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The migration from CVS to Subversion is complete. The web interface is at svn.php.net. You can read about it at php.net/svn.php, wiki.php.net/vcs/svnfaq. The URL to feed to your svn client is http://svn.php.net/repository. There is also a github mirror. Please use that instead of trying to do a full git clone from the svn repository. See the instructions at wiki.php.net/vcs/svnfaq#git Many thanks to Gwynne who did the bulk of the work and also all the other folks who pitched in. It was a major effort to move 14 years of CVS history to another RCS.

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PHP TestFest 2009 Winners

A group of winners of PHP elePHPhants or TestFest mugs have been picked at random from the people that contributed the 887 tests during the 2009 PHP TestFest. Winners of elePHPhantsMark Schaschke TestFest London May 2009Patrick Allaert Belgian PHP Testfest 2009Rafael Dohms testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20Guilherme Blanco testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20Fabio Fabbrucci Italian PHP TestFest 2009 Cesena 19-20-21 juneRodrigo Moyle testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20Edgar Ferreira da Silva testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20Marco Fabbri PHPTestFest Cesena Italia on 2009-06-20Jason Easter Testfest 2009 2009-06-20Simon Westcott PHPNW Testfest 2009Winners of mugsTim Eggert Testfest Berlin 2009-05-09Till Klampaeckel TestFest 2009Havard Eide Norway 2009-06-09 \o/Ŕlex Corretgé - CataloniaFrancesco Fullone TestFest Cesena Italia on 2009-06-20Ivan Rosolen testfest PHPSP on 2009-06-20Moritz Neuhaeuser Testfest Berlin 2009-05-10Daniel Convissor TestFest 2009 NYPHPMatt Raines testfest London 2009-05-09Winners will be contacted shortly. Once again a huge thank you! to everyone who helped to make this year's TestFest such an outstanding success!

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PHP 5.2.13 Released!

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.13. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 40 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.13:Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen)Fixed a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in session extension identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (Ilia)Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar) Further details about the PHP 5.2.13 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog.

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PHP 5.3.3 Released!

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.3. This release focuses on improving the stability and security of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Backwards incompatible change:Methods with the same name as the last element of a namespaced class name will no longer be treated as constructor. This change doesn't affect non-namespaced classes. There is no impact on migration from 5.2.x because namespaces were only introduced in PHP 5.3.Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.3:Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs (CVE-2010-2531).Fixed a possible resource destruction issues in shm_put_var().Fixed a possible information leak because of interruption of XOR operator.Fixed a possible memory corruption because of unexpected call-time pass by refernce and following memory clobbering through callbacks.Fixed a possible memory corruption in ArrayObject::uasort().Fixed a possible memory corruption in parse_str().Fixed a possible memory corruption in pack().Fixed a possible memory corruption in substr_replace().Fixed a possible memory corruption in addcslashes().Fixed a possible stack exhaustion inside fnmatch().Fixed a possible dechunking filter buffer overflow.Fixed a possible arbitrary memory access inside sqlite extension.Fixed string format validation inside phar extension.Fixed handling of session variable serialization on certain prefix characters.Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when processing invalid XML-RPC requests (Fixes CVE-2010-0397, bug #51288).Fixed SplObjectStorage unserialization problems (CVE-2010-2225).Fixed possible buffer overflows in mysqlnd_list_fields, mysqlnd_change_user.Fixed possible buffer overflows when handling error packets in mysqlnd.Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.3 include:Upgraded bundled sqlite to version 3.6.23.1.Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.02.Added FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) SAPI.Added stream filter support to mcrypt extension.Added full_special_chars filter to ext/filter.Fixed a possible crash because of recursive GC invocation.Fixed bug #52238 (Crash when an Exception occured in iterator_to_array).Fixed bug #52041 (Memory leak when writing on uninitialized variable returned from function).Fixed bug #52060 (Memory leak when passing a closure to method_exists()).Fixed bug #52001 (Memory allocation problems after using variable variables).Fixed bug #51723 (Content-length header is limited to 32bit integer with Apache2 on Windows).Fixed bug #48930 (__COMPILER_HALT_OFFSET__ incorrect in PHP >= 5.3). For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available on http://php.net/migration53, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3. For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.3, see the ChangeLog.

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PHP 5.2.14 Released!

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.14. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which are security related. This release marks the end of the active support for PHP 5.2. Following this release the PHP 5.2 series will receive no further active bug maintenance. Security fixes for PHP 5.2 might be published on a case by cases basis. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.14:Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs.Fixed a possible interruption array leak in strrchr().(CVE-2010-2484)Fixed a possible interruption array leak in strchr(), strstr(), substr(), chunk_split(), strtok(), addcslashes(), str_repeat(), trim().Fixed a possible memory corruption in substr_replace().Fixed SplObjectStorage unserialization problems (CVE-2010-2225).Fixed a possible stack exaustion inside fnmatch().Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when processing invalid XML-RPC requests (Fixes CVE-2010-0397, bug #51288).Fixed handling of session variable serialization on certain prefix characters.Fixed a possible arbitrary memory access inside sqlite extension. Reported by Mateusz Kocielski.Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.14 include:Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.02.Updated timezone database to version 2010.5.Fixed bug #52238 (Crash when an Exception occured in iterator_to_array).Fixed bug #52237 (Crash when passing the reference of the property of a non-object).Fixed bug #52041 (Memory leak when writing on uninitialized variable returned from function).Fixed bug #51822 (Segfault with strange __destruct() for static class variables).Fixed bug #51552 (debug_backtrace() causes segmentation fault and/or memory issues).Fixed bug #49267 (Linking fails for iconv on MacOS: "Undefined symbols: _libiconv").To prepare for upgrading to PHP 5.3, now that PHP 5.2's support ended, a migration guide available on http://php.net/migration53, details the changes between PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3.For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.14 see the ChangeLog at http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.14.

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