Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:16637 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 98672 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Jun 2005 18:08:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 98656 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2005 18:08:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pb1.pair.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jun 2005 18:08:33 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:34410] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2 r(5656M)) with SMTP id 7A/DA-20931-D9BCDA24 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:08:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5DI8RqB010437 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:08:27 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5DI8Nw2010428; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:08:24 +0200 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:08:24 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: PHP Developers Mailing List cc: php-general@lists.php.net, pecl-dev@lists.php.net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jci-ict.nl Subject: PHP 4.4.0RC1 From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) Hello! The PHP Team just released it's first release candidate for PHP 4.4.0. This is solely a bug-fix only release, the increased middle digit is needed because this release changes PHP's Internal API that causes third-party binary extensions to be incompatible with PHP 4.3.x. This release address a major problem within PHP concerning references. If references where used in a wrong way, PHP would often create memory corruptions which would not always surface and be visible. In other cases it can cause variables and objects to change type or class. If you encountered strange behavior like this, this release might fix it. Besides addressing this reference related bug, 46 other bugs are fixed. Please test this release and report any bugs or problems in our bugsystem (after searching first). If all goes well I plan to roll a release of 4.4.0 on June 27th. If there are problems a new RC will follow. Only critical bugs are going to be fixed between RC1 and RC2. You can find 4.4.0 RC1 at http://qa.php.net/~derick/php-4.4.0RC1.tar.bz2 regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org