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