PHP 4.0.2

29 Aug 2000, Version 4.0.2
- PHP 3 regression testing framework re-born (Stig)
- Added php_uname() function (Stig)
- Made a minor change to allow building with OpenLDAP 2.0 (Stig Venaas)
- Fixed a bug in preg_replace() that would truncate subject string if the
  first argument was en empty array. (Andrei)
- Added ob_get_length function (Stig)
- Fixed a bug that did not respect limit parameter in preg_replace() when
  using /e modifier. (Andrei)
- Added ability for each xml_set_*_handler() function to take the
  array($obj, 'method') syntax for the handler argument as well
  as the normal function name. (Andrei)
- Updated array_walk() to be able to accept array($obj, 'method')
  syntax for the walk function. (Andrei)
- Fixed segfault with fgets(), fgetcsv(), fgetss(), and fread() when
  called with negative length argument. (Torben)
- Fix by-reference parameters passing for xml_ functions and for scanf functions (Stas)
- Added experimental Oracle LDAP SDK support. 8.1.6 or later needed. Configure
  with something like --with-ldap=/usr/local/oracle/product/8.1.6 (Stig Venaas)
- Fixed memory leaks in eval();  A script that used eval() extensively, could
  end up consuming very large amounts of memory during execution (Zeev, Zend
  Engine)
- Fixed memory_limit feature, which did not work properly in previous versions
  (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Fixed stdout support with the swf extension. (Sterling)
- Fixed byte order for ip2long and long2ip (Stas)
- Fixed dbase_add_record. (Sterling)
- Added support for libmcrypt 2.4.4 (Derick)
- Added strncasecmp function (Andi, Zend Engine)
- Fixed FTP module to accept multiline server replies (Jani)
- Fixed switch which only has a single default rule. (Andi, Zend Engine)
- Fixed problem with nested foreach()'s. (Andi, Zend Engine)
- The CCVS module is now stable and compiling. It compiles as a CGI and into
  Apache cleanly without warnings. (Brendan W. McAdams)
- Fixed mSQL_close(). (nick@loman.net)
- Made return() in a require()'d file work like return() in an include()'d
  file (Andi & Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Changed require_once() to work using the same table as include_once()
  (Andi & Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Fixed PostgreSQL module to work when the link handle is omitted (Zeev)
- Fixed the Sybase modules to work properly with PHP 4.0 (Zeev)
- Fixed CLOB handling in OCI8 driver when using variable-width
  character sets. (Thies)
- Added 4th optional parameter to sybase_[p]connect to specify the charset
  for the connection (alf@alpha.ulatina.ac.cr)
- Fixed support for current thttpd releases. (Sascha)
- Added support for kerberized IMAP library using --with-kerberos
  (Rasmus, Sascha)
- Virtualize realpath, chmod, chown and utime (Stas)
- Support content-encoding headers in file upload MIME parts
  (Ragnar KjЬrstad)
- Fixed warning when shutting down OCINLogon() connections. (Thies)
- Fixed \n in session variables bug on Win32 (Stas)
- OCIError() would sometimes not report failed connections. (Thies)
- Fixed HEAD request bug on an Apache ErrorDocument redirect and preserve
  the status code across the redirect as well.  (Rasmus)
- Added Olympus-specific tags to read_exif_data() (Rasmus)
- Fixed bug in imap_fetchheader() where using FT_PREFETCHTEXT didn't return
  the body. Bug #4447. (Jani)
- Fixed exec() returning "\0" when output is empty
- Added XML_Parser class in PEAR (Stig)
- Added "make test" target in pear/ and added some regression tests (Stig)
- Fixed bug in strip_tags function as per bug #5857 (Rasmus)
- Fixed reading of IPTC via GetImageInfo() for certain JPEG files. (Thies)
- Improved the output-buffering functions to be re-entrant (Zeev)
- Made ldap_add(), ldap_modify(), ldap_mod_add(), ldap_mod_replace()
  binary-safe. Original patch: Terrence Miao <terrence_miao@email.com> (Jani)
- CGI aka. command line version has now an option '-l' for syntax check
  without execution (Hartmut)
- Fixed bug in ldap_get_values_len() which makes it NULL-safe. (Jani)
- Bug-report and fix submitted by Michel Alexeline <alexel@dr15.cnrs.fr>
- Make ext_skel create a Makefile.in set up to handle shared extension
  support automatically (Rasmus)
- Fixed php_realpath not to die on non-existing files (needed for touch())
  (Stas and china@thewrittenword.com)
- Fixed get_browser() function (Stas)
- Fixed symbol clash which caused a DSO problem on OpenBSD (Rob Black and
  anil@recoil.org)
- Added new function: ldap_compare(). (Jani)
- Fixed a bug in ldap_get_entries() and ldap_get_attributes(). (Jani)
- Ported DB to new error reporting scheme in PEAR. (Stig)
- Added sybase and ibase DB backends in PEAR. (Sterling)
