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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:34:46 -0500
Subject: PHP 5.2.9 Released!
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate  
availability of PHP 5.2.9. This release focuses on improving the  
stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 50 bug fixes, several of  
which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade  
to this release.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.9:

	Fixed security issue in imagerotate(), background colour isn't  
validated correctly with a non truecolour image. Reported by Hamid  
Ebadi, APA Laboratory (Fixes CVE-2008-5498). (Scott)
	Fixed a crash on extract in zip when files or directories entry names  
contain  a relative path. (Pierre)
	Fixed explode() behavior with empty string to respect negative limit.  
(Shire)
	Fixed a segfault when malformed string is passed to json_decode().  
(Scott)

Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.9 include:

        Added optional sorting type flag parameter to array_unique().  
Default is SORT_REGULAR. (Andrei)
        Fixed bug #45996 (libxml2 2.7 causes breakage with character  
data in xml_parse()). (Rob)
        A number of fixes in the mbstring extension (Moriyoshi)
        Fixed bug #44336 (Improve pcre UTF-8 string matching  
performance). (frode at coretrek dot com, Nuno)
        Fixed bug #46699 (xml_parse crash when parser is namespace  
aware). (Rob)
        Fixed bug #46748 (Segfault when an SSL error has more than one  
error). (Scott)
        Fixed bug #46889 (Memory leak in strtotime()). (Derick)
        Fixed bug #47049 (SoapClient::__soapCall causes a segmentation  
fault). (Dmitry)
        Fixed bug #47165 (Possible memory corruption when passing  
return value by reference). (Dmitry)
        Fixed bug #47282 (FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL is marking valid email  
addresses as invalid). (Ilia)
        Fixed bug #47422 (modulus operator returns incorrect results  
on 64 bit linux). (Matt)
        Over 50 bug fixes.

Ilia Alshanetsky
5.2 Release Master