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PHP 5.2.1 Released

By Bryan - Posted on 09 February 2007

PHP 5.2.1 has been released and includes a number of stability and security enhancement of the 5.X branch.  Besides the usual bug fixes (over 180 of them), PHP 5.2.1 also includes the following key improvements:

  • Several performance improvements in the engine, streams API and some Windows specific optimizations.
  • PDO_MySQL now uses buffered queries by default and emulates prepared statements to bypass limitations of MySQL's prepared statement API.
  • Many improvements and enhancements to the filter and zip extensions.
  • Memory limit is now always enabled, this includes Windows builds, with a default limit of 128 megabytes.
  • Added several performance optimizations using faster Win32 APIs (this change means that PHP no longer supports Windows 98).
  • FastCGI speed optimized build of PHP for Windows made available for downloading.

Further details about this release can be found in the official release announcement 5.2.1.  A full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog PHP 5 at php.net.

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#1 PHP 5.2 Breaks things

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Submitted by Brad (not verified) on February 9, 2007 - 10:43pm.
I'm a Wordpress user. Check out Matt's blog on how some applications including Wordpress break with PHP 5.2. http://photomatt.net/2007/02/09/php5-issues/ .  This isn't good!
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Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.