- New PEAR package Payment_Verisign for use with the Payflow Pro
  (pfpro) extension. (David Croft)
- Added CURL support. (Sterling)
- Catch users trying to set "compatibility" parameter in PDF, which is not
  supported from user-land. (Joey)
- Fixed dbase_add_record. (Sterling)
- Added new function wordwrap() to wordwrap long strings from Chris
  Russel <russel@yorku.ca> (David Croft)
- Added four additional arguments: attrsonly, sizelimit, timelimit, deref which
  were missing in ldap_search(), ldap_list() and ldap_read() functions (Jani)
- Fixed a bug in ldap_search/list/read() which prevented returning the partial
  results when 'Sizelimit exceeded' error occurred. (Jani Taskinen)
- Fixed preg_replace() to automatically escape quotes in matched
  strings when using /e modifier. (Andrei)
- Itanium patch (Steve Robb)
- Set default include_path so PEAR files can be reached (Stig)
- Added "pear" executable, requires CGI version installed (Stig)
- Added extension ii for Ingres II native support. See README in ext/ingres_ii
  directory. (David H)
- Added Win32 project for the Interbase module (Zeev)
- Added ability to perform calls to the parent class without explicitly
  specifying its name, using parent::func_name(...) (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- You can now call Ora_Error() without prameters to get the reason
  for a failed connection attempt. (Kirill Maximov)
- New extension "pfpro" for interface with Verisign Payflow Pro (David Croft)

- Added IMG_GIF, IMG_JPG, IMG_JPEG, IMG_PNG and IMG_WBMP constants for
  imagetypes() function (Rasmus)
- Added ImageTypes() function which returns a bitfield with the supported
  image formats.  1=gif, 2=jpeg, 4=png and 8=wbmp (Rasmus)
- Make it possible to specify an empty string as a thousands-seperator
  in number_format() (Rasmus)
- Shared module support for LDAP extension (Troels Arvin)
- Fixed a bug with imap_mail where apache would segfault if the rpath
  parameter was specified.
- Use dashes and short day name in cookies since some browsers seem picky
  about this (Rasmus)
- Added pspell module. (Vlad)
- Added 3 additional arguments to the user-defined error handler - the file
  name and line number in which the error occured, and the context (local
  variables) of the code in which the error occured (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Improved the error handling code to handle an error in a user-defined error
  handling function (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Fixed leak when using string offsets in the array() construct.
  (Andi, Zend Engine)
- Fixed corruption problem when changing deeply nested values in objects.
  (Andi & Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Improved array_multisort() to be able to specify sort type as well sort
  order. Incidentally, it can be used to sort multi-dimensional arrays
  as well. (Andrei)
- Fixed a possible data corruption in case of a huge amount of aborted requests
  (Zeev)
- Apache module would sometimes close a wrong file-descriptor. (Sascha)
- Fixed use of alternative storage handlers in the session module. (Sascha)
- Updated str_pad() to be able to pad on left/right/both sides. (Andrei)
- Fixed crash in gzopen(). (Thies)
- Multiple character set support in gdttf.c (Rob Goodwin)
- When using HTTP auth from PHP, fill in the %u custom log field so the
  authenticated used id will get logged in the Apache access_log (Rasmus)
- Support for pdflib 3.01. (Uwe)
- FDF Data is handled properly and can be accessed by reading
  HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA. (Uwe)
- Added new 'O' format modifier that will output the GMT offset as "[+-]HHMM"
  (eg: Pacific time is -0700).  This is useful for things such as Date: mail
  headers. (Mike W)
- Fixed crash on OCI?Logon() failure. (Thies)
- Make the special Header("http/...") response be case insensitive like 3.0
  (Rasmus)
- Allow cybercash to compile as a DL module. (Sterling)
- Fixed the dbase_create function. (Sterling)
- Fixed a problem under some versions of Windows that could cause PHP to hang
  on startup if errors occured, e.g. in the php.ini file (Zeev)
- Fixed opendir() again.  It should actually work well continuously now (Zeev)
- Added three additional arguments to be sent to a user-defined error handler -
  the filename and line number in which the error occured, and the context
  (the local variables) of the error (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Improved the error handling code to handle an error in a user-defined error
  handling function (Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Added an optional parameter to preg_replace() that can be used to
  specify how many replacements to make. (Andrei)