# 4.4.6RC1

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/28086
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/28086
- Started by Derick Rethans on 2007-02-20T12:55:16+00:00
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## #28086 — Derick Rethans — 2007-02-20T12:55:16+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/28086#28086

Hello!

there is a critical issues in PHP 4.4.5:
- when register_globals = On, sessions don't work correctly (segfaults).

Because of this I'd like to release a 4.4.6 soon with this fixes. As 
there is also an upgrade to pcre 7.0 we'd need atleast one RC, which I 
plan to release on Thursday.

Any opinions?

regards,
Derick

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## #28087 — Antony Dovgal — 2007-02-20T13:09:19+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/28086#28087 · In reply to: #28086

> Hello!
> 
> there is a critical issues in PHP 4.4.5:
> - when register_globals = On, sessions don't work correctly (segfaults).
> 
> Because of this I'd like to release a 4.4.6 soon with this fixes. As 
> there is also an upgrade to pcre 7.0 we'd need atleast one RC, which I 
> plan to release on Thursday.
> 
> Any opinions?

Agree, I believe one RC is required in this particular case.
Looks good to me.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal

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## #28090 — Ilia Alshanetsky — 2007-02-20T14:26:08+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/28086#28090 · In reply to: #28086

RC followed by a quick release sounds like a good plan. When do you  
plan to make the RC?




> Hello!
>
> there is a critical issues in PHP 4.4.5:
> - when register_globals = On, sessions don't work correctly  
> (segfaults).
>
> Because of this I'd like to release a 4.4.6 soon with this fixes. As
> there is also an upgrade to pcre 7.0 we'd need atleast one RC, which I
> plan to release on Thursday.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> regards,
> Derick
>
> -- 
> 
> 
>

Ilia Alshanetsky

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## #28093 — Derick Rethans — 2007-02-20T14:44:05+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/28086#28093 · In reply to: #28090

> RC followed by a quick release sounds like a good plan. When do you plan to
> make the RC?

... "we'd need atleast one RC, which I plan to release on Thursday." ...

:)

regards,
Derick

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## #28094 — William A. Rowe — 2007-02-20T18:07:11+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/28086#28094 · In reply to: #28086

Derick Rethans wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> there is a critical issues in PHP 4.4.5:
> - when register_globals = On, sessions don't work correctly (segfaults).
> 
> Because of this I'd like to release a 4.4.6 soon with this fixes. As 
> there is also an upgrade to pcre 7.0 we'd need atleast one RC, which I 
> plan to release on Thursday.

PCRE sounds like a destabilizing element, but if confidence is high(?)

It would be nice to see a bugfix-only 4.4.x and 5.2.x release very
soon, seeing the regressions that have been introduced after the RC
phase has begun for the last few releases :)  Speaking for joe user
here (I patch around them).  I have time to examine and run one RC
per release here through the paces and not a whole lot more, and I'm
pretty sure other testers are in the same place, so to keep adding
destabilizing changes after the RC cycles begin - it sort of bites :)

Bill

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## #28095 — Pierre — 2007-02-20T20:31:48+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/28086#28095 · In reply to: #28094

> Derick Rethans wrote:
> > […]
>
> PCRE sounds like a destabilizing element, but if confidence is high(?)

Good question. What's about 4.4.6 with only the required fix(es)? Or
is there very good reason to update pcre now?

--Pierre

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## #28107 — Matt Wilmas — 2007-02-21T08:08:44+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/28086#28107 · In reply to: #28086

Hi Derick,

Attached is a very simple patch for Bug #40115 (possibly wrong numeric
string comparison caused by overflow) if you want to fix it in 4.4. :-)


Matt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derick Rethans"
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007

> Hello!
>
> there is a critical issues in PHP 4.4.5:
> - when register_globals = On, sessions don't work correctly (segfaults).
>
> Because of this I'd like to release a 4.4.6 soon with this fixes. As
> there is also an upgrade to pcre 7.0 we'd need atleast one RC, which I
> plan to release on Thursday.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> regards,
> Derick

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## #28111 — steve — 2007-02-21T18:18:25+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/28086#28111

Is there a list of fixes so far in this release? I've found a crashing
bug that came in 4.4.5 that was not in 4.4.4, and related, I believe, to
some string processing. I'm narrowing it down right now.


> Hello!
>
> there is a critical issues in PHP 4.4.5:
> - when register_globals = On, sessions don't work correctly (segfaults).
>
> Because of this I'd like to release a 4.4.6 soon with this fixes. As
> there is also an upgrade to pcre 7.0 we'd need atleast one RC, which I
> plan to release on Thursday.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> regards,
> Derick