• get_declared_interfaces(). (Andrey, Marcus)
• sqlite_fetch_column_types(). (Ilia)
• Added proxy support to http:// wrapper. (Sara)
• Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to userstreams. (Sara)
• Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to ftp:// wrapper. (Sara)
• Changed rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
• Changed stat() and family to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
• Fixed include_once() / require_once() on Windows to honor case-insensitivity of files. (Andi)
• Fixed get_declared_classes() to return only classes. (Andrey, Marcus)
• Fixed __autoload() to preserve case of the passed class name. (Andi)
• Fixed bug #26615 () (runekl at opoint dot com, Derick)
• Fixed bug #26591 ("__autoload threw an exception" during an uncaught). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #26534 (stream_get_meta_data() -> Access Violation). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #26528 (HTML entities are not being decoded by xml_parse()/xml_parse_into_struct()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26182 (Object properties created redundantly). (Andi)
• Fixed bug #26156 (REPLACE_ZVAL_VALUE works on uninit stack-based zvals). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #26083 (Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26072 (--disable-libxml does not work). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #26001 (serialize crashes when accessing an overloaded object that has no properties (NULL hashtable)). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #25664 (COM crashes when calling a Delphi implementations of ITypeInfo). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #24837 (Incorrect behaviour of PPP using foreach). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #24693 (Allow session.use_trans_sid to be enabled/disabled from inside the script). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #24394 (Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault). (Moriyoshi)