Once more unto the breach.
One of the issues that was open until now was a regression in the
behavior of Apache 2 sapi on non-linux systems. The problem was finally
discovered and resolved, so if you've experienced crashes or "weird"
behavior with Apache 2 and PHP 5.1/4.4.1, please give this RC a shot.
The second reason for the RC is the update of the new parameter parsing
API used by large number of PHP functions, such as date(). Until this
RC, handling of integer values was very strict, rejecting all non-well
formed numeric values when a function expected a number. As of now the
checks have been relaxed (as was the case in old API) and non-well
formed ints like " 123" and "123 " are once again supported. However, to
promote code safety and input validation the function will emit E_NOTICE
when they are encountered.
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.0RC6.tar.bz2
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http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.0RC6.tar.gz
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The Windows binaries will be available shortly from
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/ as well.
Once again, I encourage everyone to take the time to try out this RC and
test it against your code or simply run "make test".
Ilia Alshanetsky
5.1 Release Master