PHP 5 Beta 3 Released!

Dear PHP users,

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 3 has been released. Many bugs have been fixed since Beta 2,
some of which aren't mentioned in the NEWS file (which you can find at the
end of this email).
The PHP 5.0 source tree will now enter a feature freeze and we are moving
into bug fixing mode, therefore, we will hopefully have a Release Candidate
as the next version.

Enjoy and Happy Holidays,

PHP Development Team.

NEWS file:

21 Dec 2003, PHP 5 Beta 3

• Bundled new tidy extension (John, Wez)
• Upgraded PCRE library to version 4.5. (Andrei)
• Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)
• Moved extensions to PECL:
  . ext/crack (Jani, Derick)
  . ext/db (Jani, Derick)
  . ext/mcal (Jani, Derick)
  . ext/qtdom (Jani, Derick)
  . ext/notes (Wez)
• Added 'c' modifier to date() which returns the date in the ISO 8601 format.
  (Derick, Manuzhai)
• Added an optional parameter to microtime() to get the time as float. (Andrey)
• Added MacRoman encoding support to htmlentities(). (Derick, Marcus Bointon)
• Added possibility to call PHP functions as XSLT-functions. (Christian)
• Added possibility to prevent PHP from registering variables when input filter
  support is used. (Derick)
• Added iconv stream filter (convert.iconv.*). (Moriyoshi)
• Added EXSLT support in ext/xsl. (Christian)
• Added qdbm handler for dba extension. (mg at iceni dot pl, Marcus)
• Added new functions:
  . dba_key_split() to split inifile keys in an array. (Marcus)
  . time_nanosleep() signal safe sleep (Magnus, Ilia)
  . headers_list(). (Sara)
  . php_strip_whitespace(). strip whitespace & comments from a script. (Ilia)
  . php_check_syntax(). check php script for parse errors. (Ilia)
  . image_type_to_extension(). return extension based on image type. (Ilia)
  . stream_socket_sendto() and stream_socket_recvfrom(). (Wez)
  . iconv_mime_decode_headers(). (Moriyoshi)
  . get_declared_interfaces(). (Andrey, Marcus)
  . sqlite_fetch_column_types(). (Ilia)
• Added proxy support to http:// wrapper. (Sara)
• Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to userstreams. (Sara)
• Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to ftp:// wrapper. (Sara)
• Changed rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
• Changed stat() and family to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
• Fixed include_once() / require_once() on Windows to honor case-insensitivity
  of files. (Andi)
• Fixed get_declared_classes() to return only classes. (Andrey, Marcus)
• Fixed __autoload() to preserve case of the passed class name. (Andi)
• Fixed bug #26615 () (runekl at opoint dot com, Derick)
• Fixed bug #26591 ("__autoload threw an exception" during an uncaught).
  (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #26534 (stream_get_meta_data() -> Access Violation). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #26528 (HTML entities are not being decoded by
  xml_parse()/xml_parse_into_struct()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26182 (Object properties created redundantly). (Andi)
• Fixed bug #26156 (REPLACE_ZVAL_VALUE works on uninit stack-based zvals).
  (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #26083 (Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26072 (--disable-libxml does not work). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #26001 (serialize crashes when accessing an overloaded object that
  has no properties (NULL hashtable)). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #25664 (COM crashes when calling a Delphi implementations of
  ITypeInfo). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #24837 (Incorrect behaviour of PPP using foreach). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #24693 (Allow session.use_trans_sid to be enabled/disabled from
  inside the script). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #24394 (Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault).
  (Moriyoshi)